More litigation and likely losses for federal agencies will be the result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Monday that the clock for challenging regulations begins when their harm is felt by the challenger, not when the rules were implemented, regulatory attorneys said in noting a rough week for agencies.…

After four years of operations, the Salt Lake City office of St. Louis-born law firm Armstrong Teasdale is closing for business, the firm’s managing partner confirmed in a statement Tuesday. Confirmation of Armstrong Teasdale’s exit from Utah’s capital city, adjacent to a growing hub of technology companies nicknamed “Silicon Slopes,” comes…

Brazil’s Demarest Advogados has hired an M&A partner from cross-town rival BMA Advogados as the firm prepares for an increase in M&A work in Brazil. Maria da Paz Tierno Lopes previously managed the Cuatrecasas office in São Paulo and also worked at White & Case in New York and Brazil.

Covington & Burling has created a new AI-focused role—director of artificial intelligence and e-discovery solutions—hiring Todd Itami in the position. Itami will lead Covington in its integration of AI and other technology tools at the firm, Covington said this week. Convington is the latest law firm to add talent for an AI-focused position. Latham…

In seeking en banc review, attorneys are telling Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal that its prior ruling laid “a minefield of uncertainty and will open the courthouse doors to countless challenges to arbitration decisions that, prior to the opinion, were barred as a matter of law.” Eugene Stearns, Maria Fehretdinov…

In their quest to integrate and market generative AI-powered technologies, legal tech companies have often cited a process they claim keeps such hallucinations at bay: retrieval augmented generation (RAG). RAG shows up in press releases, at trade shows, and in many product demos as a solution for LLMs’ hallucination problem.