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…

Paul Hastings has recruited another Weil, Gotshal & Manges attorney, this time in Washington, D.C., while McGuireWoods has hired the former SEC crypto and cyber enforcement leader. The two firms, along with Davis Wright Tremaine and Polsinelli, are among the latest law firms to add to their litigation, tax, securities enforcement and M&A benches…

Lathrop GPM is combining with a Northern California law firm, adding about 62 attorneys and about $60 million in revenue, the firm said Wednesday. The upcoming combination with Hopkins & Carley in San Jose and Redwood Shores, California, will give Lathrop GPM, now ranked No. 169 in the Am Law…

King & Spalding is representing Google in several claims launched by the internet giant against three Russian media companies in London’s commercial court. All three claims were issued in August, according to information provided by case platform Solomonic.

The people of Bikini Atoll—the Pacific island that became a nuclear proving ground in the 1940s—have filed a Court of Chancery suit against a trust fund administrator, alleging Arden Trust Company is responsible for depleting two trust funds set up by the U.S. government. The complaint alleges that between 2018,…

New York’s highest court kept the state’s Early Mail Voter Act intact for the Nov. 5 presidential election and beyond, defeating an appeal by U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, the state Republican committee and others who had questioned its constitutionality. Democratic lawmakers advanced the no-excuse, vote-by-mail law in 2023, and it…