Patent Litigator Defects to Sidley & Austin
By Tamara Scott
Patent litigator Edward G. Poplawski, a name partner at Los Angeles-based Pretty Schroeder & Poplawski, has defected to th...
Damian Williams Pleads Not Guilty
By Anne La Jeunesse
Damian Monroe Williams and Tyrone David Killingsworth pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and robbery charges stemming from th...
Commission Supports Proposed Juvenile Laws
By Chris Ford
Members of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners has signaled their support for state laws that would lower to 12 from...
9th Circuit Dismisses Some City Officials From Suit Over Police Squad
By Susan Mc Rae
Both sides claimed victory Friday after a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that dismissed some city officials from a...
Riordan Reveals Change of Heart On Police Reform Consent Decree
By Chris Ford
Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan did an about-face Friday and signaled his willingness to sign a binding agreement with th...
In Room 207
By Cheryl Romo
It was what the hotel trade calls a "dirty room," one for which the occupants paid a full day's charge but then checked out ea...
Courts' Fear of Feds Slowed Freeing of Lee, Experts Say
By Anne La Jeunesse
If the case against nuclear physicist Wen Ho Lee is so flimsy, why did the judicial system take so long to free him? Three fac...
GODS AND MONSTERS
By Jeffrey Anderson
Both sides walked away from a recent mediation in frustration, when John Allen, a victim of child sexual molestation, accepted...
Cozen & O'Connor: MARITIME LAWYERS PUT OUT SHINGLE FOR BIG PHILLY FIRM
By Staff Writer
Two lawyers from San Francisco's former Booth Banning reaffirmed their breakaway firm heritage by leaving to open the new San ...
School Vouchers Harm the Culture of Private Education
By Contributing Writer
By Marshall Fritz. While tax-funded vouchers introduce sorely needed competition into schooling, they have serious flaws that ...
INTERNATIONAL LAW
By Sherri Salzman
A federal appeals court on Thursday asked U.S. officials to determine whether the United Kingdom still seeks extradition of t...
Gloved Over
By Leonard Novarro
By Leonard Novarro. Cases are not won at trial. They're won at preparation, says Philip Harley. Harley, 53, was the lead attor...
Author Stresses Judicial Reform in Rape Trials
By Columnist
RAPE AND THE CULTURE OF THE COURTROOM. By Andrew E. Taslitz. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS, $18.00 (PAPERBACK), 210 PAGES ...
Carrier Barrier
By Columnist
By Richard Amerian. "[W]e conclude a liability insurer cannot assert the comparative bad faith of its insured in the underlyin...
Fair Share
By Columnist
By Peter S. Doody. Wilson v. John Crane, 81 Cal.App.4th 847 (2000), is not significant so much for its holding, since it is li...
Socratic Ear
By Hera Arsen
By Hera S. Arsen. Ask retired Superior Court Judge Bruce Sottile to summarize his philosophy on the role of a judge and he'll ...
Mixed Manna
By Columnist
The California Supreme Court recently held in two separate cases that under California's unfair competition law, Business and ...
Necessary Inquiry
By Columnist
Cases on application of Rule 11 to patent-infringement cases are hard to reconcile. ...
Flick Exec Shaye Knows His Kids
By Contributing Writer
When it comes to the conjunction of Hollywood, lawmakers and kids who spend money on entertainment instead of guns, the Senate...
Art Exhibit Benefits Victims of Violence
By Staff Reports
"Through the Eyes of a Child," an art exhibit to benefit victims of domestic violence, will be on display Sunday, 4-7 p.m. at ...
Formula Won
By Contributing Writer
By Leonard Novarro. James Gilbert can't help being on the right track when it comes to auto defect cases. He races Formula Maz...
Economic Squeeze
By Contributing Writer
By Mark S. Roth. Since its inception 35 years ago in the seminal case of Seely v. White Motor Co. 63 Cal.2d 9 (1965), the "eco...
Lawyers' Group to Host DA Debate
By Staff Reports
The Italian-American Lawyers Association will host a debate between District Attorney Gil Garcetti and his challenger, Deputy ...
If Only
By Contributing Writer
By Leonard Novarro. Verdicts can hinge on inches and even less. If the arm on a newly installed restraint system in a customiz...
County Bar Opposes Action by Legal Services
By Don De Benedictis
The Los Angeles County Bar Association will join in an amicus curiae brief opposing an effort by the Legal Services Corp. to s...
Settlement Achieved in Slum-Housing Case
By Anne La Jeunesse
Thirty-three children will likely be able to attend college some day and their parents will be able to purchase homes as the r...
Officer Pleads Not Guilty to Shooting Charge
By Anne La Jeunesse
An officer with Los Angeles Police Department's 77th division pleaded not guilty Thursday to a charge that he shot an unarmed ...
Retired Judge Signs His Plea Deal
By Ed Kimble
Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George W. Trammell III will plead guilty to mail fraud and a criminal scheme "to defr...
Immigration Agent Pleads to Smuggling Scam
By Susan Mc Rae
For the past dozen years, Jesse Jerry Gardona toiled away in a nondescript, one-story concrete building in the industrial Los ...
Judge Sends Murder Case to Juvenile Court
By Anne La Jeunesse
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler on Thursday agreed with defense attorneys that the county grand jury was no...