Senate OKs Limits On Executions
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A measure that would implement a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning execution of the mentally retarded sque...
High Court Matters
By David Pike
Dicta Column - Book Review - The Supreme Court in Conference (1940-1985), the Private Discussions Behind Nearly 300 Supreme Co...
Attorneys Should Follow Simple Bankruptcy Law Rules of Thumb
By Columnist
Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - There are five "golden rules" in the area of bankruptcy law. While exceptions do exist, attorn...
High Court Matters
By David Pike
Dicta Column - The Bookshelf - By David F. Pike - Trying to interpret the work of the U.S. Supreme Court can be like viewing a...
Video Firm Looks for Court's Approval of Editing Practices
By Charles Asbhy
DENVER - A small Colorado video rental company and an Idaho attorney sued 16 well-known Hollywood directors Thursday in an eff...
Legal Orphans
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Christopher Blake - In Re Jayson T., 97 Cal.App.4th 75 (2002), lays bare an ugly secret of the depend...
More Lyon Attorneys Find New Homes
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Lyon & Lyon attorneys continue to scatter to full-service firms in anticipation of the intellectual property...
Panel Reaffirms Couple's Smuggling Conviction
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Vlada Toulousheva and Evgenia Tsimbal had no intention of becoming prostitutes when they left their native Russi...
Navy Using 9/11 to Promote Ocean Sonar, Suit Says
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - One month after the World Trade Center towers fell, a U.S. Navy admiral appeared before a congressional commit...
Pending Bills May Amend the Law on Background and Reference Investigations
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Barry J. Nadell - Most employers in California have heard about AB655, a bill authored by Assemblyman Roderi...
Son of Legend Serves L.A., Too
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - How does a budding young lawyer measure up to the life of a legend when that legend is his father and they share...
Taber to Receive Rose Bird Award
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Taber has been chosen to receive the Rose Bird Memorial...
Amendments Move Anti-SLAPP Legislation Toward Passage
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers faced plenty of opposition Wednesday to a bill that would curb corporations' use of the state's ant...
Federal Judiciary Claims Constitutional Turf in War on Terrorism
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - The federal judiciary has been acting decidedly feisty over the Bush administration's war on terroris...
Controversial Fund-Raising Firm Closes Doors
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - He promised a vision of a world made better through for-profit charity, personal transformation and allowing peo...
Justices Deny Schools' Right To Voluntary Desegregation
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday quietly ended decades of voluntary desegregation programs in Califor...
Arbitration Hoops
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Alexander Polsky - Attorneys experienced in arbitration understand that one of the most valuable benefits of...
DA Puts Westerfield's Niece on Stand
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A niece of David A. Westerfield testified Wednesday that, when she was 7 years old, her uncle came into the darken...
Alioto, McCoy Face Off in Court
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Two years after they teamed together to win a record-setting race discrimination verdict against the makers of...
Arbitrator Rules Publisher Should Pay Damages
By Matthew Heller
SANTA BARBARA - In a case that mixed sex and a lawyer-client relationship, an arbitrator has ruled that wealthy newspaper publ...
Open Invitation for Trouble
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Robert W. Hahn - Should the California Legislature prohibit the purchase of commercial software by state age...
Businesses Shouldn't Rely on Nonacceptance Provisions
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Michael J. Kump - In a recent thought-provoking article concerning the limits of Business and Professions Co...
Man's Sentence Should Be Cut, Magistrate Says
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - An AIDS-stricken man who was zapped with a stun belt during his three-strikes trial should have his sentence red...
Pending Bills May Amend the Law on Background and Reference Investigations
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Barry J. Nadell - Most employers in California have heard about AB655, a bill authored by Assemblyman Roderi...
Arbitration Hoops
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Alexander Polsky - Attorneys experienced in arbitration understand that one of the most valuable benefits of...
Open Invitation for Trouble
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Robert W. Hahn - Should the California Legislature prohibit the purchase of commercial software by state age...
Fulbright Gains Lyon's Managing Partner
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - As intellectual property boutique Lyon & Lyon plans to close its doors at the end of the week, the firm's Lo...
Lawyer Faces Time For Bilking Family
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - An Encino attorney will be sentenced Oct. 24 after pleading guilty to embezzling $138,000 from the estate of on...
Budget Woes Force Court to Cut Clerical, Student Positions
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court will lay off 150 newly hired clerical employees and student workers by the end of...
Charges Against Patricia Gray Are Dropped
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - After nearly two years of bitter counter-charges and an adverse U.S. Supreme ruling, the state Commission on J...