LOS ANGELES - With the Winter Olympics opening tonight in Salt Lake City, teen-age ice skater Sasha Cohen already has a lawyer...
Dicta Column - By Tim Hallahan - The direct examination of your witnesses is usually the most crucial part of your case. Juror...
Large Firms
Magazine Ranks Sonsini Partner Among Top Venture Capitalists
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - Larry Sonsini, the unofficial king of Silicon Valley, reigned supreme among practicing attorneys on Forbes Magaz...
Intellectual Property Practitioner Column - By Michael J. Lawrence - When the Federal Trademark Dilution Act took effect in 19...
Dicta Column - By Bill Winter - It has been said the five most dangerous words in the English language are, "There oughta be a...
Dicta Column - By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. - Is there anything more American than entitlements? If you say "apple pie," just con...
Tort Law Practitioner Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - The question of causation in any tort case is typically one of fact fo...
Focus Column - By Emily Longfellow - On Jan. 7, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Tahoe-Sierra Pres...
LOS ANGELES - Clara Shortridge Foltz was a media-savvy lawyer in the days before 24-hour news cycles, former-federal-prosecuto...
Administrative/Regulatory
Local Politicians Belt Arias About Leadership in L.A.'s Naked Opera
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Los Angeles is like Beirut 20 years ago, a city of warring factions. Or maybe it's like a prison with...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Sept. 11 Funds Create New Stress for Victims
By Charles Asbhy
DENVER - The funds to compensate victims of the Sept. 11 attacks are creating new stress among victims, who are trying to dete...
Forum Column - By Russell F. Maginnis - In John C. Eastman's article "Disqualifying Detainees from Protection: Geneva Conventi...
LOS ANGELES - Did a prominent Beverly Hills lawyer deliberately scuttle his $3.5 million, custom-designed, 76-foot yacht off t...
LOS ANGELES - The Judicial Council of California has awarded its Jurist of the Year Award to Administrative Presiding Justice ...
Forum Column - By Fred Main and Chris Micheli - Two bills to restrict the use of protective orders are one of the key issues o...
Entertainment & Sports
State Should Follow Rules, Grant Tyson Boxing License
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Forum Column - By Dennis S. Ellis - After the Nevada State Athletic Commission's refusal to grant Mike Tyson's application for...
LOS ANGELES - Associate Justice Michael G. Nott earned a living as a deckhand and skipper on sport-fishing boats before he ven...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for business litigator Edgar Lee Fraser of Los Angeles, who parachuted behind enemy li...
LOS ANGELES - On Friday mornings, D. Damon Willens is just another lawyer. Fridays mean court appearances and paperwork in the...
LOS ANGELES - A judge on Tuesday dismissed two prospective jurors in the case against a San Francisco couple charged in the do...
Product Liability
Dealership Pays $9.4 Million to Settle Rollover Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
BARSTOW - Lawyers for a couple who were injured when their 1994 Ford Explorer crashed and rolled near Barstow reached a $9.4 m...
Appellate Law Practitioner Column - By James C. Martin and Angel K. Leung - Judgment is entered in your favor. But when you tr...
Dicta Column - By Donald H. Oppenheim - Law firms need to manage declining profits better now than they have in the past. Many...
SAN BERNARDINO - By the narrowest of margins, the state Supreme Court has decided not to review whether prostitution laws can ...
Military Law
Bar Group Votes Limited Support for Military Tribunals
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The American Bar Association gave limited support Monday to the White House plan to try alleged terrorists by mil...
Legal Malpractice Practitioner Column - By Alec H. Boyd - California insurance-defense counsel and insurers should take note o...
Litigation
Guerilla Warfare, Lawsuit Plague Primate Center's Push for Expansion
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - A guerrilla war between animal rights activists and scientists has been waged for decades at the Univ...
LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Los Angeles County's policy to accept civil rights settleme...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Says Indio Judge Violated Code of Ethics
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The Commission on Judicial Performance privately admonished former Riverside County Judge Eugene R. Bishop on Mond...
Forum Column - By Peter A. Schey - Captured Taliban fighters may not have the rights normally afforded defendants in criminal ...