DICTA The financial burden of supporting the jury system is the hidden tax imposed upon the business community by the courts. ...

By Marjorie Cohn "The deliberate institutionalized taking of human life by the state is the greatest conceivable degradation t...

What to do with mentally ill children incarcerated in juvenile halls has become an issue of serious concern for many lawmakers...

SAN DIEGO -- The retrial of David James Genzler in the 1996 slaying of Dustin Harless has been scheduled for May 22, after mon...

A bankruptcy trustee's attorneys continue to search for an estimated $35 million that investors pumped into an Irvine company ...

Hollywood beware, those naive-looking suckers from out-of-town are smarter and tougher than you ever thought. Sure, Sunset Str...

Because the juvenile justice system has few resources for children with mental health and substance abuse problems, the county...

For the first time in its century-old history, Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May has elected a Southern California p...

Services will be held today for Earl L. Hanson, a prominent criminal defense attorney whose high-profile client list included...

The year 2000 is the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese calendar. It is, attorney Frank W. Chen said, "considered to be a very ...

Highlighting police wrongdoing outside the city's Rampart Division, a federal grand jury Wednesday indicted one present and on...

The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners Tuesday evening caught a respite on the Westside from some of the sharp rebukes ...

The entire patent prosecution and litigation group of Los Angeles' Loeb & Loeb - four partners, six associates and 15 staf...

By Pablo Agrio By now, everyone is aware that Gov. Gray Davis has decided that all life prisoners in state correctional instit...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday named San Francisco attorney Lynne S. Coffin as the new state public defender, a choic...

Several entertainment industry insiders and civil rights advocates will participate in a panel discussion on minority images i...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles woman has sued a prominent lawyer in the field of breast-implant litigation, saying he convinced...

In 350 B.C., the Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote that all humans by nature desire to understand things outside themselves. F...

SAN DIEGO - Although Sterling Hutcheson no longer enters the courtroom, the 80-year-old litigator, considered to be the dean o...

The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday postponed an anticipated vote on a $9.2 million staff expansion propo...

Before a packed courtroom, the state Supreme Court appeared inclined Tuesday to uphold the nation's first law banning dozens o...

TEARS AND LAUGHTER: Last Friday afternoon, there were some tears and funny tales, but most of all there were memories of endea...

FORUM A subpoena comes to a newspaper like a rock through the front window. Page 6. By Tim Crews A subpoena comes to a newspap...

Corporate technology attorney Donald E. Karl has joined Seattle-based Perkins Coie as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles Inte...

It was a visit that almost didn't happen. When a Daily Journal reporter asked the county probation department for permission t...

SAN DIEGO - A former communications officer for presidents Bush and Clinton is being held on charges that he attempted to have...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy, who has been on sick leave from his seat in Citrus Court for much of the p...

IRVINE - An attorney and Irvine resident has filed a taxpayer lawsuit against the city and its governing body, claiming a vote...

SACRAMENTO - A decade after attorneys lost the right to question prospective jurors in California criminal courts, the Legisla...

SAN DIEGO - A judge declared a mistrial Tuesday when a jury deadlocked after six hours of deliberation in the case of a San Di...