DOD Contractor Seeks $8.4M Under Cyber Contract

By Ganesh Setty

A cybersecurity contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense has accused the government of failing to pay roughly $8.4 million worth of invoices, telling the U.S. Court of Federal Claims that it had performed its contract "flawlessly."

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Cisco Urges Justices To Reject $2.6B Centripetal Patent Case

By Adam Lidgett

Cisco Systems says the U.S. Supreme Court shouldn't reinstate Centripetal Networks LLC's $2.6 billion patent infringement case, saying a lower court was correct to grant Cisco a win because Centripetal had adequate time to respond to Cisco's interpretation of the asserted patent.

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Ex-US Contractor Admits Giving Ethiopia Top Secret Intel

By Tom Lotshaw

A former contractor for several U.S. government entities including the Department of Justice has pled guilty to conspiring to send highly protected national defense information to Ethiopian officials, according to federal prosecutors.

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OCC Maps Out How Its Examiners Will Review Banks' AI Use

By Jon Hill

The use of artificial intelligence at banks to conduct payments, decide loan applications or perform other high-stakes activities autonomously could face closer examiner scrutiny under a new supervisory framework issued Wednesday by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

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ILC Cos. To Pay $13M To Resolve Cybersecurity Fraud Claims

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that defense and aerospace contractors ILC Dover LP and ILC Astrospace LLC will pay $13 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act.

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Brief

State AGs Tell Congress $17B Meta Deal Didn't Go Far Enough

By David Aaro

A bipartisan coalition that includes nearly every state attorney general is urging Congress to pass legislation designed to further improve online protections for minors, just two months after a $17 billion multistate settlement was reached with Meta.

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Sony Must Face Trimmed Suit Over Smart TV Data Collection

By Allison Grande

A California federal judge has tossed the bulk of a proposed class action accusing Sony of collecting and selling smart TV users' viewing data without consent, finding that the plaintiffs had failed to adequately plead more than a dozen wiretap and privacy allegations while leaving two common law claims intact.

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Zillow Faces New Proposed Class Action Over Text Ads

By Isaac Monterose

Property listing giant Zillow Group Inc. was hit with another proposed class action accusing it of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending consumers unwanted telemarketing texts.

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Highmark Health Network Hit With Suit Over AI Recording Use

By Gianna Ferrarin

Allegheny Health Network and its parent Highmark Health failed to get informed consent from patients for use of an artificial intelligence-based clinical documentation tool in exam rooms, according to a patient's proposed class action complaint in Pennsylvania state court.

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$5.5M Doxim Data Breach Deal Gets Final OK In Mich.

By Sydney Price

A Michigan federal judge has granted final approval to a $5.5 million class action settlement resolving claims that software provider Doxim Inc. and two credit unions failed to adequately protect customers' sensitive personal information in a 2023 data breach.

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Brief

SkyWest Union Latest To Oppose Spirit's Ch. 11 Data Sale

By Vince Sullivan

A union representing flight crew members for SkyWest Airlines has asked a New York bankruptcy court for permission to intervene in the Chapter 11 case of budget airline owner Spirit Aviation Holdings so that it can submit a statement opposing a sale of data to Google.

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Brief

Pierson Ferdinand Adds Partners From Constangy, Akerman

By Andrea Keckley

Pierson Ferdinand LLP has announced the arrival of two new partners — a cybersecurity attorney from Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP and a real estate attorney from Akerman LLP.

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How Contracts Can Address Agentic AI Monitoring Risk

In light of two recent OpenAI incidents of artificial intelligence agents disabling their monitoring safeguards, companies deploying agentic AI should draft contracts reflecting the possibility that controls can fail, and identify who controls each safeguard, whether the AI agent can interfere, and how a failure will be detected, say attorneys at Zova Law.

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What To Expect From Calif.'s Incoming Health AI Laws

California's new statewide ground rules for artificial intelligence in clinical care, set to take effect on Jan. 1, reveal the Legislature's choice to regulate healthcare AI primarily though institutions, rather than direct product regulation, and providers should shape their compliance plans accordingly, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

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Opinion

The Invisible AI Danger That May Undermine Legal Profession

A public database tracking cases involving hallucinations generated by artificial intelligence recently surpassed 2,200 entries, but the bigger risk underlying attorneys’ use of such tools is that they will slowly surrender their judgment to AI and lose analytical skills, says Massachusetts District Court Associate Justice Brian Palmucci.

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Gibson Dunn Set To Bring On 120 Lawyers From Weil

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson and Marialuisa Taddia

Gibson Dunn is set to hire the U.S. and London-based private funds teams from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, bringing on 120 attorneys in the largest group move reported since Weil's management committee recommended last week that the firm wind down operations.

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Analysis

Midterm Dem Wins To Scramble Lit Funding Legislative Efforts

By Ryan Boysen

Litigation funders can rest easy, for now, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will need to rethink its approach after last night's midterm elections saw Democrats rout Republicans, scrambling a yearslong effort for federal regulation of litigation finance that's so far relied on Republicans.

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State AG Race Wins Set To Give Dems Control Of Most Offices

By Madison Arnold

Democrats are poised to oversee a majority of state attorneys general offices around the country after Tuesday's elections saw the party hang on to all of its existing seats and flip control of five offices from the Republicans, according to unofficial election results.

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Goldstein Ordered To Pay Trimmed $1M Forfeiture

By Nadia Dreid

Former SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein was hit with a $1 million forfeiture order Wednesday by a Maryland federal judge in the wake of his tax and mortgage fraud trial, where the appellate advocate was convicted on a dozen charges.

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Attys Ensure Voters' 'Right To Be Heard' In Midterm Elections

By James Boyle and Lynn LaRowe

From BigLaw attorneys and solo practitioners to university professors, thousands of attorney volunteers turned out for Tuesday's midterm elections to ensure American voters' ballots would be counted.

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DOJ Says Epshteyn Will Answer ABA Service Motion

By Jared Foretek

Trump advisor Boris Epshteyn will answer for himself why he has allegedly been evading subpoenas in the American Bar Association's legal challenge to the administration's law firm targeting campaign, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.

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Holland & Hart Cost Ex-Client $23M Stake In Co., Suit Says

By Zach Dupont

Holland & Hart LLP and two of its attorneys were accused of malpractice in Colorado state court Tuesday by a former client who claims the attorneys failed to inform her that a wealth transfer plan with her then-husband left her iced out of the couple's most valuable asset.

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DOJ Accused Of Unlawfully Ending Crime Victim Agreement

By Tom Lotshaw

The National Crime Victim Law Institute has accused the U.S. Department of Justice in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims of unlawfully terminating a $500,000 cooperative agreement aimed at strengthening legal support for disabled crime victims in the wake of an executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

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Former DOJ Officials See Mixed Results In Midterm Races

By Chris Villani

The 2026 midterm elections included bids for office by several former U.S. Department of Justice officials and nominees for the federal bench, with one race a dead heat and several others decided as of early Wednesday.

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