Dr. Dre Assists Michigan Cities in Subduing Their Inner Totalitarian
By Garry Abrams
City officials in Detroit and Auburn Hills, Mich., don't have to go very deep to get in touch with their inner totalitarian. D...
Attorney Returns to Roots After Absence of 13 Years
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - Gary Apfel walked away from New York's LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae 13 years ago. Now, he returns to the fi...
Redistricting Debate May Halt Primaries
By Amy Koval
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund and Irell & Manella argued Wednesday over whether to h...
Depositions Lock Down Witness Testimony
By Columnist
Many litigators think of depositions primarily as a discovery tool. It's easy to see why.
Just the Facts
By Columnist
Remember Sgt. Joe Friday of the old television series "Dragnet?" When the aging blonde witness at the crime scene would stray ...
Judge in Long Beach Believes Fairness Is Built Into System
By Tamara Scott
New Laws Give Reins To Police
By Columnist
Everyone's talking about terrorism these days, but my family and I have experienced terrorism up close and personal. We surviv...
Software Maker Wins Injunction Against AOL In Copyright Case
By Marisa Navarro
LOS ANGELES - America Online Inc. is finding out it's all or nothing in a $47 million copyright-infringement case in Los Angel...
Stubborn Myths
By Columnist
Mediation is a fact of life. Whether ordered by the court, selected by counsel or required by contract, mediation is a process...
Panel Tosses Speculation-Based Child Support
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - Child-support payments must be determined by actual income and cannot be calculated based on the perception of a...
Davis Appoints Two Judges in San Bernardino
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday appointed attorneys John M. Pacheco and Katrina West to the San Bernardino County ...
Bar Takes Over Attorney's Practice
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar has taken jurisdiction over the practice of a Brentwood trial attorney who is being investigated f...
Metal Band Prevails in Novel Suit
By Matthew Heller
SAN LUIS OBISPO - According to Superior Court Judge E. Jeffrey Burke, recording companies "deliberately" marketed the "repulsi...
Why Sit Ye Here, Vagrant, All the Day Idle?
By Columnist
In Lewis v. The State , 3 Ga.App. 322 (1907), Chief Judge Benjamin Harvey Hill held the following for the court, in per...
Working Together
By Columnist
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that an employee-participation program that involved all workers in the company's...
Marketing Hurdles
By Columnist
I consider myself a classic marketing person. I am high-energy, passionate about my job and have attended time-management clas...
Employment Lawyer Was Mentor to Many
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - A rosary will be said Friday and a requiem Mass celebrated Saturday for Jerome C. Byrne, a labor-and-employment...
Attorney Represented Real Estate Developers
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - Richard H. Slivkin, a veteran attorney who represented some of Southern California's largest real estate develop...
The Redemption of Going Double or Nothing on an Olson Plea Bargain
By Garry Abrams
On April 5, in a fit of attempted prescience, I wrote a column predicting that Sara Jane Olson would make a plea deal to settl...
Native Angeleno Litigated Cases for 60 Years
By Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES - Jerome W. Shepard, a native Angeleno and civil litigator for more than 60 years, has died. Shepard died of heart...
Horseplay Hazards
By Columnist
Horseplay, as many parents will attest, is no laughing matter when someone gets hurt. However, it usually can be curtailed wit...
Reporter Sees Justices' Anthrax Scare Up Close
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - For 10 days, the nation's highest court hovered unscathed as the anthrax scare tightened its grip on Capitol Hill...
Survey Reports Lawyers Aren't All Millionaires
By Don Debenedictisn
LOS ANGELES - California lawyers are older and more diverse than they were 10 years ago but not, overall, as rich as the publi...
Facing U.S. Government's Deficiencies
By Columnist
Terrorists succeed when a democratic government turns on its own people or persists in policies that no longer are viable. Thi...
Walking Wounded
By Columnist
Anger, sorrow and fear hit us instantly when terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11. The emotional wound has hit u...
Gender-Equity Efforts Hurt Young Men, College Sports
By Columnist
California State University men's sports, after being assaulted by feminist organizations, are instead ignoring the desires of...
VENTURA BAR ASSOCIATION HONORS OXNARD LAWYER
By Staff Writer
The Ventura County Bar Association has named William H. Hair, 68, this year's recipient of its Ben E. Nordman Award. Hair, nam...
REAL ESTATE AND THE LAW / Gerald Bryant
By Contributing Writer
It is no secret that initiating a lawsuit in court can be time-consuming and costly. Depending on the nature of the dispute, ...
ICANN NAMES ARBITRATOR TO POLICY REVIEW TASK FORCE
By Tanya Rothman
The private organization that assigns Internet domain names has appointed a partner from Palo Alto's Tomlinson Zisko Morosoli ...
Latham & Watkins: RANDOM HOUSE GETS AN EARFUL WITH ACQUISITION
By Contributing Writer
New York publishing giant Random House has agreed to purchase Newport Beach-based Books on Tape Inc. The deal is valued at $22...