Focus Column - By Alec H. Boyd - Few decisions are more important to a litigant than the decision to settle. Quite often, the ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday sentenced a former Beverly Hills personal injury attorney to eight months in prison an...
LOS ANGELES - Labor and employment boutique Littler Mendelson has appointed Jeremy A. Roth to manage its 18-attorney San Diego...
LOS ANGELES - Following up on his legislative package of last year, Rep. Howard L. Berman on Monday introduced a bill to exten...
LOS ANGELES - On Monday, Workers' Compensation Appeals Board Judge Donald Renetzky would have liked to have wound up his campa...
Criminal
Parks Brought Needed Reforms Despite Great Obstacles He Confronted
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Forum Column - Opposing Counsel - By Melanie E. Lomax - The City of Los Angeles has benefited over the past 41/2 years from th...
SANTA MARIA - Since announcing he was running for a judgeship two months ago, Santa Maria prosecutor Charles S. Biely had been...
WASHINGTON - Federal judges upset by Congress' failure to give them promised pay raises received some sympathy - but no help -...
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco's chief medical officer testified Monday that Diane Whipple, who was mauled to death by dogs owned...
SANTA ANA - Services have been held for James G. Alverson Jr., a Santa Ana lawyer for 20 years before turning exclusively to h...
SAN DIEGO - The race for district attorney of San Diego County has been filled with blistering charges of ethical and manageme...
SANTA ANA - Unwilling to evaluate either an incumbent judge facing criminal charges or the 11 people vying for his Orange Coun...
SAN DIEGO - Of the area's four judicial election races, one has emerged as particularly intense - with an incumbent trying to ...
VENTURA - A Santa Barbara judge's ruling that the makeup of Ventura County's 2000-01 grand jury was unconstitutional has derai...
SANTA ANA - Despite pending charges of child molestation and child-pornography possession, Orange County Superior Court Judge ...
WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on Friday asked the General Accounting Office to invest...
LOS ANGELES - Services have been held for Alan Land, a veteran Lockheed Martin attorney who was one of the first "Skunk Works"...
Education
City Attorney Calls for Finishing Belmont, 'the Moral Thing to Do'
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo is calling for completion of the scandal-plagued Belmont Learning Center, a $154 ...
LOS ANGELES - For three solid weeks, attorneys held jurors rapt with a tangled tale of convoluted financial transactions, pira...
Focus Column - By James J. Moneer - With 18 newly published decisions and two grants of review by the California Supreme Court...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Places Himself in Defendants' Shoes
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Judge Helios "Joe" Hernandez says he developed more empathy toward criminal defendants in his first year on the Ri...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran Sacramento Superior Court Judge Joe S. Gray, who enjoys the unusual endorsement of every jurist on the...
Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - Cover letters and thank-you notes are a compulsory yet often confounding part of the...
Government
Court Attempts to Give Closure In Compton's Election Debacle
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court has given Eric Perrodin tighter hold on a title that has become very slippery: Mayor of ...
LOS ANGELES - Mayor Jim Hahn on Thursday asked the City Council to support his plan to overhaul the LAPD's discipline system s...
Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - When lawyers get in a hurry, their legal sometimes assistants make typing mistakes. Thi...
LOS ANGELES - Encino lawyer Thomas H. Warden hopes that being a Superior Court judge is something that runs in the family. His...
LOS ANGELES - Spectators in the courtroom gasped in shock Thursday as a defense attorney in the fatal dog-mauling case against...
LOS ANGELES - Imagine 125 incarcerated, streetwise teen-age boys sitting still, mesmerized by a man speaking to them about wha...
LOS ANGELES - A Peruvian man who was denied asylum in the United States after fleeing persecution by Shining Path guerrillas i...