In the backdrop of a key New York primary race for district attorney, a rotating billboard on an Albany highway weighed in, but, critics say, displayed cynicism toward criminal defendants’ constitutional right to counsel. The large signboard contains a photo of prominent defense lawyer Lee Kindlon, and reads “Limo Lee.”

Ashurst has rolled out generative AI platform Harvey across all its offices worldwide, providing access to all its lawyers and business services staff. It comes as several firms look at ways to leverage new AI technology, including Harvery, with whom several law firms have partnered, over the past two years, including A&O…

A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rejected gunmaker Smith & Wesson’s attempt to quash a subpoena stemming from a consumer fraud probe of the company by New Jersey’s attorney general. In a precedential decision, the court of appeals affirmed a U.S. District Court…

A climate activist group has called on Linklaters to decline any further instructions on new fossil fuel infrastructure, after the firm was identified as a top adviser of fossil fuel transactions.  Lawyers Are Responsible, a group which campaigns for top law firms to cut ties to the fossil fuel industry, has…

Major record labels including Capitol Records and Sony Music Entertainment on Monday sued two music-focused generative artificial intelligence companies, accusing the companies of “willful copyright infringement on an almost unimaginable scale.” The lawsuits allege that the generative AI companies, Udio and Suno, copied “decades’ worth of the world’s most popular…

The U.S. government agreed to pay $8.5 million to the estate of a contractor killed while working on a steam boiler at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in West Haven. Christina Weaver, wife of the decedent, filed the action in her individual capacity and as the administrator of the…