Forum Column - By Fred Main and Chris Micheli - Two bills to restrict the use of protective orders are one of the key issues o...
Entertainment & Sports
State Should Follow Rules, Grant Tyson Boxing License
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Forum Column - By Dennis S. Ellis - After the Nevada State Athletic Commission's refusal to grant Mike Tyson's application for...
LOS ANGELES - Associate Justice Michael G. Nott earned a living as a deckhand and skipper on sport-fishing boats before he ven...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for business litigator Edgar Lee Fraser of Los Angeles, who parachuted behind enemy li...
LOS ANGELES - On Friday mornings, D. Damon Willens is just another lawyer. Fridays mean court appearances and paperwork in the...
LOS ANGELES - A judge on Tuesday dismissed two prospective jurors in the case against a San Francisco couple charged in the do...
Product Liability
Dealership Pays $9.4 Million to Settle Rollover Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
BARSTOW - Lawyers for a couple who were injured when their 1994 Ford Explorer crashed and rolled near Barstow reached a $9.4 m...
Appellate Law Practitioner Column - By James C. Martin and Angel K. Leung - Judgment is entered in your favor. But when you tr...
Dicta Column - By Donald H. Oppenheim - Law firms need to manage declining profits better now than they have in the past. Many...
SAN BERNARDINO - By the narrowest of margins, the state Supreme Court has decided not to review whether prostitution laws can ...
Military Law
Bar Group Votes Limited Support for Military Tribunals
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The American Bar Association gave limited support Monday to the White House plan to try alleged terrorists by mil...
Legal Malpractice Practitioner Column - By Alec H. Boyd - California insurance-defense counsel and insurers should take note o...
Litigation
Guerilla Warfare, Lawsuit Plague Primate Center's Push for Expansion
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - A guerrilla war between animal rights activists and scientists has been waged for decades at the Univ...
LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Los Angeles County's policy to accept civil rights settleme...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Says Indio Judge Violated Code of Ethics
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The Commission on Judicial Performance privately admonished former Riverside County Judge Eugene R. Bishop on Mond...
Forum Column - By Peter A. Schey - Captured Taliban fighters may not have the rights normally afforded defendants in criminal ...
LOS ANGELES - Judy London started helping immigrants seek asylum and other forms of legal relief as a first-year law-student i...
LOS ANGELES - In what child advocates are hailing as a significant victory for the rights of 59,000 foster children, an appell...
Firm Watch
Orrick Herrington: INNOVATIVE CHAIRMAN BEGINS HIS FIFTH TERM
By Staff Writer
In some firms, the job of firmwide chair rotates from partner to partner over the years. At San Francisco's Orrick Herringbone...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for an injured family, a car dealer, a car manufacturer and Caltrans will begin Tuesday the damage pha...
Focus Column - By Michael Cypers, It is common for plaintiffs to sue multiple defendants in a class-action case. At the critic...
Judges and Judiciary
Master of Negotiation Rules With Affability in Courtroom
By Tamara Scott
VAN NUYS - Lawyers give Judge Bert Glennon Jr. high marks for being "perfectly bland." Conciliatory to the core, Glennon leave...
Forum Column - By John F. Banzhaf III, Reports that smoking cost the American public more than $100 billion a year - much of i...
LOS ANGELES - The San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins has recruited white-collar criminal defense attorney Robert E. ...
Tort Law Practitioner Column - By Lisa M. Baird and Joseph Lee, With the Olympics almost upon us, and the Superbowl just concl...
LOS ANGELES - Officially, they are now a class of woe, twice over. That was the result of a ruling last week by Los Angeles Su...
Forum Column - By Phillip Carter, In America's rush to condemn the men imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, we have forgotten the rea...
LOS ANGELES - Private services have taken place for David A. Ruen, a retired civil litigator known around his former office as...
Dicta Column - By Sally R. Gonzalez and Beth E. Kellermann, In these uncertain economic times, law firms are looking for way...
Dicta Column - By Tobi C. Clinton, Raymond L. Ocampo Jr.'s book is a refreshing presentation of philosophical and legal issues...