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With less than a year before its Jan. 1, 2027, sunset, California's mandatory disclosure law under SB 235 has reshaped state c...


Torts/Personal Injury

Protect access to justice and be munificent

May 18, 2026
By Arash Homampour, Nicholas Rowley

Uber's ballot initiative would gut California's contingency fee system, restrict access to justice for injured victims, shift ...


Constitutional Law

The Supreme Court's decision in Chatrie v. United States could determine whether people who enable cell phone location ...


Technology, Appellate Practice

Bad AI citations: Crimes and punishments

May 18, 2026
By Myron Moskovitz

A California appellate court exposed lawyers and a judge for using AI fabricated cases, but the real scandal may be that the p...


The litigation over Marilyn Monroe's Brentwood home centers on whether the City's historic designation and related demolition ...


Technology

Section 230 is starting to show its cracks

May 15, 2026
By Joanna Rosen Forster, Warrington Parker

While Doe v. Meta follows existing Section 230 law, its concurrences signal rising judicial pressure to narrow platfo...


Data Privacy

California's new CCPA regulations requiring annual cybersecurity audits and risk assessments are forcing companies to create d...


Technology, Labor/Employment

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...


Alternative Dispute Resolution

Evaluating the mediator's qualitative evaluation

May 15, 2026
By Thomas L. Willhite Jr.

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


Ediscovery, Civil Procedure

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


Law Practice

The verdicts that follow trial lawyers home

May 14, 2026
By Baruch C. Cohen

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


Civil Procedure

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


Cannabis

When cannabis becomes medicine

MCLE
May 13, 2026
By Mehdi Sinaki

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 ...


Civil Rights

The right to understand before the state acts

May 13, 2026
By K. Chike Odiwe

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


Class Action

NVIDIA 9th Circuit petition raises critical issues for securities class actions

May 12, 2026
By Jeffrey T. Scott, Julia A. Malkina

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


Labor/Employment

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


Criminal

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...


Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports

The Cubs' winning streak continues in the courtroom

May 12, 2026
By Erick Franklund

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


Technology

Courts ordered to police AI without a budget

May 11, 2026
By William Slomanson

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


U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Rights

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


Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Ethical challenges every in-house counsel must navigate

May 11, 2026
By David M. Majchrzak

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


Labor/Employment

Who is an 'employee' under the CalPERS common law test? The stakes are too high not to know.

May 11, 2026
By Jacquelyn Takeda Morenz, Joshua E. Morrison

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" direct...


Civil Procedure

Cutting the cost of complex disputes with special masters

May 11, 2026
By Anne-Christine T. Massullo

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


Labor/Employment

What does the duty to supervise look like when working from home?

May 8, 2026
By Shari L. Klevens, Alanna G. Clair

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


California Supreme Court

California Supreme Court rejects unaffordable bail as detention tool

May 8, 2026
By Allison B. Margolin, Truman J. Costello

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