Welcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys. This week: In Tom Girardi’s criminal trial, an IRS special agent showed jurors flow charts and graphs of how money moved through Girardi Keese bank accounts. In a big win for Bayer, the U.S.…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has overturned a district court’s summary judgment in favor of Google in a national data privacy class action alleging that it illegally culled user data via its web browser, Google Chrome. The opinion, filed Tuesday by Judge Milan D. Smith Jr., held that…

On Tuesday, Thomson Reuters announced it has acquired UK-based startup Safe Sign Technologies “to accelerate its AI strategy,” according to a press release. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Safe Sign, which focuses on developing legal-specific large language models (LLMs), was co-founded in February 2022 by Alexander…

Since at least 2008 the authors of this article have noted and expressed their collective concern about the antiquated state of New York’s 1981 franchise law, which has never been amended for consistency with other state or federal franchise laws. New York prides itself on being the world’s center of…

In an ironic twist, a retired defamation attorney must now pay $4.5 million to a trio of former colleagues he’s accused of defaming. Having convinced a federal jury to return the seven-figure verdict against defendant Lucian Lincoln “Lin” Wood Jr., plaintiff counsel with Beal Sutherland Berlin & Brown are now…

On Tuesday, Thomson Reuters announced it has acquired UK-based startup Safe Sign Technologies “to accelerate its AI strategy,” according to a press release. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Safe Sign, which focuses on developing legal-specific large language models (LLMs), was co-founded in February 2022 by Alexander…