Entertainment & Sports
BALCO Reporters File Motion to Protect Source
By Dennis Opatrnyn
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for two San Francisco Chronicle reporters sought Wednesday to quash subpoenas seeking the identity o...
Your case is going to trial, and your future depends on its outcome. The other side is represented by guys in gray pinstripes....
Dear Readers: In anticipation of the primary election Tuesday, the Daily Journal is publishing statements from candidates in...
SAN FRANCISCO - It was 30 years ago this month that a small blind-tasting put Napa Valley on the world wine map. The controver...
Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - 'Midway through the journey of life," begins Dante's Inferno, "I found myself in a dark forest...
Litigation
High Court Will Resolve Whether Proposition 64 Is Retroactive
By David Minkown
Focus Column - By Kimberly A. Kralowec - Today, the California Supreme Court will hear oral argument in two cases involving w...
Judges and Judiciary
DA Cements Her Support and Runs Unopposed for Re-Election
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis surprised San Diego's City Council members when she made an unscheduled appearanc...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court seemed poised Tuesday to rule that an employer does not need to give a reason for...
Personal Injury & Torts
Court Will Decide If Tort-Reform Measure Can Be Applied Retroactively
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court will consider today whether courts can apply Proposition 64 retroactively to dismiss ...
Judges and Judiciary
Campaign for S.F. Bench Burns Rubber Toward the Finish Line
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - The sole race for an open seat on the San Francisco bench is getting hotter and meaner, with one candidate unl...
SAN DIEGO - A former two-term district attorney is seeking to become a Superior Court judge, and he faces a challenge from a f...
Judges and Judiciary
Schwarzenegger Appointment Cools Contra Costa Campaign
By Savannah Blackwelln
Early this year, Hercules attorney Joscelyn C. Jones took the suggestion of her fellow board members of the Contra Costa Count...
WASHINGTON - In a case sure to be watched closely by the business community and the plaintiffs' bar, the U.S. Supreme Court ag...
Education
Reversal of Fortune: Public-School Teacher Goes From Star to Dismissed
By Susan Mcraen
SANTA BARBARA - It began as a conflict between a teacher and a student over a T-shirt and escalated to allegations the teacher...
LOS ANGELES - Jessica Darraby's Santa Monica office looks more like a design studio than a law firm. The glass walls create an...
Judges and Judiciary
El Centro Lawyer Seeks Seat Held by Three-Year Judge
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - In Imperial County's lone judicial race, an El Centro criminal defense lawyer is challenging a Superior Court judg...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Former State AG Van de Kamp Signs Up With ADR Services
By Tamadhur Alaqeeln
LOS ANGELES - In the legal arena, it would seem that attorney John K. Van de Kamp has done it all: two terms as state Attorney...
LOS ANGELES - This summer, Louis R. "Skip" Miller, formerly a name partner at what is now Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, W...
Government
Investigation Dogs Front-Runner in Campaign for Santa Clara DA
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - A last-minute probe of an old drug case has cast a cloud of suspicion over the prime candidate in a four-way r...
SAN FRANCISCO - Star San Francisco criminal defense lawyer Dennis Riordan is now a plaintiff in two class actions against tele...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow Tuesday to the free speech rights of public employees seeking to report on go...
Dear Readers: In anticipation of the primary election Tuesday, the Daily Journal is publishing statements from candidates in...
Law Practice
Many Minds Make Exacting Work of State Supreme Court's Opinions
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - Every opinion written by the California Supreme Court lists the names of the justices who decided the case. Bu...
Administrative/Regulatory
Influence of Clerks Is Cloaked in U.S. Supreme Court Secrecy
By Peter Blumberg
WASHINGTON - This much we know about law clerks for the U.S. Supreme Court: They're inexperienced, destined for greatness and ...
Focus Column - By Jennifer Addams - A new ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals makes qualified immunity a little ha...
Letters to the Editor - Charles Parselle's article "L.A.'s Policy of Free Mediation Benefits Everybody but the Mediator" (May ...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Recently, the subject of severe overcrowding in county jails and the California state pris...
Judges and Judiciary
Accusations of Bias and Cronyism Dog Incumbent in Two-Way Race for Marin County Judgeship
By Savannah Blackwelln
SAN RAFAEL - Sitting trial-court judges rarely attract challengers when they run for re-election every six years. And it's unu...
LOS ANGELES - Aviation defense lawyer James I. Michaelis and aviation plaintiff lawyer Charles M. Finkel are opponents in the ...