A Massachusetts federal judge has allowed a multistate challenge against the federal government to continue, concluding at this early stage that the plaintiff states had already shown harm from the challenged federal actions. That ruling is important not because it resolves the merits, but because it clears one of the biggest threshold obstacles in public-law litigation: whether the states can…
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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s June 2, 2026 public order in IPR2026-00252 is brief but still worth attention for PTAB practitioners: the Director denied discretionary review, leaving the underlying Board action in place. In practical terms, the decision reinforces how difficult it remains to obtain Director intervention absent a clear policy issue, legal error, or case-specific circumstance warranting extraordinary…
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The Eleventh Circuit’s May 28, 2026 opinion in No. 24-11688 is now available, but practitioners should note an immediate practical issue: the publicly available case details provided here do not include the substance of the court’s ruling, the claims at issue, or the panel’s reasoning. That means the key takeaway at this stage is less about the merits and more…
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A few months ago, I wrote about the new partnership between Masters AI Legal, the newly launched division of The Masters Conference, and Cat Casey, founder of The TechnoCat, a consulting and speaking practice focused on legal AI, to produce a global conference series devoted to making legal professionals “genuinely fluent in AI.”
On June 17, legal…
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The U.S. Supreme Court has reaffirmed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s ability to seek disgorgement of ill-gotten gains in fraud cases, preserving a remedy that has long been central to the agency’s enforcement playbook. For securities litigators and compliance professionals, the ruling matters not just as a doctrinal win for the SEC, but as a practical confirmation that one of…
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Another law firm sued for a data breach. This time it’s not the firm’s clients but a class action brought by those who had no relationship with the firm other than their personally identifiable information was in the firm’s files and was exposed. The risks and disruption from cybersecurity lapses by law firms are real and growing. Here’s my discussion…
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Somebody once told Antti Innanen that he had built a veggie burger dressed up to look like real meat. He thought it was a fun criticism, but he also thought it missed the point.
That burger is Lavern, an open-source “multi-agent legal system” that Innanen, a Finnish lawyer and law firm founder with a background in legal design, released…
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In a short but noteworthy unanimous decision issued on May 28, 2026, the Supreme Court affirmed the judgment below in No. 24-935, with Justice Gorsuch writing for the Court. Although the Court’s disposition is formally simple—“AFFIRMED”—the opinion matters because unanimous Supreme Court affirmances often clarify how lower courts and litigants should understand the boundaries of appellate review, statutory interpretation,…
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Technology adoption specialist iTrain has appointed respected former IT director Sarah Blair as head of transformation, where she will lead iTrain’s portfolio of AI services. Blair was previously director of […]
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