On September 30, 2026, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 574, which legal industry news outlets described as a first-of-its-kind framework for attorneys’ and arbitrators’ use of generative AI. The law does not push AI out of legal practice. Instead, it sets ground rules for confidentiality, verification, disclosure, and human judgment.
Lex Blog publishing has a comment on the new law here and a link to another one here.
