LOS ANGELES - Latham & Watkins can't be expected to make decisions as quickly as its smaller brethren. The firm has over ...
LOS ANGELES - In his first appearance in the United States since being indicted in 2003, a remorseless former chief of Credit...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court jury returned a guilty verdict Friday against a Thousand Oaks man who was videotaped shooting ...
SAN FRANCISCO - For Christopher Borders, joining Hinshaw & Culberston was a homecoming of sorts. Borders started his law ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has ordered the city of Los Angeles to pay $1 million in legal fees to relatives of the late Not...
SAN FRANCISCO - High-profile defense attorney Daniel Horowitz was dismissed from the Susan Polk murder case Friday because of ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Federal Jurist Prevents Use Of 'Suicide-by-Cop' Defense
By Ryan Oliver
RIVERSIDE - A federal judge has blocked a "suicide-by-cop" defense in the wrongful death lawsuit against a top Los Angeles pro...
LOS ANGELES - Crime victims are too often treated as "Victorian children" who should be seen and not heard, the 9th U.S. Circu...
LOS ANGELES - The right to privacy in divorce proceedings does not always trump the First Amendment right to public access to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - When New York-based Nixon Peabody needed a lawyer to represent the firm's clients in equipment leasing transa...
LOS ANGELES - Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold has announced that the firm has elected Curtis Parvin as the new managing p...
MALIBU DECISION - Pepperdine University School of Law is expected to announce today that Thomas J. Stipanowich will take a top...
LOS ANGELES - Whether it's a Bible on display outside a Texas courthouse, prayer over a school's public address system, intell...
WASHINGTON - If Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. is confirmed as expected, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wil...
Focus Column - By William F. Sullivan and Morgan J. Miller - On Jan. 4, a unanimous Securities and Exchange Commission led by ...
Forum Column - By Judith F. Daar - The U.S. Supreme Court added another page to the rule book on federal and state power-shari...
Labor/Employment
Suits Likely to Spring From Camera Phone High Jinks in the Workplace
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Employment Column - By Christopher M. Ahearn - What would you think if, when you showed up for work tomorrow, your supervisor ...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Illegal Trade of Body Parts Hurts Trust in Organ-Donation Programs
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Forum Column - By Arthur Caplan and Glenn McGee - When it comes to the body, they say you can't take it with you when you die....
LOS ANGELES - A former priest once accused of molesting 23 boys was rearrested Thursday at Los Angeles International Airport o...
LOS ANGELES - A Circuit City employee cannot pursue a wage-and-hour class action against the retailer because of a signed pre-...
Constitutional Law
There Are Rules but No Science to Granting Clemency
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did not show much interest in granting clemency to 76-year-old Clarence Ray Allen,...
LOS ANGELES - The assignment of two different judges to hear a pair of cases arising from the wiretapping investigation of cel...
SACRAMENTO - An effort to impose a two-year moratorium on California's death penalty failed to clear a key fiscal committee T...
Judges and Judiciary
Former DA Begins to 'See Both Sides' in Juvenile Cases
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Every evening, Judge David S. Milton stops at a coffee shop on his way home. Over a latte, without the distract...
SAN FRANCISCO - James A. Richman, an Alameda County Superior Court judge known for his courteous-style and mastery of complex ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Lawyer's Leniency Bid Compares Sex Trade to Day Labor Industry
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Someone who harbors an undocumented alien who works in San Francisco's sex industry is no different than a day...
HONEST MISTAKE - A dog-bitten juvenile prisoner got a break this week on a deadline missed by his lawyer's secretary. The 3rd ...
DISBARMENTS Creque, George Anthony , Willow Springs Shalant, Joseph Leib , Los Angeles Smith III, Frank Leonard , High Springs...
SACRAMENTO - A San Diego man who spent 21 years in prison after being wrongly convicted for the death of his girlfriend's todd...
NEWPORT BEACH - Julie McCoy became a pilot because of an Orange County Bar Association charity event. Now she is one of a hand...