U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit to Post Charges of Misconduct
By John Roemer
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' system for dealing with accusations of judicial misconduct and disability got a little ...
SAN BERNARDINO - A state appellate court has overturned the first-degree murder conviction of a man accused of killing a coupl...
Focus Column - By Leslie Gordon Fagen, Darren W. Johnson and Hallie S. Goldblatt - One woman who resisted the music industry's...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has ruled that the Islamic Republic of Iran must pay $466 million to the family of a Los Angeles...
As seemed to happen often in Orange County in 2007, the good legal news came freighted with bad. Every yang had some yin, and ...
California Supreme Court
Inquiring Minds Want to Know Why Jurists Recuse Themselves
By Laura Ernden
SAN FRANCISCO - When a spate of recusals led the California Supreme Court to dismiss a long-standing appeal in November, the j...
Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - What legal recourse do families have when fundamentalist protesters use military funeral...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
'Boston Legal Syndrome' Leads to an Etiquette Deficit in the Courts
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By J. Craig Williams - Lawyers who ape the courtroom hysterics of their television counterparts are damaging th...
Focus Column - By Carolyn Kubota - The Justice Department's practice of using the attorney-client and work-product privileges ...
Latham & Watkins, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz all played a part in a deal...
Death is never far from Timothy Tosta's thoughts. But the land use attorney is far from morbid - in fact, he's using what he's...
U.S. Supreme Court
Lethal-Injection Case Puts Execution Method Before Court
By David Houstonn
WASHINGTON - When the U.S. Supreme Court returns to the bench next week, it will confront a closely watched death-penalty case...
The number of cases sent to mediation has risen dramatically over the past decade while judicial arbitration has fallen, accor...
Film and television writers dealt blows to the Southern California economy and the entertainment industry when they struck in ...
SACRAMENTO - As 2007 comes to an end, legal professionals can toast to new laws that make practicing law easier, reduce judges...
Industry Watch - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's l...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Forum Column - By Brian E. Gray - An offhand remark by Justice Antonin Scalia in the Supreme Court's recent hearing of a case ...
Focus Column - Lynn Duryee and Matthew N. White - Mandatory settlement conferences won't become a more effective means of disp...
Industry Watch - By Fiona Smith - Former U.S. Rep. Douglas Bosco will join the public policy group of San Francisco-based Hans...
Technology & Science
Electronic Filings Bring Central District Into 21st Century
By Zack Vaneyckn
LOS ANGELES - The Central District of California will take another step into the 21st century Tuesday by requiring documents i...
Prosecutors are evaluating a complaint that Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona should not be receiving free legal help from a h...
WASHINGTON - For immigrants in the United States illegally, being granted the opportunity to depart the country voluntarily ma...
Taking a geographically circuitous route to California and the bar, Magistrate Judge Bernard Zimmerman finds his many immigrat...
California's law firms continued to consolidate in 2007, just as industry observers predicted they would at the end of last ye...
SAN BERNARDINO - A state appeals court Thursday upheld a $10 million judgment against former high-ranking San Bernardino Count...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Federal Mining Law Favors Corporations at Expense of Environment
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - A federal statute unchanged since the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant is allowing mining co...
The maritime mugging may sound like a tale in which fates are decided on the high seas. Instead, the swashbuckling story settl...
The Daily Journal is accepting nominations for its annual Top 10 Defense Verdicts report, which will be published Feb. 8. ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Robb Strom arrived at a Las Vegas apartment complex Thursday dressed as Santa Claus to spread a little ...