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On Jan. 23, 2026 the Office of Management and Budget issued Memorandum M‑26‑05, rescinding the Biden‑era mandate that all federal agencies obtain a CISA “Common Form” software attestation. The new memo replaces the one‑size‑fits‑all requirement with a risk‑based, agency‑specific approach while keeping the software inventory and SBOM obligations for cloud providers. Agencies may still voluntarily use the Common Form or NIST guidance, but they are no longer forced to do so. The change aims to shift focus from compliance paperwork to genuine security investments.
Craig Ball released the 2026 edition of his Electronic Evidence Workbook, expanding it to 638 pages and integrating large language model (LLM) insights. The textbook was the first of its kind to be edited by two AI editors, ensuring up‑to‑date...
Paul, Weiss announced that Antonia M. Apps, former SEC Deputy Director of Enforcement and ex‑federal prosecutor, has joined the firm as a partner in its New York Litigation Department. Apps is renowned for high‑stakes securities and white‑collar litigation. Her arrival...
In this episode the host challenges the notion of "compassion fatigue" by arguing that genuine compassion, not fake empathy, is energizing for professionals like lawyers and social workers. Drawing on insights from the host's sister, a social worker, the discussion...
The Supreme Court’s 2025‑26 term is poised to issue several high‑profile criminal law rulings, with five pure criminal cases and six related cases among the 23 arguments slated for the next two months. Pending opinions include Villareal v. Texas on...
The article clarifies that a firm’s document management system (DMS) is not a substitute for a dedicated eDiscovery platform. While DMS tools excel at storing and retrieving files, they typically lack features such as legal holds, privilege tagging, and forensic...
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two separate cases that invoke Title III of the Helms‑Burton Act, targeting property confiscated by Cuba after 1959. Havana Docks Corp. alleges cruise lines trafficked its former dock concession and seeks...
The Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (STCA) was formalised on 25 June 2025 by Ukraine and the Council of Europe, creating a dedicated venue to prosecute Russian leaders for the war of aggression. The ICC lacks jurisdiction because...
Employers now face a wave of discreet recording tools—from Ray‑Ban Meta smart glasses to AI‑powered voice recorders like Plaud and auto‑joining meeting bots that generate searchable transcripts. Connecticut’s one‑party consent rule for in‑person conversations and stricter electronic‑monitoring statutes mean many...
SimpleDocs unveiled its Contract Intelligence Layer, a Microsoft Word add‑in that fuses internal policy playbooks, precedent data, and Law Insider’s market standards into a single interface. The feature lets lawyers benchmark clause changes against an organization’s historical agreements and global contract...
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HaystackID hosted an educational webcast titled “eDiscovery Lessons for 2026,” where moderator Philip Favro and a panel of experts dissected the most influential 2025 court decisions on electronically stored information. The discussion highlighted emerging challenges around AI‑generated content, evolving definitions...
Non‑compete clauses are facing heightened scrutiny worldwide as governments introduce tighter limits or outright bans. In the United States, several states have restricted use for low‑wage and medical workers, while the FTC pivots to litigation after its 2024 ban was...
The episode details Carbon Health Technologies, Inc.'s pre‑arranged Chapter 11 filing in February 2026, outlining its rapid rise to a $3 billion valuation and subsequent collapse due to post‑pandemic revenue decline and tighter capital markets. It explains the company’s business model—an...
The Trump administration slashed the PCAOB budget and installed a career auditor as its head, prompting concerns that auditors are now policing themselves. The SEC argues the changes refocus the board on substantive wrongdoing rather than paperwork errors. Critics fear...
Activist investors had a banner year in 2025, launching a record 255 campaigns and driving a 25% increase in substantive activism across Russell 3000 firms. Healthcare, financial services and technology were the most targeted sectors, while micro‑ and nano‑cap companies bore...
In a recent Texas A&M Law symposium, the SEC suggested a rule granting a safe harbor for companies that omit generic risk factors from their filings. The proposal would treat failure to disclose widely publicized events, likely to affect most...
In February 2025 the U.S. designated six Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, extending material‑support statutes and national‑security enforcement to any company dealing with them. The DOJ’s new guidelines prioritize terrorism‑finance violations, while FinCEN’s geographic targeting orders have already...
Boards and senior leaders are confronting a growing dilemma: critical AI systems supplied by foreign vendors operate as opaque black boxes, delivering efficiency while limiting auditability. Ethicists Vera Cherepanova and Brian Haman argue this is fundamentally an ethical issue of...
In a LawNext on Location lunch, Alex Su, chief revenue officer of Latitude Legal, outlines the company’s AI‑driven contract automation platform and its recent $30 million Series B round. He explains how Latitude Legal is expanding from large enterprises to mid‑size law...
Cloud contracts often cite "capacity" without precise definitions, leaving enterprises uncertain about resource availability. As AI and data‑intensive workloads strain specialized processors, providers typically rely on "commercially reasonable efforts" rather than firm guarantees, creating allocation risk. Long‑term commitments can lock...
SimpleDocs introduced a Contract Intelligence Layer that embeds a law department’s internal policies, historical contract precedent, and verified market standards directly into its Microsoft Word add‑in. The AI‑powered feature surfaces relevant clauses and benchmarks as lawyers draft, cutting manual research...
Universal Migrator announced a price cut for its migration script library, now starting at $3,500. The library covers major legal document management platforms iManage, Microsoft SharePoint, and NetDocuments. The new pricing eliminates per‑migration or size‑based fees, allowing consultants to run...
Stella Legal, a rapidly scaling UK‑US legal‑tech consultancy, announced a partnership with CLM leader Ironclad on 18 February. The collaboration merges Ironclad’s advanced AI infrastructure with Stella’s service‑first methodology to create a proactive, data‑driven contracting model. Stella, founded a year...
Legal IT Insider announced a free webinar on March 4 featuring Clio’s senior director of product management, Robin Chesterman, to discuss the firm’s new State of Legal Tech report. The study surveyed more than 2,000 legal professionals in the UK...
LegalTech Daily announced the release of the Electronic Evidence Workbook 2026, a comprehensive guide for lawyers and forensic specialists handling digital data. The workbook updates the 2025 standards, adds new AI‑driven preservation tools, and includes practical checklists and templates. It...
The SEC’s Corporation Finance Division released a fresh set of five CDIs, adding two Rule 13e‑3 going‑private interpretations, two tender‑offer clarifications, and a revised Form S‑4 business‑combination guidance. The new Rule 13e‑3 CDIs formalize the equity‑for‑equity exception and limit non‑waivable conditions, while the...
In 2025 the Kluwer Arbitration Blog published two Pakistan‑focused posts despite the Draft Arbitration Act 2024 never being promulgated, a delay linked to sweeping constitutional amendments. The articles dissected the Draft Act’s attempt to narrowly define public policy, analysed the Lahore...
Harvey has hired Joe Cohen as a legal innovation partner to help law firms reimagine AI‑driven service delivery, business models, and operations. Cohen will work with firm leaders to align AI strategies with long‑term business priorities. He arrives after a...
Harvey has appointed Joe Cohen as its new legal innovation partner, tasked with helping law‑firm leaders reshape service delivery, business models, and operations through AI. Cohen brings over a decade of legal‑tech experience, most recently directing Advanced Client Solutions at...
AltaClaro, a legal‑training specialist, unveiled DepoSim, an AI‑driven deposition simulator built with Verbit.ai. The platform creates realistic, on‑demand deposition scenarios and automatically transcribes witness testimony using Verbit’s speech‑to‑text engine. After each session, litigators receive structured, objective performance metrics and actionable...
The Czech Supreme Court ruled that the country's blanket retention of mobile phone metadata violates EU law, labeling the practice a long‑term and serious rights infringement. Following the decision, the Ministry of Industry and Trade issued a formal apology to...
The DSA Human Rights Alliance released an eight‑principle guide urging the European Commission and national regulators to embed a human‑rights‑centered approach as the Digital Services Act moves into enforcement. The recommendations stress cross‑border effects, inclusion of diverse civil‑society groups, and...
A study by ApTI examined how Facebook, Instagram and TikTok recommendation algorithms delivered political content during Romania’s 2025 presidential election. Using four controlled accounts, the researchers found that algorithms routinely overrode explicit user choices, showing adult users political posts from...
EDRi warns that the European Commission’s plan to amend the Better Regulation framework will degrade EU lawmaking by introducing procedural shortcuts, reducing scrutiny, and favoring private interests. The civil‑society group submitted evidence highlighting failures in impact assessments, a politicised ‘urgency’...
The piece warns that AI’s high fixed costs, winner‑take‑all dynamics, platform leverage and data lock‑in will drive market concentration, turning antitrust into a primary battleground. Private lawsuits are expected to outpace government enforcement, using timely complaints to stall rivals and...
Litigation finance turns contingent legal claims into a source of capital, positioning them alongside other non‑traditional assets like future receivables and intellectual property. By providing non‑recourse funding, it lets companies—especially SMEs lacking traditional credit—access cash without equity dilution or restrictive...
The Federal Court of Appeal unanimously held that the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act during the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests was unlawful. The court applied the Vavilov framework, finding the government failed to meet objective legal and factual...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has sent a letter to Wisconsin’s entire legislature urging a vote against S.B. 130 and A.B. 105, bills that would ban VPN use and impose invasive age‑verification on certain websites. The measures have cleared the...
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled on Virgin Media’s September 2024 TV spot that claimed the company was “Awarded Best Broadband Experience.” While the ASA concluded the claim was not misleading about technology, it found the advert failed to provide verifiable...
The article argues that the traditional notion of market language in technology contracts no longer applies to AI agreements, where terms are still evolving. Because regulatory, insurance, and liability frameworks remain unsettled, parties craft varied clauses focused on transparency, data...
Roundhill Investments has filed a request with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to launch six exchange‑traded funds that let investors wager on U.S. election outcomes. Each ETF would hold binary event contracts that settle at either $1 or $0,...
On February 12, 2026 the SEC released its FY2025 Dodd‑Frank Whistleblower Program report, showing more than $60 million awarded to 48 whistleblowers—a sharp drop from the $255 million paid in FY2024. The agency’s 2025 financial report indicates total whistleblower payouts of $171 million,...
Employers are rapidly adopting AI for candidate screening, with 88% of firms using such tools by 2025. A California federal case, *Mobley v. Workday*, alleges that Workday’s AI hiring platform discriminates against African‑American, older, and disabled applicants. The court granted...
The episode examines the clash between AI‑generated video tools like ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 and traditional intellectual‑property enforcement, spotlighting cease‑and‑desist letters from Disney and Paramount. It explains how generative AI can produce near‑identical replicas of copyrighted characters, blurring the line between...
Everlaw released a 151‑page guide titled “Mastering Ediscovery,” detailing every stage of the eDiscovery process from data preservation to generative AI. The guide breaks down legal hold duties, FRCP Rule 26(f) protocols, predictive coding workflows, and the latest AI‑driven tools for...
Microsoft Copilot is rapidly being deployed across enterprises, prompting a deep dive into its legal ramifications. Noah Koerner, director of information governance at Lighthouse, highlighted how AI‑generated content can blur attorney‑client privilege and complicate e‑discovery. He warned that vendor‑provided logs...
San Jose’s police department has logged more than 261,000 automated license‑plate reader (ALPR) searches in just over a year—roughly 700 daily—without warrants, raising privacy alarms. Neighboring jurisdictions such as Mountain View, Los Altos Hills, Santa Cruz, East Palo Alto and...
California Chamber of Commerce (CalChamber) is hosting a virtual HR Boot Camp on February 26‑27, 2026, offering two half‑day seminars to help employers navigate California’s complex employment laws. The curriculum spans hiring, wage‑and‑hour rules, paid‑time‑off policies, protected leaves, reasonable accommodations, harassment prevention,...
A webinar hosted by ACEDS will explore how traditional eDiscovery tools lag behind today’s collaborative, cloud‑native data environments. Speakers from Walgreens, Cloudficient, and KLDiscovery will explain a context‑aware approach that leverages behavior, identity, and data lineage to improve custodian identification...
The 2007 Supreme Court decision instructed the EPA to evaluate whether greenhouse gases endanger public health, prompting the agency’s 2009 Endangerment Finding that vehicle emissions pose a significant risk. The D.C. Circuit upheld that finding, yet the current Trump administration...
