As more law firms and lawyers use generative artificial intelligence for documentation, discovery and other legal work, they are hiring legal technology experts to guide them. In November, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson added Conan Hines as director of legal technology. Part of Hines’ role is to build out the firm’s AI…

A federal court delivered a landmark decision impacting “trap and trace” software cases in California, denying defendant C2 Educational Systems Inc. a motion to dismiss a class action alleging it violated the California Invasion of Privacy Law (CIPA) through its partnership with TikTok. “I think it does set a precedent,” said Robert Tauler,…

A federal judge has rejected the “novel argument” Kirkland & Ellis made in an attempt to dismiss patent infringement claims that SharkNinja, a major industry competitor, brought against its client, Dyson. Counsel with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher filed the lawsuit on behalf of the global appliance…

A group of Big Law lawyers, including partners and leaders of Am Law 25 law firms, are relaunching a lawyers committee for Kamala Harris to support her presidential campaign, according to an email obtained by Law.com. The email, distributed Sunday, said lawyers are reprising the committee to support Vice President…

A young lawyer with a hard-to-pronounce name is bullied by an older opposing counsel. First, the older opposing counsel sends repeated communications in which he misspells the young associate’s name. Second, when first meeting in person, the older attorney observes that the young associate wears a weighty ring on her right…

Australian contract analysis company Syntheia announced on Wednesday the release of its new “Fund Curator” application. This application is the first in a series of narrow, purpose-built solutions Syntheia hopes to roll out as it repositions its platform to tackle specific legal pain points, said Horace Wu, the CEO and founder of Syntheia.