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The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a 2023 ruling that granted BMI a 138% increase in live‑concert licensing fees, deeming the 0.5% of gross revenue rate unreasonable. The court found BMI’s inclusion of secondary‑ticket sales, VIP packages, and service fees outside industry precedent. The case returns to the Southern District of New York for a recalculated, “reasonable” rate. While BMI expects a 50‑80% uplift over historic fees, the final figure will likely sit below the 0.5% target but above previous levels.
Inhouse, a direct‑to‑business legal AI startup, announced a $5 million seed financing round. The capital will be deployed to strengthen its agentic AI platform that blends machine learning with on‑demand human lawyers. By focusing on small and midsize enterprises, Inhouse aims...
President Trump signed an executive order on Dec. 18, 2025 directing the DOJ to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, acknowledging its medical use. The rulemaking process is still pending, so federal drug‑testing obligations remain unchanged for now....
NetDocuments introduced seven new pre‑built ndMax applications designed to automate key legal workflows. The suite covers discovery response generation, contract analysis and review, and assistance with USPTO office‑action replies. By leveraging the low‑code ndMax platform, these apps can be deployed...
The State of the Union saw only four Supreme Court justices—Roberts, Kagan, Kavanaugh and Barrett—attend, while others stayed away by choice. President Trump used his speech to denounce a recent Supreme Court ruling on tariffs as “unfortunate” and “disappointing,” echoing...
Law firms have moved beyond chasing the perfect prompt and now face a deeper challenge: generative AI reasoning systems can produce fluent, persuasive answers that are subtly incorrect. The article argues that lawyers must treat every AI output as a...
On February 9 2026 the U.S. Department of Labor announced that the minimum wage for federal contractors covered by Executive Order 13658 will rise to $13.65 per hour effective May 11 2026, up from $13.30. EO 13658, issued in 2014, applies to contracts made, renewed or...
A federal judge in Texas ruled that X (formerly Twitter) is not liable under the Non‑Consensual Intimate Image (NCII) statute for reposting a plaintiff's commercial pornographic material. The court emphasized that the NCII law expressly excludes commercial porn unless it...
The Northern District of California dismissed a plaintiff’s First Amendment claim after a park ranger ordered him to stop filming a private family barbecue in a public park. The court held that the First Amendment protects recording public officials performing...
Britain's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) seized nearly 2,000 doses of illegal weight‑loss drugs in raids on sites in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, marking its second major operation in four months. The confiscated products were labelled as containing tirzepatide...
Law firms have shifted from chasing a perfect AI prompt to recognizing that modern reasoning models can produce fluent but subtly incorrect answers. The article introduces "Resilience Prompting," a workflow mindset that assumes every AI output may be wrong and...
On February 18, 2026 the General Services Administration issued a proposed revision to the System for Award Management (SAM) certifications required of federal financial assistance recipients. The draft adds attestations covering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) compliance, immigration status verification,...
The U.S. Supreme Court in Learning Resources v. Trump struck down President Trump’s expansive tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The majority opinion, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, held that the president cannot wield unlimited...
Draftwise unveiled Playbook Studio, an AI‑driven tool that scans a firm’s contracts and deal history to generate a customized, deployable playbook in roughly five minutes. The solution reportedly slashes NDA drafting and review time from an hour to two minutes...
In White v. PayPal, the court examined Honey’s terms‑of‑service (TOS) formation across several years, denying arbitration for most plaintiffs due to inadequate evidence of user assent. The judge accepted Wayback Machine screenshots for some periods but rejected them when UI...
Bryter, originally a no‑code workflow platform for lawyers, has launched a general‑release of “vibe coding,” a conversational AI‑driven approach that lets users build applications by describing logic in natural language. The feature blends Bryter’s no‑code roots with generative AI, enabling...
SkyWest Airlines has filed a federal lawsuit against two former pilots, accusing them of hacking the airline’s internal SWOL directory to steal personal data of roughly 5,000 coworkers. The complaint alleges the pilots used web‑developer tools to bypass role‑based protections,...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s enforcement activity on digital assets has sharply contracted, dropping from 58 actions in 2024 to just 13 in 2025. Many ongoing crypto investigations were closed without any claims, and staff who survived a wave of...
Convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman‑Fried has turned to a MAGA‑styled social media campaign, urging President Donald Trump to grant him a presidential pardon. The effort follows Trump’s recent pardons of high‑profile financial‑crime figures, including Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. A White...
The EU Council, led by Denmark, has rejected mandatory scanning of private messages and added safeguards for encrypted communications in the contentious CSA Regulation. While the Council now proposes a voluntary detection framework, the European Parliament still backs limited mandatory...
The article examines how artificial‑intelligence tools are reshaping insider‑trading prosecutions. Defendants may argue that AI‑generated analysis, rather than material nonpublic information (MNPI), drove their trades, invoking a routine‑strategy or diversification defense. It also explores the “mosaic theory,” suggesting AI can...
The SEC entered final consent judgments against Joseph C. Lewis, his girlfriend Carolyn W. Carter, and pilots Patrick J. O’Connor and Bryan L. Waugh for alleged insider trading. Lewis, as majority owner of a biotechnology investment fund, obtained material nonpublic...
Wordsmith and ALSP Cognia Law have announced a strategic partnership to provide AI‑powered managed legal services. The collaboration combines Wordsmith's generative AI platform with Cognia's legal engineering and delivery expertise, offering technology, implementation, and operational support to in‑house legal teams....
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced that David Miller will become its enforcement director on March 2, succeeding a period of heightened scrutiny over derivatives trading. Miller, a former federal prosecutor, has spent the last several years as a...
Chairman Paul Atkins highlighted the steep 40% drop in U.S. public companies and outlined a three‑pillar strategy to revive capital formation. He praised the bipartisan INVEST Act and the Empowering Main Street in America Act for introducing “test‑the‑waters” IPO pilots,...
WisdomTree received SEC exemptive relief to issue tokenized shares of its $730 million Treasury Money Market Digital Fund. The approval lets investors buy and sell shares at a constant $1 price around the clock, rather than the traditional once‑daily NAV pricing....
On January 23 2026 the SEC’s CorpFin issued new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations that broaden flexibility for M&A, proxy and tender‑offer rules without formal rulemaking. The revisions permit lock‑up agreements without meeting traditional prospectus conditions, allow privately placed shares to be registered...
On Jan. 23, the SEC’s CorpFin division issued new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations that loosen proxy‑broker search timing, broaden lock‑up registration on Forms S‑4/F‑4, and add leeway for cross‑border tender offers. The staff also reversed its stance on voluntary Notices of...
The Paris Court of Appeal refused to set aside a 2022 ICC arbitral award that ordered the Kish Free Zone Organization (KFZO) to pay €39.5 million to Flower of the East Kish Development Company and its shareholder. KFZO’s challenges – alleging...
The Digital Services Act’s Article 40 gives vetted researchers EU‑wide data access to study systemic risks, but its “necessary and proportionate” test may limit that access. Past denials on privacy grounds show researchers often lack prior knowledge of what data they...
Ayora launched an AI‑driven matter pricing and tracking platform for law firms. Its proprietary data enrichment engine cleans historic matter and time records, addressing the “garbage in/garbage out” challenge. The solution offers agentic pricing, allowing lawyers to set rates and...
Congress has stripped more than $40 billion of IRS funding authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act, threatening the agency’s capacity to combat cross‑border financial crime. IRS Criminal Investigation referrals fell to a 40‑year low in FY2024, and its special‑agent force has...
On February 6, 2026, CFIUS issued a request for information (RFI) to refine its Known Investor Program (KIP), a fast‑track review mechanism for repeat foreign investors in U.S. advanced‑technology sectors. The RFI outlines eligibility thresholds—at least three covered filings in...
On 19 January 2026 Indonesia’s Constitutional Court dismissed a petition challenging Article 56 of the 2022 Personal Data Protection Law, which governs cross‑border data transfers. The Court held that such transfers are administrative actions of the executive, not matters requiring parliamentary approval, and...
The Department of Justice released more than three million documents tied to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, including several grand‑jury subpoenas directed at Google. The leaked files reveal Google’s formal responses on company letterhead, detailing the data it produced for specific...
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Trump administration’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose tariffs, prompting President Trump to issue an executive order that imposes a 10% global tariff under Section 122, with a possible...
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories disclosed that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission concluded its multi‑year Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation in February 2026 and, for now, will not recommend any enforcement action. The probe, triggered by an anonymous 2020 complaint about...
The Connecticut Supreme Court confronted the reliability of AI‑generated evidence, focusing on the risk of hallucinations that blur fact from fiction. Justice Ecker warned that AI makes truth verification increasingly difficult. The justices examined recent filings that relied on AI...
Air Products has moved to secure a Water Quality Certification from the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, a prerequisite for its federal permit to build a blue‑hydrogen and carbon‑capture facility. The certification confirms compliance with Clean Water Act sections governing...
Pablo Arredondo, co‑founder of legal‑tech startup Casetext, discussed his journey from early experiments to the launch of CoCounsel, the first GPT‑4‑powered AI legal assistant. CoCounsel debuted on Morning Joe in March 2023, leading to Thomson Reuters acquiring Casetext for $650 million cash four...
Law professor Kevin Volokh published the final version of his article "Data Scanning and the Fourth Amendment" in the Boston College Law Review, arguing that the scope of a Fourth Amendment search should be measured by filter settings rather than...
A growing body of academic research shows that AI hallucinations in legal research are both common and systematic, with general‑purpose models like GPT‑4 fabricating or mischaracterizing authority in over half of pure‑question queries. Specialized, retrieval‑augmented tools such as Lexis+ AI and...
The Yale Journal on Regulation posted its January 2026 Administrative Law SSRN Reading List, highlighting the ten most‑downloaded recent papers from the SSRN U.S. Administrative Law eJournal. The list, compiled by editor Bill Funk with research assistant Drake Marsaly, features works...
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, held that the Federal Tort Claims Act’s postal exception bars lawsuits against the United States Postal Service for intentionally misdelivered mail. Justice Thomas wrote that both “loss” and “miscarriage” encompass deliberate nondelivery,...
A UK‑based individual forged more than 60,000 authenticity certificates for CFM56 engine components between 2019 and 2023, selling counterfeit parts valued at roughly $9.3 million. The parts entered the global aftermarket and were installed by multiple MROs and airlines without proper...
A petition for Supreme Court review challenges the Ninth Circuit’s ruling that Section 230 shields Twitter from civil penalties despite its knowing possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The petition argues that the Good Samaritan immunity in 47 U.S.C. §230(c)...
The Supreme Court’s decision in *Trump v. CASA, Inc.* clarifies that the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) does not categorically ban vacatur, but permits it when it is the only way to provide complete relief, especially for unregulated third parties. Justice...
The Supreme Court has revived its use of summary reversals, issuing unsigned decisions without briefing or oral argument. After a lull from 2021‑2024, four such reversals have been issued this term, surpassing the total of the prior three terms. The...
Clio highlights how consumer‑facing AI, like Claude’s legal plugin, can lower barriers to legal information for the 70% of people who never see a lawyer. At the same time, the firm warns that generic foundation models lack the verified, jurisdiction‑specific...
Legal tech expert Craig Ball was invited to speak in Texas about the growing threat of deep‑fake evidence in litigation. He highlighted how AI‑generated videos can now mimic real people with near‑photographic fidelity, complicating evidentiary verification. The article outlines emerging...
