LOS ANGELES - Citing technical deficiencies, a referee Friday ruled that the Los Angeles Archdiocese does not have to turn ove...
Litigation
Charter School Sues District To Use Facilities for Classes
By Claude Walbert
A Pacific Palisades school is seeking a judicial order compelling the Los Angeles Unified School District to make school facil...
LOS ANGELES - Clifford Chance's only two San Diego partners are leaving the firm, effectively shutting one of the two remainin...
Firm Watch
Sheppard Mullin Consolidates Entertainment Group in Century City
By Liz Valsamis
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has opened a Century City office that will house the firm's 18-month-old entertainment...
Column - Law Firm Management - By Peter J. Kalis - For the second year running, my law firm has commissioned outside social sc...
LOS ANGELES - In the weeks ahead, Los Angeles city officials will walk a fine line between fully and openly investigating last...
Constitutional Law
Amendment to Ban Burning Flag Is Unprecedented, Unwise, Unworkable, Un-American
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Bob Kearney - In 1792, delegates ratified the Bill of Rights to ensure stronger protection of individual lib...
Employment Column - By Julie A. Totten and Galen T. Shimoda - Technology benefits the workplace by increasing productivity and...
Forum Column - By James R. Bozajian - "The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the U...
LOS ANGELES - A jury on Thursday convicted Stephen Otto Reitz of first-degree murder in the beating and stabbing death of his ...
WASHINGTON - In a pair of 5-4 decisions Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected challenges to a hundred death sentences in five s...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court offered guidance Wednesday to lawyers who believe they could prevent a crime involving...
LOS ANGELES - The Sheriff's Department should replace a significant number of deputies in the jails with civilian officers to ...
LOS ANGELES - Services are set Sunday for R. Gerald "Jerry" Markle, an expert and a leader in the legal ethics community. Mark...
Criminal
Police Chief Reassigns Eight Officers After Videotaped Beating
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Eight Los Angeles police officers from the Southeast division have been reassigned to administrative positions o...
LOS ANGELES - A judge Thursday ordered the city of Santa Monica to give civil attorneys the California Highway Patrol's report...
LOS ANGELES - Three Los Angeles Superior Court facilities will close their doors by the end of July, saving the court $2.9 mil...
LOS ANGELES - As the world's media speculated wildly on how much Michael Jackson paid to settle allegations made by the first ...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas inmate can appeal his death sentence because jurors did not a...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court, wrestling with a case that had bedeviled a lower appellate panel, upheld Thursda...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mattel Inc. should have known it didn't have a shapely leg to stand on when it sued a Utah artist for his paro...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal monitor issued a sweeping condemnation of the California prison system's inability to investigate an...
WASHINGTON - Documents related to Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force will remain private for now, thanks to a Supr...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges to Get New Power in Disciplinary Proceedings
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - In a compromise intended to ward off legislation to force its hand, the state Commission on Judicial Performan...
Forum Column - By Dennis W. Archer - In a recent interview, Harvard Business School professor and author Rakesh Khurana expres...
Tax
Attorneys Must Stop Peddling Highly Questionable Tax-Avoidance Products
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeff Lowe - Offshore tax havens, spread by new computing and telecommunications systems, provide an unpreced...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael J. Niborski - So your client took it on himself to play private detective and tape-reco...
Entertainment & Sports
Moore's Take on Bush and Iraq Is Biased, But It's Also Engaging
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Stephen D. Zager - Let's be as clear as possible: Michael Moore wants George W. Bush out of office. His agen...
SAN JOSE - Dozens of IBM Corp. workers and retirees who alleged that exposure to toxic chemicals caused them to develop cancer...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's trial judges have unanimously elected Robert Dondero to serve as the next presiding judge of t...