Alternative Dispute Resolution
How to Make Sure Your Clients Succeed in Commercial Arbitration While Really Trying
By David Minkown
Focus Column - By Alexander S. Polsky - Arbitration allows parties to have control over adjudication and resolve their matter ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A man who for 20 years oversaw fair hiring practices at Bay Area Rapid Transit has filed a lawsuit accusing th...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge has rejected a Bay Area construction equipment company's attempt to sue the lawyer who a...
LOS ANGELES - Edward Sanders divides his life into three chapters. Chapter 1 was his life before Washington. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether grandparents can use a probate ado...
Law Practice
Starr Joins Conservative Battle Against Same-Sex Marriage
By Leslie Simmonsn
You might say law practice has become a religious experience for Kenneth Starr. Most recently, the Pepperdine Law School dean ...
Government
Judge Threatens to Toss Indictment of Agent in National Security Case
By John Hanusz
LOS ANGELES - For the second time in as many years, a judge has taken federal prosecutors in Los Angeles to task for blocking ...
Litigation
National Security Creates a Slippery Line Between Secrecy and Justice in the Courts
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers have made much ado about "secret" documents in the lawsuit alleging that AT&T helped the governmen...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said Wednesday he will resign from the California District Att...
San Diego County Superior Court Judge Larrie R. Brainard makes it a point to have fun on the bench, whether it's in his courtr...
Dear Readers: In anticipation of the June 6 primary election, this week the Daily Journal is publishing statements from candid...
SAN FRANCISCO - After a battle lasting the better part of a decade, a band of San Francisco law students, many of them now law...
Forum Column - By Cynthia Loo - Though the 14-year-old youth was being charged with murder, the boy had a surprised expression...
Focus Column - By Justin M. O'Connell - Many attorneys are faced with the challenge of fulfilling the desires of a physically ...
SAN FRANCISCO - While activists and city officials celebrate the closing of one problematic power plant in San Francisco, they...
Entertainment & Sports
A Less-Risky Business: Investors Find New Way to Finance Films
By Peter Zuckermann
LOS ANGELES - Dumb money is getting smart. Wall Street investors sometimes called rich people who finance Hollywood movies "du...
Judges and Judiciary
Searching for a Judge Without a Milberg-Weiss Connection
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - The indictment of the Milberg Weiss firm may turn out to be a courtroom battle royal. But first they have to fin...
SAN JOSE - In a bold legal maneuver, a Bay Area construction equipment company has sued a class action lawyer for defamation e...
FULLERTON - The defense attorney began the trial by admitting key elements of the case: His client knew what a meth pipe was f...
If you flee to Venezuela after committing murder in the United States, your "life" sentence might be cut to 30 years. It happe...
Dear Readers: In anticipation of the June 6 primary election, this week the Daily Journal is publishing statements from candid...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
L.A.'s Policy of Free Mediation Benefits Everybody but Mediator
By David Minkown
Forum Column - By Charles B. Parselle - The Southern California Mediation Association is the premier mediator organization in ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judges may decide, without juries, whether a past crime qualifies as a strike under California's three-strikes...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal in a San Diego gay adoption case that once threatened to dera...
There's a difference between picking pockets and robbing someone, and that's fear, an appellate panel ruled Monday. ...
Government
L.A. Firm's Settlement Marks SEC's First Use of Patriot Act
By Anna Oberthurn
The Securities and Exchange Commission has brought its first enforcement action under the 2001 Patriot Act, accusing a L...
Criminal
Lawyer Says He Was Conduit in the Milberg Weiss Scheme
By John Hanusz And Gabe Friedman
LOS ANGELES - A Southern California lawyer has agreed to plead guilty to charges of funneling $3.5 million in kickbacks from s...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Council and Judges' Group Battle Over Education
By Savannah Blackwelln
SAN FRANCISCO - A dispute is brewing between the Judicial Council and the California Judges Association over the council's rec...
WASHINGTON - When the U.S. Supreme Court agreed earlier this year to decide a technical case concerning a lethal injection exe...
Commissioner Graciela L. Freixes, who was elected a Los Angeles County Superior Court commissioner last year, said her new ass...