With gas prices soaring, the IRS has announced an increase in the optional standard mileage rate for the final six months of 2022. Here’s what that means for individual taxpayers and for businesses.

California’s state bar association, which is responsible for licensing and regulating more than 250,000 lawyers in the most populous US state, is itself under scrutiny for a data leak that allowed confidential client complaint and attorney disciplinary record data to be captured by a free court records website.

Ticket-buyers suing Ticketmaster and its parent Live Nation Entertainment Inc. for alleged market monopolization are zeroing in on the companies’ ties to an arbitration startup that promises to handle their consumer claims more efficiently.

The US Copyright Claims Board opening Thursday for low-dollar disputes has the potential to have a huge—and unpredictable—impact on the copyright landscape.

A top FDA official who oversaw the approval of Purdue Pharma‘s OxyContin said Wednesday that the agency failed to adequately predict the harms associated with the drug that has fallen into the center of the US opioid epidemic.

Crypto companies that have been trying to go public since last year’s boom remain stuck in a lengthy back-and-forth with US regulators, adding to the pile of challenges facing the industry.

President Joe Biden plans to nominate a Justice Department lawyer and former Big Law appellate litigator as the first Latino on the powerful federal appeals court in Washington.