Ethics and corporate governance, litigation and intellectual property are the practice areas in highest demand, according to a...
LOS ANGELES - In the sex abuse scandals rocking California's Catholic Church, Oliver O'Grady is considered one of the worst ca...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton continues to woo laterals into its San Francisco office to stock practic...
Judges and Judiciary
Two Sitting Judges Mired in Controversy Fight to Retain Their Seats
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Two Northern California judges are fighting for re-election Tuesday. One struggles with a tarnished reputation, a...
RIVERSIDE - Jeffrey Prevost, a six-year Riverside County Superior Court commissioner, has been elevated to a judgeship. Gov...
SAN FRANCISCO - National employment and labor firm Littler Mendelson announced that it would welcome the return of partner Lin...
Firm Watch
Independent Neutral Starts Construction Mediation Group
By Tamadhur Alaqeeln
LOS ANGELES - Independent mediator Ross R. Hart is teaming with the National Arbitration Forum to create a construction mediat...
Judges and Judiciary
San Mateo Voters Get Rare Chance to Elect Judge
By Savannah Blackwell
SAN FRANCISCO - When San Mateo County voters go to the polls Tuesday, they will have two unusual opportunities: selecting a Su...
Litigation
Shifting the Blame Can Sting - a Backlash Lay and Skilling Now Feel
By David Houstonn
Column - By Garry Abrams - Phil Spector, the big-haired, fashion-freaky, eccentricity-epitomizing record producer, and former ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Had he known it would cause him so much trouble, a Shasta County man might not have gone ballistic about blue ...
LOS ANGELES - Boston-based Mintz Levin has tried for years to put together a West Coast strategy. The firm opened a small Los ...
Smoke 'em if you got 'em. A cigarette importer improperly hid 44 million Marlboros from the tax man in a Southern California d...
SANTA ANA - A San Diego federal jury has awarded Nortel Networks $47.4 million in punitive damages against a smaller competito...
Commissioner John M. Murphy has tried to steer dozens of youthful offenders, including his puppy Shadow, away from destructive...
Commissioner Rocky Lee Crabb knows the value of a hard day's work. While growing up in Riverside, he mowed lawns in his neighb...
Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - On May 15, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its first environmental decision since Chief ...
LOS ANGELES - If both Democratic candidates for state attorney general have their way, voters will be convinced that one of th...
Insurance
Businesses Need to Prepare for Risks From Avian Flu Disaster
By David Minkown
Focus Column - By Amy J. Fink - Dire warnings that outbreaks of an avian influenza infection have the potential to turn into a...
Judges and Judiciary
Fresh Perspective Meets Decades-on-the-Bench in Court Bid
By Savannah Blackwell
SAN FRANCISCO - Four years after passing the State Bar Exam in 1989, Lynn Diane Olson quit her job as an associate at Christen...
Labor/Employment
Employees Have Remedies Outside Unruh Act in Cases of Employer Violence
By David Minkown
Employment Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - The California Unruh Civil Rights Act, embodied in California Civil Code Sectio...
Dear Readers: In anticipation of the primary election Tuesday, the Daily Journal is publishing statements from candidates in...
LOS ANGELES - Donna D. Melby, the Los Angeles-based attorney who last year was the first woman to serve as president of the Am...
LOS ANGELES - A workers' compensation fraud involving the identity theft of some 200 county employees may only be the tip of t...
Judges and Judiciary
Connected Contender Faces 'Vexatious Litigant'
By Savannah Blackwelln
LOS ANGELES - By September, Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney Daniel Lowenthal knew he wanted to run for the seat of Los Angele...
Judges and Judiciary
Seven Compete for Vacant Seat on Superior Court Bench
By Erin Park
LOS ANGELES - The field of seven candidates for Los Angeles Superior Court Office No. 144 includes a family attorney who took ...
SANTA ANA - The three candidates in Orange County's only Superior Court race - Office No. 4 - come from very different sides o...
Labor/Employment
Wage-and-Hour Class Issues Can Complicate Arbitration
By Tamadhur Alaqeeln
LOS ANGELES - Wage-and-hour claims typically seek - and win - class certification from a judge. But in a recent case involvin...
Judges and Judiciary
Appointment by Governor Confuses Santa Clara Race
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - A funny thing happened to Superior Court Commissioner Shawna M. Schwarz during her campaign for an open judicial se...
Judges and Judiciary
Three Vie to Replace Judge Running for Santa Clara DA
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - The race to succeed Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Dolores A. Carr, who is in the midst of a campaign for ...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real has given class status to a suit by former law students accusing a company of...