While the dot.com and AI booms share similarities, the resulting company failures raise materially different bankruptcy issues...

The "agentic referee" offers one way to explore adjudicative AI while preserving transparency, meaningful human oversight and ...

SB 577 would make it harder for survivors of institutional childhood sexual abuse to pursue claims against California public e...

California privacy laws can limit the harms of license plate readers, but to eliminate the threat, communities need to break u...

Personal injury cases involving workers' compensation liens create complex settlement dynamics as injured workers, insurers an...

As courts experiment with AI-generated rulings, the push for efficiency is raising concerns about judicial independence, trans...

The Court of Appeal's decision in People v. Cruz improperly expands resentencing relief by eliminating enhancements bas...

California's 2023 partition law was well intentioned, but it overlooked how California property law actually works. A 2026 upd...

With NIL valuations and endorsements influencing every stakeholder in college sports--from the players and coaches to a school...

In FEHA mediations, nuanced questions involving back pay, mitigation and non-wage losses can significantly affect the value of...

A recent debate over California's Proposition 45 has raised a surprisingly basic question: "Are data centers eligible for the ...

San Francisco's expanded Fair Chance Ordinance prohibits employers from basing adverse employment decisions on out-of-state co...

California art transactions sit within ordinary commercial law, but art-specific statutes can displace familiar assumptions ab...

Justice Clarence Thomas has advanced a series of far-reaching constitutional positions that would significantly narrow federal...

Experienced counsel know mediation preparation is not one-size-fits-all. Tailoring the process to each client's experience, ne...

Mediator certification is a solution in search of a nonexistent problem, and applying real due process to the State Bar's disc...

California employers and unions can obtain workplace violence restraining orders quickly, yet few use them. Understanding the ...

AT&T's effort to retire traditional landline service in California presents a classic federalism dispute over the boundary...

Workplace Violence Restraining Orders under CCP § 527.8 offer retailers a far more effective way to stop recurring violence, t...

Attorneys who use AI must do so with their eyes wide open, understanding its limitations and recognizing that their work is ju...

A recent appellate decision makes clear that an insurer's unreasonable delay in paying benefits can trigger bad faith liabilit...

Overly broad discovery requests waste time, drive up costs and fuel unnecessary disputes; smarter, more targeted requests get ...

Two verdicts, one summer: What Byrne v. Ameris Bank and Glick v. City of Los Angeles should teach every employme...

Artificial intelligence could help judges identify errors and protect absent or vulnerable parties in uncontested proceedings,...

WilmerHale's review of the Gates Foundation's ties to Jeffrey Epstein illustrates how a narrowly scoped investigation can prod...

When a driverless car breaks the law in California, the violation now goes to the manufacturer's regulator instead of to a dri...

The Ninth Circuit's Theis decision clarifies public employees' workplace speech protections, holding that when employee...

Effective mediation requires attorneys to prepare not only the case but also the client by reducing anxiety, encouraging persp...

Purpose-built AI tools that catch curable defects before filing and flag issues during court review--from pleadings and defaul...