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Agency has failed to show that amendments to the consumer protection rule are needed, groups say.        

A total of 24 lawyers from Houston trial boutique Smyser, Kaplan & Veselka have moved to Steptoe to open a Houston office for the Am Law 200 firm, a deal that provides benefits to clients of both firms.        

“Because of the fact that they got away with it for so long, there was a little bit of false bravado,” said Kathleen M. Connelly of Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper in Westfield, who provides representation and counseling to employers.        

During the first week of testimony in the trial, which began Jan. 8, a series of current and former Davis Polk professional development employees introduced jurors to the concept of a “time to go” conversation, in which associates are told they need to find a new job but are not fired on the spot.        

Boeing was hit with a product liability class action following an Alaska Airlines flight losing its side door earlier this month, accusing the company of knowingly and publicly admitting the door wasn’t properly secured.        

“Given the language Congress used in the FCRA, state requirements and prohibitions should only be preempted when the matter is capable of classification as identity theft, and then only ‘with respect to the conduct required’ by the FCRA’s identity theft reporting regulations,” U.S. District Judge Lance E. Walker for the District of Maine wrote. “In […]

“[Earlier in my leadership tenure,] I took on many responsibilities, some of which I could have delegated had I spent the time to work with others in the firm whom I may have been able to ‘deputize,’ so to speak, to handle certain tasks.”        

“I conclude that the JD-Next exam is a reliable and valid predictor of early law school grades but with multiple cautions and caveats that cannot be evaluated with the present data and may represent threats to its validity if used operationally for high stakes decisions,” Nathan Kuncel wrote in his report.        

Legaltech News caught up with Niloy Ray, shareholder and e-discovery counsel at Littler Mendelson, to discuss how the legal market can align its use of generative AI with its ethical obligations.        

Part One of a Two-Part Article Under the current Alice framework, those attempting to patent AI innovations face an uphill battle. But, as the caselaw demonstrates, inventors and patent drafters can take steps to reduce the risk of AI patent claims being invalidated as abstract ideas.