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...
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 ...