Labor/Employment
When the benefits end: workers' comp timelines vs. human recovery
By Yosi Yahoudai, Melissa Jamero Herbito
California's workers' compensation system is built to resolve claims at defined statutory endpoints, even when recovery from t...
Labor/Employment, Civil Rights
How to be an effective LGBTQ+ ally in the workplace
By Ashlee Difuntorum
Effective allyship empowers LGBTQ+ professionals to show up fully, unlocking stronger collaboration, deeper insight and a more...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Don't sign blind: How Campos redefines judicial responsibility
By Bernard C. Barmann Jr.
Generative AI has shattered the legal system's long-standing trust in cited authority, and the Campos decision makes clear tha...
Tax
When disputing taxes, should you pay first or wait until it is resolved?
By Robert W. Wood
Most people know that if you owe taxes, you'll also owe interest. But fewer consider what happens to that interest while they'...
Trump's Justice Department quietly handed his convicted allies--including Jan. 6 insurrectionists--a $1.776 billion taxpayer-f...
Civil Rights
Josefina Fierro de Bright and the power of advocacy: Lessons from the Sleepy Lagoon case
By William M. Paparian
How one young Mexican-American organizer exposed judicial bias and helped secure justice in wartime Los Angeles.
Torts/Personal Injury, Technology
Beyond the warning label: Why "design defect" is the new frontier in social media litigation
By Lem Garcia
Big Tech's "blame the user" defense is collapsing as courts start treating addictive social media design like a defective p...
Corporate
How Mission-Driven Corporations Are Reshaping Corporate Governance
By Roberto Escobar
A federal jury in Oakland dismissed Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI on procedural grounds, underscoring the growing importa...
Labor/Employment
9th Circuit rejects employees' use of offensive issue preclusion to avoid arbitration
By D. Andrew Quigley, Andrea Oguntula
In O'Dell v. Aya Healthcare Services, Inc., the 9th Circuit held that employees cannot use prior arbitral rulings to b...
Litigation & Arbitration
Can federal courts confirm or vacate your arbitration award?
By Rex S. Heinke
The Supreme Court held in Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties that federal courts can confirm or vacate arbitration awar...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
7 ways to communicate more effectively with your mediator
By Michael R. Wilner
Practical tips and strategies to improve the likelihood of settlement.
Constitutional Law
The flawed Comey indictment and the high bar for prosecutors
By David T. Ryan
The Comey indictment over the "86 47" post raises First Amendment concerns because the charges require proof that he personall...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Musk v. Altman: When 'all in' egos litigate what mediation could have fixed
By Leonid M. Zilberman
Mediation was the only alternate universe where everyone could have walked away a partial winner--but after three weeks of tri...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
California Supreme Court hears Gilead Tenofovir Cases, weighs scope of 'duty to innovate'
By Tommy Huynh, Jocelyn A. Wiesner
The California Supreme Court heard arguments in the Gilead Tenofovir litigation as justices examined whether drugmake...
Family
The California case that changed how courts view emotional abuse and stalking
By Noel E. Guth
G.G. v. G.S. makes clear that psychological abuse is domestic violence -- and California courts must treat it that way.
Civil Rights
The right to understand: Communication access and lawful state action in the digital age
By K. Chike Odiwe
As healthcare, crisis response and public systems increasingly rely on digital infrastructure, California's next civil rights ...
Intellectual Property
The presumption that changed trademark law
By Jessica Williams, Bobby Ghajar
The Trademark Modernization Act strengthened trademark injunctions by creating a rebuttable presumption of irreparable harm, ...
Intellectual Property
Navigating attorney fee awards in trademark litigation
By Adam Cashman, Ollie McNicholas
In the 9th Circuit, willful trademark infringement is no longer required for attorney's fees in Lanham Act cases, but it remai...
Legal Education, Law Practice
They passed a Bar. The door stays shut.
By Richard W. Morris
As the 9th Circuit quietly decides a case that could impact thousands of lawyers without even hearing oral argument, the quest...
Insurance
Insurers denying disaster housing benefits without legal basis
By Shant A. Karnikian, Michael Childress
After the Eaton and Palisades fires, insurers are reportedly terminating Additional Living Expense benefits by requiring polic...
Civil Rights
Louisiana v. Callais weakens Voting Rights Act and opens door to partisan redistricting
By Erwin Chemerinsky
Louisiana v. Callais guts key protections of the Voting Rights Act by narrowing Section 2 and enabling partisan redist...
Intellectual Property
Cox fighting: the Supreme Court's contributory liability opinion has limits when it comes to AI
By Nathaniel L. Bach
Intellectual Property
Artificial intelligence at the USPTO: Evolving patent eligibility guidance and emerging uses in practice
By Hannah Wolfe, Martin Feng
Intellectual Property
How public LLMs are reshaping trade secret law
By Jeremy T. Elman
Intellectual Property
Effective use of trade secret mediation and arbitration: How, when and why
By Barbara A. Reeves
Intellectual Property
Navigating AI in IP litigation: Oasis or mirage?
By Ryan G. Baker
Intellectual Property
When machines design molecules the real patent fight becomes who invented what
By Elizabeth L. Brann, Kamilah Alexander
Intellectual Property
No fairytale ending: Supreme Court leaves consumers out of trademark fights
By Scott R. Commerson, Michael Drell
Intellectual Property
Defend Trade Secrets Act turns 10: Has it delivered?
By Randall E. Kay, Andrea Jill Weiss Jeffries
Technology
I attended a law, AI and child safety conference. What I heard was shocking
By Zachary N. Zaharoff
Tech companies and their allies continue to frame the First Amendment and Section 230 as shields against liability for online ...