You drive into the same gated lot every morning, and a camera reads your plate before you park. You never thought twice about it. It is just how you get into the building. This shows up more often than people…
Plenty of small California employers assume the California Consumer Privacy Act is a tech-company problem, something for social platforms and ad networks, not a staffing agency, a restaurant group, or a delivery service. That assumption just got expensive. On June…
You typed the details of what happened at work into an AI chatbot before you ever called a lawyer. This happens more than most people realize, and it feels harmless. You’re not sharing it with anyone, the assumption goes, you’re…
A lot of people believe that marking an email “Privileged and Confidential” is what makes it protected. The label does nothing. In California, attorney-client privilege depends on purpose and confidentiality, and it breaks down in predictable operational ways. The most…
Artificial intelligence is now embedded across the employment lifecycle. Resume screening, interview recording, productivity monitoring, performance analytics, and termination risk modeling are all in use. In California, the risk is not just whether a decision was fair. It is whether…
Your employer started using an AI notetaker on Zoom calls. A bot joins every meeting. It records. It transcribes. It summarizes. You said something in a meeting last month that you now wish you had not. You want to know…
“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…
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…
“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…
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