The Palm Beach Circuit Court entered final judgment against the City of Boca Raton over its “blind reliance on assurances from self-interested officials” that led to pervasive public records violations related to the residential development of two prime oceanfront properties. Robert Sweetapple, a partner at Sweetapple, Broeker & Varkas in…

Valerie Ho, the top U.S. lawyer for online fast-fashion giant Shein has left the company, a spokesperson confirmed to Law.com Tuesday. Ho had been with Singapore-based company since 2021 and worked on crafting its global legal and compliance structure. She previously was a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, where she advised on…

After OpenAI launched ChatGPT into the market, the spectrum of reactions from firms and legal departments varied significantly. While some drafted new policies on the internal use of generative AI, others pushed to train their personnel, and a handful even released their own generative AI-powered chatbots. Whatever path they chose, many law firms…

A Middlesex County inmate reached a $1 million settlement for injuries she sustained after the correctional facility allegedly failed to follow hospital discharge instructions or to provide appropriate accommodations for her physical disability. In Riley v. County of Middlesex, Jennifer Riley sustained a fractured knee and was treated at CentraState Medical…

“The First Amendment of the United States Constitution, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, ‘protects commercial speech from unwarranted governmental regulation,’” appellant counsel briefed. ”Attorney advertising is commercial speech and is therefore ’accorded a measure of First Amendment protection.’” “If, at the time that this came into the Georgia Constitution in 1861,…

After OpenAI launched ChatGPT into the market, the spectrum of reactions from firms and legal departments varied significantly. While some drafted new policies on the internal use of generative AI, others pushed to train their personnel, and a handful even released their own generative AI-powered chatbots. Whatever path they chose, many law firms…