Entertainment & Sports
Mitchell Partner Becomes Muhammad Ali Enterprises' Cornerman
By Drew Combsn
It probably wasn't the first time a lawyer signed up a client prone to describing himself as "the greatest." But 17 years ago,...
LOS ANGELES - When Ryan G. Baker walked into John Quinn's 10th-story office to explain that he would be leaving Quinn Emanuel ...
Judges and Judiciary
Retired Judge Broke Barriers to Practice Law in Los Angeles
By Victoria Fine
LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Glenette Blackwell, a pioneering woman lawyer, has died. ...
Thomas I. Friedman prides himself on his informal approach to the alternative dispute process. ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Voters, Not Dodgers, Vetoed Elysian Park Housing
By David Minkown
Letter to the Editor - John C. Murphy never quite makes his position on the Anderson Initiative clear in his column, "Anderson...
LOS ANGELES - There's no living large for grocery workers in Southern California these days.
Law Practice
Let's Open Wide the Pipeline to Diversity of Legal Profession
By David Minkown
"Civility and courtesy ... are expected and not to be equated with weakness."
Appellate Practice
Notice of Entry of Judgment: Success Is in the Details
By David Minkown
Focus Column - As any appellate lawyer worth his or her salt knows, California Rule of Court 2(a) requires a party to file a n...
OAKLAND - Family law attorneys and advocates for victims of domestic abuse are cheering a recent decision by a state appeals c...
An Orange County jury awarded $3.25 million to a woman who suffered vision loss and paralysis after a case of food poisoning.
A state appellate court faulted the defense lawyer as well as the trial judge for mistakes that required reversal of a prison ...
Judges and Judiciary
Using Wrong Cold-Hit Calculation Will Lead to DNA Conviction Problems
By David Minkown
Forum Column - What is the appropriate calculation to compute the statistical significance of a match when someone has been id...
Criminal
Defendants in Pellicano Case Potentially Face Light Sentences
By David Houstonn
LOS ANGELES - The massive racketeering, conspiracy and wiretapping indictment against celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano ...
On the second anniversary of his arrest and incarceration on a two-decades-old student-visa violation, Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan was...
SAN JOSE - An Arkansas state judge approved a settlement Thursday in a "click fraud" case that legal observers say is big vict...
SAN DIEGO - Claiming that Vinson & Elkins didn't properly investigate possible wrongdoing at San Diego's City Hall, City A...
Labor/Employment
Employers Must Ensure Harassment-Prevention Training Complies With Law
By David Minkown
Employment Column - California's Harassment Training and Education law requires most employers to provide sexual harassment pr...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for 79-year-old Seymour Lazar, the first person indicted in the federal kickback case against Milberg, W...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge Thursday refused to toss out a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles and the Police Dep...
Prominent Claremont trial lawyer Herbert Hafif took a blow from the state Supreme Court on Thursday in his decade-old legal ba...
Labor/Employment
Union Must Pay Sutter Health $17.3 Million for Defamation
By Anne Marie Ruff
A union's claim of dirty laundry has landed them in hot water.
WASHINGTON - The powerful chairman of the House Judiciary Committee took his frustration out on a Democratic congressman from ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Beware the Dangers of Arbitrators Morphing Into Mediators
By David Minkown
Flexibility and adaptability are hallmarks of alternative dispute resolution, and the ability to fit procedures to the needs o...
SAN FRANCISCO - The nationwide battle between civil rights groups and telecommunications companies over electronic surveillanc...
LOS ANGELES - When John D. Berchild Jr. began as a summer associate at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton in 1971, the fi...
LOS ANGELES - A Latino street gang in Highland Park waged a campaign of terror against African Americans, including murdering ...
Large Firms
Perks vs. Work: Do Wine Tastings and Weekend Retreats Sell Summer Associates on Law-Firm Life?
By Robert Iafollan
LOS ANGELES - Between their second and third years at law school, many top-tier students enjoy a summerlong shower of freebies...
Large Firms
Expanding to the West Coast, Venable Settles in Century City
By Drew Combsn
LOS ANGELES - After years in the proverbial California wilderness trying to put together a long-term West Coast strategy, the ...
LOS ANGELES - Boalt Hall law student Jessica Mendoza is spending her summer on the front lines of the simmering immigration de...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for two men accused of a gang-related 2005 murder asked a Superior Court judge Wednesday to throw ou...