California Employment News: California Wage Compliance – Avoiding Legal Pitfalls
California Employment News: CA Local Minimum Wage Updates
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Adaptive Reuse: From Desks to Doorways
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 514: Listen and Learn -- Discovery (Civ Pro)
A Counterintuitive Approach to Winning Without Litigation: One-on-One with Haley Morrison
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California Employment News: Creating the Report for a Workplace Investigation – Part 4 (Featured)
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 511: Listen and Learn -- Landlord/Tenant Law (Part 1)
From Permits to Penalties: A Deep Dive Into Coastal Development Law
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California Employment News: Gathering Information in a Workplace Investigation – Part 2 (Featured)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 314: Listen and Learn -- False Imprisonment and Shopkeeper’s Privilege (Torts)
(Podcast) California Employment News: Starting a Workplace Investigation – Part 1 (Featured)
California Employment News: Starting a Workplace Investigation – Part 1 (Featured)
Feeling the Heat: Strategies to Keep Cool Under California's Consumers Legal Remedies Act — The Consumer Finance Podcast
The JustPod: Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing: A Discussion with Hillary Blout
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly automating the very tasks that once anchored white-collar exemptions under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and comparable state laws. When algorithms screen résumés, rank...more
Join CDF's Privacy and AI Practice Group Partners, Dan Forman, Dalia Khatib and Linda Wang, on August 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM (Pacific) for a timely discussion on how emerging AI regulations and privacy laws are reshaping...more
The California Civil Rights Council, which promulgates regulations that implement California’s civil rights laws, has published a new set of regulations concerning artificial intelligence (“AI”) in the workplace. These new...more
Effective October 1, 2025, updated regulations from the California Civil Rights Council will formally restrict the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in employment decision-making by California employers. In the...more
BLOG OVERVIEW: California's amendments to its FEHA are set to go into effect October 1, 2025. Employers will need to be aware of a number of changes that will impact them, including broader regulations on EEO compliance...more
Two Northern District of California courts handed down decisions last week in two key copyright lawsuits that challenged the use of copyrighted print and digital books in training the large language models (LLMs) that are at...more
New York Legislature Passes FAIR Business Practices Act. On June 18, the New York state legislature passed the Fostering Affordability and Integrity through Reasonable Business Practices Act (FAIR Business Practices Act),...more
After previously dismissing infringement claims on the ground that using copyrighted works to train a large language model qualified as fair use, a federal judge in California has now also dismissed a key Digital Millennium...more
Employers are increasingly using Automated Decision Systems (“ADS”) – tools powered by Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and algorithms – to streamline recruitment and manage the employee lifecycle. Uses so far include resume...more
In the space of forty-eight hours, two judges of the Northern District of California issued detailed, partially contrasting opinions on whether large language model (“LLM”) training that copies entire books without...more
The California State Assembly recently unveiled legislation (“AB 325”) designed to strengthen California antitrust enforcement in two ways. First, the proposed statute would impose heavy restrictions on — and under some...more
As businesses integrate AI tools into operations, a spike in related litigation is no surprise, especially due to the lack of formal legal precedent. Last month, a federal court in the Northern District of California provided...more
As we previously reported, employers must navigate a rapidly evolving legal landscape as artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform the modern workplace. From federal rollbacks to aggressive state-level regulation,...more
A closely watched class and collective action against the HR management services company Workday, Inc. reached a new milestone recently, when the Northern District of California conditionally certified Age Discrimination in...more
California started 2025 with significant activity around artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace. Legislators and state agencies introduced new bills and regulations to regulate AI-driven hiring and management tools,...more
Federal and California agencies have increased their focus on how AI and automated decision-making tools are being used in hiring, promotions, and employment screening processes. Employers using such technologies may be...more
California appears to be changing its approach to how it regulates artificial intelligence, likely reflecting its reaction to challenges seen recently in other states. Namely, the California Privacy Protection Agency recently...more
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into employment decision-making has revolutionized how companies recruit, evaluate, and manage employees. These high-functioning AI tools are capable of screening job...more
Adam Bouka By Adam Bouka Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming how companies find, evaluate, and hire talent—but it’s also raising red flags among regulators and courts. Two big developments in May 2025 show that HR...more
California antitrust laws may be on the verge of a major transformation, with proposed changes that could significantly impact how businesses operate in the state, particularly in the digital sphere. At the request of the...more
The California Civil Rights Division has finalized regulations addressing employer use of artificial intelligence and automated decision systems. The proposed regulations, which are pending approval with the Office of...more
The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) has recently approved regulations under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) to address discrimination in employment resulting from the use of automated decision-making...more
For many, using artificial intelligence is a common part of our everyday lives, particularly in internet searches. But it’s also used in doctors’ offices, schools, and many more workplaces....more
AI, Sci-Fi, and Copyright Collide in Alcon Entertainment LLC v. Tesla Inc. et al., Case No. 2:24-cv-09033, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. In a fascinating twist of sci-fi meets reality,...more
California recently enacted a law that sets disclosure requirements for generative AI (GenAI) companies. The California AI Transparency Act, SB 942, (the Act) applies to persons that create, code, or otherwise produce a GenAI...more