The problem is, as helpful as Miranda is in regularizing police conduct in general, it can also unnecessarily impede the resol...
If Bill Price is nervous in the courtroom, it's not because he's scared of trying cases. Nor is it because of the multimillion...
Transactions
Firm Watch: Three Bankruptcy Lawyers Switch Teams -- Los Angeles Office Gets New Faces -- Corporate Lawyers Join San Diego Stalwart....
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. - Henry David Thoreau Oppenheimer Wolff THREE B...
Accused Rapist Pleads Not Guilty A 26-year-old Reseda man accused of brutally raping an attorney early New Year's Day in her B...
Fusing the old and the new, Los Angeles' 50-year-old Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger is returning to its core competenc...
Services have been held for bankruptcy attorney Peter James Leotta, who died at a Northridge hospital Dec. 31 after suffering ...
Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti's campaign manager on Friday retracted a statement that challenger Barry Gro...
SAN DIEGO - It's often the restroom that starts the problems for Kathleen Lentini, who uses a wheelchair after being paralyze...
SAN DIEGO - Kathleen Lentini was rolling up a ramp that was intended to make buildings accessible for physically disabled peop...
Jack E. Brown, a pioneering Phoenix intellectual property attorney who led Apple Computer Inc. to a major victory over a clone...
From Staff Reports LOS ANGELES - A convoluted federal fraud lawsuit and accompanying bankruptcy lawsuit involving Citrus Munic...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court seemed inclined Thursday to uphold 1996 legislation limiting the appeal rights of...
The Legislature should amend the FEHA to disregard Stevenson and require the exhaustion of administrative remedies in all case...
A judge Thursday reduced by three years the prison term of a man framed in one of two cocaine cases by the former police offic...
RIVERSIDE - County employees no longer have to pay for hearings to contest discipline actions or firing, thanks to a change of...
To attorneys John B. Golper, John J. Manier and Douglas N. Silverstein, longtime McDonnell Douglas Corp. employee Lonnie Staff...
Entertainment & Sports
Ally McBeal: Firm Handles Unique Suit of Color Bias
By Columnist
In this week's rerun of 'Ally McBeal,' Billy and Georgia Thomas represent a woman suing her former employer, claiming she was ...
A series of cases has refined the doctrine of assumption of risk and re-defined how to bring motions for summary judgment. ...
Having a website is dangerous because people can sue businesses located anywhere. ...
Kimberly Sheffield-Deck may not be a family-law mediator, but she knows how to work with impassioned litigants in the midst of...
Garcetti Rejects Debate Invitations Prosecutor Stephen Cooley, who is running for Los Angeles County district attorney in the ...
Large Firms
Manatt Phelps Restructures, Adds Two Assistant U.S. Attorneys
By Tamara Scott
Strengthening its litigation department, Los Angeles-based Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has recruited two assistant U.S. atto...
To cut off liability exposure, employers should require that employees separating from their positions sign comprehensive seve...
When one kid brutally murders another kid, someone must be criminally responsible. But when the evidence against the suspected...
Kelly v. City of Oakland , USCA 9th CA, 98-16482, Nov. 23 1999, a workplace same-sex sexual harassment case, analyzed two type...
Blood bank professional association owes no duty to minor infected with HIV. ...
Just before a jury was to be selected, a judge dismissed a malicious prosecution lawsuit against Liner, Yankelevitz, Sunshine...
Shoppers irritated by petition-wielding activists as they try to enter stores may be in for some relief. ...
The three defense attorneys on the Stafford v. McDonnell Douglas Corp. [USDC Case No. 94-5771 RSWL (Kx) (1999); Ninth Circuit ...
Law Practice
Orange County Lawyer, Wife Face Grand Theft Felony Charges
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - An Orange attorney and his wife were arrested Thursday on charges of bilking more than $150,000 from clients and s...