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Delaware Supreme Court lets insurers pursue contract claims against Blackbaud over ransomware breach
The Delaware Supreme Court reversed lower‑court dismissals, permitting insurers to bring breach‑of‑contract actions against Blackbaud for its 2020 ransomware incident. Blackbaud had previously paid a $3 million SEC fine and $49 million to state attorneys general for misleading breach disclosures.
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By the numbers: Oil majors acquire $164M of Alaska oil leases
iManage’s EVP of product management Shawn Misquitta told Legal Tech Monitor that the wave of short‑term AI pilots is waning as legal departments shift toward strategic, selective procurement. Buyers now prioritize platforms that deliver measurable ROI, seamless integration, and strong data governance rather than isolated proof‑of‑concept tools. Misquitta highlighted iManage’s recent Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law award for innovating knowledge management as evidence of the firm’s focus on comprehensive, scalable solutions. The commentary signals a broader market move toward mature, enterprise‑grade legal tech ecosystems.
It was a move 39 years in the making and, overall, I think they pulled it off. I'm talking about Legalweek's move from to the Javits Center. There are plenty of kinks to work out for next year, but overall,...
Operation Atlantic, a joint U.S., U.K. and Canadian initiative, was launched to dismantle crypto approval‑phishing scams that trick users into granting wallet permissions. These schemes helped generate $14 billion in on‑chain fraud in 2025, with projections near $17 billion for 2026. The...
Founded in 2014, smartKYC automates KYC and due‑diligence for financial institutions using AI, multilingual NLP and federated search. The platform creates unified entity profiles that combine identity, risk, network and opportunity data, enabling faster onboarding, continuous monitoring and reduced manual...
Open Rights Group released a legal opinion examining the UK Home Office’s use of generative AI tools—ACS and APS—in refugee status determinations. The opinion highlights that the tools produced inaccurate summaries in up to 9% of cases, lack transparent oversight,...
Who says America gets nothing from Israel? Trump stopped the country from imposing antimonopoly rules on Netflix. https://t.co/Nn6N69vcuQ
In 2022 Oklahoma issued $2.89 billion of utility bonds to recover costs from Winter Storm Uri, with $1.35 billion allocated to Oklahoma Natural Gas. Republican lawmakers filed a state Supreme Court brief alleging the Oklahoma Corporation Commission failed required audits of those...
Not a doppelgänger, it was a sloppelgänger -> Julia Angwin, whose name was offered as editing help for Grammarly users, explains why she is lead plaintiff in a class-action against Grammarly's parent company Superhuman https://t.co/ep8f5X414i
“‘ROSS was at the forefront of fundamental AI development,’ he said. ‘Copyright must encourage, not stop, such innovative efforts.’” 👀
The International Bar Association’s new report, *Raising the Bar: Women in Law*, reveals that almost one in five women lawyers are contemplating leaving the profession, with 19% considering roles in academia or consulting. While 62% intend to stay at their...
....the US should establish a federal framework through legislation that requires frontier labs to test their systems using classified government capabilities. https://t.co/9SaQfR7sMc
California’s Assembly Bill 1043, the Digital Age Assurance Act, requires operating systems and app stores to embed age‑verification during account setup. Critics argue the law’s vague language, undefined compliance standards, and steep fines could cripple innovation, especially for open‑source platforms. It...
On World Consumer Rights Day, a coalition of civil‑society groups, led by EDRi, urged the European Commission to adopt an ambitious Digital Fairness Act (DFA). The letter argues that current EU rules—GDPR, DSA and DMA—do not cover manipulative design, addictive...
At an American Bar Association white‑collar conference in San Diego, Trump defense attorney John Lauro sparked a heated exchange by claiming the Justice Department is "in a better place" than a year ago. His remarks were met with sharp rebukes from...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dismissed its civil fraud lawsuit against BitClout founder Nader Al‑Naji, a case filed in July 2024 as part of a broader $257 million enforcement effort. The action had alleged wire fraud and the sale of unregistered...
Japanese motor maker Nidec has formed an Executive Responsibility Investigation Committee to assess legal liability for current and former directors, auditors and executives tied to a massive accounting scandal. The misconduct, spanning fiscal 2020 through Q1 2025, is expected to...
At the ABA Employment Rights and Responsibilities Midwinter Meeting, panelists examined the EEOC’s recent Selina S. v. Driscoll decision, which reinterprets Title VII to allow federal agencies to restrict transgender employees from gender‑aligned facilities, overturning the 2015 Lusardi precedent. The...
India’s power regulator, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, drafted stricter grid‑supply rules for wind and solar producers, including hefty penalties for missing commitments. After developers warned the measures could erode revenues and deter clean‑energy investment, the government asked CERC to...
Independent contractors filing 1099 forms face audit rates significantly higher than traditional employees, according to IRS data. The IRS’s Discriminant Function System flags returns with high write‑offs, inconsistent reporting, or questionable expenses, prompting deeper scrutiny. A tax attorney in Dayton,...
The U.S. Department of Justice announced a civil forfeiture action to seize more than $14.9 million tied to an international drug‑money‑laundering operation. Investigators traced the cash through trade‑based schemes that funneled proceeds into U.S. bank accounts of shell companies and even...
Bayer’s 2018 acquisition of Monsanto brought a wave of glyphosate lawsuits, prompting a proposed $7.25 billion class settlement and an undisclosed additional pact. The company’s CEO, Bill Anderson, is steering a restructuring that includes 12,000 layoffs and a focus on pharma...
Former Lafayette Medical Clinic manager Brooke Miller Duck pleaded guilty on March 16, 2026 to embezzling more than $500,000 from two Louisiana clinics. Between May 2020 and October 2023 she used clinic credit cards for personal expenses, including a $15,000...
A federal jury convicted Kansas City rap artist Joseph R. Isaac, known as SleazyWorld Go, of felon in possession of a firearm after ATF investigators traced social‑media photos showing him with a weapon. Isaac, prohibited from owning guns due to a...
On March 2, 2026 Utah added John Green's *Looking for Alaska* as the 28th title banned statewide under the controversial House Bill 29, bringing the total prohibited books to 28. The ban follows a lawsuit filed by the Maya Angelou...
The Professional Standards Authority has announced it will support the General Medical Council’s appeal of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service’s decision that cleared Dr Ghassan Abu‑Sitta of terrorism‑related misconduct. The appeal follows a petition signed by thousands of doctors demanding the...
President Donald Trump publicly backed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s warning that broadcasters could lose their licenses for perceived negative coverage of the Iran war, intensifying political pressure on U.S. media regulation. At the same time, the short‑form entertainment format known...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a joint stipulation to dismiss, with prejudice, its civil enforcement action against Nader Al‑Naji and several affiliated entities, including Intangible Holdings, Firestorm Media, Viridian City, and the DeSo Foundation. The dismissal is case‑specific...
BHP has won a UK Court of Appeal decision that terminates contempt of court proceedings linked to claims it funded litigation to block Brazilian municipalities from suing over the 2015 Mariana dam disaster. The appeal overturns a prior High Court...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking court approval to move the $24 million it collected from a 2023 settlement with the now‑defunct crypto exchange Bittrex to the Treasury. The settlement arose after the SEC alleged Bittrex operated without registering...
A judge dismissed four of five phone‑hacking claims against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) because the claimants exceeded the six‑year limitation period, while model Paul Sculfor’s case was allowed to proceed. The court found the dismissed claimants could have discovered a...
Lawrence VanDyke, a former deputy solicitor general, faced a heated Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in March 2026 when a senator questioned his potential bias against LGBTQ litigants. VanDyke responded emotionally, defending his judicial philosophy, and the exchange was widely circulated...
Harvey, a legal‑AI startup, announced its inaugural in‑house customer advisory board on March 16. The board brings together senior legal leaders from HSBC, MongoDB, Dentsu, NBCUniversal, Koch and Bridgewater. Harvey already supports more than 500 corporate legal teams worldwide and...
Dragos Sprinceana, a Romanian immigrant, built GoldCoast Logistics into a 350‑truck carrier that amassed $889,630 in FMCSA fines, faced two major enforcement actions, and accumulated 150 crashes resulting in ten fatalities. The company operated through a maze of shell entities,...
The All‑Party Parliamentary Group on Investment Fraud and Fairer Financial Services released a 250‑page report declaring the UK’s financial‑conduct regulatory framework fundamentally broken. Drawing on a decade of parliamentary debate, a nationwide consumer survey and testimony from victims and whistle‑blowers,...
The Home Office has drafted a red‑amber‑green (RAG) rating system to replace the legacy Basic Compliance Assessment (BCA) framework for UK student sponsors from June 2026. Sponsors will be judged on three core metrics—visa refusal rate, enrolment rate and course...
Ghana’s Parliament approved two bills on Friday: the Education Regulatory Bodies (Amendment) Bill 2025, which makes the six‑year charter requirement optional for private tertiary institutions, and the Growth and Sustainability (Amendment) Bill 2026, which cuts the mining levy from three...
The Flemish government has approved a draft decree that would fine companies failing to disclose pay information or that discriminate on gender, marking a partial rollout of the EU Pay Transparency Directive. Women in Belgium currently earn about seven percent...
In 2025 the EU received an estimated 5.8 billion parcels, overwhelming customs systems. A coalition of European apparel, footwear and clothing groups is urging the EU to bring forward the “deemed importer” obligations for online marketplaces such as Shein and Temu,...
India’s medical‑device market now requires every imported device to secure a CDSCO import licence through the SUGAM portal, regardless of risk class. Manufacturers must first classify the product under the 2017 Medical Device Rules, appoint an Indian Authorized Agent, and...
The Supreme Court’s Watson v. Republican National Committee case challenges whether absentee ballots arriving after Election Day must be discarded under three 19th‑century federal statutes. The Republican and Libertarian plaintiffs argue that the 1845 law fixing the election date implicitly...
I assume that when @BrendanCarrFCC refers to license revocations, he means via 47 USC 312(a)(4). This is, to put it mildly, a very uphill fight and the broadcaster keeps the license until final resolution. /1
The legal risks of AI-driven #recruitment and redundancy (and how to govern them properly) @HRZone https://t.co/EFZosuqPhM #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Sidebrief, a regulatory‑tech platform, has launched Signal, a quarterly event series co‑hosted with Diligence Africa and Impact Hub Lagos. The inaugural edition will take place on March 27, 2026, at Impact Hub Lagos and features 20 speakers across five moderated...
On 12 March 2026 the Australian Treasury released tranche 1 exposure drafts to overhaul the regulatory framework for payment service providers. The package replaces the purchased payment facility regime with Australian Financial Services licensing for stored‑value facilities and grants APRA prudential powers over...
India’s RBI is set to tighten Responsible Business Conduct rules, requiring banks to prove product‑by‑product consent rather than merely collecting signatures. The draft, effective July 1 2026, bans compulsory bundling, bans dark‑pattern UI tricks, and mandates refunds when mis‑selling is proven. It...
In 2025, ICE revived large‑scale worksite enforcement targeting I‑9 compliance, while the Department of Homeland Security dismantled key immigration programs, ending humanitarian parole, destabilizing TPS, and terminating automatic EAD extensions. Simultaneously, states such as Iowa and Ohio introduced mandatory E‑Verify...
Kenya’s draft Copyright and Related Rights Bill 2026 would empower courts to issue blocking orders against internet service providers that host illegal livestreams of sports and entertainment events. The legislation introduces a formal notice‑and‑takedown regime and safe‑harbour protections for platforms...
The FCA’s new briefing note examines the Targeted Support regime introduced in Policy Statement 25/22, aimed at closing the advice gap for vulnerable retail investors. It outlines how firms must identify customers lacking sufficient advice and provide proportionate, tailored support. The...
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has launched a public consultation on a suite of reforms aimed at tightening capital adequacy and liquidity standards for authorised deposit‑taking institutions (ADIs). The proposals introduce a new Pillar 2 liquidity framework for the largest...
Many AML monitoring programs rely solely on English-language sources, missing critical risk signals that appear in local media. Real‑world examples from Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America show adverse media alerts being overlooked because they are published only in...
