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…
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…
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…
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…
“I used an AI tool to think through the situation before I responded. Nobody else saw it.” Except, in litigation, they might. AI chat logs are not automatically confidential. Courts are increasingly treating them like other business communications. A conversation…
Your employer said the role was eliminated because AI can do the work now. It may be true. It may also be the beginning of a more complicated story. This pattern shows up often enough in California that courts and…
Most employers using AI in hiring assume the vendor carries the legal risk. The vendor agreement probably says otherwise, and California’s regulatory framework makes it even clearer: the employer owns the workflow. The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) has issued…
Most California employers who have considered the WARN Act have federal WARN in mind: 100 employees, 50 affected, 60 days notice. They run the math, conclude they are under the threshold, and move on. California has its Cal-WARN and AI…
Your role was cut and they told you it was AI. The announcement mentioned efficiency, transformation, restructuring around new technology. You walked out with severance papers and a story that sounded clean from the outside. Then you started asking yourself…
Belief: a vendor’s assurance that an AI hiring tool is “bias-free” or “compliant” covers both fairness and legality. A vendor assurance is a marketing statement. Two distinct compliance frameworks apply to AI tools used in employment decisions, and an employer…
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