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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Antitrust enforcement remained one of the most important U.S. legal developments in the last 24 to 72 hours, with fresh activity in the government’s ongoing campaign against major technology platforms. Recent filings and hearing activity in several headline matters show enforcers moving beyond liability theories and deeper into the remedies phase—where structural relief, business-practice restrictions, and long-term compliance obligations become…
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Edinburgh-founded legal AI company Wordsmith AI has raised $70m in Series B funding in a round led by Highland Europe and Index Ventures, with participation from existing investors. Founded in […]
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This year a new podcast focusing on access to justice issues has been launched by the Oklahoma Access to Justice Foundation. The Oklahoma Justice Exchange podcast now has five episodes online and they are very informative. Most of these should be of interest to any listener, although several will be of particular interest to lawyers since the subject matter involves…
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