Is chicken a meat? Is a chicken burger a sandwich? Unusual existential questions to ponder but ones which spring to mind when looking at the recent decision in Case T -58/23 Supermac’s (Holdings) Ltd v EUIPO and McDonalds International Property Co. Ltd at the EU General Court. What the decision…

Swedish legal tech startup Leya, which offers a generative AI assistant that streamlines legal tasks such as document analysis, due-diligence review, data extraction, legal research and drafting, may be one of the fastest growing startups in the legal tech market. On Wednesday, Leya  closed on a $25 million series A…

After growing from five to 27 lawyers over the last five years in Los Angeles, litigation-focused Shook, Hardy & Bacon is trying to reach “critical mass” in the city by adding roughly 20 more lawyers there over the next five years. “To have critical mass, to really have a presence…

23andMe has reached a settlement in principle of class actions brought over last year’s data breach, lawyers disclosed at a Tuesday court hearing in San Francisco. The amount and details of the settlement weren’t disclosed, but, in its annual report this year, 23andMe revealed it had $216 million in cash.…

Platinum Partners hedge fund co-founder Mark Nordlicht was sentenced to 6 months of home confinement and probation on Tuesday after a Brooklyn federal court judge dwelled on how “unique” the case was. “It’s just such a weird case, Mr. Pitluck,” U.S. District Court Judge Brian Cogan told Assistant U.S. Attorney…

The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas is in the middle of what is on track to be a record-breaking year for large verdicts. Court data shows that by the halfway mark of 2024, Philadelphia saw nearly as many eight-plus-figure civil jury verdicts as it did in the entirety of 2023. That…