Photo Finish
By Columnist
This vignette occurred in England. A man unwittingly drove his vehicle in excess of the speed limit through a speed trap. ...
Perilous Policy
By Columnist
While capital punishment in the United States has lately been a campaign issue, a federal administrative agency that routinely...
Smoke This Book: Advice on Avoiding Pot Busts
By Staff Writer
Hungry Minds Inc., in its rush to publish "Retired Racing Greyhounds For Dummies," "Success For Dummies," "Making Marriage Wor...
Courtroom Clod
By Columnist
Learning to talk to judges is like grasping a foreign language - once you know the vocabulary you must also understand the nua...
Second Class
By Columnist
When it comes to searches and seizures, parolees in California are treated like second-class citizens: Police can search their...
Judge Blocks Transfer of Assets From Fraudulent Firm
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - A federal judge has put the breaks on an alleged financial scam by issuing a temporary restraining order that bloc...
Panel Studies LAPD Immigration Policy
By Chris Ford
After hearing testimony that Los Angeles Police Department officers still violate a 1979 order that they not inquire about imm...
Council OKs Hiring Patricia Glaser
By Chris Ford
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to put litigator Patricia Glaser on a $150,000 retainer to thwart efforts by outs...
Personal-Injury Pioneer Toxey Hall Smith Dies
By David Houston
Funeral services were held earlier this week in Poplarville, Miss., for Toxey Hall Smith Sr., a pioneer in personal injury and...
Rampart Juror Denies Misconduct
By Anne La Jeunesse
Legal authorities say the latest development in the convictions of three Los Angeles police officers in the first trial born o...
L.A. Federal Judge's Order Bars Arbitration Agreements
By David Houston
A federal judge in Los Angeles has barred Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps from requiring employees to sign an arbitratio...
Insurers Ask State Justices to Block Quake Law
By Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - Insurers of Northridge earthquake victims have petitioned the state Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional a n...
More Money Can't Keep Lawyers in Large Firms
By Tamara Scott
Even though large law firms are paying associates skyrocketing sums, a recent survey has found that many of these lawyers woul...
S.F. Judge Laurence Kay Elevated to 1st DCA
By Staff Writer
Gov. Gray Davis has announced the appointment of six new judges - three appellate court justices and three for the San Diego C...
Appeal Due In Decision On Shifting Tax Funds
By Peter Blumberg
An epic battle between local and state government over property tax revenues appears headed for the California Supreme Court. ...
Fed-Up Lawyer Gets Animated
By Anne La Jeunesse
A local attorney, weary of what he sees as increasing acrimony in the practice of law, has turned his love of editorial cartoo...
Disability Advocates Bestows Honors
By Staff Writer
OAKLAND - Disability Rights Advocates Corp. handed out its 4th Annual Eagle and Turkey Awards Tuesday, saluting corporations t...
Venerable Hillyer & Irwin Stays On
By Martin Kruming
Hillyer & Irwin, one of San Diego's oldest law firms, which has experienced a number of shareholder and associate departur...
Former Nanny Sues Pitcher Chuck Finley
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - A live-in nanny who once worked for former Anaheim Angels pitching ace Chuck Finley and his wife, Julie, has sued ...
Public Access
By Contributing Writer
On Monday, the public was able to watch a live, televised hearing in the Florida Supreme Court on the legal challenge to the m...
Take Out
By Columnist
The task force's work has resulted in legislation that clarifies a judge's authority to utilize special discovery references. ...
Cooley Godward Joins List Announcing New Partners
By Karen Coleman
In a legal market that's producing more corporate work than many firms say they can handle, Cooley Godward didn't forget the l...
S.F. Judge Bars Evidence Hearing on Fingerprints
By Robert Selna
San Francisco Judge Lenard Louie has declined to join a handful of judges around the country who have permitted hearings desig...
Prop. 21 Challenge Is Rejected With Nary a Peep
By Tyler Cunningham
In the latest legal skirmish over Proposition 21, a San Francisco judge on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of the newly a...
Judge Reverses Rape Verdicts as Hearsay-Based
By Dawn Piimanu
He preyed on women he met at church, women whose faith or naivet led them to counsel the troubled man before he attacked them,...
Judge Sentences Man For Dumping Manure
By Anne La Jeunesse
Pig Man may not be bringing home the bacon for a while. Sean McKinney Diener, 20, a Layton, Utah, animal rights activist who w...
Litigator R. Edward Brown, 70, Succumbs
By Tina Spee
Private services will take place for R. Edward Brown, trial attorney and the first president of the San Fernando Valley Crimin...
Doctor Loses Battle Over Gag Order
By Dawn Piimanu
Hollywood's nip-and-tuck specialist, Steven Hoefflin, has lost the latest legal battle to prevent further dissemination of all...
The Millenary Mark: 1,000 Lawyers Call MoFo Home
By Staff Writer
Last month, a new lawyer in one of Morrison & Foerster's 18 offices became No. 1,000 for the San Francisco-based law firm....
ACLU Sues Police for Rousting of Homeless
By Jeffrey Anderson
Raising the issue of where homeless people can sit or stand, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern Califor...