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


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


Alternative Dispute Resolution


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


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


Cannabis


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 ...


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


Real Estate/Development


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


Technology


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...


At least some of the credit may belong to the U.S. military and its veterans.


As AI transforms computing into a race shaped as much by climate, water and power as by code, modular micro-data centers are r...


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


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


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


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...


Technology, Judges and Judiciary


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


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


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


Technology, Criminal


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


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


Alternative Dispute Resolution


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


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


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


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


Criminal


This article explains how courts determine the relevance of evidence in criminal cases, including definitions, judicial discre...


Criminal


A recent California case and related policy debates highlight growing tension between voter-approved mandates for life-without...


Family, Alternative Dispute Resolution


Private divorce proceedings--particularly trials before privately compensated judges--can significantly reduce the monetary, l...


California's e-filing system can turn minor clerical or formatting errors into dispositive rejections that retroactively jeopa...


Environmental & Energy, Administrative/Regulatory


As CARB implements a first-in-the-nation climate risk disclosure framework, it is giving insurers a pass even as other compani...