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Derek Bluford Spent Years Away From Sacramento. Now He's Building the City's Most Ambitious Legal Tech Project.

Derek Bluford founded a legal tech startup that got him onto a Stanford Law panel. Now he's back in Sacramento, finishing law school, building a nonprofit for justice-impacted people, and planning a coworking space for attorneys. He's building toward something bigger.

How Small Design Teams Are Using AI to Compete With Agencies Ten Times Their Size

A three-person studio in Long Beach should not be able to match the output of a 30-person agency. But AI-powered operational tools are changing that math for California's thousands of small creative firms.