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Delaware Supreme Court lets insurers pursue contract claims against Blackbaud over ransomware breach
The Delaware Supreme Court reversed lowerâcourt dismissals, permitting insurers to bring breachâofâcontract actions against Blackbaud for its 2020 ransomware incident. Blackbaud had previously paid a $3âŻmillion SEC fine and $49âŻmillion to state attorneys general for misleading breach disclosures.
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A Massachusetts federal court denied a motion to dismiss a putative class action alleging that a preâhire "Workstyle Assessment" functions as an unlawful lie detector. The assessment asked candidates to rate statements on planning, persistence, reliability and emotional awareness, and the employer claimed it could detect deceptive or fabricated responses. The court held that, at the pleading stage, these allegations plausibly fit the stateâs broad Lie Detector Statute, which covers any written test used to verify honesty. The case now proceeds, signaling heightened legal risk for similar hiring tools.
Manish Srivastava proposes a minimal digital kernel that provides the essential shared capabilities for an unbundled state to function as a ruleâofâlaw machine. The kernel focuses on legibility, reproducibility, and enforceability, allowing other applications, intermediaries, and fulfillment channels to remain...
Regulators are redefining board accountability for financialâcrime governance, demanding that directors move beyond passive review to actively interrogate AML, CTF and PF risk assessments. The risk assessment has shifted from a compliance checklist to a core governance instrument that demonstrates...
The UK government is considering its most stringent option to ban underâ16s from social media, which would require every user to undergo age verification. Proposed methods include mandatory ID checks, biometric scans, or AIâbased behavioural profiling. Privacy watchdog Big Brother...
Lloydâs Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly released its first 2026 issue, featuring a collection of scholarly articles on private international law. The issue includes analyses of ship arrest across jurisdictions, enforcement of judgments against wealth structures, and the treatment of...
Luxembourg's CSSF released VersionâŻ7 of its digitalâasset FAQ, aligning fund rules with the EU MiCAR framework. UCITS can now gain indirect exposure to crypto assets up to 10% of NAV, while direct exposure remains barred; AIFs may invest directly, with...
AI has moved from backâoffice analytics to active participation in financial institutions' daily communications, creating a new class of "aiComms" that fall under regulatory scrutiny. Theta Lakeâs latest report shows 99% of firms plan to broaden AI use on unified...
Global enforcement actions plunged 72% in 2025, with total fines shrinking to $5.488âŻbn, down from $17âŻbn in the United States alone the prior year. The United States still led with $3.22âŻbn in penalties, while Europe and AsiaâPacific saw markedly lower...
Digital Product Passports (DPPs) are moving from concept to regulatory requirement, with the EU mandating them for textiles by 2029. The 2026 window is critical for brands to build the digital infrastructure needed to capture, validate, and share productâlevel data....
Chamelio, an AIânative legal intelligence platform, has teamed up with UpLevel Ops to launch a forwardâdeployed service that embeds consulting experts directly within corporate legal departments. The partnership combines Chamelioâs contractâlifecycle intelligence layer with UpLevel Opsâ workflow redesign, stakeholder alignment,...
Empire Markets' retail brand FXEM has obtained a UAE Capital Market Authority CategoryâŻ5 licence, moving from its offshore Mauritius domicile to a regulated presence in the United Arab Emirates. The licence, coveted by many MENAâfocused brokers, enables FXEM to offer...
August unveiled Live Assist, an AIâdriven tool that operates in real time during depositions, client calls, and witness preparations. The platform listens to spoken dialogue, crossâreferences statements against the case record, and surfaces contradictions or missing citations instantly. Lawyers can...
ISDA has published an updated global compliance calendar for OTC derivatives, outlining key regulatory deadlines worldwide. The update also includes a Market Practice Note detailing the rebasing methodology for several European inflation indices. Additionally, ISDA provides guidance for EU counterparties...
A Chilean national, Alex Rodrigo Valenzuela Monje, was extradited to the United States and arraigned in Salt Lake City for operating a Telegramâbased carding marketplace that sold over 26,000 stolen creditâcard records between 2021 and 2023. The indictment alleges he...
ZacharyâŻCatanzaro argues that judges consulting ChatGPT for statutory meaning face a fundamental flaw, not merely a reliability issue. Large language models predict token sequences without true semantic comprehension, making computational legal interpretation a category error. He links this flaw to...
The legalâtech sector is witnessing a surge of senior lawyers building bespoke internal software, a phenomenon dubbed âvibe coding.â This internalâbuild wave is compressing the addressable market for external SaaS providers and driving a sharp reâpricing of legalâtech valuations from...
Anthropic announced new partnerships with legalâtech providers Intapp and LexisNexis to embed its Claude chatbot directly into their platforms. The Claude legal plugâin can automate contract reviews, regulatory compliance checks, and multiâdocument formatting, promising speed gains likened to moving from...
Brazil's Superior Court of Justice (STJ) Corte Especial ruled it could not recognize a U.S. naturalisation but did recognize a foreign judgment changing a Brazilian nationalâs surname to "Matthew Windsor." The decision relied on the domicile principle in the LINDB...
The article presents a dataâdriven framework called âThe Apexâ that outlines four practical stepsâpersonalize the defendant, accept responsibility, give a number, and argue pain and sufferingâto curb runaway jury awards known as nuclear verdicts. Analysis of 100 real verdicts shows...
Vietnamâs Ministry of Public Security announced a national cybersecurity firewall plan, codified in the new Cybersecurity Law that takes effect on July 1, 2026. The lawâs Article 10 explicitly directs authorities to study a national firewall, marking the first statutory...
On February 28, 2026, Judge Jodi W. Dishman entered an order dismissing Lovelessâs lawsuit against the Grady County Sheriffâs Department, the District Attorneyâs Office, and individual defendants Sifers and Hicks. All claims against the agencies and officials were dismissed with...
Investors holding more than $230âŻmillion of Tricolor assetâbacked securities have sued JPMorgan Chase, Barclays and FifthâŻThird, alleging the banks ignored audit warnings and helped market fraudulent autoâloan debt. The complaint claims the banks financed, securitized and misrepresented Tricolorâs loan receivables...
The Delaware Court of Chancery refused to dismiss a claim that Jefferies, the financial advisor to Forum III, aided and abetted fiduciary breaches in a deâSPAC merger. The court applied the Dole factors, inferring that Jefferies knowingly participated by preparing...
In 1996 FERC issued OrderâŻ888 and later OrderâŻ2000, prompting a split between regions that adopted organized wholesale markets and those that retained vertically integrated structures. Regions such as PJM, ISOâNE, NYISO, MISO and CAISO built RTOs/ISOs, delivering billions in annual...
The Federal Circuit Court awarded a former UAE consulate employee more than $203,000 after finding the Melbourne office forced her to express breastmilk in a storeroom and treated her poorly. The court upheld her claims of discrimination, adverse action, and...
Yes but effectively NO ONE on the left is talking about data privacy & the House is abt to go into markup on a package of 19 âchild safetyâ bills that would enact unprecedented levels of mass AI surveillance/fully remove...
whether or not fair use applies to training AI is the fundamental legal question of our age. mark my words.
Lawyer Zack Shapiro showcased how he leverages Anthropicâs Claude âSkillsâ to automate contract review and formatting tasks at his boutique firm. By creating custom instruction files that embed his decadeâlong analytical framework, Claude can edit Word documents at the XML...
In the latest Judicial Notice, my weekly legal news roundup: - Tom Goldstein goes all in - Judge Cannon returns to the table - Netflix folds its hand - Susman Godfrey scoops the pot LINK: https://t.co/KKByFMKqoE https://t.co/H6bQgqSmQs
Kirkland & Ellis partners observe that GPâled continuation vehicles have become increasingly standardized within the secondary market. Yet negotiations still reveal tension as secondary buyers apply M&Aâstyle rigor while sellers favor more flexible terms. The firm highlights the growing importance...
Let the work speak for itself. 60 Minutes was strong tonight. Pelley had a fast turn on Iran. But watch 2nd segment, at least this 110s where a federal Judge speaks truth to power calling out AG and DepAG for...
Anyone going to tell him they all did this? âWhat's ironic, is that there has been no bigger thief of American's public identity information en masse or creators' works than by Anthropic (search for the lawsuits).â
President Trump launched a unilateral missile strike against Iran, bypassing any congressional authorization. Legal scholars and constitutional experts argue the move violates the War Powers Clause, sparking a heated debate over executive authority. Democrats, joined by two Republican lawmakers, are...
Yet more SB 684-1123 projects starting entitlement in Sacramento. In this case, it's being uses to do the exact sort of thing intended by SB 9. Why did it work? Doesn't have the SB 9 owner-occupancy poison pill. https://t.co/mXfsiuKvEJ
The Fair Work Commission is seeing a surge in claim filings, putting pressure on HR teams to master increasingly complex dispute processes. HR Daily Premiumâs webcast offers a stepâbyâstep guide for handling claims from the initial strategic response through to...
Zero human companies aren't science fiction They're inevitable We already have: ⢠Autonomous trading bots making millions ⢠AI writing and deploying smart contracts ⢠Agents managing DeFi protocols The infrastructure exists The capability exists The capital exists What's missing is the regulatory framework But regulation always lags innovation By the...
Indonesia is rolling out a twoâpronged strategy to protect minors online, beginning with the enforcement of Government Regulation No.âŻ17 (PPâŻTunas) in MarchâŻ2026. The law obliges digital platforms to implement age verification, content filtering and other safety controls. Complementing the regulation,...
TikTokâs latest EU transparency report shows its monthly active audience in Europe rose to 178âŻmillion, an 8âmillion jump and a 31% increase since OctoberâŻ2023. The platform removed about 112âŻmillion pieces of content between July and DecemberâŻ2025, with automated systems handling...
Former chairs of the OECD Working Group on Bribery warned that the Conventionâs effectiveness is eroding due to the United Statesâ retreat from vigorous FCPA enforcement, weak EU antiâcorruption directives, and political interference in highâprofile Italian cases. They urged other...
U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter denied Binanceâs bid to compel arbitration for classâaction lawsuits alleging unregistered token sales. The ruling holds that Binance failed to adequately notify users of the 2019 arbitration clause and that the classâaction waiver is ambiguous,...
The Department of Justiceâs new cryptoâfraud strike force seized over $580âŻmillion in assets within three months, exposing an industrialâscale fraud ecosystem that operates like a callâcenter. These scams use mass texting, scripted trustâbuilding, fake trading platforms, and layered laundering to...
The D.C. Circuit affirmed that the IRS may disclose a taxpayerâs address to ICE under 26âŻU.S.C.âŻÂ§6103(i)(2) and ruled the IRSâDHS memorandum of understanding a nonâbinding policy statement. In a separate opinion, the court held that the FAA must independently review...
Proxy advisers are split on Avioâs proposed bylaw changes ahead of its MarchâŻ3 extraordinary meeting. Glass Lewis recommends shareholders approve a board size reduction to nine directors, giving the controlling shareholder seven seats, while ISS advises voting against the amendments....
The Department of Justice is appealing a ruling that blocked a subpoena targeting a queerâowned clinic providing genderâaffirming care, arguing that the clinicâs patientâeducation materials should be treated as drug labeling under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. By...
Compliance failures are now costing MedTech manufacturers millions, as regulators require deeper traceability, faster reporting, and unified postâmarket oversight. Gaps in ERP and QMS integration lead to delayed approvals, recalls, and costly litigation, turning compliance into a direct revenue driver....
California Assemblymember Dawn Addis is championing AB 1159, a bill that would tighten privacy protections for Kâ12 and college students by closing loopholes in the stateâs 2014 education data law and restricting AI companiesâ use of student information. The proposal...
Colombo & Hurd secured an Oâ1B visa for a Dominican Republic audio engineer who won a Latin GRAMMY, achieving approval in three months via premium processing. The petition used an agentâbased sponsor to reflect the professionalâs projectâbased work across multiple...
Nordic Financials ASA disclosed that its Chief Investment Officer, Svend Egil Larsen, bought 25,851 shares through his wholly owned firm Selaco AS at NOKâŻ1.6395 per share on 27âŻFebruary. The acquisition raises Selaco ASâs holding to 2,631,000 shares, representing a substantial...
The Sixth Circuit dismissed Ohio property owners' rightâofâpublicity lawsuit against Yardiâs PropertyShark, a freeâtrial commercial database that aggregates government realâestate records. The court held that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate any commercial value in their names, a prerequisite for a...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has moved from taxing to dismantling Philippine offshore gaming operations (POGOs) by issuing a revenue memorandum circular that bans and declares all POGOs illegal, repealing the tax law that previously regulated them. This enforcement...
