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Labor/Employment

When the benefits end: workers' comp timelines vs. human recovery

May 26, 2026
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

May 26, 2026
By Ashlee Difuntorum

Effective allyship empowers LGBTQ+ professionals to show up fully, unlocking stronger collaboration, deeper insight and a more...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Generative AI has shattered the legal system's long-standing trust in cited authority, and the Campos decision makes clear tha...


Most people know that if you owe taxes, you'll also owe interest. But fewer consider what happens to that interest while they'...


Government

Trump to taxpayers: You owe Jan. 6 rioters $1.776B

May 26, 2026
By William Rothbard

Trump's Justice Department quietly handed his convicted allies--including Jan. 6 insurrectionists--a $1.776 billion taxpayer-f...


How one young Mexican-American organizer exposed judicial bias and helped secure justice in wartime Los Angeles.


Torts/Personal Injury, Technology

Big Tech's "blame the user" defense is collapsing as courts start treating addictive social media design like a defective p...


A federal jury in Oakland dismissed Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI on procedural grounds, underscoring the growing importa...


Labor/Employment

In O'Dell v. Aya Healthcare Services, Inc., the 9th Circuit held that employees cannot use prior arbitral rulings to b...


Litigation & Arbitration

The Supreme Court held in Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties that federal courts can confirm or vacate arbitration awar...


Alternative Dispute Resolution

Practical tips and strategies to improve the likelihood of settlement.


Constitutional Law

The Comey indictment over the "86 47" post raises First Amendment concerns because the charges require proof that he personall...


Alternative Dispute Resolution

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

The California Supreme Court heard arguments in the Gilead Tenofovir litigation as justices examined whether drugmake...


G.G. v. G.S. makes clear that psychological abuse is domestic violence -- and California courts must treat it that way.


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

May 20, 2026
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

May 20, 2026
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.

May 20, 2026
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

May 20, 2026
By Shant A. Karnikian, Michael Childress

After the Eaton and Palisades fires, insurers are reportedly terminating Additional Living Expense benefits by requiring polic...


Louisiana v. Callais guts key protections of the Voting Rights Act by narrowing Section 2 and enabling partisan redist...




Intellectual Property

How public LLMs are reshaping trade secret law

May 20, 2026
By Jeremy T. Elman


Intellectual Property


Intellectual Property

Navigating AI in IP litigation: Oasis or mirage?

May 20, 2026
By Ryan G. Baker


Intellectual Property

When machines design molecules the real patent fight becomes who invented what

May 20, 2026
By Elizabeth L. Brann, Kamilah Alexander


Intellectual Property

No fairytale ending: Supreme Court leaves consumers out of trademark fights

May 20, 2026
By Scott R. Commerson, Michael Drell


Intellectual Property

Defend Trade Secrets Act turns 10: Has it delivered?

May 20, 2026
By Randall E. Kay, Andrea Jill Weiss Jeffries


Tech companies and their allies continue to frame the First Amendment and Section 230 as shields against liability for online ...