Criminal
Finding Fugitives in Mexico Presents Quandary
By Ryan Oliver And Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Now that Mexico's Supreme Court has opened the way for thousands of alleged killers to stand trial in the Unit...
BIG THUNDER PACT - Admitting responsibility for a roller-coaster fatality two years ago, Disneyland has agreed pay a confident...
SUSPENSIONS Alexander, Steven Mark , Merced Boyd, Shannon Roberts , Laguna Niguel Fegen, Paul F. , Los Angeles Mahdessian, Rit...
LOS ANGELES - Latham & Watkins has announced the promotion of 30 associates to partner throughout 13 offices. In Los Angel...
MULTIFAMILY EMERYVILLE - Fremont Investment & Loan provided $109 million in financing to Port Kihei Investments Inc. for ...
A WOMAN'S WORK - Patricia Oliver grew up in Los Angeles and Denver. She married Tom Oliver in 1985. ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Please, Let Us Enjoy Holidays Without Hysteria Over Religion
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - The relentless William J. Becker Jr.'s latest article ("Thanksgiving: An Endorsement of Religion Lost o...
Focus Column - By Laura W. Brill, Christopher M. Newman,Ted M. Sichelman and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - Decisions of federal cou...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
State Cigarette Tax Hike Could Support Children's Health Care
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - A society can suffer no greater indictment than allowing children to suffer needlessly or ...
LOS ANGELES - Insurance adjusters won a $120 million settlement this month in a class action claim that alleged Allstate Insu...
Labor/Employment
New Year Brings New Considerations for Employment Attorneys
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - Employment lawyers both relish and dread the onslaught of new laws with which t...
Letter to the Editor - Isn't it ironic that the ACLU - the same organization that has been pressing the United Way to refuse d...
LOS ANGELES - A Gumby doll sits on the desk of Toluca Lake mediator Steve Cerveris. The job of the animated TV character, Cerv...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Question: What do you get when the Court of Appeal issues an opinion that reverses the t...
LOS ANGELES - Now that Mexico's Supreme Court has cleared the way for thousands of alleged killers to stand trial in the Unite...
LOS ANGELES - Any woman attorney - no matter what her practice or employer - will gladly talk about the struggle to balance fa...
Environmental
Plaintiff Groups to Pay Penalties Over Misused Prop. 65 Funds
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland school's burned out music program will be the beneficiary of an unusual deal between the state and ...
CIVIL TRIALS END - Buckling under a heavy criminal trial caseload, Riverside Superior Court officials have decided to halt civ...
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego County Superior Court judges have elected three San Diego-area lawyers as commissioners. The three a...
Focus Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Robert Burch - As society has become more mobile, the courts have been presented with...
Letter to the Editor - I was very impressed with Stephen F. Rohde's article "Count Your Blessings: An Open Letter to Ex-'Comba...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - At the eleventh hour, the Bush administration has once again pulled its punches in the case ...
Administrative/Regulatory
United States Never Wanted Taliban-Style Thanksgiving
By Columnist
Letter to the Editor - Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday. It promotes, in this otherwise busy and commercialized culture of ...
LOS ANGELES - Because demand for paralegals is expected to soar in the next few years, the field is becoming an increasingly ...
VENTURA - Attorneys for Diana R. Hall on Wednesday asked the state Commission on Judicial Performance to dismiss misconduct c...
LOS ANGELES - Immigration officials arrested 17 illegal workers Wednesday as part of an investigation into a Southern Califor...
SANTA ANA - An appellate court Wednesday left in place a $1.8 million civil penalty against an Orange County lawyer for filin...
LOS ANGELES - Every year, law-school career counselors around the state field calls for help from recent graduates who've dis...
LOS ANGELES - Call it keeping up with the Joneses - City Hall style. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa barely filled the newly creat...
LOS ANGELES - Chief Justice Ronald M. George was outvoted by his colleagues Wednesday in an 11th hour bid to re-open the case ...