Are Mandates in Standing Orders to Disclose Use of GenAI a Good Idea?
In Josephs v. Security National Ins. Co., 2026 WL 2622048 (C.D. Cal. Sep. 4, 2026), and Chukwurah v. Midland Mortgage, 2026 WL 2622051 (C.D. Cal. Sep.4, 2026), the court enforced its recently revised...
View ArticleEDRM 2.0 is Here: eDiscovery Has a New Map
[EDRM Editor’s Note: EDRM is proud to publish Ralph Losey’s advocacy and analysis. Images in the article were created by Ralph Losey using AI ,or EDRM, consensus work product unless otherwise noted....
View ArticleAI Reporter - September 2026
U.S. cybersecurity and national security officials now view autonomous AI-enabled attacks on critical infrastructure as an immediate threat, following reports that attackers used open- source AI agents...
View ArticleJustice Jammed - UK Employment Tribunal Claims Reach Historic High
The number of single UK employment tribunal claims as of June 2026 has soared to over 70,000, the highest on record, with hearings now being listed for the end of 2029. This surge in claim numbers is...
View ArticleCalifornia Enacts a “Synthetic Performer” Law
On June 9, 2026, a New York law that requires companies to “conspicuously disclose” when their ads include any “synthetic performer” took effect. Yesterday, California passed a similar law....By:...
View ArticleCalifornia Passes New Synthetic Performer Law
Two states have now passed laws intended to make it easier for consumers to distinguish real humans from AI-created ones. Following New York’s first-in-nation passage of a law requiring advertisers to...
View ArticleWhere private equity is finding value in MedTech
Private equity is putting more money into MedTech, but that capital is concentrating around fewer, bigger deals in faster-growing categories. In the first half of 2026, MedTech mergers and acquisitions...
View ArticleHow to Build Trade Secret Protections That Actually Hold Up in Court
This article is the third installment in our four-part Trade Secrets at Risk: A Business Owner’s Guide series. Read Part One and Part Two. If you are doing nothing to protect your trade secrets, a...
View ArticleGoogle Keeps AdX as Court Orders Behavioral Remedies in Ad-Tech Antitrust Case
A federal judge has rejected the Department of Justice’s request to force Google to sell its AdX advertising exchange, instead ordering a package of behavioral remedies intended to open parts of...
View ArticleEx parte Chowdhury (PTAB 2026)
On August 25th, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office designated as Informative its decision in Ex parte Chowdhury, directed toward what constituted improper...
View ArticleHow Startups Should View Patenting in 2H2026
While the US patenting environment has changed dramatically in the past two years, high-tech startups still need to pursue patents—but with a different focus. Here’s how and why....By: Baker Botts L.L.P.
View ArticleTRACKED AND TRACED?: C.D. Cal. Lets CIPA Claims Against Wayfair Move Forward,...
Hi TCPAWorld! Another website tracking case just survived a motion to dismiss. This one tackles both traditional CIPA wiretapping claims and the increasingly litigated trap-and-trace theory....By:...
View ArticleFour Antitrust Pathways to AI Lab Coordination
In “We Must Pace the Frontier,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei asked for something seemingly narrow: an antitrust waiver that would allow competing AI labs to discuss joint limits on the pace of frontier...
View ArticleBooking Holdings v European Commission: EU General Court Confirms Theories of...
On 9 September 2026, the European Union’s General Court delivered its judgment in Booking Holdings v European Commission (Case T-1139/23), confirming the European Commission’s (Commission’s) decision...
View Article5 Questions with Jessica Wachter: Pricing Risk, Reading Markets—From Rare...
We interview Jessica Wachter of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, to gain her perspective on her research in asset pricing, portfolio choice, rare events, investor behavior, and...
View ArticleSEC Proposes Modernization of Transfer Agent Rules, With Significant...
On September 1, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a substantial modernization of transfer agent rules, which largely have not been substantively updated since first adopted in...
View ArticleDEA appears close to finalizing telemedicine special registration
The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) submitted a final telemedicine special registration rule for review to the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs...
View ArticlePlease Hold (For No Longer Than Fifteen Minutes): New Customer Service...
Fifteen minutes to connect with a human being. That is what California will require of large health care entities whose customers ask to stop talking to a chatbot about a refill, transfer, denied...
View ArticleThe data centre boom: growth, opportunity and emerging risk for the insurance...
Data centres are critical infrastructure assets, referring to the physical facilities that house computer servers and other IT infrastructure supporting cloud computing, telecommunications and a wide...
View ArticleData Center Complexity Goes Beyond Grid Connectivity
Power is the pivotal factor for data center viability. AI and high-performance computing have pushed demand into the hundreds of megawatts, capacity is scarce, and grid connection dates are extending...
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