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. 

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Monday reversed an order requiring Samsung to arbitrate more than 35,000 claims brought by customers who alleged their Samsung devices violated Illinois privacy law. How the ruling will impact the future of the emerging plaintiffs-lawyer strategy of mass arbitration more…

Taking a different tack than other Canadian universities trying to remove encampments of anti-Israel protesters, the University of Waterloo is directly suing student activists for CA$1.5 million in damages. Baker McKenzie is representing the university and filed the statement of claim.