Panel Dumps Clerk's Convictions for Fraud
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - An Orange County law clerk who was told by the U.S. Supreme Court that he couldn't be his own appellate lawyer h...
Colorado Casino Owner Files Chapter 11
By Toni Vranjes
After failing to meet projected revenues and profits, the owner of Colorado's largest casino has filed for Chapter 11 bankrupt...
Disclosure Rules Will Force Arbitration Group to Pull Out
By Columnist
Forum Column - By James Acret - Unfortunately, reform in California consists of "tough new disclosure requirements" that will ...
Banner of Hope
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Brian D. Lerner - On September 19, 2002, the Board of Immigration Appeals gave new hope to aliens in removal...
Slow Leaks
By Dennis Pfaff
LOS ANGELES - At thousands of locations in California, poisons that may have leaked years ago from underground gasoline storag...
State Sues Phony Telemarketer Cop
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A group that falsely claims to be connected with the state attorney general's office has been selling Southern C...
Prop. 65 'Bounty Hunters' May Target Apartment Owners, Managers Next
By Columnist
BY JONATHAN COHEN Another Proposition 65 article? Isn't that old news? Why should anyone be concerned? How about $2,500 per da...
Alien Deserves New Hearing, Court Rules
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - A Guatemalan native who withdrew his asylum application after an immigration judge advised him privately that he...
Disclosure Rules Will Force Arbitration Group to Pull Out
By Columnist
Forum Column - By James Acret - Unfortunately, reform in California consists of "tough new disclosure requirements" that will ...
Theft of Secret Is Punishable Just Once, Justices Rule
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The California Supreme Court ruled narrowly Thursday that trade secrets theft can be treated only as a single clai...
Medipot Haze
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The hypocrisy of conservatives when it comes to federalism is well illustrated by the Ju...
Court and Fiction Do Not Mix
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Thomas Brennan - In her summation in the Winona Ryder case, Beverly Hills Assistant District Attorney Ann Ru...
State, Not Federal, Law Governs Security Interests in Copyrights
By Columnist
Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - Those who provide or obtain financing based at least in part on the borr...
Council Will Vote on Predatory-Lending Rule
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council will vote today on an ordinance to protect consumers from so-called "predatory lend...
Stupidity Doesn't Equal Harassment
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin - Is stupidity enough to create liability for hostile workplace sexual harassment? Un...
Mouse Gets Mugged in New Episode of 'Cartoon Lawyers Smackdown'
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Mickey Mouse suffered another major legal injury in the Winnie the Pooh royalties case this week, per...
S.F. Prosecutor Is Acquitted in Stabbing
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco prosecutor Floyd Andrews was acquitted Thursday of three out of four criminal charges filed agai...
Only Online Law School Graduates Its First Class
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The nation's only entirely virtual law school sent its first class of graduates into the real world Thursday. Th...
Lawyer Was Active With John Langston Bar
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will be held Saturday for Los Angeles attorney Lair C. Franklin Jr., who specialized in crimi...
Insurance Defense Litigator Loved Nature
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - Memorial services for Anthony D. Seine, a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Veatch, Carlson, Grogan & N...
Vons Fights Back Against False-Ad, Overcharging Accusations
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - For several years, state and county officials have been taking Vons grocery stores to court, claiming that the m...
Carson Falls Victim to Corruption
By Susan Mc Rae
CARSON - Call it a city cursed. Once again, suburban Carson finds itself mired in a scandal of bribery, kickbacks and extortio...
Identity Theft Tops List of Top 10 Consumer Complaints
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Local prosecutors traveled to Sacramento on Thursday to discuss their Top 10 consumer complaints and ask for the...
State, Not Federal, Law Governs Security Interests in Copyrights
By Columnist
Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - Those who provide or obtain financing based at least in part on the borr...
Medipot Haze
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The hypocrisy of conservatives when it comes to federalism is well illustrated by the Ju...
Judges Narrow 'Access' Rights Across Border
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES -An allegedly abusive father in Mexico who has visitation rights to his children cannot force his former wife to r...
Labor Department Backs Insurers on Overtime Pay for Adjusters
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Insurance companies just got a new boost from Uncle Sam in the oft-litigated issue of whether claims adjusters...
Intelligence Court's Shunning of Strict Secrecy Diet May Increase Paranoia
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review this week made U.S. Attorney General John Ash...
Percipient Expert Witness Testimony Law Is Undefined
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Michaelbrent Collings - Project design professionals, project inspectors or former employees of...
Pillsbury Adds to White Collar Group
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop has hired former Assistant U.S. Attorney David Anderson for its criminal defense practice ...