Every senior attorney gives young lawyers some version of the same advice: when you get a new case, read the jury instructions first. Start with the end in mind.Before you draft the complaint, understand what you eventually have to prove. Before you send
You probably do not need another alert telling you that “AI law is moving quickly!”Colorado has an AI statute. California has transparency rules. Federal agencies are circling the issue. Consumer protection regulators are watching AI claims. Enterprise customers are asking harder questions about data use, model safety, and incident response.Fine.Subscribe nowThe practical question
Eight years ago, I was googling something case-related and stumbled onto a page of tentative rulings posted by the Contra Costa Superior Court.If you don’t practice in California: before a hearing, many courts post the judge’s tentative written ruling on the motion.Motion to compel. Demurrer. Motion to strike. Summary judgment. You name it.I started reading
Connecticut just changed the AI hiring playbook: employers can no longer defend a discrimination claim by saying the algorithm made the decision.What Actually HappenedGovernor Lamont signed Public Act 26-15 in May, creating a two-phase compliance framework for employers using AI in workplace decisions.Subscribe nowPhase 2 gets most of the compliance attention. Beginning October
If you want to understand elder abuse law, you can read the appellate decisions.You should.But appellate decisions are not the whole game.Subscribe nowA lot of litigation is decided in the day-to-day rulings that never become published opinions: demurrers, discovery fights, motions to compel, summary judgment orders.
California is home to both the AI industry and roughly 10% of the U.S. workforce, so when California starts asking how AI will affect jobs, employers should pay attention.But the first thing to understand about Governor Newsom’s May 21 executive order is what it does not do.It does not create new employer obligations. It does
In our analysis of California premises liability motions for summary judgment, the pattern was consistent. The moving party wins when one specific issue in the opposing party’s record is thin. Not all the issues — one. The inspection log. The defect measurement. The waiver scope. Build the
New York’s fashion model laws now cover two different uses of AI in advertising.
Every week, Central District judges issue orders explaining why one lawyer won and another lawyer lost.So we built a system to read them.We want to know:
In Bartz v. Anthropic, the court gave Anthropic a major win on AI training: using lawfully acquired books to train Claude was fair use. But Anthropic did not get the same protection for books it allegedly downloaded from pirate libraries.That’s where the $1.5 billion settlement comes in.Subscribe nowThe SettlementThe settlement covers nearly 120,000