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
(Podcast) California Employment News: Creating the Report for a Workplace Investigation – Part 4 (Featured)
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
California Employment News: Synthesizing Evidence in a Workplace Investigation – Part 3 (Featured)
Doc Fees Decoded: The Price of Paperwork in Auto Sales — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
(Podcast) California Employment News: Gathering Information in a Workplace Investigation – Part 2 (Featured)
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
Key Takeaways - What is Happening? On August 13, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (the District Court) denied the motion for a preliminary injunction filed by the United States Chamber of...more
US public companies put aside their attention on new climate-related disclosure rules adopted in 2024 by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) because of ongoing litigation challenging these rules and recent changes...more
Trending in Telehealth highlights monthly state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists and technology companies that deliver and...more
Congress has passed the budget reconciliation package known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (H.R.1) without the controversial moratorium on state and local artificial intelligence (AI) laws originally included in the House...more
On June 12, 2025, President Trump delivered on his promise to ease the aggressive push led by California and other states to mandate a transition to electric vehicles. At a White House signing ceremony, Trump signed three...more
On March 25, 2025, the University of Southern California’s (USC’s) Public Exchange and independent advisor Solar Aquagrid announced the California Solar Canal Initiative, a seven-university project to assess the...more
The Los Angeles area fires that started in early January have destroyed thousands of homes and businesses throughout the region. The fires triggered ongoing evacuation orders and warnings as communities coped with dangerous...more
Earlier this month, California Governor Gavin Newsom directed the state’s recycling agency, CalRecycle, to restart the process of issuing regulations for California’s landmark plastic and packaging extended producer...more
Across the country, states are enacting so called “Extended Producer Responsibility” (EPR) laws aimed at reducing plastic waste and shifting the cost of recycling these plastics from the consumer back to the producer. This is...more
On Jan. 23, 2025, California Assemblymember Dawn Addis (D-Morro Bay) introduced Assembly Bill (AB) 303, titled the “Battery Energy Safety and Accountability Act.” Broadly, AB 303, would impose siting restrictions on battery...more
Two weeks after setting a nationwide deadline for removal of lead pipes, the Biden administration is imposing strict new limits on dust from lead-based paint in older homes and child-care facilities....more
California Governor Gavin Newsom recently passed several AI-related bills, which address the application of AI across several industries and clarify key definitions regarding AI. Below, we provide an overview addressing some...more
With the 2024 California legislative year closed, it is once again time to summarize the new legislation that will affect businesses operating within California and highlight relevant action items related to this legislation....more
Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB 1047, the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act, marking a significant development in California’s approach to AI regulation. Both the tech industry and...more
Companies should brace for another surge in California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) claims after two federal court decisions may encourage plaintiffs to file even more claims relating to website analytics tools. No industry...more
On October 7, 2023, California took a significant step toward promoting transparency and integrity of voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) and climate-related claims by enacting Assembly Bill 1305: the Voluntary Carbon Market...more
The California State Senate and State Assembly recently approved two bills, Senate Bill 253 and Senate Bill 261, that could require thousands of companies doing business in California to disclose greenhouse gas ("GHG")...more
Chemours Co., E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Inc., and Corteva, Inc. on Friday said they had reached an agreement in principle to pay $1.19 billion to settle claims that they contaminated U.S. public water systems with...more
In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we analyze recent fines against Meta and their impact on the future of behavioral advertising, the timeline for the California Privacy Rights Act’s regulations to become...more
With the arrival of the new year comes the effective date of many new leave laws (and expansion of existing leave laws) across the United States. Below we summarize family and sick leave laws that will take effect across...more
Effective January 1, 2023, the California minimum wage will increase to $15.50 per hour for all employers regardless of size. Although the state minimum wage for small employers (25 or less employees) was scheduled to...more
Continuing its leadership in the battle against climate change, California takes a big step forward by requiring transparency concerning the carbon footprints of the nation’s largest corporations doing business in the state. ...more
On January 25, 2022, Governor Gavin Newson announced a “framework” for an agreement to reactivate California’s COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave (“COVID PSL”) law for the period from January 1, 2022 to September 30, 2022....more
In 2018, California passed Senate Bill 820, the STAND Act (Stand Together Against Non-Disclosure Act), in response to the #MeToo movement. SB 820 prohibited the use of confidentiality provisions in settlement agreements...more
On January 5, 2020, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (“Board”) approved a proposal, available here (“Proposal”), that would mandate that all food and drugstore employees in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles...more