Since taking office, President Biden, Vice President Harris, and the entire Biden-Harris Administration have moved with urgency to harness AI's potential to spur innovation, advance opportunity, and transform the nature of many jobs and industries, while also protecting workers from the risk that they might not share in these gains. As part of this commitment, the AI Executive Order directed the Department of Labor to create Principles for Developers and Employers when using AI in the workplace.

Lawyers whose diplomas recite attendance at “Hastings College of Law”—now known as the “University of California College of Law, San Francisco”—will apparently have the former name of their alma mater included on their “attorney profiles” on the State Bar website, under an action yesterday by the Board of Trustees.

Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal yesterday ordered that a judgment be vacated based on a judge having spurned a challenge pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure §170.6 on the ground that it was untimely, holding that it was timely under that statute, though not under a local rule of the San Diego Superior Court which the panel declared to be invalid.

This July, San Mateo is set to become the second Bay Area county to start the program, following San Francisco, which in October opened one of California’s first CARE courts. All counties statewide must phase in the program by Dec. 1.