Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin, The job market has turned almost 180 degrees in the last 12 months. Jobs are harder to...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ruled that the city may proceed with its lawsuit against Kajima Engineering and Constr...
LOS ANGELES - Proposals by City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo to eradicate billboards from the city limits won't pass constitution...
WASHINGTON - With the White House and Congress' General Accounting Office preparing to go to court later this month over acces...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Listens Carefully to Those Who Come to Court
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - With a new general civil assignment that began earlier this month, Orange County Superior Court Judge Gregory Lewi...
Construction Law Practitioner Column - By John P. McGill, The old saying that "no good turn deserves to go unpunished" seems a...
LOS ANGELES - Calling petitioners "no more than uninvited meddlers," the U.S. attorney's office said Thursday that a civil rig...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger, It's time to return to the first-year law-school course in federal civil procedure, whe...
HUNTINGTON BEACH - Services have been held for Paul A. Reilly, who was struck by a pickup truck Jan. 7 while crossing Pacific ...
Large Firms
Gray Cary's Acquisition of D.C. Firm Bolsters Technology Base
By Tanya Rothman
LOS ANGELES - Justone month after Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich sliced 13 percent of its associate work force, ...
Dicta Column - By Robert M. Unterberger, The "Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation," edited by the Harvard Law Review, whose...
"Yes I do, thank you." John Walker Lindh, when asked whether he grasped the accusations that he conspired to kill Americans ab...
LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court has launched an informational Web site that allows attorneys and the public to access qu...
Intellectual Property Practitioner Column - By Donald M. Gindy, Trademark owners strive to retain customer loyalty by producin...
LOS ANGELES - The American Corporate Counsel Association has issued its inaugural comprehensive study of in-house lawyers. The...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court has decided to review the 4th District Court of Appeal's decision in a controversia...
WASHINGTON - In the latest chapter in the ongoing Enron scandal, the General Accounting Office plans to file an unprecedented ...
Focus Column - By Benjamin Scheibe, The ongoing controversy over DVD decryption technology has produced yet another startling ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Curiosity About Justice Department's Statue Cover-Up Could Expand
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - No nudes is good nudes. This ancient schoolyard pun flashed across my mind this week when I read the ...
LOS ANGELES - Margaret S. Henry's chambers have that tousled look of offices stalled in transition from old occupant's style t...
Forum Column - By Harold Johnson, To many of us, the image of the farmer at his plow is right up there with motherhood and ice...
SAN BERNARDINO - District Attorney Dennis Stout is no stranger to the rigors of campaigning for elected office. To become Ranc...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Man Who Abused Dog Is Mentally Ill, Court Rules
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - Nobody disputed that David Dyer slit a dog's throat and planned to cook the animal and eat it. The Oroville man ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Young Lawyers' New Head Oozes Enthusiasm, Energy
By Jenna Bordelon
PASADENA - Laura Farber admits she has trouble saying "No" to a good cause. So despite a sometimes hectic job as partner at Pa...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court ruled Tuesday that a court cannot remove a lawyer from a case because of an "appearance of im...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Tuesday denied bail for two Jewish Defense League leaders accused of plotting to blow up a Culve...
Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman, The Sept. 11 holocaust at the World Trade Center, the illegal detention of over a thousand i...
Appellate Law Practitioner Column - By David S. Ettinger, California's rules governing appellate practice are undergoing their...
Entertainment & Sports
Jewish Law Understands and Permits Retaliation by Shaq
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Forum Column - By Yitzchok Adlerstein and Michael Broyde, If Los Angeles Lakers superstar Shaquille O'Neal needs to improve hi...
LOS ANGELES - Citing client conflicts and a desire for a fresh start, 18 lawyers are leaving the Southland insurance defense a...