Criminal
Hayden Hypes Former Gang-Bangers Benevolence in Bid for U.S. Asylum
By Garry Abrams
State Sen. Tom Hayden is claiming that the ever-widening LAPD Rampart Division corruption scandal this week saved a former gan...
SAN FRANCISCO - Marcellus Aaron Elder, convicted last year of dealing cocaine in San Francisco housing projects in 1995, was ...
Pasadena's Christie, Parker & Hale has recruited several lawyers from the Los Angeles office of Darby & Darby, a New Y...
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy must either show up in federal court at the end of the month to represent h...
Intellectual Property
Sony, Following Court's Suggestion, Files PlayStation Patent
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In last week's groundbreaking decision expanding the "fair use" doctrine to permit some use of copyrighted mat...
Litigation
Bosses Barred Chen's Promotion, Lawyer Says
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Orange County Deputy District Attorney Victoria Chen volunteered to take assignments within the office that no one...
Complying with seismic-safety regulations may put California hospitals in critical condition. ...
SANTA ANA - Despite allegations that Steven and Denise Oleesky bilked a food bank of more than $3 million with the help of Gle...
SAN FRANCISCO - John Dwyer, a nationally known environmental law scholar, was appointed Tuesday to become dean of the Boalt Ha...
Graham Hollis , a naturalized American citizen who grew up in West London near Heathrow Airport, was recently installed as thi...
By Charles Levendosky Government should not do a number of things. Pushing religion is one of them; telling people when and ho...
The inevitable disclosure doctrine is a potentially devastating weapon in the arsenal of former employers. ...
Opening statements are scheduled today in the trial of a civil lawsuit stemming from charges that Los Angeles police violated ...
Three more Los Angeles firms - O'Melveny & Myers, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedge...
Criminal
San Diego DA on Paid Leave as Investigators Consider Charges
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Peter J. Longanbach, the San Diego deputy district attorney who heads DA Paul Pfingst's economic fraud division, i...
It was a tense crowd, brimming with frustration and some hostility. U.S. Attorney Alejandro Mayorkas had been at his job about...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant boon for employees of subcontractors in the rail and airline industries, a federal appeals co...
WASHINGTON - New session of Congress, same old story. A routine discussion of budget items in a House Judiciary Committee meet...
Prosecutor John F. Lynch, who in 1996 came close to defeating incumbent Gil Garcetti for Los Angeles County district attorney,...
By William Raspberry I suppose getting engrossed in a subplot is easier when the main storyline has become fairly obvious. May...
Program Aims to Combat Stalking Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti and the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults A...
A domestic violence temporary restraining order keeping Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alban I. Niles and his former long-t...
The letters page of the Daily Journal has recently been alive with the debate over same-sex marriage. This certainly reflects ...
Michael Farrell Named Top Judge Superior Court Judge Michael Farrell will be named Judge of the Year Thursday night by the San...
SAN FRANCISCO - Few issues have emerged in the race between the Oakland City Attorney Jayne W. Williams and her challenger, Ci...
With the advent of two recently signed laws, firms should consider carefully the possible downsides of using temporary employe...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Value is Key, Says Future ABA Leader
By Don De Benedictis
DALLAS - The man likely to be president of the American Bar Association in 2001-02 intends to focus his term in part on making...
Criminal
Convicted Cop Killers Uncles Testify in Retrial
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Two uncles of convicted cop killer John George Brown testified Monday that the defendant, soon to be sentenced for...
I am an unabashed fan of pleading motions - the demurrer or its cousin, the motion to dismiss under Federal Rule of Civil Proc...
A $40 million settlement proposal to resolve two lawsuits alleging that the city of Los Angeles is violating a federal overti...