Brinker, which will determine if employers must force workers to take breaks or only make them available, has been one of the ...

Legal sector hiring dropped in March after two consecutive months of gains, while overall nonfarm employment continued its str...

The Los Angeles District Attorney's office has denied that any conflict of interest exists in its prosecution of a former Bel...

Be wary of changes this year, and don't forget to double check your returns, even for silly typing errors that can lead to pai...

Companies should be careful to keep track of where their money is going, and whether expenditures could be considered politica...

It's a common misperception that IP cases cannot be covered by insurance; don't buy into it. By William T. Um of Hunton & ...

The state Department of Finance has accused Orange County of "flouting the law" by withholding $73.5 million in taxes, but the...

A judge allowed a civil rights complaint against the federal EPA to move forward, finding that it failed to address long-runni...

This month local officials will begin to sift through orphaned redevelopment projects, deciding which to continue and which to...

Fenwick & West LLP scored again Monday with Menlo Park-based Facebook Inc.’s $1 billion purchase of San Francisco-based In...

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STAAR Surgical Co. appointed Samuel J. Gesten as its new vice president and general counsel. Gesten replaces Charles S. Kaufma...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

The Baha'i religion has guided Judge Dorothy Nelson, an early proponent of mediation.

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Across California, enrollment for ABA-accredited law schools was down nearly 9 percent this year and likely will fall further ...

STAAR Surgical Co. , a Monrovia-based medical device developer, has hired a new general counsel, the company announced Thursda...

A group of San Bernardino County parents filed an unusual suit Thursday seeking to force the Adelanto School District to relin...

California attorneys are advising homeowners associations to try to sever themselves from local neighborhood watch groups in t...

The state's campaign finance watchdog agency took the first step Thursday toward tightening regulations and expanding disclosu...

President Barack Obama signed the JOBS Act into law on Thursday, a measure that will deregulate the process by which certain ...

The battle between the Obama administration and the U.S. House of Representatives over the Defense of Marriage Act attained a ...

The San Diego County Water Authority has gone on the attack against the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power as part of i...

Unresolved Occupy Wall Street complaints could make the Oakland Police Department vulnerable to the imposition of a court-app...

Mullen & Henzel LLP may have only 23 lawyers, but in small-town Santa Barbara, that makes it one of the community's larges...

Land use lawyers are grappling with client concerns over the recent addition of the International Green Construction Code, the...

Former Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Jamie Jacobs-May, who joined JAMS last year after retiring from the bench, view...

A call to action: despite decades old laws requiring equal pay for women, a disparity remains to this day. By Patricia Sturdev...

Perhaps Obama should have kept quiet, but he's hardly the first president to speak his mind. By Douglas W. Kmiec of Pepperdine...

As calls to reform the California Environmental Quality Act continue to grow, developers are up in arms about a recent appella...