Bringing to 11 the number of people whose tainted convictions have been reversed as a result of the Los Angeles Police Departm...

Cooler Heads Neal Blacker plans to revitalize Dispute Resolutions' reputation for helping calmer heads prevail - despite his ...

Jennifer Byrd Pamela S. Duffy seemed destined for a public policy career. From 1968 to 1970, Duffy took part in several Vietn...

Kit Kaufman's father tried to warn him away from the law. "My father always told me not to be a lawyer," Kaufman says. "But h...

Vinny Vidi Vici Organized crime has gone high-tech, creating new challenges for law enforcement. By Chris Ford Organized crim...

Sheppard Mullin FIRM FINDS GROWTH NOT AT ALL TAXING Corporate attorney David Ulich and intellectual property lawyer Tim Epp h...

Take the Seventh Corporations that request multiple jury trials undermine the judicial system. By Elizabeth J. Cabraser Compl...

Drop in the Bucket Without amendments to the Currency Exchange Act, off-exchange brokers will continue to scam customers with...

Latham & Watkins CHARTERED SEMICONDUCTOR CONDUCTS AN OFFERING Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor has completed an initia...

As the legal guardian of Martin, her 8-year-old nephew, Maria Cano of Montebello said she tried for months to get the Departm...

^^Viewpoint^^ By C. David Serena California courts strongly favor arbitration. Code of Civil Procedure Section 1281.2 require...

Beefing up his gang unit and getting new office furniture are Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn's budget priorities for...

RIVERSIDE - Riverside County and two labor unions may be denying county employees' constitutional rights by requiring them to...

SAN DIEGO - Although both the defense and the prosecution in a murder case wanted sealed documents made public, Superior Cour...

Should Winnie the Pooh meet Jeffrey Katzenberg? That was the seemingly goofy legal question raised in Los Angeles Superior Co...

Los Angeles-based Munger, Tolles & Olson has elected seven new California partners, effective Jan. 1 - the firm's largest...

SANTA ANA - In a lawsuit said to be the first of its kind, an Orange County woman is suing Habitat for Humanity, contending t...

The Los Angeles city attorney's office spent nearly $3.8 million on outside counsel last fiscal year - more than other large ...

The landmark bad-faith case brought by the family of Mor Stern over Holocaust-era life insurance policies has settled, attorn...

By Thomas R. Kaufman In City of Moorpark v. Superior Court , 18 Cal.4th 1143 (1998), the California Supreme Court was asked t...

Riverside Bar Cuts Spending RIVERSIDE - A drop in income has forced the Riverside County Bar Association to lay off its execu...

By Raoul Lowery Contreras The person who plunged California into a racial Black Hole in 1994, the sponsor of "Save Our State,...

^^Movie Review^^ Seeing the Light 'The Insider' Is a Morality Play Pitting the Good of Society Against Big Business At what p...

Taylor to Become Inglewood's P.J. Judge Eric C. Taylor has been elected to a two-year term as presiding judge of Inglewood Mu...

Germany Army Base Was Miracle Place One Thanksgiving By Wesley H. Avery Miracle Base. That was the radio call-sign of the bas...

^^International Law^^ Incoming Issues New System Governs Imports Into Brazil These now-effective regulations shorten the time...

Bar's DRS Plans Awards Dinner Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn, Superior Court Judge Haley J. Fromholz and attorney Li...

In a substantial victory for the poor and their advocates, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that counties must provi...

WESTMINSTER - An Orange County Superior Court judge Monday stressed the constitutional validity of charges against a Huntingt...

Services have been conducted for Lee C. Shaw, a Los Angeles labor law attorney who was one of the founders of Seyfarth, Shaw,...