Rampart Scandal's Expenses Top $19 Million
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - The Rampart police corruption scandal has generated one of the most expensive legal bills in county history, rac...
Jurist Seeks Solutions Courageously, Quietly
By Ed Kimble
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Leon S. Kaplan marked his 20th anniversary on the bench recently in much the sa...
Defying Cruel Orders, Israeli Soldiers Point Way to Peace
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Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Israel faces a serious dilemma. Its population lives in legitimate fear of terrorist suicide...
Panel Says Oil Companies Must Pay for Cleanup
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - Four major oil companies are responsible for cleaning up the McColl Superfund Site in Fullerton where they dumpe...
Decision Clears Yacht Owner of Wrongful Death
By Matthew Heller
SANTA BARBARA - The sea, they say, doesn't give its secrets up easily. That was certainly the case in the death of a veteran S...
Tunisian Man Gets Prison for Falsifying Visa
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Tunisian man detained in the Sept. 11 sweeps to six months in federal pris...
Hedy Lamarr's Defenders Say Dead Movie Stars Need Their Dignity, Too
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - The son of Hollywood Golden Age actress Hedy Lamarr and an 85-year-old Los Angeles attorney who tools...
Lyon & Lyon Loses Rainmaker, Firm Veteran
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - In a continuing rash of defections, Los Angeles-based patent firm Lyon & Lyon has lost its former managing p...
Jury Sides With DA in Slander Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A Victorville deputy public defender and his employer, San Bernardino County, should pay $250,000 to a sex cr...
Courthouse Gets Rigged for Wireless
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - A new service promises that, for a price, attorneys can log onto Lexis, e-mail the office or download document...
'Older and Wiser,' Lawyer Finds Balanced Life
By Erik Cummins
Marc Van Der Hout figured he'd go into labor law or criminal defense after he graduated from Golden Gate University School of ...
Board Let Deceit Run Rampant
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Forum Column - By Heidi Mandanis Schooner - There now seems little doubt that Enron's executive suite harbored thieves. As She...
Pregnancy Retaliation Claim Survives Challenge
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has affirmed a lower court judgment that San Diego County unlawfully retaliated against a pre...
CERCLA Relief
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Environmental Law Practitioner Column - By William D. Wick - Congress surprised just about everyone by amending the Superfund ...
Human Cost
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Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and John S. West - All of the pundits seem to agree that our economy is in recession. Whenever...
Doctors Get $3 Million for Dispute With HMO
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A jury has awarded a group of Corona doctors $3 million after a judge found that the health maintenance organizati...
Court Has Jurisdiction Over Detainees, Brief Argues
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - Citing Shakespeare, the Bible and Mick Jagger, civil rights attorney Stephen Yagman denounced the Bush administr...
Officials Plan Motion To Halt Litigation
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Two county supervisors plan to introduce an unusual motion at Tuesday's board meeting ordering the county's atto...
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...
Olson Channels Grief Into Job
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Last summer, life was looking amazingly bright for Theodore B. (Ted) Olson. The veteran litigator from Los Angele...
Child Molester May Go Free After Judge's Error
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - A convicted child molester may go free after an appeals court reversed his conviction, finding that a Los Angele...
Pioneer Attorney's Feminism Ennobled Her Legal Efforts
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Forum Column - By Barbara Allen Babcock - Today, the Los Angeles criminal courts building will be christened The Clara Shortri...
Renaming Restores the Word 'Justice' to Court Building
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Forum Column - By Alex Ricciardulli - Downtown Los Angeles' Criminal Courts Building will be officially renamed today after Cl...
Drug Addicted
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Forum Column - By John Sperling - Sunday, during the most exciting Super Bowl in history, hundreds of millions of people aroun...
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...
Arbitration Equation
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Dicta Column - By Richard J. Simmons - Law firms should consider using arbitration agreements as a means to resolve employee d...
Honest Self-Exam Precedes Deciding to Make Switch
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Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - At some point in your career, you may consider switching practice areas. Some att...
Ginsburg Describes Court's Collegiality
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Members of the U.S. Supreme Court are a collegial bunch despite bitter philosophical differences, Justice Ruth B...
Experts Praise Plans to Complete Belmont
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES -The Belmont Learning Center can be completed safely, soon and at a reasonable cost by either of the two partnersh...
Woman Hit by Bus Wins $13 Million in Trial
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES -A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded $13.2 million Thursday to a woman who suffered brain damage after being...