LOS ANGELES - Citing Shakespeare, the Bible and Mick Jagger, civil rights attorney Stephen Yagman denounced the Bush administr...
LOS ANGELES - Two county supervisors plan to introduce an unusual motion at Tuesday's board meeting ordering the county's atto...
Government
Judge Tosses Election, Restores Former Compton Mayor to Office
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - In a stunning decision that legal experts said is unprecedented in the state, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge...
WASHINGTON - Last summer, life was looking amazingly bright for Theodore B. (Ted) Olson. The veteran litigator from Los Angele...
LOS ANGELES - A convicted child molester may go free after an appeals court reversed his conviction, finding that a Los Angele...
Forum Column - By Barbara Allen Babcock - Today, the Los Angeles criminal courts building will be christened The Clara Shortri...
Forum Column - By Alex Ricciardulli - Downtown Los Angeles' Criminal Courts Building will be officially renamed today after Cl...
Forum Column - By John Sperling - Sunday, during the most exciting Super Bowl in history, hundreds of millions of people aroun...
Criminal
U.S. Must Persist in Its Fight to Eradicate Abuse Of Harmful Substances
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Forum Column - By Marc Levin - A controversial Super Bowl ad linking drug abuse and terrorism has served as a reminder that ap...
Dicta Column - By Richard J. Simmons - Law firms should consider using arbitration agreements as a means to resolve employee d...
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - At some point in your career, you may consider switching practice areas. Some att...
LOS ANGELES - Members of the U.S. Supreme Court are a collegial bunch despite bitter philosophical differences, Justice Ruth B...
LOS ANGELES -The Belmont Learning Center can be completed safely, soon and at a reasonable cost by either of the two partnersh...
LOS ANGELES -A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded $13.2 million Thursday to a woman who suffered brain damage after being...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has approved a partial settlement of a two-year civil rights class action tha...
LOS ANGELES - He's been described as a human dynamo, a one-man army, a man of action who never sleeps and manages to be in fou...
LOS ANGELES - With the Winter Olympics opening tonight in Salt Lake City, teen-age ice skater Sasha Cohen already has a lawyer...
Dicta Column - By Tim Hallahan - The direct examination of your witnesses is usually the most crucial part of your case. Juror...
Large Firms
Magazine Ranks Sonsini Partner Among Top Venture Capitalists
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - Larry Sonsini, the unofficial king of Silicon Valley, reigned supreme among practicing attorneys on Forbes Magaz...
Intellectual Property Practitioner Column - By Michael J. Lawrence - When the Federal Trademark Dilution Act took effect in 19...
Dicta Column - By Bill Winter - It has been said the five most dangerous words in the English language are, "There oughta be a...
Dicta Column - By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. - Is there anything more American than entitlements? If you say "apple pie," just con...
Tort Law Practitioner Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - The question of causation in any tort case is typically one of fact fo...
Focus Column - By Emily Longfellow - On Jan. 7, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Tahoe-Sierra Pres...
LOS ANGELES - Clara Shortridge Foltz was a media-savvy lawyer in the days before 24-hour news cycles, former-federal-prosecuto...
Administrative/Regulatory
Local Politicians Belt Arias About Leadership in L.A.'s Naked Opera
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Los Angeles is like Beirut 20 years ago, a city of warring factions. Or maybe it's like a prison with...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Sept. 11 Funds Create New Stress for Victims
By Charles Asbhy
DENVER - The funds to compensate victims of the Sept. 11 attacks are creating new stress among victims, who are trying to dete...
Forum Column - By Russell F. Maginnis - In John C. Eastman's article "Disqualifying Detainees from Protection: Geneva Conventi...
LOS ANGELES - Did a prominent Beverly Hills lawyer deliberately scuttle his $3.5 million, custom-designed, 76-foot yacht off t...
LOS ANGELES - The Judicial Council of California has awarded its Jurist of the Year Award to Administrative Presiding Justice ...