After achieving a record-setting $45.8 million medical-malpractice jury verdict in 2017, a group of Georgia litigators has secured an additional $13.7 million in attorney fees. Plaintiff counsel with Stone Law Group in Atlanta and Blakely consider the judge-ordered payout the final chapter in a 13-year legal battle for the family of…

Last Term, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Jack Daniel’s v. VIP Products — a case involving interaction between the Lanham Act and the First Amendment. This article traces the lower courts’ reactions to and applications of that decision. The Jack Daniel’s Decision At the core of the Jack Daniel’s case last Term lay the potential for…

Technology, including generative AI, is increasingly finding its way into the courtroom, whether as the subject of lawsuits or in revolutionizing judicial and dispute resolution processes themselves. These trends are expected to ramp up even more in 2024. Some courtrooms are clamoring to find ways to implement AI into their own workflows, while…

A federal judge in West Palm Beach delivered bad news to a religious liberty organization, which engages in litigation related to evangelical Christian values, by cutting its over $2.2 million attorney fees request by nearly 70%. Mathew Staver, chairman of the Liberty Counsel, is among the attorneys that represented the…

Singapore’s Transport Minister Subramaniam Iswaran was charged on January 18 with 27 counts of bribery and corruption, prompting him to resign from his post. The prosecution team, led by Chief Prosecutor Tan Kiat Pheng, includes two Deputy Public Prosecutors, Ke Yue Jiang and Kelvin Chong. They have charged Iswaran with…

As soon at generative AI hit the public consciousness, the push to regulate it quickly followed. While there has been more proposed regulation than actual action to date, the regulation of AI is looking like it might follow the path of data privacy legislation, resulting in a patchwork of laws before more comprehensive,…