Personal Injury & Torts
Decision Clears Yacht Owner of Wrongful Death
By Matthew Heller
SANTA BARBARA - The sea, they say, doesn't give its secrets up easily. That was certainly the case in the death of a veteran S...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Tunisian man detained in the Sept. 11 sweeps to six months in federal pris...
Entertainment & Sports
Hedy Lamarr's Defenders Say Dead Movie Stars Need Their Dignity, Too
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - The son of Hollywood Golden Age actress Hedy Lamarr and an 85-year-old Los Angeles attorney who tools...
LOS ANGELES - In a continuing rash of defections, Los Angeles-based patent firm Lyon & Lyon has lost its former managing p...
Constitutional Law
Jury Sides With DA in Slander Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A Victorville deputy public defender and his employer, San Bernardino County, should pay $250,000 to a sex cr...
SAN FRANCISCO - A new service promises that, for a price, attorneys can log onto Lexis, e-mail the office or download document...
Marc Van Der Hout figured he'd go into labor law or criminal defense after he graduated from Golden Gate University School of ...
Forum Column - By Heidi Mandanis Schooner - There now seems little doubt that Enron's executive suite harbored thieves. As She...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has affirmed a lower court judgment that San Diego County unlawfully retaliated against a pre...
Environmental Law Practitioner Column - By William D. Wick - Congress surprised just about everyone by amending the Superfund ...
Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and John S. West - All of the pundits seem to agree that our economy is in recession. Whenever...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Doctors Get $3 Million for Dispute With HMO
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A jury has awarded a group of Corona doctors $3 million after a judge found that the health maintenance organizati...
LOS ANGELES - Citing Shakespeare, the Bible and Mick Jagger, civil rights attorney Stephen Yagman denounced the Bush administr...
LOS ANGELES - Two county supervisors plan to introduce an unusual motion at Tuesday's board meeting ordering the county's atto...
Government
Judge Tosses Election, Restores Former Compton Mayor to Office
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - In a stunning decision that legal experts said is unprecedented in the state, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge...
WASHINGTON - Last summer, life was looking amazingly bright for Theodore B. (Ted) Olson. The veteran litigator from Los Angele...
LOS ANGELES - A convicted child molester may go free after an appeals court reversed his conviction, finding that a Los Angele...
Forum Column - By Barbara Allen Babcock - Today, the Los Angeles criminal courts building will be christened The Clara Shortri...
Forum Column - By Alex Ricciardulli - Downtown Los Angeles' Criminal Courts Building will be officially renamed today after Cl...
Forum Column - By John Sperling - Sunday, during the most exciting Super Bowl in history, hundreds of millions of people aroun...
Criminal
U.S. Must Persist in Its Fight to Eradicate Abuse Of Harmful Substances
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Forum Column - By Marc Levin - A controversial Super Bowl ad linking drug abuse and terrorism has served as a reminder that ap...
Dicta Column - By Richard J. Simmons - Law firms should consider using arbitration agreements as a means to resolve employee d...
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - At some point in your career, you may consider switching practice areas. Some att...
LOS ANGELES - Members of the U.S. Supreme Court are a collegial bunch despite bitter philosophical differences, Justice Ruth B...
LOS ANGELES -The Belmont Learning Center can be completed safely, soon and at a reasonable cost by either of the two partnersh...
LOS ANGELES -A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded $13.2 million Thursday to a woman who suffered brain damage after being...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has approved a partial settlement of a two-year civil rights class action tha...
LOS ANGELES - He's been described as a human dynamo, a one-man army, a man of action who never sleeps and manages to be in fou...
LOS ANGELES - With the Winter Olympics opening tonight in Salt Lake City, teen-age ice skater Sasha Cohen already has a lawyer...
Dicta Column - By Tim Hallahan - The direct examination of your witnesses is usually the most crucial part of your case. Juror...