Appellate Practice
Court Will Review If Police Can Use Dogs at Traffic Stop
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Taking on another twist in search-and-seizure law, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether police ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Oakland City Council is poised to dramatically increase the city's power to force landlords to oust proble...
LOS ANGELES - Health care lawyer Russell Hayman, a former federal prosecutor and past chief of staff at the U.S. Drug Enforcem...
FULLERTON - During his four-year career, he represented nearly a score of clients without a license, or even a law degree. Now...
Criminal
Telltale Smell Helps Bring High-Flying Drug Dealers Down to Earth
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Need to fly a honking big shipment of illegal drugs to Atlanta, Detroit or Cleveland without the both...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge tentatively approved a $1.1 billion settlement Monday between Microsoft and some 14 mill...
SAN FRANCISCO - Long before Rod Davis became a Sacramento appellate justice reviewing the work of trial courts in 23 counties,...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday sentenced a convicted co-conspirator of the notorious Aryan Brotherhood...
SAN FRANCISCO - Embattled attorney Maureen R. Kallins, who spent 20 days last fall in Santa Rita jail for contempt of court, n...
SAN FRANCISCO - Harold Wayne Taylor didn't know his ex-girlfriend Patty Fansler was pregnant when he fatally shot her. But ign...
Thomas Fitzgibbon has been reunited with two of his former colleagues at the Santa Monica firm of Pfeiffer & Thigpen. Pfei...
A health care provider faces a lawsuit after one of its former Sacramento-area nursing homes allowed a 72-year-old man to drop...
Column - Law Firm Management - By Arnold Peter - Most law-firm marketing today is formulaic, unimaginative and just plain crum...
Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland has found himself in hot water for lying to cover up receiving sizable gifts from a state con...
The Scene found the Jewish Federation's legal services fund-raising dinner especially pleasurable because the group served a j...
Judges and Judiciary
Tea Time Can Be Any Time for Retired Superior Court Judge
By Sarah Garveyn
After 14 years on the bench, Judge Margaret M. Hay has retired from the Los Angeles Superior Court. Hay, whose retirement beca...
Justice Judith L. Haller struggled to have a career and a family, and now she encourages young women to seek their own path to...
First Nation Gaming, a corporate arm of the Tunica Biloxi tribe of Native Americans in Louisiana, recently began an arbitratio...
A San Pedro jury recently awarded apartment fire victim Elizabeth Berry $4.15 million in her negligence lawsuit against her fo...
LOS ANGELES - Remember Josh Connole. That's what defense attorney W. Michael Mayock told reporters outside the U.S. courthouse...
A company founded by Dick Clark, "The World's Oldest Teenager," is being sued for age discrimination because the 74-year-old t...
The Temecula Valley Unified School District agreed to pay $75,000 to settle a suit brought by a district psychologist who clai...
Growing up in Orange County piqued Mike Alvarado's interest in becoming a real estate lawyer. "It was inescapable to notice re...
Appellate attorney Ted Boutrous probably didn't think that, the first time he met Shaquille O'Neal, the 300-pound basketball s...
Six months after becoming vice chair of the Los Angeles office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, attorney Elena Baca h...
For Bingham McCutchen partner Lawrence Silverstein, the timing of the merger between his Boston-based firm and Los Angeles' Ri...
Column - Tort Reform - By Andrea Mosmann - The tort reform debate has raged for years. Tort reform advocates blame supposedly ...
Focus Column - Securities Law - By Jay C. Gandhi - On March 12, 2004, U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake issued her decisi...
Criminal
Feds Send Wrong Message by Making Martha Stewart Target of Classic Sexism
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Forum Column - By Wendy J. Murphy - I bought my first Martha Stewart Living magazine the other day. I have no intention of coo...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation Can Be a Lot Like Negotiating Hostage Situations
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Steven G. Mehta - Everyone who has attended a mediation probably has had th...