A prejudgment remedy of $295,000 survived an appeal and challenges to the expert testimony of a sociologist in a case alleging intentional and malicious harassment based on the plaintiff’s race. In the underlying lawsuit, the plaintiff Keren Prescott alleged Yuliya Gilshteyn, who is white, spat in her face at a…

‘Firms Fear the PR Hit, Not the Sanction’: Big Law on Edge After Simpson Thacher Anti-Money Laundering Prosecution | Law.com Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/2024/08/22/firms-fear-the-pr-hit-not-the-sanction-big-law-on-edge-after-simpson-thacher-aml-prosecution-292-189666/ Solicitors Regulation Authority (Image: SRA) & Simpson Thacher & Bartlett offices in Washington, D.C. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM. ANALYSIS The London office of another prestigious New…

In July, legal tech expert and futurist Richard Susskind was appointed as the Special Envoy for Justice and Artificial Intelligence to the Commonwealth. Additionally, Susskind has been busy co-editing a new book, ”Computers & Law: The First 50 Years”, alongside Mark O’Conor to celebrate 50th anniversary of the Society for Computers and Law (SCL), which…

A coast-to-coast legal team has assembled to represent stockholders as a class in a securities case against Lewisville, Texas-based Orthofix Medical Inc., a global spine and orthopedics company. Attorneys with Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law in New York, along with Los Angeles, California-based Brian J. Schall of The Schall Law Firm…

Judge Gets Standing Ovation for Service to State’s Judicial Watchdog Commission | Daily Report Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2024/08/22/judge-gets-standing-ovation-for-service-to-states-judicial-watchdog-commission/ Supreme Court of Georgia honors Atlanta Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge Robert C. I. McBurney for his service as the Presiding Officer of the Judicial Qualifications Commission of Georgia ahead of oral…

A new class action filed by Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and Susman Godfrey on behalf of several authors alleges that artificial intelligence startup Anthropic committed “brazen infringement” by using “hundreds of thousands” of copyrighted books to train its flagship collection of large language models, “Claude.” The complaint, filed on…