Column - Practice Management - By David Goehl - Jeffrey Carr, the general counsel of FMC Technologies, is part of a new breed ...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Brian S. Kabateck - In January, we observed the 10th anniversary of the 1994 Northridge eart...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - The attorney work-product doctrine protected an environmental consulta...
Forum Column - By Rex Darrell Berry - Over the last decade, more and more employers have embraced mandatory pre-dispute arbitr...
LOS ANGELES - A woman can sue Metabolife International Inc. over claims the company's ephedrine-based weight-loss pill drove h...
LOS ANGELES - Every $1 million cut from the Los Angeles Superior Court budget will mean that 3 1/3 courtrooms will close and 2...
SANTA ANA - A man fired from Boeing after company officials accused him of spying on a competitor has sued the aerospace firm ...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Erik Cummins - A year ago, law firm partners and recruiters fixed their eyes on a Malibu cour...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court may have gotten more than it bargained for when it asked lawyers for their two cents a...
SACRAMENTO - The state's Fair Political Practices Commission has proposed fines of as much as $16,000 against three prominent ...
Medical-malpractice plaintiffs' attorneys have been attacking the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act since it passed in 19...
Judges and Judiciary
Commissioner Works Hard to Turn Defendants' Lives Around
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - Dealing directly with litigants is the best part of his job, said Commissioner Dennis L. Shanklin, who presides ...
LOS ANGELES - Ten years after California's "three strikes and you're out" law was passed, opponents plan to mount a voter init...
LOS ANGELES - Deputy District Attorney Denise Moehlman deserves a trial in her retaliation suit against the Los Angeles County...
SAN FRANCISCO - Before the first vows were exchanged, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom spoke of his decision to wed same-sex c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Having successfully blocked Justice Department efforts to subpoena hundreds of individual abortion records, la...
SAN FRANCISCO - An emergency regulation implemented in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was struck down Thur...
Employment Column - By Lisa Chapman - On January 1, 2004, California's new Paid Family Temporary Disability Insurance program ...
Forum Column - By Brad Seligman and Sara Campos - From Latin America to the Middle East, the United States government has prea...
Personal Injury & Torts
Tort of Malicious Prosecution Can Obviate Need for Reform
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Focus Column - Tort Law - By James F. Lindsay - Calls for tort reform are widespread and come from the highest offices. During...
LOS ANGELES - Tenants' advocates this week beat back a legal challenge to a Los Angeles city rent-control provision forbidding...
WASHINGTON - Two former Republican staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee took advantage of poorly protected computer file...
Reporter's Notebook - By John Roemer - SAN FRANCISCO - Sharon Claire Brooks is in the doghouse for calling the judge a rat. To...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Harry Vincent Leppek, a sole practitioner who was a fixture in his East Los Angele...
Civil Rights
Female Athletes Sue Alhambra School District for Gender Bias
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Female athletes at Alhambra High School filed a gender-discrimination lawsuit Thursday, claiming officials delib...
LOS ANGELES - Fifteen years after his first trial, a man convicted in a plot to kill federal drug agents will get another chan...
SACRAMENTO - Quin Denvir, the federal defender for the Eastern District of California, has been reappointed to another four-ye...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley confirmed Thursday that he has "an active investigation" into ...
LOS ANGELES - Noted University of Southern California constitutional law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky will be leaving for Duke ...
OAKLAND - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Kingsbury has spent most of his working life at the Rene C. Davidson Cou...