Former Judge Spent 27 Years in Merchant Marine
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Thomas Patterson, a retired attorney and former Los Angeles Municipal Court judge....
Letterhead Lets You Compete With Big Boys
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Dicta Column - By The Rodent - As anyone who did not graduate in the top 10 percent of his or her law school class knows, for ...
Movie Alerts People to U.S. Abuses of Individual Rights
Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - "The guilty are arrested before the law is broken." Are these the words of Attorney Gener...
Letterhead Lets You Compete With Big Boys
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Dicta Column - By The Rodent - As anyone who did not graduate in the top 10 percent of his or her law school class knows, for ...
Split Fees
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Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins - Dividing legal fees with another attorney is not only legal in California, it also ca...
Public-Interest Law Helps Attorneys and Communities
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Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Participating in pro bono and public interest law work is a win-win situation. N...
Taking Aim at Bush White House
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Even under normal circumstances, a shareholders lawsuit filed in federal court against one of the biggest oil fir...
Movie Alerts People to U.S. Abuses of Individual Rights
Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - "The guilty are arrested before the law is broken." Are these the words of Attorney Gener...
Lawyer Wrote Guide on Terrorist Accounts
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for attorney and outdoorsman Joel Dwork. Dwork, the author of manuals on how to detect...
Don't Embarrass Jurors: Tell a Little White Lie
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Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner - During voir dire, the judge and the attorneys will necessarily comment on many legal con...
Web Site Trademark Ruling Enters 1st Amendment Terrain
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The Electronic Frontier Foundation today will join an appeal asking a federal judge to reconsider an earlier r...
A Bitter Balm
After the Los Angeles Lakers lost one of their games to the Sacramento Kings at the Western Conference Finals, Shaquille O'Nea...
Court OKs Replacement for Judge on Ballot
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge has ruled that a Costa Mesa attorney may replace Judge Ronald Kline on the November judicia...
Legal Battle Over Remains of Power Hitter Stirs Memories
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - To thaw or not to thaw - that is the question. Whether 'tis better to be an eternal ice cube or to be...
When a Little White Lie Will Do Just Fine
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Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner - During voir dire, the judge and the attorneys will necessarily comment on many legal con...
MTA Will Tighten Security Checks in Light of Suit
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Responding to a civil lawsuit filed Wednesday by a 16-year-old boy who was molested by a bus driver, the Metropo...
Assigned Judges Must Drop Private Work
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Seeking to avoid "potential conflicts of interest," Chief Justice Ronald M. George announced a major policy ch...
Ex-Girlfriend Says Drink Affects Defendant
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - David A. Westerfield's former girlfriend testified Wednesday that the murder defendant's personality changed and t...
Group's Study, Not Family Courts, Suffers From Bias
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Forum Column - By Glenn Sacks - The California National Organization for Women recently released its Family Court Report 2002....
Such a Bitter Balm
After the Los Angeles Lakers lost one of their games to the Sacramento Kings at the Western Conference Finals, Shaquille O'Nea...
Mayor Slams Beating Captured on Videotape
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Standing before an angry mob at City Hall Tuesday, Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt Dorn wasted no time condemning in t...
IP Firm Adds Partner in Patent Law
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Bucking the Silicon Valley downsizing trend, intellectual property boutique firm Finnegan Henderson Farabow Ga...
Court Reporter Must Record All Grand Jury Proceedings
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - There should be no secrets when a grand jury hears a capital case, a state appellate court ruled Wednesday in ...
Bill Makes Challenging Election Bias Easier
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has signed the first state voting rights law in the country intended to make it easier for minor...
'Esberg' Should Have Little Effect on Benefits Available for Older Employees
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Focus Column - By Niloofar Nejat-Bina - In a broad new opinion, the California Supreme Court has decided that the Fair Employm...
Law Firm Rescued By Valley's Sinking Commercial Rents
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Facing an expiring lease, Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel set out 18 months ago to move from the 33,625 square f...
Bonuses Count as Wages, Court Rules
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Employee bonuses count as "wages" under the meaning of state labor law, in that a company cannot fire an employe...
Disability Rights Suit Is Settled
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A former client has agreed to dismiss his federal discrimination lawsuit against disability rights attorney Paul Re...
Lawyers Battle For Detainees' Court Access
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - The rock group The Who may have made its first appearance before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday...
Some Nonacceptance Provisions Can Be Enforceable
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Focus Column - By Allen B. Grodsky - An employer is never happy when a prized employee jumps ship and takes a job with a compe...