A senior executive with ContractPodAi discusses how legal AI poses economic benefits for in-house departments and disruption risks for law firm billing models.

Trump lawyers didn’t forget to check a box on jury trial, Judge Engoron says The equitable relief being sought is handled in a bench trial, the judge said during proceedings this week.

SVB had no risk chief through much of 2022, proxy statement shows Last year, Silicon Valley Bank’s risk committee doubled the number of meetings it held, suggesting board-level concern over the bank’s ...

Emboldened union climate adds to M&A risks In-house counsel have more to wade through from a labor standpoint if their organization is looking at an acquisition, attorneys say.

Setting limits on employees’ hot-button social media posts Employers have leeway to fire people for what they say on social media but doing so isn’t always the best approach, specialists say.

A New York lawyer cited fake cases generated by ChatGPT in a legal brief filed in federal court and may face sanctions as a result, according to news reports. The incident involving OpenAI’s chatbot ...

$816M ExxonMobil verdict is latest as juries seek environmental justice No easing is in sight as companies face backlash for the impact their products have on the environment and public safety, a ...

Judge in ChatGPT case most troubled by attorneys’ lack of candor The lawyers might have been able to avoid Rule 11 sanctions if they had quickly admitted to a federal judge that one of them used the ...

DOJ suit accuses Visa of illegal monopoly for debit payments The company threatens merchants with high fees, and “makes its potential rivals business partners to thwart competition in debit card ...

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 ...

Wells Fargo faces lawsuit for alleged sham DEI hiring effort The bank is said to have interviewed diverse candidates for jobs that were already filled or for which they weren’t qualified to polish its ...

Largest law firms charge nearly $1,000 an hour, report finds The 4.8% rate increase through Q3 2023 was more than triple the bump last year among the Am Law 100, according to a Brightflag report.