Who Sits in the Box Now: California's Shifting Jury Pools
The people filling California jury boxes are not the people who filled them a decade ago. Source-list mechanics, inland population growth,…
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Trade developments, regulation, and industry news affecting California PI practice.
Trial Venue Trends: Which California Counties Are Taking Which Cases
Where you file still moves the number as much as the facts do. A look at how filing patterns are sorting across California's major counties…
PI Cases Queued for Appellate Review: What Could Shift California Doctrine
Several personal-injury questions are sitting with the California Courts of Appeal that could move the numbers on your open files — from ho…
California Plaintiff PI Firm Consolidation: Who's Buying and Who's Selling
A practitioner billing 60 hours a week on a docket of auto and premises files rarely tracks the M&A page of the trade press. But the firms…
Carrier Consolidation and PE-Backed Practices: Rethinking Med-Mal Case Selection
A decade of mutual-insurer roll-ups and private-equity buying of physician practices has changed who pays when a doctor makes a mistake — a…
California Court Operations: Filing Fees, E-Filing, and the Reporter Shortage
California superior courts have rewritten the operational rules for civil litigation through a series of fee bumps, e-filing mandates, and…
Insurance Commissioner Enforcement Against PI Carriers: What Plaintiff Counsel Should Track
California's Insurance Commissioner has spent the last eighteen months building a public record on how auto and umbrella carriers handle bo…
California Plaintiff Bar 2026 Legislative Priorities: Where CAOC Has Moved
Consumer Attorneys of California opened the 2026 session playing defense on more fronts than it has in three years. Here is the working sco…
What State Bar Membership Trends Signal for California PI Practice
The State Bar of California's annual membership data tells a story most plaintiff PI managing partners already feel at the hiring pipeline:…
PI Law This Week: A $644M Premises Verdict, NY Comparative Fault, and ELD Enforcement Hits 67 (Aug. 13)
An Orange County jury delivered one of the year's largest premises verdicts, New York's modified comparative fault rule for motor vehicle c…
Plaintiff-Bar PE Consolidation, NHTSA Recalls, and Agentic AI: Aug. 7 Wrap
Morgan & Morgan retained J.P. Morgan in June 2026 to explore a minority PE stake exceeding $1 billion, accelerating MSO-model consolidation…
PI Law This Week: Mass-Tort Dockets on the Move (Aug. 6)
Our week-of-August-6 recap tracks five mass-tort dockets, from AFFF and Covidien mesh bellwethers to the 3M earplug wind-down, Camp Lejeune…