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You Don’t Owe Your Customers a Safer Product You Haven’t Finished Building
Every company that makes a product makes bets: what to build next, how fast to develop it, when to launch.…
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You Won the Lawsuit. That Doesn’t Mean You’ve Collected a Dime.
Summary Winning a lawsuit is only half the job. If the company or person that owes you money has no…
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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…