The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia recently sided with Penn-America Insurance Co. in a declaration that it does not owe a duty to defend or indemnify an Atlanta apartment management company in an underlying wrongful-death case brought on behalf of a man who was fatally shot. District…

Sarah A. Sullivan and Alexander Lee Callo, both of Saul Ewing in Newark, have recently entered appearances on behalf of an artificial intelligence-driven pharma-tech company sued in a pending securities class action. This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and federal courts. Law.com Radar…

We have all heard by now that job-related stress is common within the legal profession.  An individual’s stress-load, however, is rarely static.  It ebbs and flows as work demands come and go.  Take trial, for example.  Work-related stress often increases for attorneys sharply during trial.  This raises questions – and…

A Connecticut federal court judge dismissed a securities class action against drug manufacturer BioXcel Therapeutics Inc., which uses artificial intelligence to develop medications. However, the court agreed, based on the plaintiff’s allegations, that BioXcel did make misrepresentations. As a result, the court afforded leave to amend the complaint. According to the docket, the…

The Manhattan federal jury mulling the charges against U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, adjourned Monday following approximately 10 hours of deliberations without reaching a verdict. The panel, which deliberated for about three hours on Friday, is expected to resume weighing the charges Tuesday morning.

On Tuesday, Thomson Reuters announced the public availability of CoCounsel Drafting, the company’s recently introduced end-to-end drafting solution that functions as a Microsoft Word add-in. The company first introduced the new drafting tool in May, on the heels of a Thomson Reuters survey that found that lawyers spend 40% to…