Which Students for Whom?

A new thing under the sun was reported yesterday on the AP and in the Daily News. Eight California students—all of them presumably under 18, since their guardians were also named in the action—filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court claiming that specific state laws violate their constitutional ...

Blowing That Whistle

We just received a notice for a webinar touting a tutorial from a couple of largish New York law firms—Morvillo, Abramovitz, Grand Iason Anello & Bohrer PC and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP plus an assistant counsel from Merck & Co. This March 28 event offers “answers and advice on...

Who Is Dense?

Ask just about any Angelino or Manhattanite which city is the densest. No argument; both would agree. New York is the concentrated world-capital city of soaring residential towers and abounding cement. Los Angeles is a suburbanoid, far-ranging sprawl of homes and trees. Guess what, both are wrong...

Lawyers Philharmonic Lights Up Law Li...

The worn yet ornate spines of tomes such as “Statues, Amendments and Codes,” and “California Appellate Reports” looked out upon a formal and happy crowd of lawyer and jurist music lovers at the Los Angeles Law Library Monday night. It was the third anniversary of that singular local instituti...

Attorney Paul F. Cohen Practices Law,...

Los Angeles sole practitioner Paul F. Cohen is on a one-man mission to prove that he can do it all. He is an accomplished drummer, who has played with some of the best jazz musicians of all time, including Charlie Mingus, Bill Evans and Archie Schepp, and continued playing through the years wh...

Yaroslavsky Appoints Retired Judge Lo...

Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky has appointed former U.S. District Judge Lourdes G. Baird to the county’s newly created five-member Commission on Jail Violence. “Judge Baird is a person of impeccable integrity, wisdom and independence,” Yaroslavsky said in a statement. “As thi...

Wesley Hsu New President of the South...

Wesley Hsu, to be-installed tonight as president of the Southern California Chinese American Lawyers’ Association, says he still remembers perfectly well the day he decided he was going to become a prosecutor.

He’d been a high-achieving teen at Los Alamitos Hi...