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.

A boutique law firm in The Woodlands, Texas, secured a defense verdict against Big Law for an interior designer who was sued by a wealthy couple for $9.5 million on allegations of the breach of an oral contract and fraud. Gladney Darroh, an author, playwright and head of a manpower…

Nokia’s $2.3 billion acquisition of Infinera and Cinven’s €2.9 billion stake in idealista are keeping leading law firms busy in the thriving private equity deals market. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is behind Nokia’s acquisition of Silicon Valley’s Infinera while Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Clifford Chance, Dentons, Garrigues and other…