On Wednesday, business and legal management software provider Aderant announced a collaboration with Vanderbilt Law School, specifically the Vanderbilt AI Law Lab (VAILL), which explores how artificial intelligence will change legal services and access to justice, and is a part of the school’s Program on Law & Innovation (PoLI). The collaboration will…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday set new national drinking water standards to reduce public consumption of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as the “forever chemical.”  The EPA, which proposed the rule last year, said the standards will prevent thousands of premature deaths and severe illnesses, as well as…

Another Linklaters partner has exited the firm for a U.S. rival in London. Financial regulatory partner Sebastian Barling is set to join Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom’s London office having spent over 12 years at Linklaters. He made partner in 2018.

Leaders at the New York City Bar Association this month unveiled amendments to the state’s professional conduct rules that would formally permit non-lawyer financers to receive a portion of fees recovered in litigation, provided that the lawyers maintain professional independence and notify clients of third-party involvement. The proposed changes to Rule…

Africa would be making a mistake by following the European Union and Canada in regulating artificial intelligence, according to the co-head of the Africa group at Clifford Chance. Jennifer Chimanga, a London-based M&A partner focused in the telecoms, media and technology sector in Africa, said regulation is not the path…

Plaintiffs challenging a federal statute shielding gun companies from civil liability argued Tuesday before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that the act encroaches on states’ authority to regulate litigation.  “Congress can’t do it the way it did it here, where it’s telling Pennsylvania, ‘You have to make law the way we, Congress,…