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As California's employment enforcement landscape grows increasingly aggressive, employers must prioritize proactive audits, up...


Civil Procedure

California courts generally favor allowing parties to correct curable procedural defects in summary judgment-related filings s...


Civil Rights

A legal challenge by judicial candidate Charles E. Pell against Judge Ami S. Sagel over her ballot name is rejected by the cou...


California's military diversion and Veterans Treatment Court framework squarely addresses prosecutors' dilemma: protecting pub...


The Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais fundamentally undermined the Voting Rights Act by requiring proo...


Appellate Practice

Appellate meditation: 'Aum,' not 'um'

May 5, 2026
By Benjamin G. Shatz

It's National Meditation Month. Breathe in. Brief out. Insert a "t" and trade mediation for meditation.


Technology, Family, Appellate Practice

Bad AI citations: The 'crimes'

May 4, 2026
By Myron Moskovitz

A recent California Court of Appeal opinion in In re Domestic Partnership of Torres Campos & Munoz exposes how lawy...


Torts/Personal Injury, Military Law

Supreme Court allows military vet's injury case to proceed

May 4, 2026
By Michael E. Rubinstein

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a wounded veteran can sue the military contractor whose negligent retention of a Taliban oper...


Torts/Personal Injury, California Supreme Court

The 2024 decision in Gilead Tenofovir Cases, Gilead Sciences v. Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco, effect...


International Law

King Charles III's address to Congress is contrasted with the In re Extradition of Kevin John Artt litigation to argue ...


Technology, Judges and Judiciary

The horror of misunderstanding

May 4, 2026
By Arthur Gilbert

Former California appellate justice Arthur Gilbert responds to judicial criticism of his views on artificial intelligence by r...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.

The U.K.'s upcoming Competition and Markets Authority evaluation of the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. transaction illustrate...


Technology, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Appellate Practice

SB 574 would set specific duties for attorneys who use generative artificial intelligence and would restrict how arbitrators m...


Technology, Criminal

Who's guilty when AI helps kill?

May 1, 2026
By Laura Sheppard

As AI increasingly provides actionable assistance in dangerous contexts, the law must confront whether existing concepts of cr...


When AI practices law without a license, who is responsible? That is the question Nippon Life v. OpenAI forces courts t...


On April 22, the attorney general amended the Code of Federal Regulations, placing state-licensed medicinal cannabis into Sche...


Ediscovery, Data Privacy

California's SB 243 requires chatbot platforms to maintain suicide prevention protocols and disclose their AI status, but it c...


Alternative Dispute Resolution

Objection: Assumes facts not in evidence

May 1, 2026
By Fatemeh Mashouf

When language crosses cultural boundaries, words can be misread in ways that distort intent and impact, creating legal and rel...


Litigation & Arbitration, Contracts

A court faced with a motion to compel arbitration must first determine whether a valid and enforceable agreement exists unless...


For many lawyers, the tension between billable work and business development is a constant and often frustrating reality. Firm...


Intellectual Property

Hollywood clutched its pearls over Ryan Coogler's Sinners deal -- but what the panic missed was a lesson in what the legal bar...


Uber has spent five years arguing Proposition 22 rewrote California tort law; a recent arbitration award confirms it did not--...


Letters

How e-filing lets tiny errors kill big cases

Apr. 30, 2026
By Ciarán O’Sullivan

E-filing systems increasingly allow minor technical or formatting mistakes to trigger document rejections that can jeopardize ...


Even well-intentioned workplace initiatives may invite legal scrutiny--the EEOC's lawsuit against Coca-Cola illustrates an exp...


Recent California legislation and federal proposals like H.R. 5560 mark a decisive shift toward holding institutions and platf...


Environmental & Energy

An offshore oil operator is caught between dueling sovereigns--ordered by the federal government to produce and by California ...


Constitutional Law

The modern Second Amendment debate centers on who may carry firearms and where they may legally be restricted, as courts strug...


Civil Rights

Prop. 36 promised accountability with rehabilitation, but its early implementation shows a deeper civil rights problem: discre...


Criminal

The cost of judicial second guessing is too high

Apr. 29, 2026
By Gregory D. Totten

A California appellate court reversed the conviction of Antolin Garcia Torres for the kidnapping and murder of Sierra LaMar, r...


Technology

Everything, everywhere, all of it wrong

Apr. 29, 2026
By Anita Taff-Rice

A six-figure sanction against an attorney for submitting a brief containing AI hallucinations sends a warning that technologic...