LAS VEGAS - "Hi. If you looking for Sid, you've found me. I'm out of jail. Please don't tell nobody." Beeeeeep. Sid Soffer's a...
LAS VEGAS - After nearly a decade of trying, Sid Soffer believes he's finally found a way to come home: have the entire Munici...
Administrative/Regulatory
With Legal Aid, Vietnamese Boat People May Find Refuge
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Lan Quoc Nguyen - The United States is poised to take an action that formerly was unthinkable. If it goes ah...
LOS ANGELES - Popular Internet search engine Google Inc. has tapped longtime company lawyer Larry Sonsini of Palo Alto's Wilso...
Employment Column - By Jon G. Miller and Tanja L. Darrow - Many employers reasonably assume that the law protects their right ...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Bruce Givner - On Feb. 19 and March 4, Judges Robert P. Ruwe and Mary Ann Cohen of the U.S. Tax Co...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Will Rule on Tisha B'av Exceptions
By Jory Farr
LOS ANGELES - State bar officials are expected to rule Saturday in a long-simmering controversy over a conflict between this s...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for victims of alleged sexual abuse by priests are charging that Cardinal Roger Mahony assigned a prie...
LOS ANGELES - Justice sometimes calls for creativity, says Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard E. Denner. Sitting in a re...
LOS ANGELES - A judge Thursday ordered officials to report in six months on whether Ruby the African elephant has successfully...
REDLANDS - Bowing to pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, officials in Redlands have removed a cross symbol that ...
Forum Column - By Barry A. Fisher and Vartkes Yeghiayan - Eighty-nine years ago this month, on April 24, 1915, the Ottoman aut...
SAN BERNARDINO - Esther Zimmerman, a former San Bernardino County bar association president who was known for her positive out...
LOS ANGELES - Services were held Saturday for Walter Leighton, a probate litigator and a founding member of the Cowboy Lawyers...
WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court indicated Wednesday that it will require the federal government to provide either...
Administrative/Regulatory
Dual Roles of Attorney Might Violate Rights to Due Process
By Columnist
Focus Column - Regulatory Law - By Ethan P. Schulman - City attorneys' offices, county counsel and other public law offices in...
Forum Column - By Andrew D. Hyman - Rarely do public-policy matters attract such strange bedfellows. But when it comes to the ...
Juvenile
Floundering Juvenile-Justice System Needs Complete, Immediate Overhaul
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Leonard Edwards - No one could watch the recently released videotaped beating of a youth in the "care" of th...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a challenge from Pennsylvania Democrats who argued that the state's rece...
Constitutional Law
Demonstrators Protest Handling of Enemy Combatants by U.S.
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Wednesday's Supreme Court hearings on the president's authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens as enemy com...
Large Firms
Wanted: Irate Law Firm Seeks Leaker of Voting-Machine Memos
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The multinational Jones Day law firm is hunting for the leaker or leakers that it believes gave the O...
Judges and Judiciary
Supervising Judge Guides West District Courts
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Sitting in her spacious chambers at the Santa Monica Courthouse, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Linda K. Lefko...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles man who was refused life insurance because he had just traveled to Israel sued 14 insurance compan...
Focus Column - Regulatory Law - By Jeffrey S. Galvin - For telephone solicitors, what a difference a year makes. Regulatory ch...
Public Interest
Monitor Blasts Prisons for Ignoring Duty To Counties
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal monitor has called for formal court hearings "to get to the bottom" of the state's delay in repaying...
Judges and Judiciary
Justices Must Not Horn in on President's Powers Outside U.S.
By Columnist
Forum Column - By John S. Baker Jr. - A Washington Post report on the Guantnamo detainee cases, argued last week in the U.S. S...
LOS ANGELES - Sanford "Sandy" Litvack, former vice chair of media giant Walt Disney Co., will join Washington, D.C.-based Hoga...
Criminal
'Eternal Optimist' Ran Marathons, Protected Children
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Kennis A. Clark, a 16-year deputy with the Riverside district attorney's office, remembered for prosecuting cases ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County has lost its second court battle in three months over cutting funds to rehabilitation facilit...
SAN DIEGO - A day after being released from prison, an emotional Adam Riojas came to California Western School of Law on Tuesd...