Since U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Barry Russell started the Central District’s bankruptcy alternate dispute resolution program in 19...

In the climax to a seven-year criminal investigation of Milberg Weiss, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are set to file a se...

After his parents survived a concentration camp and brought their family to America, Orange County Superior Court Commissi...

Forum Column - By Will Coley - At the close of summer, the lives of two immigrants were publicly and permanently changed in So...

Focus Column - By Stephen P. Wiman - The California Supreme Court will soon decide an employment case that likely will be one ...

Aggressively lobbying for a bill that would bar the Justice Department from pressuring corporate counsel to waive attorney-cli...

Forum Column - By Samuel R. Staley - The Los Angeles City Council's new plan to keep fast-food establishments out of South L.A...

SAN FRANCISCO - One public reason that UCI Chancellor Michael V. Drake had withdrawn his offer of the law-school deanship to D...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge declined to dismiss a charge against one co-defendant of indicted Hollywood private eye Anthony ...

Forum Column - By Victor Schachter - This is the only playbook you'll ever need to ensure repeat business for your alternative...

SACRAMENTO - The state Fair Employment and Housing Commission will consider a proposal today to shift its adjudicatory functio...

After months of turmoil within the Justice Department, the legal community on Monday welcomed President Bush’s decision to nom...

SANTA ANA - The announcement that Erwin Chemerinsky will, after all, be the founding dean of the University of California, Irv...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco federal judge threw out California's lawsuit against six big automakers Monday, saying the sta...

Now that the real estate frenzy has died down — with houses languishing on the market and prices dropping in some neighborhood...

Celebrities may get out of jury duty in real life but not on TV. At least that's the hook behind the newest of the courtroom s...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's top state and federal judges say fast-tracking death-penalty appeals would create more delays and...

Forum Column - By Dennis J. Herrera - The right of citizens to place initiatives and referenda on the ballot is one of the mos...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Steptoe & Johnson strengthened its year-old Century City office with the hirings of c...

Forum Column - By M.C. Sungaila - Although fiction and legal briefs have different purposes, basic storytelling principles fro...

Tasks as routine as garbage collection and mail and food delivery at Los Angeles County courts are being left undone as local ...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has added partner Theodore E. Guth to its Los Angeles corpora...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Nicole C. Bershon, who will be installed as the new president of the Women Lawyers Associat...

The City Council voted Friday to give millions of dollars to a for-profit affordable-housing developer mired in controversy ov...

LOS ANGELES - The Securities and Exchange Commission has assembled a shortlist of potential candidates to head the agency's re...

A high-ranking Roman Catholic Church official assigned to investigate clergy abuse cases in Orange County was recently sent to...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cno and Maya Meinert - Manatt, Phelps & Phillips added Charles Ferguson as counsel to the f...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Susan Bryant-Deason is known for being a strict taskmaster, as well as for being decis...

Orange County Judge David T. McEachen brings his small-town, upbeat style to court, where he makes it a point to 'look 'em in ...

David Downing is one of the oldest new judges appointed to the bench, but colleagues say that he's more experienced and comfor...