Anti-Terrorism Act Makes New Reporting Requirements
By Columnist
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Nathan J. Hochman - According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, $600 billion is laundered wi...
Blind Ambition
By Joel Rosenblatt
California legal observers often speak of Pillsbury Winthrop as if it's an old heirloom - a piano, perhaps, that quietly occup...
PG&E's Revised Plan Prompts Delay in Trial
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - While PG&E Corp. CEO Robert Glynn painted a rosy picture for stock analysts of the progress in Pacific Ga...
Attorney Starred on Stage, in Courtroom
By Jeff Berg
LOS ANGELES - Samuel Mordo Dana, former Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association president and personal injury attorney, has die...
Councilwoman's Fender Bender Turns Heads
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - What started out as a minor fender bender on a downtown street is threatening to mushroom into a lawsuit, or at...
Senate Panel OKs Judicial Picks
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - After an acrimonious three-hour session, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved and sent to the flo...
Don't Get Into Hot Water by Soliciting Ex-Firm's Clients
By Columnist
Employment Column By Phillip R. Maltin An ambitious senior associate in a midsize law firm rapidly established herself as ski...
Shakedow n
By Columnist
Forum Column By Matthew G. Jacobs Attorney General Bill Lockyer has announced that he is investigating at least five law firm...
Panel Supports Media Outlets In Privacy Issue
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Crime reports in the public record are fair game for the media, even if the law-breaking is a decade old, a sta...
Van Voorhis Is Removed from Bench
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Bruce Van Voorhis' rude, abrasive style on the Contra Costa County Superior Court bench reduced a young...
Lawyer Gets Time For Bilking Clients
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Former Encino attorney Arden Brian Silverman was sentenced Thursday to one year in county jail for embezzling $...
Pillsbury Lays off 25 Staff Members in N.Y.
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop announced Thursday it will lay off 25 staff members at its New York office and replace tho...
Safeguards for Fired Workers In Arbitration Strengthened
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply divided California Supreme Court imposed new restrictions on mandatory arbitration Thursday in an e...
Court OKs Pact in Homeowner Case
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - A federal bankruptcy judge approved a $6.1 million settlement Thursday in a unique case that pitted 470 San Cleme...
Court Reinforces Limits on 'Pitchess' Motions
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court reinforced the confidentiality of law enforcement personnel files Thursday, sayi...
AOC Report Spells Out Budget Options
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Courts statewide are preparing to impose unpaid furloughs and early retirement and to cut full-time positions...
'Dad, Can We Sue Them?'
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - When she received the rejection slip in the mail, Jennifer Gratz was so embarrassed that she didn't tell her clos...
State AG's Office Pans for Gold in Mother Lode of High-Court Cases
By Martin Bergn
Supreme Court Column By David F. Pike WASHINGTON - The California attorney general's office is having a banner term at the Su...
Fair-Use Defense Is Central to Decision in 'Beach Boys' Case
By Columnist
Focus Column Entertainment Law By David Halberstadter In William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," Juliet asks her love, "Wha...
Caricatures by Judge Keep Attorneys on Toes
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys appearing in Judge Robert C. Gustaveson's Pomona courtroom know better than to do or say anything foo...
Court Shuts Down San Pedro Lockup
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court is closing its San Pedro lockup and transferring all harbor criminal cases to th...
L.A.'s Never-Ending Cop Scandals Are Transmuted Into Celluloid Gold
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - If a latter-day Rip Van Winkle dared to go to sleep for 20 years in Los Angeles, he might wake up to ...
Law Firm Leaving Palo Alto
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Rather than close its Palo Alto office or wait until its lawyers defected, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly i...
New Law Spurs Justices to Halt Oral Arguments
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Congress' inclusion in the recently passed appropriations bill of a provision blocking the federal government's r...
INS Morphs Into a Plethora of Novel Acronyms
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Come Saturday, people won't have the Immigration and Naturalization Service to kick around anymore. In its plac...
Budget Woes Dim Night Court to Once a Month
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - In another act of belt-tightening for Orange County Superior Court as a result of the state's budgetary woes, nig...
Counsel Was L.A.'s Top Ethics, Election Lawyer
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES --Assistant City Attorney Anthony Saul Alperin, who served as Los Angeles' top ethics and election lawyer, died We...
Experts Back New Rampart Probe
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Police experts on Wednesday endorsed Los Angeles Police Department Chief William Bratton's call for an outside c...
Low-Key Supreme Court Litigator Wins High-Profile Case
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Roy T. Englert Jr. is by his own admission a "risk-averse stick in the mud." But in May 2001, at age 42, Englert...
CHP Settles Racial Profiling Suit
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The California Highway Patrol has reached a settlement in a class action by nonwhite drivers in which it agrees to ...