Obfuscators' Delight
By Columnist
Lawyers, take heart: When it comes to obfuscation, you are mere novices compared to lexicographers. ...
Dueling Yellow Pages Force Lawyers to Pay Twice
By Columnist
Lawyers and other professionals are being ripped off by the phone companies with the connivance of the state Legislature. As a...
The End Is Here
By Columnist
In Pierotti v. Torian, 81 Cal.App.4th 17 (2000), the appellate court has issued another opinion in support of the finality of ...
Snubbing Parental Child Snatchers
By Columnist
In the spring of 1999, the media broadcast the story about the Palm Beach land developer who was arrested and charged for kidn...
'SpeeDee' Trap
By Kelly Lee
Terrence A. Beard of Antioch's Law Offices of Terrence A. Beard obtained a $4 million verdict on behalf of eight SpeeDee Oil C...
Bridge to Settlement
By Kelly Lee
Almost two years after he survived a deadly tank explosion on the job, in a complicated case with multiple defendants, tens of...
Meyer Turns to Manatt Phelps as Partner
By Liz Valsamis
David J. Meyer has joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips' litigation and employment unit in Los Angeles as a partner. Meyer's o...
Babcock Heads O.C.'s Public Law Center
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - The Public Law Center of Orange County has named Kenneth W. Babcock as its new executive director. Babcock, curren...
Welcoming Trail
By Columnist
In three of these cases, the court issued opinions that in some way ameliorated the harsh effects of the 1996 act. ...
Study Shows Increase in Reports of Hate Crimes
By David Houston
The number of hate crimes reported in California rose 12.1 percent in 1999, but authorities are unsure how much of that is att...
Lawyer May Face Charges in Deaths of Women
By Anne La Jeunesse
Santa Monica police on Monday will present the city attorney with the case of a West Los Angeles lawyer who reportedly drove i...
Couple Pleads Guilty in Charity Scam, Cooperates With DA
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
Prosecutors say they may charge new defendants in the case of a La Verne couple who has pleaded guilty to allegations of obstr...
Pacificare, St. Joseph Reach Temporary Truce
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - A tussle over patient care for hundreds of Pacificare members all but ended Thursday after an agreement was reache...
INS Keeps Daughter, Dying Father Apart
By Susan Mc Rae
Her first mistake was following her solicitor's advice. Her second mistake was being honest. As a result, Deborah Gabbay Aaron...
Court Decides District Wrongly Fired Coach in Closed Meeting
By Daniel Evans
The final buzzer sounded this week in a San Diego County football coach's long legal battle with his employer when a state app...
Californians in Prisons for Drugs Have Increased 25-Fold Since 1980
By Ed Kimble
California has twice as many people serving time in state prisons for drug offenses as the state's entire prison population 20...
Judge Praises Fourth Class of Compton Drug Court Graduates
By Ed Kimble
Judge Ellen C. DeShazer and a volunteer team of drug rehabilitation specialists, prosecutors, public defenders, probation offi...
Defender Says Prosecutor Hid Role of Rampart in Drug Case
By Michael Harris
The alternate public defender's office said Thursday it has uncovered a new basis on which it may appeal a client's drug convi...
Rousing Recitation
By Columnist
Carefully chosen quotes, statistics, definitions and narration will increase a listeners' ability to comprehend and retain inf...
Summer Associate Partying Not Always Fun
By Columnist
Summer-associate parties should be re-titled "three or four uncomfortable hours of forced conversation with colleagues." ...
Court Decides Rare Case on Abandonment
By Daniel Evans
The 2nd District Court of Appeal issued a stern warning to public entities through a ruling last week, holding the city of Tho...
Banishing Bias
By Contributing Writer
Like most lawyers, I feel passionately about justice and the protection of individual rights and freedoms. The concepts of fai...
Pretext Puzzle
By Columnist
If the employer testifies falsely about the reason for the discharge, then the jury may conclude that it is attempting to conc...
Council Puts Nine on Police Commission
By Tessa Jarrett
RIVERSIDE - The City Council has named nine community leaders to a new citizen Police Review Commission formed in response to ...
Council Considers LAPD Discipline Measure
By Chris Ford
A proposed ballot measure that would weaken the statute of limitations on internal Los Angeles Police Department discipline ca...
Deputies Fight County Over Disciplinary Pact
By Daniel Evans
Despite having its case dismissed at the trial level, the county's largest law enforcement union continues its fight to force ...
Customs Seizes $40 Million in Ecstasy
By Staff Writer
Customs has seized more than 2.1 million doses of the illegal drug Ecstasy with an estimated street value of at least $40 mill...
'Desert Miracle' Author Wheat Dies at 79
By Lisa Madrid
Francis Millspaugh Wheat, a towering figure in securities law, renowned environmentalist and author of the 1999 book "Californ...
Visiting Judges Often Bail Out 9th U.S. Circuit
By Pamela Mac Lean
A "shadow court" has been at work within the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, deciding some of the most significant issues t...
Young Kozinski Follows in Dad's Footsteps
By Staff Writer
Perhaps it's only fitting that Alex Kozinski's son would make a federal case out of a jaywalking ticket. Yale Kozinski, whose ...