Cash Worries Don't Relieve County of Health Care Duty
By Columnist
Forum Column - By John A. Kotick and Kimberly Westmoreland - When a county slashes budgets and threatens publicly funded healt...
Scouts Come Under Fire, Again
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - In the first-known lawsuit of its kind, the American Civil Liberties Union is contending that a local counci...
County Hosts Tour of Jail Diversion Program
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - It was unusually quiet at the hospital of last resort Thursday afternoon. Security was tight as women inmates p...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By R. Duane Westup, Mark Van Buskirk and Donald J. Winkler - In a contingency case involving a $1 mil...
Innovative Judge Changes Compton Court's Image
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge John J. Cheroske beams with pride as he offers a sneak peak at the newl...
Health Care Files
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Eric S. Daar and Judith F. Daar - President Bush recently unveiled a timetable for vaccinating the nation ag...
Bet Tzedek Raises $2 Million at Annual Dinner
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Bet Tzedek held its 15th annual dinner Saturday night, raising $2.1 million for the nonprofit firm. More than 1...
Hispanic Nominee's Fate Lies in Senate's Hands
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - On a straight party-line vote following a politically charged debate, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday ...
Brobeck Will Close Its Doors
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - In a stunning reversal, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison decided Thursday to close its doors and possibly seek ba...
Hispanic Nominee's Fate Lies in Senate's Hands
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - On a straight party-line vote following a politically charged debate, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday ...
Lawyers Face Charges For 'Rent-and-Wreck'
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A Beverly Hills attorney who once represented such pop stars as Janet Jackson, Marvin Gaye and Run DMC was to be...
Scholar's Views on Death Penalty Border on Barbaric
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Terri Towery - As an attorney in the Los Angeles County public defender's office who specializes in capital ...
DA Alleges Ex-Lawyer Stole Nearly $2 Million
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A former Valencia attorney who allegedly continued to practice law after resigning from the State Bar was arres...
Unfair, Indeed
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - They've been called extortionists, pooper scoopers and two-bit legal whores. But have a group of lawyers being i...
Dog-Food Fight Throws Up a Big Breakfast for Legal Champions
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The dog's breakfast has been the subject of a class settlement in Los Angeles Superior Court. It's a ...
State Examines 5 Firms and Their Clients
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Five small law firms are either under investigation by the office of state Attorney General Bill Lockyer or are ...
Next They'll Work Pro Bono
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - If only it were true. Someone with a warped sense of humor has created a convincing but fake Web site that claim...
Bush Will Tap Latinos for Bench
By David Houston
By David Houston Nevada Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES -The White House plans to nominate two Latinos to the 9th U.S. Circu...
Family Law Judge Says He Prefers Mediation to Litigation
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - One day family law Judge Peter J. McBrien was faced with a choice: He could hear two domestic violence cases inv...
Vietnamese Protester Sentenced
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - An unrepentant Vietnamese protester shouted "human rights for Vietnam" to the cheers of a packed federal cour...
Plaintiff Cannot Use the Continuing-Violation Theory
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - Under the judicially created "continuing violatio...
Year of Trickle-Down Poverty
Forum Column - By David A. Lash - If you are poor, 2003 is shaping up to be a nightmare. A declining economy is about to hit a...
'Flutter Faeries' Creative Pitch Results in an Implied Contract
By Jeff Berg
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Edward A. Klein - The Court of Appeal recently eased the burden on plaintiffs trying...
Ex-Mayor Will Cooperate in Probe of Carson
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A former Carson mayor and another figure in a city corruption probe agreed Wednesday to cooperate with authorit...
'Hollywood Madam' Must Pay Slander Judgment
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss cannot duck a slander judgment obtained by both the two Los Angeles polic...
Counsel for Disabled Can Seek Fees
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for a developmentally disabled group that sued the state Department of Developmental Services over the r...
High Court Takes Case On Eviction
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether landlords must always give a 90-day notice be...
'Hollywood Madam' Must Pay Slander Judgment
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - Former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss cannot duck a slander judgment obtained by both the two Los Angeles polic...
Jury Convicts Man for Killing Police Detective
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County Superior Court jury on Tuesday convicted a man of shooting a police detective to death two year...
Bush Will Tap Latinos for Bench
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The White House plans to nominate two Latinos to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a clear acknowledgmen...