Suit Filed in S.D. Shooting of Ex-Football Player
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The mother of a former professional football player who died after he was shot 13 times by San Diego police offic...
9th Circuit Votes To Rehear Case Of Border Stops
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Taking up the issue of what role ethnicity may play in legitimate Border Patrol traffic stops, a federal appe...
AG Asks Judge to Block Hospital Merger
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a rare antitrust challenge to the merger of two East Bay hospitals, State Attorney General Bill Lockyer on...
Services to be Held Today for William Jackson
By Liz Valsamis
Memorial services will be held today for civil trial attorney William R. Jackson of Collins, Collins, Muir & Traver, who ...
Graduation Day
By Cheryl Romo
Five young men with slicked-back hair and edgy smiles appeared before the San Fernando Valley Juvenile Court Thursday. This w...
Memorial Set for Bankruptcy Judge Bergener
By Emma Varesio
Memorial services will be held Wednesday for retired U.S. bankruptcy Judge John E. Bergener, who served in the Central Distri...
Judge Finds Ban On Unsolicited Flyers, Papers Unconstitutional
By Lauren Bartlett
A federal judge has granted a permanent injunction barring the city of Pasadena from enforcing an ordinance restricting door-...
Lockheed Gets Skunked in Web Site Fight
By Pamela Mac Lean
In a major setback for big business, a federal appeals court Monday upheld the registration of Internet website names on a fi...
SLA Prosecutors Adopt High-Risk Legal Strategy
By Michael Harris
The only sworn witness to allegedly link former reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson with the 1975 atte...
Guilt Consumes Attorneys at Meeting Behind Picket Lines
By Denise Levin
As consumer attorneys gathered inside The Venetian in Las Vegas to discuss how best to represent their clients in such matter...
Unification in Orange County Goes as Smooth as Clockwork
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Whether she is shuffling voluminous files, inputting mountains of records, or recording a seemingly endless strea...
DA's SLA Brief Will Not Be Sealed
By Michael Harris
DA's SLA Brief Will Not Be Sealed Los Angeles County prosecutors have changed their minds about sealing their preliminary tri...
Muddy Waters
By Columnist
By Edward J. Casey and Jose L. Huizar Following more than 18 months of discussions, weary negotiators for California's three ...
Gains and Losses
By Columnist
By William F. Capps Conventional wisdom used to be that lawyers left law firms for quality-of-life issues, not money. The hea...
Lawyer a 'Driving Force' Against Poverty
By Tamara Scott
You wouldn't expect to find any client of Latham & Watkins living on skid row. But one of Latham's corporate partners, Ma...
New Law Equalizes SLAPP Motion Appeal Rights
By Columnist
By Mark Goldowitz On Oct. 10, Gov. Gray Davis signed AB1675 into law. The legislation amends Section 425.16 of the Code of Ci...
Garcetti Escapes Injury in Accident
By Michael Harris
Garcetti Escapes Injury in Accident Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti escaped injury last week when a flying ...
Tree Climber
By Stacy Cohen
By Stacy L. Cohen Earlier this month, Kenneth Liang found himself juggling four tasks in one day. While four items on a to-do...
Bitter Pill
By Jeffrey Anderson
By Jeffrey Anderson Patients haggling with their health maintenance organizations sometimes benefit from a little name-droppi...
Casting Call
By Josh Grossberg
By Josh Grossberg Ask John Horn about alternative dispute resolution, and he starts talking about Robert De Niro. With a penc...
Brobeck Phleger INTEL INDICATES INTENT TO INCLUDE IPIVOT Santa Clara's Intel Corp. has entered into an agreement to acquire I...
Despite a 95-mph Spill, He Finished the Race
By Jason Songn
A family that speeds together, stays together. Or at least that's what attorney Jonathan Cole's family believes. They are bou...
Vin de Siecle
By From Staff Reports
Vin de siecle From Temecula to Sonoma, California vintner-lawyers will say good bye to the 20th Century and the Second Millen...
Small-Company Work Begets Big Results
By Katherine Gaidos
Craig Andrews was interested in science. And he was interested in business. Instead of choosing between the two, he decided t...
Judge Extends Stay of Gang Injunction
By Michael Harris
Judge Extends Stay Of Gang Injunction Prosecutors have obtained a further stay of a 1998 injunction against the notorious Los...
Network Work
By Columnist
By Gary S. Wong As law firms continue the migration to a Windows-based operating environment, they often realize that despite...
Grape Expectations
By Leslie Gordon
By Leslie A. Gordon Frank Farella's fondest childhood memories are of helping his grandfather, a retired cellist, make his ow...
Standard Bearer
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
By Jennifer Byrd In June 1963, President John F. Kennedy called a group of more than 200 attorneys to a White House meeting t...
Juror Denies Atlanta Killings Affected Verdict
By Michael Harris
A juror on Friday denied allegations she voted for the death penalty for a man convicted of four murders in Compton based on ...
L.A. to Review Skip Miller Relationship
By Martin Bergn
While Louis "Skip" Miller awaits a hearing on what punishment, if any, he might receive from the State Bar for violating an e...