BAKERSFIELD - Kern Superior Court Judge Sharon Mettler listened patiently as the estranged husband and wife each gave reasons ...
U.S. Supreme Court, Letters, Judges and Judiciary
Chemerinsky Wrote Biased, Unfounded Attack
By Columnist
Letter to the Editor - In his recent Op-Ed, "Thomas, Unbridled, Would Gut 200 Years of Precedent" (Aug. 5 Daily Journal), Erwi...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - "I want my mom." While this phrase is uttered frequently by suspects dur...
LOS ANGELES - Two corporate attorneys have been tapped by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to sit on the five-member board overseein...
LOS ANGELES - Bert H. Deixler, a prominent trial lawyer who played a key role in the city's police reform efforts, has taken o...
RIVERSIDE - James D. Ward, a Court of Appeal justice instrumental in simplifying the language of the state civil jury instruct...
LOS ANGELES - In a move drawing criticism from free-speech advocates and the nation's largest library association, Los Angeles...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Proposition 79 Will Hamper Development of New Drugs
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael A. S. Newman - The economist and social philosopher Thorstein Veblen quipped that "invention is the ...
LOS ANGELES - Three years ago, Hawthorne resident Sharon Tyler was going through a divorce. The 37-year-old graveyard-shift po...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys who appear before Superior Court Judge Richard L. Fruin find him calm, thoughtful and unflappable, eve...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Insurance carriers frequently respond to notice letters by stating that the...
Judges and Judiciary
Senators Must Learn If Roberts Has Open, Impartial Mind
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - G.K. Chesterton once observed that "for a landlady considering a lodger, it is importan...
Labor/Employment
'Coghlan' Reaffirms Same Actor Inference May Bar Discrimination Claims
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Byron J. McLain - The "same actor" inference holds that in employment discrimi...
LOS ANGELES - Craig D. Higgs is known around town as a mediator who never gives up. He keeps punching away until the parties r...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Arbitrator Awards $269,000 to Outed Gay Man
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - A San Francisco gay man demeaned because of his sexuality by a Spanish radio talk show host during a live broadc...
Discipline
Plaintiffs Claim Lawyers Inflated Their Fees by Delaying Accord
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - Jarmani and Lakshmi Prattipati came from India seeking justice after a wealthy Berkeley landlord from their home...
WASHINGTON - As a young lawyer in the Reagan White House, Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. cautioned administration o...
LOS ANGELES - Two lawyers who formerly held top posts in Los Angeles County's Children's Law Center filed whistle-blower compl...
LOS ANGELES - Coudert Brothers this week took another step toward dissolving its partnership by putting its offices and practi...
Judges and Judiciary
Decades-Old Roberts Memo Applies to Today's Old Court
By Don Debenedictisn
WASHINGTON - John G. Roberts Jr. could have been looking into a crystal ball when he wrote a memorandum 22 years ago speculati...
LOS ANGELES - The three-foot gavel hanging above the desk in U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie's chambers might serve as a w...
LOS ANGELES - It's not quite a battle, but with polite words and impassioned arguments, the plaintiffs' bar is drawing a line ...
Letter to the Editor - President Bush may have pulled a coup with his nomination of John Roberts to be a justice on the U.S. S...
Forum Column - By Renee Leff and Bruce Derman - Few situations in life are as difficult as those involving divorcing couples d...
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By H. Jacob Lager - It might just be the worst-case scenario for an honest chief financial offi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Few cases strike more fear in the hearts of lawyers these days than Zubulake v. UBS Warburg or Colem...
Law Practice
New Providers Enter Rapidly Growing Electronic-Discovery Marketplace
By Drew Combs
LOS ANGELES - MetaLINCS will introduce an electronic discovery software application next week that it claims will provide the ...
Judges and Judiciary
Republican Senator Wants to 'Wait and See' About Roberts
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats who are taking a wait-and-see approach with Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. have compa...
Entertainment & Sports
'Extreme Makeover' Reality Show Leaves Bitter Aftertaste
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - No good deed goes unpunished, as the saying goes. But twice? Over the last few days, the cast and c...
LOS ANGELES - For kids, the Internet can turn into a Pandora's box - from making them victims of sexual predators to enticing ...