Government
Judges Weighing Prison Cap Could Tackle Sentence Reform, Some Say
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - As two federal judges decide whether to create a panel of jurists to cap the inmate population in California's ov...
The Daily Journal has won two first-place awards for the newspaper from the California Newspaper Publishers Association. ...
Focus Column - By Michael C. McMahon - A high-profile case involving the NFL has big implications for juror misconduct law. ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Lawyer Gets Suspension in Settlement Dispute
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar Court has recommended a San Francisco attorney be suspended, saying he twice tried to sneak thro...
John Hession, a Boston-based emerging companies and venture capital partner who's been lawyering for a quarter-century, said h...
LOS ANGELES - A team of two dozen attorneys from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom's Los Angeles office represented IHOP ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Momentum Grows for Opening High Court to Servicemembers
By Laura Ernden
SAN FRANCISCO - Unlike criminal defendants, members of the military who are court-martialed are not allowed to ask the U.S. Su...
Plaintiffs’ attorneys Paul Kiesel, left, and Ray Boucher rally outside the Los Angeles County Courthouse Monday with Lee Bashf...
The California Supreme Court on Monday unanimously refused to dismiss a malicious-prosecution lawsuit against a once-successfu...
Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has faced a string of personal embarrassments of late, but some point out that he h...
Charlotte Jean Orcutt had her eye on the prize at a young age. 'I always knew I wanted to be a judge,' said the San Joaquin j...
LOS ANGELES - Today, the Writers Guild of America, West, sits down with television and film producers to begin hashing out b...
SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto-based Jazz Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay $20 million to California and a number of other governm...
Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - State Treasurer Bill Lockyer has appointed lawyer Barbara Liebert, whose husband is a ch...
Focus Column - By Brian D. Langa - A decision from the Supreme Court's most recent term destroyed already-tenous provisions fo...
LOS ANGELES - A former attorney will serve a year in jail for embezzling $150,000 from the trust of an elderly woman who once ...
SACRAMENTO - A statewide tort-reform group and the California Chamber of Commerce have teamed up to launch a ballot initiative...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton strengthened its Los Angeles litigation practice ...
SAN FRANCISCO - During his campaign, State Bar board of governors hopeful Jeffrey P. Lustman billed himself as the anti-establ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Conquering the Fear of Legal Entrepreneurship in Eight Easy Steps
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By K.C. Victor - Building a bigger portfolio is as simple as overcoming basic business inhibitions. ...
Government
Bush Goes With Safe Bet in O'Brien Amid U.S. Attorney Scandal
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - While President Bush had a range of candidates to choose from for U.S. attorney in California's Central District...
Technology & Science
In a Sign of the Times, Blog Disrupts the Trial It Covers
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - Over the last decades, computers have brought 3-D graphics and real-time transcripts to trials all over the nation...
LOS ANGELES - After seven months of searching, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles has picked Mario Salgado as its new exe...
Kern County Superior Court Judge Michael G. Bush won praise from the local media and legal community while presiding over a no...
Spurred by his mother’s insistence on education, Judge Juan Ulloa rose from picking cotton to sitting on the bench. ...
On the Move
Forum Column - By Jeff Berke - One litigator's war stores include a vanishing trial and a settlement conference with no one to...
With Honors
Los Angeles-There are no coincidences in the world of Mariam Zadeh. This Buddhist sensibility, that everything happens for a r...
SACRAMENTO - It was just five years ago that lawmakers were rushing to introduce bills to protect whistle-blowers from retalia...