Thomas H. Clarke Jr. writes in response to "An Unintended Consequence of the Endangered Species Act." ...

After eight years of helping local school districts deal with special education issues as a partner at Rutan & Tucker LLP,...

Apple Inc. has failed to persuade an Oakland federal judge to order online retailer Amazon.com, Inc. to stop using the term "A...

A State Bar committee is poised to weigh shortening the bar exam to two days and eliminating the collection of gender and race...

Ahead of its expected IPO, social game developer Zynga launched a game Thursday that guides players through its privacy polici...

After years of discussions, leaders from the film, television, music and internet service provider industries have agreed to a...

Chicago law firm Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP is in negotiations with Boston-based Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge ...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s lawsuit against former CEO Michael Perry is the latest sign of its aggressive but slow-m...

Demanding an end to the persistent backlog of discipline cases, State Bar Executive Director Joseph L. Dunn fired four top man...

Tart-tongued, hard-charging prosecutor Sharmin Bock, who has won national acclaim for locking up pimps and human traffickers, ...

Target Corp. will pay $160,000 to a former Orange County store employee for failing to accommodate his cerebral palsy, under a...

Orange County Superior Court Judge Tam Nomoto Schumann halted layoffs by Costa Mesa, saying the city failed to follow proper s...

The top investigator for the civilian watchdog of the Los Angeles Police Department plans to resign to accept an appointment a...

The law is about creativity - from creating new precedent, to applying new facts to old precedent. By Steven G. Mehta ...

The owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers may have made his final bet in his recent attempt to keep the franchise. By Michael S. Ko...

Two new programs provide amnesty from a wide variety of civil and criminal penalties for qualifying taxpayers. By Sanford Mill...

U.S. Supreme Court disappoints by not issuing any bright-line rules for application of specific jurisdiction over foreign manu...

The U.S. Supreme Court applies the "stream of commerce" doctrine in favor of foreign businesses in two recent decisions. By Ma...

California is having trouble holding on to feature and television production, but the problem of so-called "runaway production...

Salaries for recent law graduates have fallen sharply as positions at the largest law firms disappear, according to a study re...

Congressional Republicans are once again trying to slash spending on the quasi-governmental organization that funds legal aid ...

The State Bar has appointed its second-in-command, Robert A. Hawley, to temporarily oversee the discipline office in the wake ...

A former employee sued Thomas Jefferson School of Law last week, alleging that systematic sexual harassment by a supervisor of...

San Diego firm Lake APC has taken on a lawsuit against Facebook founder and social media titan Mark Zuckerberg. ...

Gov. Jerry Brown has begun quietly organizing a statewide network of advisers to vet judicial candidates. But state lawmakers ...

Christine Varney announced Monday that she will step down from her post as head of the Justice Department's antitrust division...

Legal consultancy Altman Weil released a report Wednesday saying the number of law firm mergers and acquisitions has picked up...

The Health Committee in the California Senate voted 5-3 on Wednesday to forward a bill to the Senate Appropriations Committee ...

Akin Gump has hit an unexpected stumbling block after switching hats to try out plaintiffs' side consumer fraud class action l...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an eight-month-old stay on a trial court ruling that declared unconstitutional th...