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...

Options are few and hard to come by as top courts leaders look for how and where to cut $150 million from the judiciary's budg...

A three-year legal battle over oil drilling in an urban area of Los Angeles County reached a resolution this week when the co...

Engineering firm Parsons Corp. sold its corporate headquarters in Pasadena to a joint venture between Morgan Stanley Real Esta...

After years targeting businesses over physical barriers, disability rights lawyers are focusing more and more attention on the...

Law firms jockey for who has the best Supreme Court practice, but rarely do you hear discussion on the business side of this n...

Five tips on how to get your point across to the judge. By Blair Schlecter of Hurrell Cantrall ...

This is the first ruling on the law's constitutionality since the U.S. attorney general announced that the Obama administratio...