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This Litigation Shortcut Could Cost You Your Right to Appeal
Summary When your business files a lawsuit, an early ruling from the judge can change the entire course of the…
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Your AI Policy Won’t Save You If Nobody Reads the Output
A California Court of Appeal sanctioned an attorney $1,500 and forwarded its opinion to the State Bar after his brief…
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Dismissed Twice, Still Not Over: California Limits the Two-Dismissal Rule
If you’re defending a lawsuit and the plaintiff drops it, then files somewhere else and drops it again, you’d be…
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Your Project’s Low Environmental Risk Won’t Win You a CEQA Exemption
Here’s the trade every developer knows. A CEQA categorical exemption means no environmental impact report, no months of study, no…
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When Cal/OSHA Comes Knocking, “They’re Not Our Employees” Won’t Stop the Subpoena
A worker dies on the job. A state safety agency wants to know what happened. You believe that worker was…
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Generative AI Wrote the Brief, and the Lawyers Who Signed It Paid the Price
If your business relies on generative AI to produce work that gets filed, sent, or signed under your name, a…