Lohan Receives Positive Review

Los Angeles - Lindsay Lohan was continuing to meet the terms of her probation stemming from a DUI and theft of a necklace, a judge said today, and the actress appeared to be on target to complete all of her community service and therapy requirements by the court's deadline of March 29.

"Just keep doing what you're doing, and you appear to be doing it well," Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner told the 25-year-old actress during a brief hearing at the Airport Branch Courthouse. "(The) probation officer has written a favorable report, as has the volunteer center."

Sautner has given the actress a rigid schedule of community service work and therapy sessions to keep her on schedule. Lohan's next court hearing had been scheduled for Feb. 15, but Sautner said her courtroom would be closed that day. She rescheduled the hearing for 10 a.m. Feb. 22.

Before then, she must complete another 15 days of community service -- which she has been performing at the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office -- and another five therapy sessions.

If Lohan sticks to the schedule, her probation in the 2007 DUI case will terminate at the end of March, and her probation in the Venice theft case will be downgraded to summary, non-supervised probation, Sautner said earlier.

Lohan pleaded no contest May 11 to a misdemeanor grand theft charge involving a necklace priced at $2,500 pilfered from a Venice jewelry store.

She was placed on three years probation and ordered to spend 120 days in jail and complete the 480 hours of community service to which she had been previously sentenced for violating her probation in a 2007 misdemeanor DUI case.

Lohan was originally ordered to have her 480 hours of community service completed by April 2012, with 360 hours at the downtown women's center and another 120 hours at the county morgue. However, her attendance was so sporadic at the Skid Row center that shelter officials terminated her from the community-service program there.

That prompted Sautner to revoke the actress' probation. The judge ordered her to spend 30 days in jail after Lohan admitted violating her probation in the DUI and theft cases, but due largely to jail overcrowding, she served only about five hours at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood.

Sautner then ordered Lohan to perform all of her community service work at the morgue. The judge laid out the strict schedule of probation work and therapy sessions for Lohan, and so far the actress has met all of the judge's requirements.

Lohan, the star of films such as "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday," is in the final stages of negotiating a contract to play the late Elizabeth
Taylor in a new film, the celebrity news website TMZ.com reported.