Major record labels including Capitol Records and Sony Music Entertainment on Monday sued two music-focused generative artificial intelligence companies, accusing them 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 sound…

Data Dive: Multidistrict Litigation Makes Up Much of the U.S. Civil Caseload | Law.com Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/2024/06/25/mdls-make-up-more-than-half-of-u-s-cases-whether-its-65-or-71/ US Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation NEWS According to fiscal year 2023 statistics from the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts, and the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, multidistrict litigation now makes…

High Court Removes Douglas County Probate Judge Christina Peterson From Bench | Daily Report Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2024/06/25/we-lost-the-ultimate-battle-supreme-court-removes-judge-christina-peterson-from-bench/ (Top L-R) Judge Christina J. Peterson, S Lester Tate III, Dwight H. Chamberlin (Bottom L-R) Courtney Veal and Ashton Murphy. (Courtesy photos) NEWS “Procedurally, I’m pleased that we were able to provide…

Donald Trump is free to publicly discuss witnesses who took the stand against him in his Manhattan criminal case, a judge ruled Tuesday. Acting Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan partially lifted the gag order limiting Trump’s speech, but kept in place provisions that bar the former president from speaking about…

Thomson Geer chief executive partner Adrian Tembel expects high-volume legal work in Australia will become corporatized. So in addition to leading Thomson Geer, he is aiming to build a sizeable business that handles high-volume legal work in real estate, insurance claims and bank recoveries. Tembel believes that while complex and bespoke…

Four years after a former Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith executive alleged financial mismanagement at the firm to California state authorities, the firm’s leaders were alerted to millions in unreturned client payments that were more than a year old, according to an internal report reviewed by The American Lawyer. The…