LOS ANGELES - This is a tale of two high schools. El Camino Real is an integrated, predominately white, suburban school that r...
Employment Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Employment cases generate their own unique discovery disputes, often involving ...
Banking
What's Yours Is Mine, in Joint Bank Accounts, 'Lee' Decides
By Contributing Writer
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Ronald S. Granberg - Al and Bob open a joint-tenancy bank account together: Al deposits $90,...
WASHINGTON - For 10 months of the year, I truly envy the Supreme Court justices for their leisurely schedule. Because they are...
LOS ANGELES - For four years, the ACLU has been trying to persuade a court to order the state to level the educational playing...
LOS ANGELES - In a potentially far-reaching decision, Massachusetts' highest court ruled Thursday that Catholic clergy cannot ...
RIVERSIDE - The operator of a remote, dilapidated farming village in the Riverside County desert has reached a settlement with...
Appellate Practice
Cooley Seeks Reinstatement of Three Convictions in Rampart
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney's office asked an appellate court Thursday to reinstate the convictions of thr...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Professional Mediators Are a Lawyer's Best Friend
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Jeff Kichaven - The relationship of court systems to the mediation field co...
Government
Smoke Doesn't Necessarily Indicate Fire in L.A. 'Pay to Play' Witch Hunt
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Steve Meister - The federal and county prosecutors probing allegations of a so-called "pay to play" system i...
Forum Column - By Joe Dunn, Daniel Grunfeld and Mitchell Kamin - Our Constitution guarantees citizens their "day in court," ye...
Forum Column - By Matthew F. Archbold and David D. Deason - The briefs are in, not only from the plaintiff and the defendant b...
LOS ANGELES - James J. Smith explained to a federal judge Wednesday morning why he was pleading guilty. But the former FBI cou...
SANTA ANA - Judges on Wednesday selected new members of Orange County's grand jury, faces that represent the increasingly dive...
WASHINGTON - Behind the Justice Department's decision this week to reopen the 50-year-old murder case of Emmett Till are two N...
A state appeals court Tuesday overturned a Riverside woman's second-degree murder conviction for drowning her newborn son in a...
GARDEN GROVE - Though overwhelmingly popular with the local community, a move by the City Council to discourage visits from Vi...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday threw out a libel claim against a national support group for victims of clergy ...
Entertainment & Sports
The Trials of Suge Knight: Out of Prison in April, Back in Court in May
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Marion "Suge" Knight, the Los Angeles gangsta rap mogul, got out of prison on his latest parole-viola...
LOS ANGELES - On a dry-erase board in Tim Howard's office at Van Nuys High School is a chart with the headings "white" and "no...
Constitutional Law
L.A. Schools Were Unique Challenge for Desegregation
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Judge Paul Egly took over the ACLU-NAACP Los Angeles desegregation lawsuit in 1977, fresh from his successful ef...
Labor/Employment
Lawyers Shouldn't Let Client Hostilities Control Advocacy
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Most employment disputes are by their nature fairly contentious. Workers do not like be...
Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. and Joshua Safran - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently addre...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors Tuesday filed a criminal complaint against a former Boeing manager for his alleged role in t...
Personal Injury & Torts
Priest Says Law Firm Is Supporting Leader of Clergy Abuse Victims
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - A Catholic priest has accused a national support group for clergy abuse victims of an improper financial relatio...
Following is a timeline of the integration of Los Angeles public schools.
WESTMINSTER - In 1945, a group of Orange County Latino families, led by tenant farmers Gonzalo and Felicitas Mendez, filed sui...
LOS ANGELES - Sylvia Mendez was only 9 when she testified about attending a "Mexican" school in Orange County. Speaking in her...
Appellate Practice
Demonstrably Wrong Rulings Morph Into 'Well-Settled Error'
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Daniel M. Kolkey - The phrase, "well-settled law," is often invoked by lawyers and judges alike to suggest t...
Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - The qualification and licensing of lawyers in the United States traditionally has stoppe...