LOS ANGELES - In the wake of the Rampart police corruption scandal, federal officials swooped in on the Los Angeles Police Dep...
LOS ANGELES -A highly regarded former federal judge in Washington, D.C., has written the U.S. Justice Department urging prosec...
Environmental
State's Prop. 65 Authority Stripped Along With Tuna Warnings
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has delivered what could be a major blow to California's unique toxic warnings law, Prop...
SACRAMENTO - Last year, property owners around the country howled when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Connecticut city's righ...
SANTA ANA — As a young litigation associate with a couple of major Southern California law firms, Corey S. Cramin didn’t have ...
Forum Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - The right to own a home and reasonably use it is protected by the U.S. Constitution. Ho...
Kirkland & Ellis announced that Ephraim Starr has rejoined the firm from Honeywell International Inc., where he was vice p...
LOS ANGELES - When Allison Margolin was chosen to speak at her junior high school's D.A.R.E. - Drug Abuse Resistance Education...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Agencies Still Flub Basic Duty for Taking Property
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - It is very strange. One would have thought that the elementary concept that the governm...
Intellectual Property
Firms Serving Online Merchants Must Protect Themselves Legally
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - By Theodore F. Monroe, Bradley O. Cebeci and Jonathan Dekel - E-commerce and direct marketing have revolutioniz...
Letter to the Editor - I was fascinated by your May 2 article on the lawsuit against Joseph Cavallo for invasion of privacy ("...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Caring Mediator Extolls the Virtues of Diversity
By Tamadhur Alaqeeln
LOS ANGELES - Mediator Elizabeth A. Moreno is passionate about diversity. Moreno is the diversity chair of the dispute resol...
Appellate Practice
Panel Upholds Jury's $1.4 Million Award to All-Nude Strip Club
By Jim Adamekn
SAN BERNARDINO - A state appellate court Thursday affirmed a jury's $1.4 million award to an all-nude strip club, ruling the c...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Irvine's Payne & Fears Snags Louderback Law Firm in S.F.
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Irvine-based Payne & Fears, a small labor and employment firm, announced Thursday that it absorbed the Lou...
Investments
Socially Responsible Investing Does Not Have to Be a Liability
By Anna Oberthurn
American lawyers need to change their thinking on socially conscious investing. That's the opinion of Paul Watchman, a senior...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has refused to let a Drug Enforcement Administration chemist testify about how much PCP could ha...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
GOP Tort Reformers Let Go of California Model
By Peter Blumberg
WASHINGTON - Republican senators swapped Texas for California as a model for tort reform, but they still couldn't muster the v...
Forum Column - By Keith Paul Bishop - American entertainer W.C. Fields once quipped, "I never vote for anybody, I always vote ...
Focus Column - By Jason H. Anderson - The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that arbitration clauses in contracts governed by t...
Administrative/Regulatory
Justices Take Up Challenge to Court-Security Fee
By Itir Yakarn
No amount in court fees is too little to fight over? So it seems after two criminal cases challenging a $20 court security fe...
LOS ANGELES - The City Council halted conversions of single-room-occupancy hotels Wednesday in an effort to preserve the dwind...
Law Practice
Web Site Aims to Make Headhunting Convenient for All Parties
By Alexa Hylandn
LOS ANGELES - One day last fall, David Derrico received five calls from headhunters trying to entice him away from his fourth-...
Column - By Garry Abrams - The lead story in "The Arts" section of Wednesday's New York Times was an account of disgraced cele...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Five Honored for 70s Fight Against Sterilization Without Consent
By Tamadhur Alaqeeln
LOS ANGELES - Women can't be sterilized when they check into a hospital to give birth. This is an obvious statement now, but i...
Government
Killing in S.F. Shines Light on DA's Witness Intimidation Crisis
By Dennis Opatrnyn
SAN FRANCISCO - Acknowledging a crisis with unsolved homicides, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris pledged Wednesda...
Product Liability
Chevron's Anti-Punitives Measure in California Fizzles
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - After it became apparent Chevron Corp. was their only major backer, a tort reform group announced Wednesday it wo...
LOS ANGELES - Rudolph Arrigale's life's work as a trucker included plenty of heavy lifting on loading docks. Arrigale began ...
LOS ANGELES - The leak of confidential FBI memos in the investigation of rogue private detective Anthony Pellicano has spawned...
Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman - In the Estate of Rossi, the 3rd District Court of Appeal determined that an attack on ...
Forum Column - By J.H. Snider - Popularly known as the public airwaves, "spectrum" is becoming to the information era what lan...