Forum Column - By Julio O. Edrosolan and Phillip R. Morgan - In January, a representative for Gov. Gray Davis stated that the ...
Court Jesters - In Lee v. Porter , 63 Ga. 345 (1879), Justice Logan E. Bleckley held the following for the court: In th...
Employment Column - By Shelly Ann Panton - In the months following the attacks on the World Trade Center, there was a certain ...
LOS ANGELES - When state Assemblywoman Helen Thomson, D-Davis, was elected in 1996, the Legislature had no plan for mental hea...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Bar Association has rated "Not Qualified" two of 21 candidates competing for Superior Cou...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for former Compton Mayor Eric Perrodin will ask an appeals court to reverse a decision made by a Los Ang...
VENTURA - n October 1999, Senior Deputy District Attorney Ron S. Bamieh and an investigator finally got what law enforcement n...
Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins - When we are sworn in as attorneys, we all take an oath to uphold certain duties. All ...
LOS ANGELES - Orange County lawyer William R. Devine has left Pillsbury Winthrop for Manatt Phelps & Phillips, saying the ...
Labor/Employment
Agency's Enforcement Suits Belong in Court to Protect Rights of Public
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Forum Column - By Lew Maltby - In EEOC v. Waffle House Inc. , the Supreme Court was faced with the question of whether ...
Employment Law Practitioner Column - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Representing the rights of low-wage workers can be tremendously ...
LOS ANGELES - After 11 years at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius' Los Angeles office, veteran business attorney Barry Freeman has h...
LOS ANGELES - The Japanese word for heroism is gamon. "It means to endure," Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Fred Fujioka said...
Labor/Employment
'Waffle House' Decision Won't Change Much for Employment Arbitration
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Forum Column - By Samuel Estreicher - On Jan. 15, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a narrow issue in EEOC v. Waffle House Inc...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Richard A. Kleinrock, who practiced law in Los Angeles for a half-century and ende...
Government
Teamsters Backtrack From L.A.'s Political Dogfight Over Parks' Reappointment
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - The Teamsters brought a shiny 18-wheeler that looked like an extra from a Robocop movie to the Los An...
Dicta Column - By Kathleen Call - Lawyers looking to increase productivity do not necessarily need to spend more time in the o...
Forum Column - By James Acret - Economists teach that when people freely enter into a contract it is because each expects to ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution Practitioner Column - The standard arbitration clause usually is silent as to the place of arbi...
LOS ANGELES - In its crusade to continue serving the homeless at its present location, a religious order founded by Mother Ter...
LOS ANGELES - The largest California-based law firm continues to expand its global reach. Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins ha...
Forum Column - By Steve Dasbach - Imagine this scenario: A dozen people in California are suddenly stricken with a mysterious ...
LOS ANGELES - Compton's new mayor may have already been sworn in, but that may not be the end of the mayor's race of 2001. Ele...
Personal Injury & Torts
Former Seminarian Always Played by the Rules
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Timothy Thornton, a Los Angeles attorney who was known for his compassion and dedi...
Forum Column - By Chris Scheuring - Once again, the storied federal Endangered Species Act of 1973, 16 U.S.C. Section 1531 et ...
Family Law Practitioner Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Valerie C. West - In re Marriage of Hubner, 94 Cal.App.4th 174 (200...
Dicta Column - The Rodent - While billing lots of hours has always been key to a lawyer's success at The Firm, it lost some of...
Dicta Column - By Charles W. McCoy Jr. - Jury instructions forbid deciding cases based on sympathy. The prohibition does not,...
LOS ANGELES - The Rampart police corruption scandal has generated one of the most expensive legal bills in county history, rac...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Leon S. Kaplan marked his 20th anniversary on the bench recently in much the sa...