Unite to Divide?
Forum Column - By Franklin R. Garfield - In "Collaborative Divorce Plan Provides Separation Skills" (Forum, April 14), Ron M. ...
Attorney Faces Five Years for Embezzling
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Former Santa Monica attorney John Patrick Maginnis pleaded no contest Tuesday to embezzling nearly $200,000 from...
Criminal Defense Lawyer Fought for His Clients
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Criminal defense lawyer Morton H. Boren, who used a crabby sense of humor to worm his way into the hearts and mi...
Court Overturns Malpractice Award
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Calling some of the charges against him "silly", an appellate court has overturned a legal malpractice award aga...
Bench Picks Its Leaders In Alameda
By Karen Coleman
ALAMEDA - The Alameda County Superior Court has elected Barbara Miller and Robert Freedman to head court operations and policy...
Legislators Suggest Courts Take Back As They Give
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers struggling to hammer out a budget plan have agreed on a package of new and increased court filing fees...
City, ACLU Settle 'Homeless Sweeps' Dispute
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles has agreed to scale back its Skid Row law enforcement activities and pay $75,000 in dama...
The (Skeptical) Public Eye
By Joel Rosenblatt
PALO ALTO - In some circles, the opinion of a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission carries more weight th...
Anti-Abortion Leaflets Are Kicked Off Campus
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court ruled Tuesday that an anti-abortion group has no right to enter a high school campus to ...
Retrial in Murder Won't be Double Jeopardy, Panel Says
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The 1st District Court of Appeal on Tuesday reversed a San Francisco judge who had dismissed murder charges a...
'Bellio' Opinion Avoids Issue of Provisions Promoting Divorce
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Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - Does California's public policy allow premarital agree...
School of Thought
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Forum Column - By E. Martin Estrada - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to once again take up the issue of the use of affirmat...
Kuhl's Critics Distort Meaning Of Her 'Sanchez-Scott' Ruling
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Forum Column - By Kristin Linsley Myles - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl is a well-qualified judge who has d...
Masry, Brockovich Sue School District
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Ed Masry and his assistant, Erin Brockovich, took their battle over the Beverly Hills High School oil ...
Confessed Murderer Goes Free
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Murder defendant Robin Woods was released Monday from West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga as pro...
It's Amateur Hour in the Legislature
By Hudson Sangree
Reporter's Notebook - By Hudson Sangree - Two factors, the declining number of attorneys in the Legislature and the effects of...
County Will Open Second Self-Help Legal Clinic
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Walking into a courthouse, perhaps for the first time, with a troubling divorce, custody or paternity issue can ...
Court Considers Emission-Control Rules
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Taking on an important air-pollution-control case from Southern California, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to...
Former Priest Denies He Molested Teenager
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - Former priest John Peter Lenihan on Monday pleaded not guilty to charges he molested a teenage girl while he was a...
Officials Break Ground on Child-Centered Facility
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George and dozens of San Bernardino County judges and officials were on hand Monday f...
CJP Charges Yuba County Judge
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Yuba County Superior Court Judge David E. Wasilenko was charged Monday by the state's judicial watchdog agenc...
Perjury Doesn't Affect Outcome
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Anthony Cox, a resident of San Quentin's death row since 1985, will stay there, the state Supreme Cou...
Oppenheimer Going Back To Its Roots
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Partners at Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly have voted to make the 148-lawyer firm's retrenchment complete ...
Three Glendale Officers File Slander Claim
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Three female police officers filed a claim Monday accusing an attorney for the city of Glendale of slandering th...
Martha Stewart's Legal Strategy: Innocent Tomorrow If Not Today
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Suppose that, a thousand years from now, archeologists dig up the grave of lifestyle guru Martha Stew...
Northrup Will Settle Whistle-Blower Suit
By Mark Cromer
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman Corp. has agreed to pay $111 million to settle a decade-old whistle-blower la...
Twelve Years Later, Murder Defendant Is a Free Man
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A dozen years ago, Alison Tucher, then a third-year student at Stanford Law School, learned through her mother that...
School Superintendent Fires General Counsel
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - In a surprise move, Los Angeles Unified School District General Counsel Hal Kwalwasser has been fired, with a po...
Under the Guns
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - The bankruptcy of Costa Mesa gunmaker Bryco Arms would seem to vindicate the gun industry advocates who say l...
Ruling Bars Malpractice for Lost Punitives
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Clients suing lawyers for malpractice cannot recover for punitive damages lost because of the lawyer's allege...