No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Samuel Smiles CORR...

SANTA ANA - Lawyers representing a partner in the Fountain Valley law firm of Bridgman, Mordkin & Shapiro confirmed Frida...

VICTORVILLE - After apologizing to the family of two young girls he killed while driving under the influence of alcohol, a fo...

By Martin Berg Daily Journal Staff Reporter Authorities last week arrested four executives of an Irvine-based investment firm...

Hoping to avoid a legal challenge, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is scheduled today to vote on whether to give ...

For months, undercover agents had been buying LSD from a young Pasadena man. Then last week, as they were arranging to buy mo...

Any courthouse employee or visitor who has encountered a shackled inmate in an elevator or hallway, or who has witnessed a de...

Despite several court rulings finding similar laws unconstitutional, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is scheduled...

With conviction at her pending trial far from a sure thing, former reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson...

Alan Michael Genelin's crime-stopping days did not end when he retired last year as chief of the Los Angeles County district ...

WASHINGTON - After a term in which the U.S. Supreme Court saw a protest and congressional scrutiny over the dearth of minorit...

Jury Recommends Death Penalty SAN BERNARDINO - Despite hearing the "horror story" of the defendant's early childhood in war-t...

By Marianne Means Some places are experimentally turning against free, nondiscriminatory public schools to prop up private re...

Claim of Substance New Pleading Requirements in Toxic Tort Cases By Barry N. Endick, Raymond J. Tittmann and William S. Choy ...

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^^Tort Law^^ Suspicious Minds Court Catalogues Personal-Injury Statute of Limitations The Supreme Court backed away from reso...

When Representing Multiple Parties, Don't Waver on Getting Waivers By Ellen A. Pansky Perhaps the area giving rise to the mos...

By Baruch C. Cohen Nazi SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer (Lieutenant-Colonel) Karl Adolf Eichmann was originally a gasoline salesman b...

RIVERSIDE - Four finalists for Riverside County's public defender spot were interviewed by a panel of Riverside attorneys Thu...

SACRAMENTO - The state's huge backlog of unserved criminal warrants means that thousands of dangerous felons are loose and mi...

The attorney who represented Lana Turner in her estate planning has been sued by a woman who claims she was to inherit the bu...

VENTURA - Can a defendant receive a fair trial when a juror allegedly refers to the defense attorney as an "SOB"? That novel ...

WASHINGTON - In a potentially significant ruling for property owners and environmentalists, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...

Immigration officials said Thursday they have made great gains in reducing a backlog of citizenship applications in its Los A...

SACRAMENTO - In another setback for the plaintiffs' bar, a bill to curb secrecy agreements in the settlement of civil lawsuit...

Echoing a sentiment that has come up in large class-action cases across the nation, a Los Angeles judge has refused to approv...

A long-running investigation into the Dec. 15 death of a 3-year-old Los Angeles County foster child at a home in Anaheim has ...

A federal appellate court Thursday rejected a First Amendment claim by three lawyer-lawmakers who challenged lobbying by the ...

SAN JOSE -- To Judge Robert P. Ahern, a lengthy jury trial is similar to a long unfolding mystery novel, full of unusual detai...

Retired Los Angeles lawyer, author and political activist Gerald H. Gottlieb will be buried in a New York City family plot Se...