The state Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed a Los Angeles Superior Court judge's death sentence of a man who murdered his par...

A group of Bay Area muralists and labor icon Dolores Huerta sued a Bill Gates-owned company Thursday, saying it illegally sell...

VALLEJO - Deputy Attorney General Susan Duncan Lee glared and shook with anger during a hearing this week in Vallejo over a de...

His distinguished career in tatters, attorney Norbert A. Schlei works these days out of a small office near the Santa Monica a...

Could the next president of the United States be chosen by a court-ordered re-vote in Palm Beach County, Florida.? Don't count...

There are about 6,000 languages in the world today. Shortly, there will be one fewer. Eighty-one-year-old Marie Smith Jones is...

Fighting authority comes naturally to plaintiffs' attorney Jerry Kaplan. As treasurer of his sixth grade class, Kaplan blew th...

Federal Courts - Richard Seeborg, the former white-collar warrior for the U.S. Attorney's office in San Jose, has been selecte...

A Los Angeles Police Department officer fired for choking two civilians while off duty and then lying about it has failed in h...

The Daily Journal asks lawyers what they think of the election returns. ...

Recent California Supreme Court and appellate court decisions have provided a respite for employers, although these decisions ...

But we fight for our lives and our laws. 1 Maccabees, 3:21. On Nov. 10 the courts close for another holiday - Veterans Day thi...

Both San Francisco Deputy Pubic Defenders vying for Board of Supervisors seats garnered the most votes in their districts Tues...

The old saying that 'the attorney who represents himself has a fool for a client' is true today more than ever. ...

WASHINGTON - George W. Bush campaigned as someone who vowed to end the gridlock and partisan bickering in Washington. If he wi...

DENVER - Tuesday proved to be a bad day for gay-rights supporters and gun-show operators, but it was a good day for lottery lo...

Lorenzo Irving will receive $900,000 for the 7 1/2 years he says he wrongly spent in jail because of false drug charges filed ...

The tortured path to parole for a Calabasas man who killed the friend who revealed his homosexuality is about to take yet anot...

Should the First Amendment protect the right of reality show contestants to eat raw rats - at least once - on similar programs...

Waging one of the most expensive and litigious judicial election wars in Southern California history, incumbent John L. Martin...

A Sacramento civil litigator prevailed in a rancorous judgeship race after spending a whopping $700,000 on her campaign - incl...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices Wednesday appeared ready to rule that a man's designation of his wife as the beneficia...

A college instructor who took bribes for grades was not denied his right to counsel even though the government secretly taped ...

Tuesday's passage of Proposition 36, a measure that will divert thousands of drugs users from incarceration to treatment, will...

Steve Cooley, the veteran prosecutor who triumphed over his boss, two-term District Attorney Gil Garcetti, in a run-off electi...

SAN DIEGO - A veteran judge swept past his opponent with 52 percent of the vote Tuesday to become San Diego's next mayor. Dick...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday took up the multibillion-dollar question of whether insurance companies...

A squadron of more than 100 lawyers and officials from the Al Gore and George W. Bush campaigns, including a former secretary ...

The Los Angeles district attorney's office has asked the judge presiding over the trial of former reputed Symbionese Liberatio...

The Los Angeles Claims Board on Wednesday approved a nearly $11 million settlement of 29 lawsuits filed by alleged victims of ...