Entertainment & Sports
The Trials of Suge Knight: Out of Prison in April, Back in Court in May
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Marion "Suge" Knight, the Los Angeles gangsta rap mogul, got out of prison on his latest parole-viola...
LOS ANGELES - On a dry-erase board in Tim Howard's office at Van Nuys High School is a chart with the headings "white" and "no...
Constitutional Law
L.A. Schools Were Unique Challenge for Desegregation
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Judge Paul Egly took over the ACLU-NAACP Los Angeles desegregation lawsuit in 1977, fresh from his successful ef...
Labor/Employment
Lawyers Shouldn't Let Client Hostilities Control Advocacy
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Most employment disputes are by their nature fairly contentious. Workers do not like be...
Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. and Joshua Safran - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently addre...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors Tuesday filed a criminal complaint against a former Boeing manager for his alleged role in t...
Personal Injury & Torts
Priest Says Law Firm Is Supporting Leader of Clergy Abuse Victims
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - A Catholic priest has accused a national support group for clergy abuse victims of an improper financial relatio...
Following is a timeline of the integration of Los Angeles public schools.
WESTMINSTER - In 1945, a group of Orange County Latino families, led by tenant farmers Gonzalo and Felicitas Mendez, filed sui...
LOS ANGELES - Sylvia Mendez was only 9 when she testified about attending a "Mexican" school in Orange County. Speaking in her...
Appellate Practice
Demonstrably Wrong Rulings Morph Into 'Well-Settled Error'
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Daniel M. Kolkey - The phrase, "well-settled law," is often invoked by lawyers and judges alike to suggest t...
Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - The qualification and licensing of lawyers in the United States traditionally has stoppe...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Debunks Most-Pernicious Wave Of Urban Myths Launched by Lawyers
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - Paul is dead. The poodle in the microwave. The proofreader at his desk for five days before co...
SANTA ANA - Citing his brief detainment by sheriff's deputies last week and his father's comments that his son will die if he ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday denied a new trial to a pair of convicted methamphetamine dealers who claimed to have ...
Judges and Judiciary
Compassion Moves Right Man For Conservatorship Hearings
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - The middle-aged man sat anxiously before Commissioner David A. Ziskrout, insisting that he has a $60,000-a-year ...
Column By Garry Abrams - For years I covered the Winnie the Pooh royalties case under the impression that it was about a child...
WASHINGTON - As the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education approaches its 50th anniversary, communities aroun...
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - To many lawyers and laypersons the term psychological science probably implies a variant...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Curtis D. Porterfield and Stephen V. Masterson - More and more U.S. companies are finding th...
Judges and Judiciary
Letting Jury Submit Questions Brings More Informed Jury, Better Decision
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Forum Column - By Philip K. Mautino - In admitting that jurors are indeed "judges" of the facts, we are finally appreciating t...
LOS ANGELES - After less than a day of deliberations, a federal jury in Los Angeles rejected damage claims from seven convicte...
Large Firms
Piper Will Plant Real Estate Flag Downtown
By Melissa Onstad And Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Four months after real estate attorney Michael Meyer joined Piper Rudnick from Pillsbury Winthrop, he is carryin...
Civil Rights
Judicial System Narrowed Segregation Remedies in 1970s, 1990s
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Advocates of school desegregation have learned that what the Supreme Court gives, it also can take away. On May 1...
LOS ANGELES - A $1.2 million settlement for demonstrators injured in a police clampdown during the 2000 Democratic National Co...
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury on Friday awarded $15 million in damages to the children of an Orange County couple who died in a...
Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Renee Mochkatel - Should employers be able to conduct surveillance of their employees in t...
Employment Column - By Valerie Fontaine - Lawyers with disabilities or chronic illnesses, or who are pregnant, confront simila...
Government
Costly Judicial Elections Erode Faith in Courts, Report Finds
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - State judicial elections are growing more political and more costly, eroding the public's trust in the nation's c...
LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Performance has launched formal charges against Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kevi...