“I’m not a lawyer, so I put all my HR documents into ChatGPT to figure out if I have a case. It told me I did.” That is a real pattern. Here is the problem. Attorney-client privilege under California Evidence…
You finally got a lawyer working on your case. The filing was submitted. Then you found out the brief cited cases that do not exist. The lawyer used an AI tool to help draft it and did not check the…
Employer-side employment litigation teams put significant resources into winning summary judgment. The evidentiary objections made at the trial court level are a critical part of that work. Two objection patterns – objecting that the plaintiff’s evidence is “self-serving” and objecting…
Most California employers think of the California Consumer Privacy Act as a consumer-data law – something that applies to website visitors and customer information. The new CCPA risk assessment regulations, enacted in fall 2025, reach directly into the employment relationship…
You signed a severance agreement. It had a non-disparagement clause. The language said you could not say, write, or do anything to disparage or defame the company – to anyone. You were told this was standard. I see this pattern…
Employers have been told for years that as long as a human makes the final call, AI tools used to get there are legally neutral. That assumption is about to collide with California law in a way that will be…
You have started the letter to your employer three times this week. The one that lays out everything they owe you and everything they did. Each draft comes out angrier. Then you delete it. That instinct to put it in…
“My dispatcher told me California break laws don’t apply to drivers. Everybody at the yard just accepts it.” Almost. A federal appeals court just confirmed, in June 2026, that one group sits outside California’s meal and rest break rules: drivers…
California employers have largely accepted that when a competitor strips out a team, nothing can be done because noncompetes are void here. The resignations land, the clients follow, and leadership writes it off as the cost of operating in this…
The rollout email said everyone uses the new AI tool now. Something in you said you cannot. Maybe you raised it and got a shrug. Maybe you have not raised it because you expect one. You are not alone in…
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