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“The regulatory landscape is trying to keep up with technological advancements. As a result, there will be an increase in the demand for lawyers with expertise in AI-adjacent spaces like privacy, intellectual property and regulatory affairs,” Anna Gorodetsky of Major, Lindsey & Africa said.        

“However, where an entity has a nondelegable duty, it cannot avoid liability simply by delegating its duty to an independent contractor,” Chief Justice Steven C. González wrote on behalf of the Washington Supreme Court. “Instead, an entity will be vicariously liable for the independent contractor’s negligent performance of that duty absent special circumstances not present […]

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, the longest-serving of the agency’s five commissioners, said any suggestion that the FTC should be in the business of “protecting national champions” is absurd.        

While growing by acquiring lateral partners and practice groups can be lucrative, it carries many risks. Lateral candidates’ projections of the revenue they will bring to a new firm can prove inaccurate, or a particular candidate may simply be a bad fit culturally.        

Lawyers for the class members could receive 25% of the settlement fund, depending on their application for attorney fees.        

“What’s so important about this case, is truly holding Live Nation accountable for their complete lack of security, and the history of violence and shootings and drug overdoes, etc., at Live Nation venues across the globe, is truly astounding,” plaintiffs’ attorney Spencer Lucas of Panish Shea Ravipudi, in Los Angeles, said.        

In central New York, Syracuse attorney Robert Julien filed a claim on April 9 on behalf of Oneida County against Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, who signed the law in December, and the state.        

This case was first surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source for immediate alerting on just filed cases in state and federal courts. Law.com Radar now offers state court coverage nationwide. Sign up today and be among the first to know about new suits in your region, practice area or client sector.        

On Friday, lawyers in the multidistrict litigation over aqueous film-forming foam announced the Tyco settlement, which would compensate 12,000 public water systems nationwide with contaminated drinking water supplies.        

The firm was able to withstand the exit of 26 partners who moved to Goodwin Procter in the first quarter.