Almost two years after he survived a deadly tank explosion on the job, in a complicated case with multiple defendants, tens of...
David J. Meyer has joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips' litigation and employment unit in Los Angeles as a partner. Meyer's o...
Public Interest
Babcock Heads O.C.'s Public Law Center
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - The Public Law Center of Orange County has named Kenneth W. Babcock as its new executive director. Babcock, curren...
In three of these cases, the court issued opinions that in some way ameliorated the harsh effects of the 1996 act. ...
The number of hate crimes reported in California rose 12.1 percent in 1999, but authorities are unsure how much of that is att...
Santa Monica police on Monday will present the city attorney with the case of a West Los Angeles lawyer who reportedly drove i...
Criminal
Couple Pleads Guilty in Charity Scam, Cooperates With DA
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
Prosecutors say they may charge new defendants in the case of a La Verne couple who has pleaded guilty to allegations of obstr...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Pacificare, St. Joseph Reach Temporary Truce
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - A tussle over patient care for hundreds of Pacificare members all but ended Thursday after an agreement was reache...
Her first mistake was following her solicitor's advice. Her second mistake was being honest. As a result, Deborah Gabbay Aaron...
Litigation
Court Decides District Wrongly Fired Coach in Closed Meeting
By Daniel Evans
The final buzzer sounded this week in a San Diego County football coach's long legal battle with his employer when a state app...
Criminal
Californians in Prisons for Drugs Have Increased 25-Fold Since 1980
By Ed Kimble
California has twice as many people serving time in state prisons for drug offenses as the state's entire prison population 20...
Judge Ellen C. DeShazer and a volunteer team of drug rehabilitation specialists, prosecutors, public defenders, probation offi...
The alternate public defender's office said Thursday it has uncovered a new basis on which it may appeal a client's drug convi...
Carefully chosen quotes, statistics, definitions and narration will increase a listeners' ability to comprehend and retain inf...
Summer-associate parties should be re-titled "three or four uncomfortable hours of forced conversation with colleagues." ...
The 2nd District Court of Appeal issued a stern warning to public entities through a ruling last week, holding the city of Tho...
Like most lawyers, I feel passionately about justice and the protection of individual rights and freedoms. The concepts of fai...
If the employer testifies falsely about the reason for the discharge, then the jury may conclude that it is attempting to conc...
RIVERSIDE - The City Council has named nine community leaders to a new citizen Police Review Commission formed in response to ...
A proposed ballot measure that would weaken the statute of limitations on internal Los Angeles Police Department discipline ca...
Despite having its case dismissed at the trial level, the county's largest law enforcement union continues its fight to force ...
Customs has seized more than 2.1 million doses of the illegal drug Ecstasy with an estimated street value of at least $40 mill...
Francis Millspaugh Wheat, a towering figure in securities law, renowned environmentalist and author of the 1999 book "Californ...
Judges and Judiciary
Visiting Judges Often Bail Out 9th U.S. Circuit
By Pamela Mac Lean
A "shadow court" has been at work within the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, deciding some of the most significant issues t...
Perhaps it's only fitting that Alex Kozinski's son would make a federal case out of a jaywalking ticket. Yale Kozinski, whose ...
Civil Rights
Net Reveals Militant but Tasteful T-Shirts and Licking Dogs Await Protesters in L.A.
By Garry Abrams
In a book published late last year, Dick Morris, President Clinton's former top political soothsayer, predicted that the Inter...
By Steve Dasbach. Ever wonder if politicians really believe in all those new government programs and laws they're constantly t...
Arnold & Porter has added most of the lawyers from Los Angeles technology and intellectual property boutique Kimball &...
By Ann Lehman. What does the United States, unlike any other industrialized country, have in common with North Korea, Afghanis...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland ordinance that allows police to impound and sell vehicles used by suspected drug buyers and prostit...
