By Ann Lehman. What does the United States, unlike any other industrialized country, have in common with North Korea, Afghanis...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland ordinance that allows police to impound and sell vehicles used by suspected drug buyers and prostit...

By Elaine Michetti. I was 10 years old when the U.S. Supreme Court made way for the reinstitution of the death penalty in Greg...

SAN JOSE - Stanford University has become the latest institution to go to court in an attempt to force its insurance company t...

DeAnn Salcido, a partner at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, has succeeded Deputy City Attorney Cindy Davis as president of the ...

SAN DIEGO - A judicial corruption scandal that shook San Diego's legal world moved into its final stages earlier this week whe...

A Los Angeles attorney has filed a $5 million complaint against the city of Inglewood and its police department, claiming offi...

The second-degree murder conviction of a man who killed a pedestrian after leading police on a wild chase through the streets ...

LAS VEGAS - Paul Ortiz thought he was beginning a promising career, working as an assistant with the Nevada State Bar's Lawyer...

The bricks are set, the doors are open and 235 girls have completed a year of classes at the Archer School for Girls. But a gr...

The National Mental Health Association has estimated that 60 percent of Los Angeles County's 18,000 detained juveniles suffer ...

J. Stanley Mullin, whose avid and widespread interests took him from aspiring Olympian to founding partner of one of Los Angel...

By Theda C. Snyder. Every lawyer should budget a percentage of revenue for marketing. Consider kicking off your new low-overhe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for 14 families whose Humboldt County homes were damaged in a 1996 mudslide want to remove a judge who...

Services have taken place for retired family law attorney Eleanor Luster, who died Friday of cancer in her Agoura Hills home. ...

Gene E. Penn, a former partner in the Los Angeles's Lovich & Penn, died at his Mesa, Ariz., home July 17. He was 66. ...

Services were held Sunday for retired sole practitioner David Radin, who died July 18 from complications of a broken hip. The ...

By Michael P. McCloskey and Andrew B. Serwin. Internet business, by its very nature, is uniquely international. Anyone with a ...

By Michelle Alexander. Every election cycle, political analysts scratch their heads and ask the same old question, "Why don't ...

SAN DIEGO - Offering clashing versions of a 1996 stabbing death, prosecutors and defense attorneys delivered opening statement...

SAN DIEGO - Saying that welfare applicants are subjected to unannounced home searches by district attorney's investigators, ci...

A native El Salvadoran who served time for a conviction overturned in the continuing Los Angeles Police Department Rampart sca...

Although the city of Los Angeles plans to slap motorists caught running red lights with a $271 fine, it will have less than $5...

A couple of blocks from the Daily Journal offices, a graffiti Michelangelo has scribbled this exhortation on a wall: "Be naked...

Though the Rebel flag no longer flutters above the South Carolina Capitol building, a boycott of the state over the issue is r...

RIVERSIDE - At about 4:15 p.m. on April 10, Riverside County District Attorney Grover Trask called Superior Court Judge Robert...

In the biggest technology merger to date, fiber-optics giant JDS Uniphase Corp. has agreed to buy competitor, SDL Inc., in a s...

Two rival gang members shoot at each other in the street. An innocent bystander is killed by a single bullet, but police can't...

It is a record-breaking deal, weighing in at an unprecedented $41 billion. It has developed under the scrutiny of antitrust of...

By Jeffrey Sinaiko and Thomas Jeffry Jr. For litigators, health care may be a considerable source of work in the coming months...