When workplaces get tense, employers sometimes try to restore order by policing language. Banning phrases, disciplining “tone,” or enforcing broad civility rules can seem like a straightforward management response. In California, that approach often creates more risk than it removes. …
“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…
California employers think retaliation is just about discrimination complaints. They’re missing three separate statutes with different protected activities. California has multiple retaliation statutes protecting different types of employee complaints and activities. Violate any of them and you face separate liability…
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