If your company sets prices with help from a third-party algorithm, one that quietly runs on data pooled from your competitors, the setup can feel like nothing more than smart operations. But California’s First District Court of Appeal just looked at an arrangement like that and gave it a different name. The name was price-fixing. The decision is VHS Liquidating …
A Competitor Gutted a Rival’s Branch From the Inside. A California Court Just Revived the Lawsuit.
If a competitor has ever tried to hire away one of your teams, you know the real damage is rarely limited to the people who leave. It is the customers who follow them, the deals already in the pipeline, and the confidential information that walks out the door alongside them. The hardest version of this is when the raid is …
Your Arbitration Agreement Might Not Do What You Think It Does
If your company uses a standard employment arbitration agreement, the California Court of Appeal just handed you a reason to pull it out and read it carefully. Not because of a federal statute that’s been generating headlines. Because of California’s own unconscionability doctrine, applied with a level of specificity that should make any employer uncomfortable if the last time anyone …


