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...

Environmental law attorney Barry C. Groveman has left New York-based Proskauer Rose to join Los Angeles' Musick Peeler & G...

By Gerald T. McLaughlin. The Internet can provide distance-learning technology that may supplement existing methods of legal e...

By Meredith Alexander. Attorney Gary Reback, who rose to national prominence and left his mark in the legal world by focusing ...

By John C. Eastman. For members of the founding generation, liberty was not the same thing as licentiousness. ...

By Xenia P. Kobylarz. It's a sign of the times when a 26-year veteran entertainment lawyer like Christopher Murray has turned ...

By Stephen Yagman. Janus-faced Los Angeles city officials are very quietly allowing the one-year statute of limitations for Ra...

San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro plans to merge with New York-based Winthrop Stimson Putnam & Roberts by year...

By Mitchell S. Shapiro. Predictability seems to be the last thing that has been brought about by recent case law. ...

By Gary S. Wong. Busy lawyers are constantly looking for good tools. Most aren't looking for more "gadgets" to carry in their ...

According to Citizens for Independent Courts, the average time between nomination and final action by the Senate climbed from ...

A state appellate court ruled Friday that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is liable for injuries sustained by an employee of an independe...

Before losing in court last week to the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, the Los Angeles Police Departme...

In a move that may end up costing the Port of Los Angeles hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, a state appellate co...

Chicago-based Katten Muchin & Zavis, which recently nabbed two entertainment litigators from Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick ...

Los Angeles moved a step closer Thursday to getting a new federal courthouse with the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee's u...

In a bid to slow the recent surge in violent crime, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to allocate $2 milli...

The stage is set. March 16 last year. Enter right, the Libertarian lawyers from Washington, D.C., leading their clients into t...

VENTURA - The $260 billion national tobacco settlement was supposed to be a boon to local government, enabling public agencies...

WASHINGTON - As President Clinton's legacy takes shape, one unintended and unwelcome fragment is likely to be the heightened r...

SANTA ANA - Orange County officials filed suit Friday to block a physician-sponsored ballot initiative that would force the Bo...

In a ruling that legal observers predict will have wide-reaching effects on the common practice of special appearances, the 4t...

In a landmark study released June 12, Columbia University experts disclosed that 68 percent of the death-penalty judgments tha...