Environmental
Ficus Fight Highlights Role Activists Can Play in Economic Development
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - For most people in Southern California, the city of Commerce is just an exit off Interstate 5, home to a factory...
Public Interest
Welfare to Work Is a Success, but Not a Panacea for Poverty's Root Causes
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - Ten years ago, President Bill Clinton signed legislation overhauling the nation's welfare system. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Council Selects Recipients for State Distinguished Service Awards
By Michelle Garcia
The Judicial Council of California will honor three court leaders and a public affairs broadcaster at its Fall Leadership Conf...
SAN FRANCISCO - Whenever Cuban musicians play jazz in San Francisco, chances are good Bill Martinez is in the audience. ...
Spousal support, as it is now referred to, is intended to be a stream of payments from one spouse to the other to enable the o...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Male Inmates Receive Even Less Dignity Than Female Felons
By David Minkown
Letter to the Editor - I agree that inmates in California's jails and prisons should be treated with more bodily dignity. ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles attorney previously charged with attempting to bribe the family of a 7-year-old sexual assault vic...
Public Interest
Lawyers Perform a Mitzvah, Helping Holocaust Survivors Submit Claims
By David Minkown
I'm a retired lawyer who decided in June to volunteer at the Bet Tzedek Legal Aid office in Los Angeles. I called Robin Sommer...
Technology & Science
Hui Is Very Serious About Getting Back Into the Computer Business
By Rick Kennedyn
You have to forgive analysts for not taking John Hui's $450 million bid for Gateway's retail operations seriously; after all, ...
Judges and Judiciary
$320 Million Is Budgeted for San Bernardino Courthouse
By Jim Adamekn
SAN BERNARDINO - The state Judicial Council has earmarked $320 million for a new courthouse for San Bernardino County, which h...
Colloquially called "floorless convertibles," "toxic convertibles," "junk equity" or "death spiral convertibles," these terms ...
SAN FRANCISCO - At a ceremony in Beijing today, Thelen Reid & Priest is expected to receive a license to practice law in C...
LOS ANGELES - Hillary Hamilton starts every weekday over breakfast with her young son Owen, but once the boy's nanny arrives, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - You could say EchoStar Communications Corp. has had a bad month. ...
Criminal
Karr, Cleared in JonBenet's Murder, May Face Charges in Sonoma
By Laura Ernden
SAN FRANCISCO - Although no longer charged with the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, John Mark Karr will probably head back to Calif...
FRESNO - Note to any attorney scheduled to appear before Fresno County Superior Court Presiding Judge Edward O. Sarkisian: Tak...
SAN BERNARDINO - Bill Shapiro has no intention of ditching his job as a personal-injury and product-liability lawyer. He loves...
SAN FRANCISCO - More than 35,000 people are headed to the Nevada desert in the coming week for the counterculture party and so...
Military Law
U.S. Panel Restores $250,000 Verdict in San Diego Bias Case
By Jim Adamekn
SAN DIEGO - A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated a $250,000 jury verdict for a former San Diego police officer who cla...
Erin Park's recent article (Daily Journal, Aug. 3) mischaracterized the role of the Los Angeles city attorney's office in revi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius expanded its employee stock ownership plan practice to San Francisco last week wit...
LOS ANGELES - Transactional attorney Ronen Elad has joined DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary as a partner in its Century City office...
LOS ANGELES - From Kansas to Korea, attorney Tymothy MacLeod has litigated his way around the world, landing most recently in...
Securities
9th Circuit Clarifies Liability Standards in Securities Fraud
By David Minkown
FOCUS COLUMN - In 2005, the total value of all federal securities class settlements, excluding those for Enron, WorldCom and C...
FORUM COLUMN - At last count, there were nine justices on the United States Supreme Court. By any standard arithmetic computat...
Judges and Judiciary
Ex-Orange County Judge Faces Possible Misconduct Probe
By John Roemer
Susanne S. Shaw already has left the Orange County Superior Court, but she hasn't left her troubled career behind her. ...
WASHINGTON - The 2006 class of Supreme Court law clerks will be something of a boys club, as just seven of the 36 law clerks-1...
SACRAMENTO - The Democratic leadership in the Assembly has restored 25 judicial slots to a pending bill that would increase th...
LOS ANGELES - Tax attorney Chad C. Coombs has joined the tax credit practice group in the Los Angeles office of Buchalter Neme...
When veteran San Diego County Superior Court Judge Lantz Lewis moved last year from the criminal courts to family law, he worr...