Deadlines spur action: Key opportunities during litigation to get your case resolved
By Brigitta S. Cymerint, Jonathan H. Davidi
In personal injury litigation, strategic timing is key -- by recognizing and leveraging natural pressure points from pre-suit ...
Sorry, Proust-Who these days even knows or cares who you are, let alone remembers you?
By Arthur Gilbert
As our culture drifts from the humanities toward technology and distraction, we risk losing not just our shared identity and d...
Intellectual Property
From code to canvas: The intellectual property debate in generative AI creations
By Daniel B. Garrie, Katherine E. Charonko
The rise of generative AI challenges traditional intellectual property laws by raising unresolved questions about who owns AI-...
Securities
Arbitrating securities fraud cases: Balancing efficiency with investor rights
By Kennen D. Hagen
The SEC now allows mandatory arbitration in IPOs, reshaping litigation risk for public issuers, raising governance and insuran...
Appellate work involves diving into the record, crafting strategies and briefs, and arguing tough cases, all in the pursuit of...
The driverless ecosystem brings great promise while delivering evolving risks
By Kenneth P. Williams
As autonomous vehicle technologies advance--with investments growing 800% annually and market potential projected at $400 bill...
Collecting what's due: Ethical boundaries when pursuing unpaid legal fees
By David M. Majchrzak
When clients don't pay, lawyers have options -- but ethical rules strictly limit how far they can go, what they can disclose a...
Contracts
The hidden danger in fine print liability releases
By Reza Torkzadeh, Allen P. Wilkinson
Courts disfavor contracts that excuse future wrongdoing, enforcing releases only when clear, conspicuous, related to the activ...
Technology
ChatGPT is giving legal advice and getting it catastrophically wrong
By Brandon Ortiz
ChatGPT gave wrong legal advice in five of six tests using real California cases, contradicted itself based on who asked, and ...
Law Practice
The hidden pipeline: How California lawyers can turn internal referrals into revenue
By George Brandon
Many firms chase new clients while overlooking the work already sitting inside their own walls. This article shows California ...
Labor/Employment
From sick days to safety days: How California's paid leave law keeps growing
By Leslie Wallis
California's paid sick leave has evolved from three days for illness in 2015 to five days covering crime victimization, court ...
Tax
Repaying compensation to employer? How to recover withheld taxes
By Robert W. Wood
Whether it's an unearned bonus or pay returned for other reasons, such as legal violations, you can often recoup the taxes -- ...
Golf may seem peaceable, but from errant shots to exclusionary policies, players can find themselves in unexpected legal sand ...
Technology
How Generative AI can strengthen, not weaken, legal reasoning
By Daniel Gold
Generative AI offers tremendous promise for the legal profession--but without intentional use, it can erode the refined judgme...
International Law, Constitutional Law
Will Cuba face takings liability?
By Michael M. Berger
The Supreme Court is taking up two cases that could hold Cuba accountable for seizing American property -- an unexpected legal...
Torts/Personal Injury, Consumer Protection Law
Tesla's autopilot isn't driving into the future, it's crashing through the courts
By Vineet Dubey
A $329 million verdict against Tesla for an autopilot-related death opens the floodgates to more lawsuits, exposing the compan...
Letters
The Daily Journal's diversity blind spot just went to print
By Terrence M. Franklin
The Daily Journal's 'Top 40 Under 40' supplement managed to profile California lawyers without including a single African-Amer...
Technology, Data Privacy
Customer privacy battle pits FCC against telecoms in Supreme Court
By Anita Taff-Rice
FCC's multi-million-dollar penalties against mobile carriers for improperly selling customer location data face new legal unce...
Constitutional Law
Too poor for privacy? People v. Maki and the tent as a Fourth Amendment frontier
By Jenna Myers Karvunidis
In the unpublished decision, the California Court of Appeal ruled that a man living in a tent had no Fourth Amendment protecti...
U.S. Supreme Court
One president, 29 emergencies and a Supreme Court that won't say no
By John H. Minan
Trump's stunning 29th emergency Supreme Court appeal in 10 months seeks to override a federal judge and deploy National Guard ...
Entertainment & Sports
The NBA's billion-dollar bet on gambling just came due
By Lou Shapiro
The NBA cashed in on legalized gambling's gold rush, then acted shocked when players and coaches turned insider information in...
Insurance
California insurance showdown 2026: Competing ballot initiatives set to reshape the market
By Michele L. Levinson
Part Two examines the proposed 2026 ballot initiatives targeting property and automobile insurance in California, including a ...
Intellectual Property
Moral rights and the Vaillancourt Fountain
By Simon J. Frankel
Fifty years after its completion, San Francisco's massive Brutalist Vaillancourt Fountain faces removal as part of a plaza red...
Labor/Employment, Civil Rights
Big law ramps up exclusion of attorneys with disabilities
By Areta Guthrey
October's National Disability Employment Awareness Month should prompt Big Law to examine how its practices continue to margin...
Torts/Personal Injury
Reforming personal injury advertising: The time has come
By Loren E. Schwartz
On Oct. 11, California enacted SB 37 to crack down on misleading attorney advertising -- giving consumers the right to sue ove...
Government, Alternative Dispute Resolution
Bridging the divide: Why can't we get along?
By Marc Alan Fong
Amid an increasingly fractured political climate fueled by outrage and absolutism, restoring democracy's health depends on cit...
Law Practice, Civil Litigation
Last-minute settlements: How trial preparation gives you leverage
By Brigitta S. Cymerint
Trial preparation isn't wasted when cases settle at the last minute -- it's exactly what forces those settlements to happen.
Insurance, Government
Ballots, burn zones and bottom lines: How California voters have shaped the state's insurance market
By Michele L. Levinson
California voters have long wielded influence over insurance regulation through ballot initiatives, from Proposition 103's swe...
Anti-SLAPP motions can sting in a surprising variety of cases
By Brendan J. Begley
Once limited mostly to defamation and media cases, California's anti-SLAPP statute (Code Civ. Proc. § 425.16) has expanded int...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Regret and reimagination in art and mediation
By Greg Derin
Sargent's Portrait of Madame X shows how revision reveals growth -- a reminder that, in mediation as in art, change ca...
