WASHINGTON - The U.S. Sentencing Commission has urged Congress for years to reduce the disparity between the harsh federal pen...

The first time Rahinah Ibrahim was put on an airport no-fly list for suspected terrorists in 2005, the government admitted to ...

Melvyn I. Weiss, who pioneered the securities class action as a founder of the Milberg Weiss law firm, will be indicted today ...

Focus Column - By Eleanor Barr - Ending a long day of mediation by establishing basic agreements on a term sheet can be tempti...

The Daily Journal publishes its 10th annual listing of the most influential lawyers in the state. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday chose not to wade into the messy feud between Overstock.com and the ...

A federal grand jury indicted a Newport Beach-based attorney and his accomplice Wednesday for running a bogus investment schem...

The Daily Journal publishes its 10th annual listing of the most influential lawyers in the state.

Sabrina Venskus had no intention of becoming a lawyer or an activist when she moved to Playa del Rey in 1993. Now, the Santa M...

LOS ANGELES - Following the recent nomination of a new attorney general, the White House will continue to restock leadership p...

SANTA ANA - A dozen Muslim organizations, mosques and individuals from Southern California sued the FBI on Tuesday, demanding ...

Peter Blumberg Column - Erwin Chemerinsky may be back in business at UC Irvine's new law school, but the lesson of how his new...

The Writers Guild of America West and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers today are scheduled to resume ta...

WASHINGTON - Aspiring young lawyers seeking judicial clerkships received a bit of welcome news from the federal judiciary Tues...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - It should have been a straightforward deal: Macquarie Infrastructure Co., which has been on a f...

WASHINGTON - House Democrats sound determined to keep investigating alleged White House meddling in the Justice Department des...

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...