DICTA On 'Family Law,' a humane result requires law-defying actions. ...
DICTA On 'Ally McBeal,' if it's worth saying, it's worth saying twice. Page 8. ^^Ally McBeal^^ By Renee Laurents OK, if it's w...
DICTA The application of law within 'Judging Amy' is like the Boeing 707 in the movie 'Airport' - merely a setting for panic a...
FORUM Family law attorneys and judges should receive training regarding how to craft safe custody and visitation orders. ...
FORUM Teaching about the Bible as history and literature is possible without violating the First Amendment. Page 6. By Martha ...
Brentwood-based Belin Rawlings & Badal, in an effort to provide an "entrepreneurial" alternative to large law firms, has ...
^^Litigator Profile^^ By Anne La Jeunesse Verdicts & Settlements Staff Writer Trying to get fair representation for poor p...
DICTA This week's 'Law & Order' shows why good cops go bad. ...
^^SPECIAL ISSUE: CONSUMER ATTORNEYS^^ By Brian S. Kabeteck and Carolyn P. Bell Last year, responding to perceived abuses by he...
^^SPECIAL ISSUE: CONSUMER ATTORNEYS^^ By Gregg S. Garfinkel Presented with a scenario reminiscent of the movie "The Money Pit,...
A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against Rite Aid that claimed some employees were not getting their paychecks. Cour...
By Jeff Jacoby Are black Americans owed reparations for the 240 years that their forebears were enslaved in this country? Some...
^^SPECIAL ISSUE: CONSUMER ATTORNEYS^^ Sharon J. Berman Litigators may recall the wonderful "gravy days" of business. Client li...
SAN FRANCISCO - Buyer beware. That was the essential message of a California Supreme Court ruling Thursday. By a 6-1 vote, the...
The FBI's ability to investigate the Los Angeles police corruption scandal has not been compromised, a top official of the age...
^^SPECIAL ISSUE: CONSUMER ATTORNEYS^^ By Julie Campanini Voir dire is the first opportunity for an attorneys to meet the audie...
In the wake of this week's primary election and the defeat of propositions 30 and 31, Consumer Attorney Association of Los An...
WASHINGTON - The rhetoric flew for the final time, the vice president hovered to break any ties, and by the end of Thursday, t...
"Do I stay or do I go?" This is the theme song symbolizing the career questions confronting lawyers today. A high percentage o...
FORUM Proposition 22 was supposed to embed an invidious distinction in the law beyond the ability of the Legislature to change...
SAN FRANCISCO - Rumored for months, the merger between San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and London's Bir...
SAN BERNARDINO - Lawyers and litigants will have to wait a while longer before seeing a new face on the San Bernardino County ...
FORUM The police who shot Amadou Diallo developed a hyperidentification with the besieged and false community of 'the police f...
Government
In Los Angeles, Were Desperately in Need of a Brief, Shining Moment
By Garry Abrams
Los Angeles isn't really a 21st century place. It's more like a perverse Camelot. If Mayor Richard Riordan and the city's othe...
Government
Airport Supporters to Meet, Plan Litigation
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Following the passage of Measure F on Tuesday, attorneys for groups supporting an airport at the former El Toro Ma...
SAN FRANCISCO - Leslie Whiteley was duped into her pack-a-day smoking habit, her attorney told a jury during closing arguments...
RIVERSIDE - Both Riverside Superior Court judge candidates will walk away from Tuesday's election wearing a black judicial rob...
SAN FRANCISCO - Landels Ripley & Diamond, the midsized San Francisco firm that has suffered recent attorney defections to ...
After more than a year in office, U.S. Attorney Alejandro Mayorkas has appointed a chief assistant, Consuelo S. Woodhead, who ...
Same Old Song Age-Discrimination Verdict in Favor of Hospital Workers Upheld Canfield's statement about hiring marketers who w...