Forum Column - By Bennet G. Kelley - There is almost universal agreement that something must be done about spam e-mails. Once ...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Nathan J. Hochman - According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, $600 billion is laundered wi...
California legal observers often speak of Pillsbury Winthrop as if it's an old heirloom - a piano, perhaps, that quietly occup...
SAN FRANCISCO - While PG&E Corp. CEO Robert Glynn painted a rosy picture for stock analysts of the progress in Pacific Ga...
LOS ANGELES - Samuel Mordo Dana, former Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association president and personal injury attorney, has die...
LOS ANGELES - What started out as a minor fender bender on a downtown street is threatening to mushroom into a lawsuit, or at...
WASHINGTON - After an acrimonious three-hour session, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved and sent to the flo...
Employment Column By Phillip R. Maltin An ambitious senior associate in a midsize law firm rapidly established herself as ski...
Forum Column By Matthew G. Jacobs Attorney General Bill Lockyer has announced that he is investigating at least five law firm...
LOS ANGELES - Crime reports in the public record are fair game for the media, even if the law-breaking is a decade old, a sta...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Bruce Van Voorhis' rude, abrasive style on the Contra Costa County Superior Court bench reduced a young...
LOS ANGELES - Former Encino attorney Arden Brian Silverman was sentenced Thursday to one year in county jail for embezzling $...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop announced Thursday it will lay off 25 staff members at its New York office and replace tho...
SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply divided California Supreme Court imposed new restrictions on mandatory arbitration Thursday in an e...
SANTA ANA - A federal bankruptcy judge approved a $6.1 million settlement Thursday in a unique case that pitted 470 San Cleme...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court reinforced the confidentiality of law enforcement personnel files Thursday, sayi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Courts statewide are preparing to impose unpaid furloughs and early retirement and to cut full-time positions...
SAN DIEGO - When she received the rejection slip in the mail, Jennifer Gratz was so embarrassed that she didn't tell her clos...
Judges and Judiciary
State AG's Office Pans for Gold in Mother Lode of High-Court Cases
By Martin Bergn
Supreme Court Column By David F. Pike WASHINGTON - The California attorney general's office is having a banner term at the Su...
Intellectual Property
Fair-Use Defense Is Central to Decision in 'Beach Boys' Case
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Focus Column Entertainment Law By David Halberstadter In William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," Juliet asks her love, "Wha...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys appearing in Judge Robert C. Gustaveson's Pomona courtroom know better than to do or say anything foo...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court is closing its San Pedro lockup and transferring all harbor criminal cases to th...
Entertainment & Sports
L.A.'s Never-Ending Cop Scandals Are Transmuted Into Celluloid Gold
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - If a latter-day Rip Van Winkle dared to go to sleep for 20 years in Los Angeles, he might wake up to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Rather than close its Palo Alto office or wait until its lawyers defected, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly i...
WASHINGTON - Congress' inclusion in the recently passed appropriations bill of a provision blocking the federal government's r...
LOS ANGELES - Come Saturday, people won't have the Immigration and Naturalization Service to kick around anymore. In its plac...
SANTA ANA - In another act of belt-tightening for Orange County Superior Court as a result of the state's budgetary woes, nig...
LOS ANGELES --Assistant City Attorney Anthony Saul Alperin, who served as Los Angeles' top ethics and election lawyer, died We...
LOS ANGELES - Police experts on Wednesday endorsed Los Angeles Police Department Chief William Bratton's call for an outside c...
Appellate Practice
Low-Key Supreme Court Litigator Wins High-Profile Case
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Roy T. Englert Jr. is by his own admission a "risk-averse stick in the mud." But in May 2001, at age 42, Englert...