Dicta: Ethics Matter By JoAnne Earls Robbins There are many tricky issues regarding what an attorney should do with a client's...

RIVERSIDE - A brain-damaged woman, who was charged with three felonies for stealing candy and a Pepsi from a gift shop and the...

The Mexican American Bar Foundation will honor attorneys Andrea Sheridan Ordin and Guy Rounsaville Jr. at its scholarship and ...

Practitioner: Employment Law By Joseph Posner Employees who have worked in the private sector and wish to file a claim for dis...

SAN FRANCISCO - Rebuffed by the state's highest court, the League of Women Voters and several youth advocacy groups went to Su...

Forum: By Vincent J. O'Neill Jr. Charles Dickerson blended into the crowd when U.S. v. Dickerson, 166 F.3d 667 (1999), was arg...

Dicta: On the Courthouse Steps: The Daily Journal asks women attorneys whether womanhood has helped or hurt their careers. ...

Rampart scandal whistle-blower Rafael A. Perez on Wednesday lost his bid to have attorney Paul DePasquale disqualified , becau...

WASHINGTON - For the fifth consecutive year, a House of Representatives subcommittee has voted to slash by more than half the ...

In the tradition of one of its Frankenstein movies, Universal Studios is having a waking legal nightmare about an escaped mons...

The California 2nd District Court of Appeal has overturned what remained of one of the largest toxic-tort judgments , tossing ...

A federal judge on Wednesday extended the custody stay of a Thai toddler in the United States with his temporary guardians, de...

SANTA ANA - A state appellate court has dealt a blow to drunken drivers challenging their suspensions on grounds that the repo...

Daily Journal staff writer Cheryl Romo has captured one of the Los Angeles Press Club's most prestigious honors. Romo, who wri...

Forum: By Steve Baughman Two years ago, a young Chinese couple contacted my office to discuss their desire to obtain legal imm...

SAN DIEGO - The deputy district attorney who first learned about alleged prosecutorial misconduct in a 1996 murder trial testi...

San Diego Watch: Barry Lander, the clerk of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Diego, will be honored this summer during the 9th...

SAN DIEGO - Lynn McDougal, city attorney for El Cajon since 1968, recently announced his retirement. He is a partner at McDoug...

SAN DIEGO - A contract that will increase the pay of San Diego County court employees to match the median wages of California'...

Forum: By Allen Jones I can't believe that the governor of California, Gray Davis, is trying to justify a 25-year prison sente...

The California Supreme Court appeared unwilling Tuesday to allow the names of key witnesses in a capital murder trial to remai...

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer told a group of lawyers and judges Tuesday that he may sponsor a ballot initiative ai...

The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners changed course Tuesday and unanimously approved a program to increase supervisor...

Another alleged victim of rogue Los Angeles police officers filed a civil rights lawsuit Tuesday, claiming that disgraced offi...

Gary Jacobs, a founding partner of Los Angeles' Christensen Miller Fink Jacobs Glaser Weil & Shapiro, has been named execu...

SAN FRANCISCO - At the close of a high-profile trial in 1998, Judge Richard A. Hodge was not a happy man. Alameda County juror...

Grand jury transcripts released Tuesday show that seven police officers called as witnesses in April and May gave little if an...

Dicta: By Mark B. Vezzani The phone rang. It was my secretary, who told me a lawyer wanted to see me. I was in charge of the d...

Dicta: Brickner's Bits By David Brickner Trial counsel often impeach using deposition testimony. However, with surprising freq...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Facing four felony counts, Peter C. Sheridan, a partner at Los Angeles' Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, ...