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...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Israel faces a serious dilemma. Its population lives in legitimate fear of terrorist suicide...
LOS ANGELES - Four major oil companies are responsible for cleaning up the McColl Superfund Site in Fullerton where they dumpe...
Personal Injury & Torts
Decision Clears Yacht Owner of Wrongful Death
By Matthew Heller
SANTA BARBARA - The sea, they say, doesn't give its secrets up easily. That was certainly the case in the death of a veteran S...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Tunisian man detained in the Sept. 11 sweeps to six months in federal pris...
Entertainment & Sports
Hedy Lamarr's Defenders Say Dead Movie Stars Need Their Dignity, Too
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - The son of Hollywood Golden Age actress Hedy Lamarr and an 85-year-old Los Angeles attorney who tools...
LOS ANGELES - In a continuing rash of defections, Los Angeles-based patent firm Lyon & Lyon has lost its former managing p...
Constitutional Law
Jury Sides With DA in Slander Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A Victorville deputy public defender and his employer, San Bernardino County, should pay $250,000 to a sex cr...
SAN FRANCISCO - A new service promises that, for a price, attorneys can log onto Lexis, e-mail the office or download document...
Marc Van Der Hout figured he'd go into labor law or criminal defense after he graduated from Golden Gate University School of ...
Forum Column - By Heidi Mandanis Schooner - There now seems little doubt that Enron's executive suite harbored thieves. As She...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has affirmed a lower court judgment that San Diego County unlawfully retaliated against a pre...
Environmental Law Practitioner Column - By William D. Wick - Congress surprised just about everyone by amending the Superfund ...
Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and John S. West - All of the pundits seem to agree that our economy is in recession. Whenever...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Doctors Get $3 Million for Dispute With HMO
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A jury has awarded a group of Corona doctors $3 million after a judge found that the health maintenance organizati...
LOS ANGELES - Citing Shakespeare, the Bible and Mick Jagger, civil rights attorney Stephen Yagman denounced the Bush administr...
LOS ANGELES - Two county supervisors plan to introduce an unusual motion at Tuesday's board meeting ordering the county's atto...