• Council's Tribal Court-State Court Forum Celebrates 15th Anniversary

    California Courts Newsroom
    May 23, 2025

    Now an advisory committee, the original Tribal Court/State Court Coalition was launched in 2010 to forge working relationships between California's tribal and state court judges.

  • Justice Liu graduation speech gets national and international attention

    At the Lectern
    May 23, 2025

    John Hill in Law360 Canada had a column called, “When the judiciary and politics mix.” He said that “Justice Liu was delivering an important and timely message” in a manner with no Canadian equivalent — “In Canada, we have never had a situation like” Liu’s speech that directly criticized the U.S. administration. “Nonetheless,” he added, “should the executive branch of Canada get so out of line that democracy in this country is threatened, hopefully our judges and lawyers will be the first to speak up.”

    Related: Law360 Canada

  • Request to Provisionally License Thousands Impacted by Botched Bar Exam Goes to Calif. Supreme Court

    The Recorder
    May 23, 2025

    (Subscription required) Specifically, the filing asks the justices to expand and extend an existing program that allows 2020 law school graduates to temporarily practice law under the supervision of an attorney. That program, aimed at helping graduates impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic find interim work, gives the remaining 71 participants until the end of this year to make the exam pass list.

    Related: Daily Journal, Bloomberg Law, State Bar of California

  • How this year’s Pulitzer awardees used AI in their reporting

    Nieman Lab
    May 22, 2025

    Reporters I spoke to who worked on these stories primarily used machine learning techniques that preceded the release of ChatGPT and rise of large language models (LLMs). Overall, many of the AI tools used this year count investigative reporters as their earliest adopters in newsrooms.