LOS ANGELES - Saying attorneys had failed to establish an "urgent need," a Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday refus...
LOS ANGELES - A lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles could be the beginning of a massive legal battle over alleged bad faith...
Criminal
Eternal Vigilance: L.A. Is Adrift With Tempting Targets for Terrorists
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - An episode of increased terrorism anxiety, or foreground chatter, has made life in Los Angeles a litt...
SANTA ANA - Suppliers who provide shoddy materials can be held liable for defects that have not yet caused property damage, a ...
SAN DIEGO - B. Birgit Koebke is ready to pit her considerable golf skills against those of her country club's president. If on...
Forum Column - By Daniel Tokaji - California and the rest of the country are in the middle of a once-in-a-generation transform...
Law Practice
Surfing State Bar Prosecutor Tries To Distinguish Heroes From Scum
By Columnist
Book Review - "Bluebird Rising: A Novel," by John DeCure (St. Martin's Minotaur 2003) - By Daniel A. Olivas - Attorney J. Shep...
Forum Column - By Paula A. Daniels - June 19, 1982, began as any other day would, ordinary for most and marked by a personal l...
It was a missing pane of glass, one they complained about many times, that got her murdered, the parents say. Now, four years ...
LOS ANGELES - The survivors of an Orange County couple who perished during a Singapore Airlines crash got their day in court T...
LOS ANGELES - Arnold Schwarzenegger should face a trial over a campaign e-mail insinuating that one of the women accusing him ...
LOS ANGELES - Five finalists are in the running to replace former Los Angeles County Counsel Lloyd "Bill" Pellman, who took a ...
Forum Column - By Kevin Reed - Fifty years ago, the civil rights movement produced the victory that shattered the legal founda...
Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - In Viner v. Sweet, 30 Cal.4th 1232 (2003) ("Viner I"), the ...
The New Lawyer Supplement
What Should Lawyer Have Done to Avoid Making Ethical Violations?
By Contributing Writer
What ethical violations has Lawyer committed, and what should Lawyer have done to avoid those violations? Page XX QUESTION 3 L...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Panel Rejects Employee Arbitration Clause
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Calling it "unconscionable", a state appeals court has struck down an a employment arbitration agreement because...
Criminal
Court Rebukes Lawyers, Dismisses Case on Peremptory Challenges for Race
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - With a strong rebuke to the lawyers on both sides, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a case over the Cal...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court unanimously reinstated the murder conviction of a San Diego woman who had unsuccessfully argued...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission cannot require lawyers who provide finance-related l...
Constitutional Law
Governator's Men Circle Wagons Against Dolls in His Plastic Image
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - When the chronicles of our celebrity-obsessed era are written, historians of the early 21st century i...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley is protesting a court proposal to close Huntington Park courtr...
SANTA ANA - Saying the three teenagers were caught because of their "arrogance, perversion and stupidity," a prosecutor opened...
LOS ANGELES -Taron James is fighting back. The Gulf War veteran contends that officials have snared him in a paternity-fraud n...
Government
Commissioner Presides Over Pro-Per Family Law Calendar
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
MURRIETA - The elderly Latino man suffered a stroke, he said, after his wife kicked him out of the house. The man's wife said ...
Focus Column - Law Practice - By David Michail - Beginning July 1, 2004, certain law firms implementing 21st-century marketing...
Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Alan M. Ahart - In California an individual debtor potentially can use two types of homeste...
Litigation
Increasing Limits for Small-Claims Court Would Elevate State to No. 1
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Thomas M. Gordon - California's small-claims courts are nationally known for their ability to provide a quic...
Book Review - "From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality," by Michael J. Klarman (...
SANTA ANA - Though they have little in common in terms of background or temperament, the lead attorneys facing off in the Haid...
SANTA ANA - Prosecutors say the videotaped scene shows the brutal gang rape of an unconscious 16-year-old girl. Defense attorn...