Voters should make up their minds regarding the merits of Proposition 36 only after comparing its provisions with present law.

When I originally abandoned my life as an attorney for life as anything-but-an-attorney, I wanted nothing to do with the profe...

SAN JOSE - Palo Alto patent attorney Bertram Rowland may be gone as a defendant in a trade secrets misappropriation lawsuit, b...

Busted in Redwood City with a baggie of cocaine, Juan Miguel Cisneros was headed for San Mateo County's drug diversion program...

In one of the latest examples of the National Labor Relations Board's willingness to overturn established precedent, the board...

The Daily Journal asks lawyers: What do you think about school vouchers? ...

SANTA ANA - A 77-year-old, disabled Orange County woman sued her assisted-living facility and a bee trapper Wednesday, allegin...

Former world boxing champion Gernaro "Chicanito" Hernandez will speak at the Rio Hondo Courthouse's 15th Drug Court graduation...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Wednesday lifted a gag order in the case of a Hermosa Beach woman who is the first person t...

A former Riverside County prosecutor will take over as presiding judge of the county's courts in January. His peers elected Ri...

The court held that factors such as long duration of service, promotions and salary increases alone cannot create an implied c...

The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday altered the special investigator's position in the inspector general's and controlle...

SANTA ANA - A nurse with the Juvenile Detention Center in Orange has been charged with engaging in sexual acts with a 17-year-...

A Los Angeles police sergeant who worked in the Rampart Division gang-suppression unit when four officers now charged with cor...

A mother is not in a "position of public or private trust" when she tells her daughter not to testify against the child's fath...

It's a simple enough rule: You act as your own attorney, you take your chances. But if you lose, you can't come back and claim...

University of Southern California constitutional law professor Erwin Chemerinsky urged San Fernando Valley business leaders We...

If Judge Michael Mink wanted the audience at Tuesday's Meet Your Judges program to know only one thing, it was that Judge Judy...

A state Judicial Council proposal that sets standards for sealing court records has generated a flood of response from the leg...

Felix Valdez was 40 when he decided to go to law school. His goal was simple: He wanted to help people. After graduation, he t...

Over the last couple of weeks, Santa Monica attorney Jerome L. Ringler has been receiving pilgrims like a holy man on a mounta...

A recent appellate ruling that threw out a record damage award against agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. over a crop-gene licens...

SACRAMENTO - A federal judge Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of portions of the state's Political Reform Act and dismisse...

Why should we have laws protecting financial and credit records when this information is made public in a divorce? ...

Darrel Forgey, president of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Paul Gutman are among ...

Marc Rotenberg, head of the influential high-tech lobby group Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), is this year's rec...

It is important not to overlook the lasting impact the next president will have on the U.S. Supreme Court. ...

WASHINGTON - A study released this week by the Federal Judicial Center reveals that federal judges are more likely to exclude ...

"The market took a beating today." The odds are that, if this were the headline on the evening news, it would get your prompt ...

Attorney fees are not guaranteed to the prevailing party in arbitrations of contract disputes containing an attorney-fee provi...