E-Discovery LLC

JULY 1, 2024

Frequently, courts deny motions presenting a discovery dispute due to the failure of the moving party to engage in a good faith, pre-filing “meet and confer.” See, e.g., There’s No Right or Wrong Answer – But There Are Mistakes (Apr. 19, 2024) (“If two sides are battling over nine separate discovery issues for at least five months, a single phone call does not meet their Local Rule 37.2 obligations….

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Complex Discovery

JULY 1, 2024

Editor’s Note: Major record labels Sony Music, Universal Music Group, and Warner Records have filed lawsuits against AI music companies Suno and Udio, accusing them of mass copyright infringement. The record labels, represented by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), claim that Suno and Udio used copyrighted music to train their AI models without permission.

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Practice Panther

JULY 1, 2024

Billing clients is foundational to success at any law firm, but oftentimes lawyers struggle to receive payments on time, if at all. For an essential business function like getting paid, one would think it would be as simple as preparing an invoice and waiting for the payment to roll in. While yes, these two tasks encompass the general framework of legal billing, your firm could be missing out on opportunities between these endpoints to maximize your payment efficiency.

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Legal Dive

JULY 1, 2024

In yet another setback for federal agencies, the justices ruled that plaintiffs have six years to sue an agency from the time of their claimed injury.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 1, 2024

Nearly a year has passed since the Administrative Committee’s Decision on June 26, 2023, amending the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) to move the London Section of the Central Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) of First Instance to Milan and to reallocate its competences between the Seat (Paris) and the two Sections of the Central Division (Munich and Milan), thereby aligning the UPCA with the consequences of Brexit.

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Legal Dive

JULY 1, 2024

The law’s anti-discrimination provisions remain a topic of complex debate, and sources who spoke to HR Dive expect the conversation to carry on well into the next several years.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 1, 2024

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce today responded to a recent U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) report that the Chamber says proves much of the data that is often cited as proof of life sciences companies abusing the patent system is “more fiction than truth.” According to the USPTO, the report, published on June 12, shows that “simply quantifying raw numbers of patents and exclusivities is an imprecise way to measure the intellectual property landscape of a drug product because not every pate

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Legal Dive

JULY 1, 2024

Only three of almost 1,000 proposals were supported by shareholders so far in the 2024 proxy season.

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MyCase

JULY 1, 2024

A budget documents your law firm’s financial strategy. It also keeps the business on track, reveals when missteps are taken, and can highlight issues affecting profitability. Despite the importance of having a budget, many law firms do not follow disciplined budgeting practices. Law firm budgeting can present challenges that seem insurmountable, and without the right tools in place, it’s easy to deprioritize budget creation or overlook defined spending limits.

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Securities Docket

JULY 1, 2024

The Supreme Court’s move to gut a decades-old precedent on agency authority is a big boost for corporate litigators, incentivizing companies and industry trade groups to challenge government regulations and stirring business for the firms that represent them. The June 28 decision to overturn the Chevron doctrine, which empowered regulators to interpret unclear laws, also shows how a single case at the high court can send wide ripples across the legal sector.

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Legal IT Insider

JULY 1, 2024

In this product walk through of Westlaw UK’s AI-Assisted Research, we received a demonstration from Jessica Brown, who is director of client training at Thomson Reuters, and Andrew Buckley, who leads the […] The post Product Walk Through: Westlaw Edge UK with CoCounsel appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Securities Docket

JULY 1, 2024

Red state attorneys general used the US Supreme Court’s new decision overturning the Chevron doctrine to bolster their argument for blocking the Labor Department’s do-good 401(k) investing rule in the Fifth Circuit, just hours after the high court ruled. The DOL’s interpretation of federal benefits law in its 2022 rule on environmental, social, and corporate governance considerations in retirement accounts is impermissible in light of Loper Bright Enterprises v.

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Legal IT Insider

JULY 1, 2024

In May, the American Arbitration Association acquired ODR.com, a SAAS case management services company for dispute resolution. This was the AAA’s first acquisition, but it won’t be it’s last. We […] The post The American Arbitration Association: Strategy and Acquisitions appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Securities Docket

JULY 1, 2024

The latest social-media frivolity this week from the man known as Roaring Kitty sent traders frantically reading into a cartoon featuring, of all things, a dog. Was Keith Gill getting into WOOF? (Petco Health & Wellness Co.) Perhaps PET? (Wag! Group Co.) Or, quite possibly, the company that was co-founded by Ryan Cohen, GameStop Corp.’s current chief executive, CHWY?

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Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?

Technology

Law Sites

JULY 1, 2024

Three weeks after the death of its executive director Craig W. Weinlein, The Sedona Conference has named its longtime deputy executive director to step into that role. Kenneth J.

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Securities Docket

JULY 1, 2024

The SEC’s closely watched enforcement case against crypto giant Coinbase Global Inc. was highlighted as an example in a recent report by Bloomberg Intelligence on the potential effects of a high-court ruling to weaken Chevron deference. Ahead of the ruling, legal experts also pointed to new SEC climate reporting rules for public companies as among those that could be most vulnerable.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 1, 2024

Ordinarily, patent practitioners do not need to really think about prosecution laches, but laches has become a rather hot topic as the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and courts have initiated what can only be characterized as an assault on an applicant’s statutory right to seek and file additional claims if those claims are supported by the initial disclosure.

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Securities Docket

JULY 1, 2024

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Consensys Software Inc. with engaging in the unregistered offer and sale of securities through a service it calls MetaMask Staking and with operating as an unregistered broker through MetaMask Staking and another service it calls MetaMask Swaps. According to the SEC’s complaint, since at least January 2023, Consensys has offered and sold tens of thousands of unregistered securities on behalf of liquid staking program providers Lido and Rocket

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Practice of Law

JULY 1, 2024

There is a lot to digest in the Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. United States. Here, we'll summarize the main takeaways before diving into this landmark decision's more granular holdings. The decision hobbles the prosecution against Trump to the extent that it is very much in question if he will ever face charges for any alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

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Securities Docket

JULY 1, 2024

A federal judge ruled late Friday that the majority of a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, can proceed. The decision by Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia deals a blow to Binance, which had asked the court to toss the SEC’s lawsuit that alleges Binance and its founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao broke securities laws.

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Securities Docket

JULY 1, 2024

Chewy Inc. shares spiked as much as 29% in premarket trading Monday after Keith Gill — known online as “Roaring Kitty” — disclosed a 6.6% passive stake in the online pet food and product retailer. The disclosure with the US Securities and Exchange Commission shows Gill owns roughly 9 million Class A shares, worth about $245 million based on Friday’s closing price.

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Securities Docket

JULY 1, 2024

Hotshot Wall Street lawyers are now so in demand that bidding wars between firms for their services can resemble the frenzy among teams to sign star athletes. Eight-figure pay packages — rare a decade ago — are increasingly common for corporate lawyers at the top of their game, and many of these new heavy hitters have one thing in common: private equity.

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Securities Docket

JULY 1, 2024

The number of federal court securities class action lawsuit filings in the year’s first half reflected a filing pace that projects year-end numbers ahead of last year’s full-year totals. According to my tally, there were 109 federal court securities class action lawsuit filings in the first six months of 2024. (Please note that the figures in this post do not include or discuss state court securities class action lawsuit filings.

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Securities Docket

JULY 1, 2024

The Supreme Court on Friday reduced the power of executive agencies by sweeping aside a longstanding legal precedent, endangering countless regulations and transferring power from the executive branch to Congress and the courts. The precedent, Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the most cited in American law, requires courts to defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes.

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