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...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Debunks Most-Pernicious Wave Of Urban Myths Launched by Lawyers
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - Paul is dead. The poodle in the microwave. The proofreader at his desk for five days before co...
SANTA ANA - Citing his brief detainment by sheriff's deputies last week and his father's comments that his son will die if he ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday denied a new trial to a pair of convicted methamphetamine dealers who claimed to have ...
Judges and Judiciary
Compassion Moves Right Man For Conservatorship Hearings
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - The middle-aged man sat anxiously before Commissioner David A. Ziskrout, insisting that he has a $60,000-a-year ...
Column By Garry Abrams - For years I covered the Winnie the Pooh royalties case under the impression that it was about a child...
WASHINGTON - As the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education approaches its 50th anniversary, communities aroun...
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - To many lawyers and laypersons the term psychological science probably implies a variant...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Curtis D. Porterfield and Stephen V. Masterson - More and more U.S. companies are finding th...
Judges and Judiciary
Letting Jury Submit Questions Brings More Informed Jury, Better Decision
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Philip K. Mautino - In admitting that jurors are indeed "judges" of the facts, we are finally appreciating t...
LOS ANGELES - After less than a day of deliberations, a federal jury in Los Angeles rejected damage claims from seven convicte...