John D. Weiss has parlayed his middle-child negotiation skills into a career as a very low-key employment mediator. ...

The Japanese American Bar Association of Greater Los Angeles next week will recognize key figures in the legal fight against t...

A federal jury awarded a woman $827,500 in damages after it found her former employer failed to protect her from sexual assaul...

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has announced that one of its senior attorneys, Stanley W. Levy, will serve as the volunteer nat...

Letter to the Editor - On March 5, the Daily Journal published an article (“A Milberg Plaintiff Waits for His Check; Judge Lik...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has whittled a list of candidates to fill the regional director vacancy in the San Fran...

In a mixed ruling, a federal judge in Los Angeles has allowed a lawsuit challenging the prolonged detention of immigrants to m...

Fourm Column - By Ricardo J. Soto- The current policy giving high-school journalists unbridled discretion to exercise their fr...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Rosen - The current debate over patent reform shows the extent to which contemporary intellectual...

The California judiciary's shrinking budget took another hit Thursday when a state appeals court invalidated a probate court f...

An overlooked "clerical error," discovered by Dole Foods during litigation with Nicaraguan banana farmers who claimed they wer...

A former telephone company employee gave a tearful, sobbing testimony Thursday, describing how she gave one of Anthony Pellica...

Securities and Exchange Commission lawyers have leveled new allegations that a Broadcom subcommittee improperly granted stock ...

A paperwork blunder by a California state prosecutor means that a Contra Costa County killer must be released from prison, a u...

Web Exclusive - By Jill Redhage - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings ...

A federal judge in Delaware unsealed a sweeping, 550-page report Wednesday that details the collapse of New Century Financial...

An attorney for one of Anthony Pellicano's co-defendants appeared to make a prosecution witness his own, keeping the computer ...

Forum Column - By Robert A. Philipson - The Constitution completely protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms, and ...

Eric J. Zucker, 1959-2008, a veteran Los Angeles County deputy public defender and progressive political advocate, died Monday...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein demanded Wednesday that the Justice Department reveal its reasons for dismantling the public corruption ...

Focus Column - By C.J. Alice Chuang - The Federal Circuit expressed its willingness to reconsider its standards for determinin...

Forum Colum - By William H. Neukom - The rule of law must be upheld in the death penalty trials of Guantánamo detainees in ord...

Van Nuys Judge Karen J. Nudell has earned a reputation for her strength of character and her ability to make gutsy calls. ...

Web Exclusive - By Rebecca Beyer - A real estate broker did not breach a confidential relationship with a Beverly Hills real e...

U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie, 1929-2008, who sat on the federal bench for a quarter century, died Tuesday. ...

A national law firm with a troubled past spent more than $100,000 lobbying in California last year and now is trying to win a ...

Memory chip designer Rambus Inc. won a critical victory Wednesday when a federal jury took just three hours to reject claims b...

A group of Elk Grove residents, some of whom are represented by attorney Jesse Atwal, recently discovered they are facing more...

Web Exclusive - By Jill Redhage - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents increasingly are using home raids, like a recent one against immigration attorney K...