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California's AI laws are setting national trend

Oct. 20, 2025
By Malcolm Maclachlan

As Congress stalls on artificial intelligence regulation, California's sweeping AI legislation is setting a national benchmark...



Driven to Win

Oct. 20, 2025

Paul Goyette has built a litigation boutique driven by teamwork, competitiveness, and steady growth


Los Angeles County reached a tentative $828 million settlement in over 400 AB 218 childhood sexual abuse cases, adding to a pr...


Civil Litigation


A Los Angeles judge is weighing class certification for homeowners claiming property damage from smoke and ash caused by the 2...


Environmental & Energy


Two California community energy agencies sued solar developer Origis USA, alleging a $200 million scheme to inflate project co...


Constitutional Law


A Central District defense lawyer moved to dismiss his client's indictment, citing the government's failure to fund Criminal J...



NLRB sues California over new 'trigger' labor law

Oct. 17, 2025
By Malcolm Maclachlan

The NLRB sued to block California's AB 288, a "trigger law" empowering a state agency to enforce federal labor rights when the...



Appeals court upholds renaming of Hastings law school

Oct. 17, 2025
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

The 1st District Court of Appeal ruled the Legislature lawfully renamed Hastings College of the Law and eliminated a hereditar...


A state appellate panel ruled in an unpublished decision that a man selling drugs from a sidewalk tent in Hollywood had no rea...



Building Trust

Oct. 17, 2025

Neutral Robert Sunderland says telling people things they don't want to hear is an art.


Despite an aggressive legal defense led by former U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors...


Civil Litigation


Amco Insurance sued Paradise Inn seeking a declaration it needn't defend or indemnify the hotel in a sex trafficking lawsuit, ...


A Sacramento Superior Court judge expressed doubts that taxpayer organizations have standing to challenge a new law revising h...


Civil Litigation


A Los Angeles judge struck overly long opposition papers in a civil rights case about 2020 protest tactics by law enforcement,...


Immigration


Immigrant advocates sued Homeland Security and ICE, alleging new enforcement guidance unlawfully strips humanitarian protectio...


The city of Palm Springs agreed to pay $5.91 million to the families--primarily Black, Latino, and Native American--who were f...


Fenton Jurkowitz Law Group, known for its five-decade record in health care litigation and compliance, is winding down operati...


A San Francisco federal judge granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from issuing reduction-i...


Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed AB 250, creating a two-year window in 2026-27 for adult survivors of sexual assault to bring prev...


A federal judge is weighing whether Acting U.S. Attorney Bilal Essayli is lawfully serving, amid claims his appointment violat...


Civil Litigation


The California Faculty Association sued Cal State over disclosing employee data to federal investigators probing antisemitism,...


Litigation & Arbitration


A judge upheld Tesla's arbitration win against a former employee who claimed bias, after the arbitrator switched legal standar...


An Orange County Superior Court judge severed and advanced CEQA claims in a lawsuit challenging Santa Ana's citywide short-ter...


A divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to revisit a lower court order keeping federal funding flowing to lawyers ...


Former federal prosecutor Mack E. Jenkins said recent resignations from the U.S. Attorney's Office over internal disputes are ...


AB 495, the Family Preparedness Plan Act, expands caregiver authorization rights to help families avoid court when parents fac...


Civil Litigation


A San Francisco judge awarded X Corp. $150,000 in attorney fees but criticized its "stunning" overbilling after it partially w...


AB 931 imposes strict rules on consumer legal funding, while SB 37 targets deceptive attorney advertising and expands enforcem...


The Orange County Superior Court complaint claims the firm aided a minority owner's "illegal coup" against a majority partner ...


The Judicial Council of California has announced the winners of its 2025 Distinguished Service and Aranda Access to Justice aw...