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Opinion
Shielding your organization from AI-related liability
There are some basic building blocks to ensure your insurance strategy is adequate.
By Corrie Hurm • Feb. 7, 2025 -
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By Davide Savenije • Feb. 6, 2025 -
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Legal leaders look at practical generative AI use cases and get tough on outside counsel spend, among other priorities this year.
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Publishing giants sue Idaho over state law enabling book bans
The plaintiffs allege HB 710 is unconstitutional and forces schools and public libraries to guess if any member of the public might object to any book.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 6, 2025 -
Opinion
DOJ’s rental price-fixing suit is following a misguided path
Regulators would like to think that RealPage’s price suggestions are rate mandates, but they only speak to a hypothetical price status at a given point in time.
By Andrew Ketterer • Feb. 4, 2025 -
Vanguard dilutes diversity guidelines for US board proxy voting
The updated policies exclude a recommendation that boards “at a minimum, represent diversity of personal characteristics, inclusive of at least diversity in gender, race and ethnicity.”
By Lamar Johnson • Feb. 4, 2025 -
Deep Dive
It’s not just workplace raids. Mishandled electronic I-9s could be a costly immigration threat for employers under Trump.
A group of legal experts is sounding the alarm that noncompliant electronic Form I-9 vendors could put unsuspecting employers at risk.
By Ryan Golden • Feb. 3, 2025 -
Trump tariffs present untested legal areas for trade litigation
The president’s first use of emergency national security powers to impose tariffs poses a legal question about how much deference courts decide to show, experts say.
By Justin Bachman • Feb. 3, 2025 -
Opinion
Federal ‘AI washing’ enforcement likely to continue
Although the Trump administration is unlikely to push AI-specific regulation, companies overstating their claims about the technology face laws against fraud and misrepresentation.
By Duane Pozza and Nick Peterson • Jan. 31, 2025 -
Meta’s HR changes reflect widely touted aspirational approach to DEI
Eliminating hard inclusivity goals won’t protect against reverse discrimination complaints but it will help, legal specialists say.
By Robert Freedman • Jan. 30, 2025 -
Deep Dive
Trump’s softer-touch SEC may ease CFO regulatory burden
By slimming the SEC’s budget, headcount and regulatory scope, a new agency chief would fall in step with Trump’s cost-cutting and efficiency campaign.
By Jim Tyson • Jan. 30, 2025 -
Spirit Airlines rejects fresh Frontier merger offer amid bankruptcy
The two budget carriers had been discussing a combination for months, with Spirit rejecting a post-Chapter 11 proposal as “woefully insufficient” for creditors.
By Justin Bachman • Jan. 29, 2025 -
Federal aid freeze may become first Trump case before Supreme Court
The order to pause nearly all U.S. financial assistance for executive branch review poses a constitutional test of the president’s impoundment powers.
By Justin Bachman • Jan. 28, 2025 -
Opinion
AI pricing is market efficiencies at work
The Trump administration can serve consumers by rejecting the Biden administration's effort to use antitrust laws to stifle innovation in pricing tools.
By Bruce Abramson • Jan. 28, 2025 -
State lawmaker seeks ban in new shot at algorithmic pricing
Landlords’ use of automated rent-setting software is “plainly illegal,” Sen. Jess Salomon in Washington state says.
By Robert Freedman • Jan. 27, 2025 -
Long-sought 9th Circuit split returns to GOP Senate under Trump
The controversial proposal dates back several decades and would create a 12th Circuit to hear cases for a broad swath of seven Western states.
By Justin Bachman • Jan. 24, 2025 -
Resource helps counsel track Trump executive orders
And there are a lot of them — more than 40 after just three days of the new administration, Akin Gump’s real-time-updated tracker shows.
By Robert Freedman • Jan. 24, 2025 -
New Jersey ban on NDAs for misconduct isn’t having much impact
It plays little role in decisions to come forward because few people seem to know about it, a report says.
By Robert Freedman • Jan. 23, 2025 -
Trump orders agencies to target private-sector DEI
In a Tuesday executive order, President Trump asked members of his administration to develop a strategic enforcement plan to deter “illegal” DEI programs and principles.
By Emilie Shumway • Jan. 22, 2025 -
Unhappy consumers will drive the next wave of AI lawsuits
If your company is using AI to make decisions or provide guidance, expect pushback when people don’t like how that impacts them, an AI legal specialist says.
By Robert Freedman • Jan. 15, 2025 -
Q&A
Trump’s antitrust approach will share traits with Biden, litigator predicts
Corporate America expects big change at the DOJ and FTC, but Trump populism will mean continuity on many issues, an antitrust specialist contends.
By Justin Bachman • Jan. 14, 2025 -
Do lawyers have a duty to report a struggling colleague?
Across the profession, lawyers struggle with mental health issues, substance abuse and cognitive decline, but there are resources to help.
By Justin Bachman • Jan. 10, 2025 -
ESG tops in-house counsel litigation concerns
Organizations bringing lawsuits are finding more ways to tie company actions to impacts, a report finds.
By Robert Freedman • Jan. 10, 2025 -
Cyberattacks, tech disruption ranked as top threats to business growth
Forty percent of executives view data breaches and leaks as the most financially burdensome man-made threats, a Chubb study found.
By Alexei Alexis • Jan. 8, 2025 -
Deep Dive
6 in-house legal trends to watch in 2025
AI adoption and ROI, interstate litigation and increased settlements in M&A approvals are among the topics in-house counsel can expect to feature prominently in 2025.
By Justin Bachman , Robert Freedman • Jan. 8, 2025 -
Criminal prosecution possible for employing illegal workers but enforcement is lax
A one-year snapshot taken during the first Trump term shows no company criminally prosecuted for having workers not authorized to be in the country, a Syracuse University project shows.
By Robert Freedman • Jan. 6, 2025