Discipline
Plaintiffs Claim Lawyers Inflated Their Fees by Delaying Accord
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - Jarmani and Lakshmi Prattipati came from India seeking justice after a wealthy Berkeley landlord from their home...
WASHINGTON - As a young lawyer in the Reagan White House, Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. cautioned administration o...
LOS ANGELES - Two lawyers who formerly held top posts in Los Angeles County's Children's Law Center filed whistle-blower compl...
LOS ANGELES - Coudert Brothers this week took another step toward dissolving its partnership by putting its offices and practi...
Judges and Judiciary
Decades-Old Roberts Memo Applies to Today's Old Court
By Don Debenedictisn
WASHINGTON - John G. Roberts Jr. could have been looking into a crystal ball when he wrote a memorandum 22 years ago speculati...
LOS ANGELES - The three-foot gavel hanging above the desk in U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie's chambers might serve as a w...
LOS ANGELES - It's not quite a battle, but with polite words and impassioned arguments, the plaintiffs' bar is drawing a line ...
Letter to the Editor - President Bush may have pulled a coup with his nomination of John Roberts to be a justice on the U.S. S...
Forum Column - By Renee Leff and Bruce Derman - Few situations in life are as difficult as those involving divorcing couples d...
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By H. Jacob Lager - It might just be the worst-case scenario for an honest chief financial offi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Few cases strike more fear in the hearts of lawyers these days than Zubulake v. UBS Warburg or Colem...
Law Practice
New Providers Enter Rapidly Growing Electronic-Discovery Marketplace
By Drew Combs
LOS ANGELES - MetaLINCS will introduce an electronic discovery software application next week that it claims will provide the ...
Judges and Judiciary
Republican Senator Wants to 'Wait and See' About Roberts
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats who are taking a wait-and-see approach with Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. have compa...
Entertainment & Sports
'Extreme Makeover' Reality Show Leaves Bitter Aftertaste
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - No good deed goes unpunished, as the saying goes. But twice? Over the last few days, the cast and c...
LOS ANGELES - For kids, the Internet can turn into a Pandora's box - from making them victims of sexual predators to enticing ...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - California Sen. Liz Figueroa, D-Fremont, has introduced Joint Resolution 10, which urges t...
LOS ANGELES - One of the earliest recollections Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Brian Petraborg has of his childhood i...
Focus Column - Internet Crime - By Evan Granowitz and James R. Sechrist - Internet gambling is a multibillion-dollar-a-year in...
LOS ANGELES - The University of West Los Angeles is having a tumultuous summer, marked by reports of impending financial colla...
LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Robert L. Brock, a 58-year veteran of the legal community, has d...
LOS ANGELES - A private service is scheduled today for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert I. Weil, a respected ju...
LOS ANGELES - Yahoo Inc. will pay $1 billion in cash for a 40 percent stake in the Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba.com, heatin...
LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan has reinvented himself again - this time landing a job at a big law fir...
Judges and Judiciary
Roberts' Passion for History of Court May Affect His Votes
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - Even if Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. is the fire-breathing conservative most liberals fear, some obs...
Judges and Judiciary
Senators Need to Know Roberts' Likely Approach to Key Issues
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Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - With hearings on the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court set to begin in early S...
Appellate Practice
Make Sure Court Carries Out 'Separate Document' Process
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Paul D. Fogel and Mani Sheik - You're a happy camper. You won your case in federal court: Th...
LOS ANGELES - David J. Cowan, a Los Angeles business litigator, and Tamila Ipema, a research attorney with the Los Angeles Sup...
LOS ANGELES - To director James Cameron and other makers of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," it probably feels like dj vu, all ov...
LOS ANGELES - A Hollywood actor and an NFL player grabbed headlines this year for allegedly using the Whizzinator, a device in...
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge on Monday ordered a national law firm and two of its attorneys to pay $267,000 in fees and costs a...