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In personal injury litigation, strategic timing is key -- by recognizing and leveraging natural pressure points from pre-suit ...


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

Nov. 3, 2025
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-...


The SEC now allows mandatory arbitration in IPOs, reshaping litigation risk for public issuers, raising governance and insuran...


Appellate Practice

Appellate gotchas: Part 1

Nov. 3, 2025
By Myron Moskovitz

Appellate work involves diving into the record, crafting strategies and briefs, and arguing tough cases, all in the pursuit of...


As autonomous vehicle technologies advance--with investments growing 800% annually and market potential projected at $400 bill...


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

MCLE
Oct. 31, 2025
By Reza Torkzadeh, Allen P. Wilkinson

Courts disfavor contracts that excuse future wrongdoing, enforcing releases only when clear, conspicuous, related to the activ...


ChatGPT gave wrong legal advice in five of six tests using real California cases, contradicted itself based on who asked, and ...


Many firms chase new clients while overlooking the work already sitting inside their own walls. This article shows California ...


California's paid sick leave has evolved from three days for illness in 2015 to five days covering crime victimization, court ...


Whether it's an unearned bonus or pay returned for other reasons, such as legal violations, you can often recoup the taxes -- ...


Torts/Personal Injury

Par for the course: Legal issues in golf

Oct. 29, 2025
By Clifford L. Klein

Golf may seem peaceable, but from errant shots to exclusionary policies, players can find themselves in unexpected legal sand ...


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?

Oct. 29, 2025
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

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

Oct. 28, 2025
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

FCC's multi-million-dollar penalties against mobile carriers for improperly selling customer location data face new legal unce...


Constitutional Law

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

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 cashed in on legalized gambling's gold rush, then acted shocked when players and coaches turned insider information in...


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

MCLE
Oct. 28, 2025
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

October's National Disability Employment Awareness Month should prompt Big Law to examine how its practices continue to margin...


Torts/Personal Injury

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?

Oct. 27, 2025
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

Trial preparation isn't wasted when cases settle at the last minute -- it's exactly what forces those settlements to happen.


California voters have long wielded influence over insurance regulation through ballot initiatives, from Proposition 103's swe...


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

Oct. 24, 2025
By Greg Derin

Sargent's Portrait of Madame X shows how revision reveals growth -- a reminder that, in mediation as in art, change ca...