By Jeff Jacoby Are black Americans owed reparations for the 240 years that their forebears were enslaved in this country? Some...
^^SPECIAL ISSUE: CONSUMER ATTORNEYS^^ Sharon J. Berman Litigators may recall the wonderful "gravy days" of business. Client li...
SAN FRANCISCO - Buyer beware. That was the essential message of a California Supreme Court ruling Thursday. By a 6-1 vote, the...
The FBI's ability to investigate the Los Angeles police corruption scandal has not been compromised, a top official of the age...
^^SPECIAL ISSUE: CONSUMER ATTORNEYS^^ By Julie Campanini Voir dire is the first opportunity for an attorneys to meet the audie...
In the wake of this week's primary election and the defeat of propositions 30 and 31, Consumer Attorney Association of Los An...
WASHINGTON - The rhetoric flew for the final time, the vice president hovered to break any ties, and by the end of Thursday, t...
"Do I stay or do I go?" This is the theme song symbolizing the career questions confronting lawyers today. A high percentage o...
FORUM Proposition 22 was supposed to embed an invidious distinction in the law beyond the ability of the Legislature to change...
SAN FRANCISCO - Rumored for months, the merger between San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and London's Bir...
SAN BERNARDINO - Lawyers and litigants will have to wait a while longer before seeing a new face on the San Bernardino County ...
FORUM The police who shot Amadou Diallo developed a hyperidentification with the besieged and false community of 'the police f...
Government
In Los Angeles, Were Desperately in Need of a Brief, Shining Moment
By Garry Abrams
Los Angeles isn't really a 21st century place. It's more like a perverse Camelot. If Mayor Richard Riordan and the city's othe...
Government
Airport Supporters to Meet, Plan Litigation
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Following the passage of Measure F on Tuesday, attorneys for groups supporting an airport at the former El Toro Ma...
SAN FRANCISCO - Leslie Whiteley was duped into her pack-a-day smoking habit, her attorney told a jury during closing arguments...
RIVERSIDE - Both Riverside Superior Court judge candidates will walk away from Tuesday's election wearing a black judicial rob...
SAN FRANCISCO - Landels Ripley & Diamond, the midsized San Francisco firm that has suffered recent attorney defections to ...
After more than a year in office, U.S. Attorney Alejandro Mayorkas has appointed a chief assistant, Consuelo S. Woodhead, who ...
Same Old Song Age-Discrimination Verdict in Favor of Hospital Workers Upheld Canfield's statement about hiring marketers who w...
Serious evidentiary sanctions can be imposed in employment-related civil actions when the employer has violated record retenti...
The Bookshelf - BLUE VS. BLACK By John L. Burris, with Catherine Whitney ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, $23.95 (HARDCOVER), 240 PAGES By ...
Government
OConnell Surprises, Now Will Face Ervin in General Election
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - After a campaign with minimal advertising and not even a candidate's statement in the voter information pamphlet, ...
Services will be held today for retired lawyer William Elliott Viney. The business and tax specialist, who maintained his prac...
SAN FRANCISCO - State judicial disciplinary authorities heard a request Wednesday to remove a Placer County judge from the ben...
Judges and Judiciary
Former DA Capizzi Defeated in Contest for Bench
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - In the most hotly contested judicial race in Orange County, former District Attorney Mike Capizzi lost his bid for...
A former Cedars Sinai nurse claims medical-center personnel forced her - kicking and screaming - to submit to a blood test, th...
Criminal
Cooley Forces Garcetti Into Runoff By Capturing 5,652 More Votes
By Michael Harris
Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, criticized for his alleged failure to uncover the Rampart police corruption...
Judges and Judiciary
Seven Elected to Judicial Posts, Two Still Open
By Anne La Jeunesse
Clear winners in seven of nine Los Angeles County judicial elections emerged from Tuesday's primary, leaving an incumbent judg...
SAN BERNARDINO - Though several county officials have been convicted of crimes in the past few years, much more corruption goe...
As we anxiously await the results of the Rampart investigation, I can't emphasize enough my disgust for the atrocious crimes p...