Recall Sponsors Target Marin Judges
By John Roemer
A protester's warning that a judge would be shot had officials on edge at the Marin County Civic Center on May 16 as Lynn Dury...
Loyola Names David Burcham 15th Dean of the Law School
By Jill Boekenoogen
On the lawn at Loyola Law School with a late afternoon summer breeze cooling alumni, staff, students and the legal community e...
Munger Tolles Beats Jones Day to Capture Landau Cup
By Contributing Writer
It's a treat to watch two formidable defense firms display their skills in a high-stakes court battle. Case in point: Munger, ...
Family Law Courtroom Venom Rises Rapidly
By John Roemer
As family law courtroom dramas escalate, judges are digging foxholes. West Hollywood lawyer Patricia J. Barry is a passionate ...
Bar Reviewing Attorney Discipline System
By Don Debenedictisn
SAN FRANCISCO - Conscious of the widespread feeling that the attorney discipline system is too harsh on minor offenses, the St...
Hearing Exposes Plight of Women in L.A.
By Anne La Jeunesse
Conditions for women in Los Angeles haven't changed much in the past 29 years. When Connie McFall, executive director of Rainb...
L.A. County Opposes Settlement for Foster Child
By Cheryl Romo
Two defendants in a lawsuit brought on behalf of a permanently brain-damaged foster child are opposing an $800,000 settlement ...
Lawyers Behaving Badly: Beware Consequences
By Columnist
Racial-Profiling Bill Withers When Author Withdraws It
By Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - A controversial racial-profiling bill apparently has died in the state Legislature after its author pulled it Thu...
In Retrospect
By Columnist
By Alex Ricciarduilli. A remarkable change might occur soon in California law concerning probation and parole searches. The Ca...
Generation Gap
By Columnist
By George W. Brewster Jr. I just zipped through my 42nd birthday, putting me solidly in what I have heard described as a lawye...
Settlement Reached Over Twin Towers' Defects
By Chris Ford
The St. Louis architectural firm that designed Los Angeles County's Twin Towers Correctional Facility could pay $10.6 million ...
City Attorney Seeks Set-Aside of Verdict
By Ed Kimble
The Los Angeles city attorney will ask Judge Malcolm Mackey to set aside Wednesday's $1.5 million verdict awarded to Raymond W...
Misconduct Spurs Manslaughter Plea
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Saying that they accepted responsibility for taking part in a gang summit they knew could lead to violence, four m...
Nash's Next Big Show Awaits Date
By Columnist
Attention prosecutors on the Organized Crime Strike Force in the U.S. attorney's office: Eddie Nash has been known to use some...
Injuries in Accident Win Teacher $2.8 Million
By Tamara Scott
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded $2.8 million to a 48-year-old school teacher who suffered serious head and neck ...
Rampart Victim Sues City After Release From Prison
By David Houston
A man who claims that disgraced former Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez and two other Rampart cops burst into his home ...
Poll Shows Cooley Leading Garcetti for DA
By Anne La Jeunesse
The latest sampling of voters on the question of who should be Los Angeles County's district attorney - two-term incumbent Gil...
Family Settles Lawsuit Against McDonald's
By Matthew Heller
SAN BERNARDINO - Twelve members of a Los Angeles family who claimed to have been turned away from a McDonald's restaurant beca...
Group Sues to Stop Reopening Of Oil Refinery
By David Houston
An environmental watchdog group on Thursday sued to block televangelist Pat Robertson's charitable trust from reopening a Sant...
Task Force Recommends Only One Major Reform in Appellate Process
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - After three years of working on various proposals to reform the appellate process, a specially appointed task ...
Former Partners Battle Over Attorney Fees
By Ed Kimble
The attorney who won a $35 million jury verdict for a musician severely brain-damaged when defective custom van seats snapped ...
9th Circuit Overrules Board On Gay Man's Asylum Appeal
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling that "sexual identity is inherent to one's very identity as a person," the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...
Council Seeks $11 Million for New Court Workers
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Responding to judges' complaints that counties are increasingly abandoning basic maintenance and oversight of ...
Officers Hit LAPD With A $100 Million Lawsuit
By Chris Ford
Several dozen current and former Los Angeles Police Department officers Thursday filed a $100 million whistle-blower lawsuit a...
Police Discipline
By Columnist
Recent news stories on the Los Angeles Police Department Rampart scandal have repeatedly referred to them. No sworn, tenured m...
Not for the Taking
By Columnist
By Anthony Saul Alperin. In Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, 216 F.3d 764 (9th Cir. 2...
Body Language
By Columnist
By Charen Levitan. Appropriate hand gestures and positive body language can influence the impression you make on jurors and cl...
Two Police Bills Head to the Governor
By Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - Two bills introduced in response to the Rampart scandal have cleared the state Assembly unopposed and are on thei...
Custody Battle Chattel
By Columnist
By Fred Silberberg. There is a serious flaw in our legal system when it comes to addressing custody cases. The existence of pr...