Look Forward
By Columnist
Luce Forward argued that mandatory arbitration agreements can encompass claims for discrimination and that Duffield was wrongl...
Reporting For Duty
By Columnist
Do you know what your duties as an attorney are? Every attorney takes an oath when he or she is sworn in upon admission to the...
Heller Ehrman Appoints a New Managing Shareholder
By John Ryan
SAN DIEGO - David Geerdes has been named managing shareholder of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's San Diego office. "I wa...
Wonderland
By Columnist
The 'Costa' case highlights just one area in which there will likely be appellate challenges to BAJI employment instructions. ...
Manatt Partner Heads Coliseum Commission
By Tamara Scott
LOS ANGELES - Lisa Specht, a partner at Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips, on Wednesday assumed the presidency of the ...
Golf Cart Kick Start
By Columnist
The purpose of the Americans With Disabilities Act is to open doors to equal opportunity for the disabled. Does this include a...
Tom Cruise Files Divorce Papers
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - In a move that sent shivers of joy down the spines of Hollywood gossip columnists and gave entertainment industr...
State Board Will Vote on Carson School District
By Jill Boekenoogen
LOS ANGELES - A group of grandmothers who say they are concerned about public education in their community may reach an import...
IRS Officer Gets Time For Fraud Charges
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
LOS ANGELES - A revenue officer with the Internal Revenue Service was sentenced Monday to more than three years in a federal p...
Alleged Juror Bribery May Mean New Trial
By Dawn Piimanu
LOS ANGELES - Co-defendants of ex-Los Angeles Rams cornerback Darryl Henley, who were convicted of a cross-country cocaine dru...
Long Court Fight Sets Precedent for Gypped Employees
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A Prunedale man's 18-year court fight to recover his unpaid wages has finally panned out, but it took a trip t...
Judge and Activist Lester Van Tatenhove Dies
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - Lester Van Tatenhove, a retired Orange County Superior Court judge who made his mark as a jurist and social activi...
Court Scolds Lawyers for Slow Death Row Appeals
By Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed a San Francisco lawyer to withdraw from a death penalty case after s...
9th Delivers Mixed Verdict On Holocaust Victim Law
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - California's Holocaust victim insurance law survived a major constitutional attack before the 9th U. S. Circui...
9th Circuit Upholds Inmates' Right to Receive Bulk Mail
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Oregon prisons are stepping on inmates' First Amendment rights by turning away subscription newsletters delive...
Council Says Mayor Blocks Police Reform
By Chris Ford
LOS ANGELES - City Council members lambasted Mayor Richard J. Riordan on Wednesday for standing in the way of needed reforms t...
The Physics of Legal Charity, Counting Interest Rates and Adopted Kids
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - The creation of money can be almost as mysterious - and controversial - as the creation of the universe. That's ...
Judge Bianchini Earns the Big Footy Award
By Martin Kruming
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Victor Bianchini received the Big Footy Award for his service and assistance to the Foothills...
Attorney Clair Martin Christensen Dies at 74
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired Culver City attorney Clair Martin Christensen. Christensen died Jan. 30 at...
Gaining Perspective
By Eron Yehuda
Overcoming a life-threatening illness taught John E. Andrews that winning isn't everything, but the Los Angeles attorney hasn'...
Yaki Building First Book of Business
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - After getting voted out of San Francisco city government, former Richmond District supervisor Michael Yaki is ...
Monopoly Games
By Eron Yehuda
When the leagues faced legal challenges to their grip on money and power basketball, baseball and soccer didn't play games in ...
Competition Conflicts
By Columnist
The professional sports industry, which involves unique and nonfungible labor, receive high marks for its ADR practices. ...
Picket Fences
By Columnist
The entertainment industry is bracing itself for an impending labor dispute and inevitable lockout that is expected to bring H...
Senior U.S. Attorney Joins Quinn Emanuel
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Duane Lyons, a senior lawyer at the U.S. attorney's office, is leaving next week for private practice. After tak...
IBM Loses Bid to Slash Property Tax
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - In a big win for Santa Clara County in a battle with technology giant International Business Machines Corp., a judg...
D.A. Protests, But Execution Set
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Following a courtroom repudiation of the death penalty by San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan, co...
Empty Victories
By Columnist
The untimely filing of a new-trial motion deprives a party of the extension-to-appeal period in the Federal Rules of Appellate...
Bush's Faith-Based Program Lacks Key Element: Safeguards
By Columnist
President George W. Bush declared the theme of his second week in office to be "faith-based organizations," and his administra...
Dead End
By Eron Yehuda
Sharon Lowsen, a sole practitioner in Fullerton, won a motion for nonsuit in a case of fraud brought against her client. Ci...