AI is now a leading cause of U.S. layoffs, and employers who use neutral-sounding criteria like "AI fluency" to push out older...

The lawyers who advance fastest aren't waiting for assignments--they're scanning every situation for unmet needs and filling t...

Family law rarely offers clean endings, and the cumulative toll of carrying families through their worst moments can lead to b...

A mediator's expertise can provide a valuable reality check, but effective settlement decisions require lawyers to critically ...

The OpenAI litigation is becoming a public demonstration of how modern discovery works. Executives separate "official" communi...

Trial lawyers often carry courtroom losses far beyond the verdict, experiencing them as deeply personal wounds that linger for...

In an era of overwhelming federal dockets and increasingly aggressive discovery practice, swift judicial intervention remains ...

The DOJ's narrow marijuana rescheduling order may deliver long-awaited tax relief for licensed medical operators, but in Calif...

A Hollywood mentor-protégé tradition--where wisdom is forged through pressure, proximity and example--is embodied in the life ...

Communication is not a courtesy in crisis response. As California weighs cuts to mobile crisis teams, the law increasingly tre...

NVIDIA is asking the 9th Circuit to review a class certification order in a securities fraud case, arguing that the district c...

In Chang v. Southern California Permanente Medical Group, the Court of Appeal held that a physician on a hybrid schedul...

California is facing its worst occupational disease epidemic in a century, yet instead of banning the artificial stone product...

Los Angeles is now paying for years of deferred maintenance on both sides of the ledger, as sidewalk hazards and streetlight o...

On May 1, a federal judge in Chicago greenlit the Cubs' claims against a neighboring rooftop bar profiting from views of left ...

California courts are confronting a surge of AI-generated filings containing hallucinated citations, forcing judges and arbitr...

A Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais is described as gutting the Voting Rights Act by restoring an intent-onl...

Key ethical and professional considerations for in-house counsel include protecting attorney-client privilege, defining the or...

CalPERS settled a seven-year dispute over post-retirement work restrictions after a judge barred recovery of alleged overpayme...

Court of appeal holds Privette applies without a written contract and bars claims despite alleged "no permits" directiv...

What if you could cut months--or even a year--from getting a case to disposition? In California's constrained courts, a retain...

In an era of remote practice, lawyers who view supervision as merely reactive risk serious professional consequences, as state...

For over a century, California trial courts have effectuated pretrial detention through sureties set at amounts a defendant co...

You thought you bought your dream home--until an unpermitted garage bay triggers a $75,000 surprise. In California, who pays f...

It is conceivable that generative AI will produce admissible opinion evidence, but the chief difficulty is reliability; Kelly,...

California's BASED Act died in a Senate committee after a 3-3 vote in April, sinking a proposal to bar dominant tech platforms...

Santa Clara County's repeated failure to follow mandatory child abuse reporting laws reflects a systemic disregard for child s...

As EPA PFAS drinking water standards shift and evolve, lawsuits over contamination and responsibility are rapidly expanding ac...

The House of Representatives has passed bipartisan legislation that would amend the Internal Revenue Code so survivors of sexu...

The fight over how best to fund public education has entered a new phase, as a coalition of large districts pushes state lawma...