Council Waives Conflicts of Interest
By Chris Ford
The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday agreed to waive conflicts of interest in certain cases for attorneys volunteering to inve...
Board Tables LAPD Hiring Proposal
By Chris Ford
The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday set aside a proposal to give the police department the funding and au...
Women's Shelter Sues Pacific Bell for Publishing Its Address
By Anne La Jeunesse
Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles filed a lawsuit Tuesday against telecommunications giant Pacific Bell and the company's t...
Andrews Returns to McCutchen's Environment
By Tamara Scott
After 21/2 years dealing with world crises as a legal adviser to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, international environm...
Here Comes the Reconsideration: Beatle George Easement-Free in Maui
By Garry Abrams
The Hawaii Supreme Court has written a song for former Beatle George Harrison called, "We screwed up." The first verse is pret...
Woman Settles Rape Case Against Apartment for $1.6 Million
By Tessa Jarrett
RIVERSIDE - A woman who was attacked and raped by two men in the laundry room of the Riverside apartment complex where she liv...
Midwife Faces O.C. Trial for Death of Baby
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - A pre trial hearing is set for Friday for a former Orange County midwife facing a felony charge of causing the sti...
Fritz Coleman will Star at Valley Event
By Staff Reports
Fritz Coleman, NBC's weather forecaster and a comedian, will be the featured entertainer May 12 at the annual Law Day dinner s...
Ruling May Herald Parameters for Online Use
By Contributing Writer
The court battle won by the recording industry Friday may signal the beginning of a successful effort to police music piracy o...
Chimerical Judicial Conundrums
It was Monday morning and Judge Learned Foote sang to himself as he trundled down the hall to his chambers, lugging his briefc...
Chronicle Trial Starts Run as Settlement Negotiations Fail
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Two hours of in-chambers settlement negotiations failed on Monday, the opening day of a trial in which former ...
Family Law Attorney Breck MacLaren Dies at 53
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - William Breck Mac Laren, who went by his middle name, a fixture in Orange County family law circles for 25 years, ...
Squadron Ellenoff Picks up Stone for Its Small L.A. Office
By Meredith Alexander
Intellectual property litigator Richard L. Stone has left the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton to...
Just to Address Women Lawyers
By Staff Reports
State Supreme Court Justice Kathryn Werdegar will serve as keynote speaker Monday at the installation dinner of Women Lawyers ...
Breaking the Routine
By Columnist
Dicta: By Mark B. Vezzani Every day thousands of guilty pleas are taken in criminal courts. But before the defendant is permit...
Greenspan Sits on Sideline While America Takes a Bath
By Columnist
Forum: Spin Report By John M. Curtis Fiddling away at the White House, President Clinton was uncharacteristically tongue-tied ...
Ex-Husband Loses Pregnancy Suit
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - A doctor cannot be held liable for artificially impregnating a woman at her request and not telling her husband, ...
Officers Sue LAPD for Discrimination, Retaliation
By Chris Ford
Four Los Angeles Police Department officers claim in a lawsuit that LAPD supervisors discriminated against them and retaliated...
Homeowners Will Pay Insurers Costs
By Anne La Jeunesse
In a final settlement agreement, a Simi Valley condominium homeowners' association has agreed to pay State Farm Insurance Comp...
Perkins Coie Adds Six to L.A. Offices Technology Group
By Tamara Scott
Expanding its Internet and technology presence in Southern California, Seattle-based Perkins Coie has recruited four more part...
Court: Employers Can Force Use of Comp Time
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Handing a victory to public-sector employers, the Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, Monday that state and local governmen...
Child Care
By Jeffrey Anderson
Jedediah S. Minoff , 32, has shown impressive leadership at the helm of the Public Counsel's Juvenile Court Intervention and A...
Defaults -- South
By Ron Mc Nees
CONSTRUCTION BRIEFS
By John Mc Cloud
Spieker Properties Inc. began construction on the first phase of Skyport Plaza, a mixed-use project with 1.1 million square f...
Elians Father Is Not Legally Free to Speak
By Columnist
By Frank A. Shepherd The Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Justice Department base their view that Elian should b...
PLAYING Tug of War
By Columnist
Forum: By Marc Van Der Hout and Sierra Thai-Binh The sight of a border patrol agent in full riot gear pointing a semi-automati...
Reno Took the Law Into Her Own Hands by Seizing Elian
By Pamela E. Kraver
Forum: By Pamela E. Kraver There are many legitimate and persuasive opinions regarding the Elian Gonzalez issue. Most people b...
Attorney Challenges DA to End Abuse
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Citing what he described as lapses of prosecutorial ethics, a criminal defense attorney said in a speech Thursday ...
Fighting On
By Katherine Gaidos
Hollywood superstar Julia Roberts and Santa Monica legal eagle Jill McDonell have one thing in common: an acute appreciation ...
BROKERAGE BRIEFS
By Ron Mc Nees
Irvine - Two Orange County commercial real estate firms, 1st Option Commercial and ITC Real Estate Group, merged into a regio...