President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to push the developers of advanced artificial intelligence models to voluntarily share their systems with the federal government for pre-release cybersecurity testing, following changes to a previous draft that the president abruptly shelved last month due to concerns about its effect on innovation. 
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Finalized Trump Order Seeks Early Cyber Tests Of AI Models

By Allison Grande

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to push the developers of advanced artificial intelligence models to voluntarily share their systems with the federal government for pre-release cybersecurity testing, following changes to a previous draft that the president abruptly shelved last month due to concerns about its effect on innovation. 

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Amazon Hit With Privacy Suit Over Ring's Face-Scan Feature

By Allison Grande

Amazon is invading the privacy of millions of Americans who come into contact with its Ring security cameras by unknowingly capturing their biometric data in order to fuel a new artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition feature, according to a proposed class action filed in Washington federal court Monday.

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Costco Wants Sanctions Over Missing Devices In Pixel Suit

By Joyce Hanson

Costco has asked a federal judge in Seattle to sanction a group of customers leading a proposed class action that accuses it of disclosing their personal health information by installing Meta Pixel and other Facebook web analytics tools on its pharmacy website.

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POLICY & REGULATION

FCC Overstepping Authority In Device Denials, Hikvision Says

By Nadia Dreid

Congress didn't give the Federal Communications Commission the power to pull already authorized equipment off the market by placing it on the so-called covered list of equipment deemed to be a national security risk, Hikvision has told the D.C. Circuit.

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ENFORCEMENT

DOJ Won't Move Forward With $1.8B Fund, Blanche Confirms

By Courtney Bublé

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers Tuesday, "we're not moving forward" with the controversial $1.8 billion settlement fund.

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LITIGATION

Ga. Law Firm Says Wells Fargo Has Info On $1.3M Wire Fraud

By Emily Johnson

A Georgia-based personal injury law firm said it was defrauded into wiring more than $1.3 million to a Wells Fargo Bank NA account and has asked a Texas state court to require the bank to divulge details about the transfer as the firm investigates possible civil claims.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Columbia Software IP Ruling Tests Royalty Damages Model

The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Columbia University v. Gen Digital, vacating a damages verdict involving foreign software sales, provides guidance on ambiguities surrounding the worldwide royalty damages model established by the court's decision in Brumfield v. IBG two years ago, say attorneys at Munger Tolles.

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FinCEN World Cup Warning Raises Trafficking Risks For Cos.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's recent warning of human trafficking risks during the World Cup games signals heightened scrutiny ahead of the upcoming tournament, and suggests regulators increasingly expect businesses beyond financial institutions to maintain effective trafficking-risk controls, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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2 'Rocket Dockets' And The Rules That Propel Them

The fastest civil trial courts in the country are currently in the Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern District of Florida, and their chief judges provide insights into the court rules that keep them ahead, says Robert Tata at Hunton.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Dardarian Ho's Linda Dardarian

By Lynn LaRowe

Despite being on the other side of a disability rights case that will cost his municipality at least $150 million, Kevin McLaughlin, city attorney for Oakland, California, believes that if more lawyers were like Linda Dardarian, there would be far less lamenting about civility in the legal profession.

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Hueston Hennigan Follows Milbank's Lead In Associate Pay

By Tracey Read

The race to match Milbank LLP's attorney pay hikes is officially on, with trial firm Hueston Hennigan the latest to announce it will increase associate pay by $10,000 to $20,000 annually.

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Graham Pushes Federal Tort Path After DOJ Drops $1.8B Fund

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Department of Justice seemed, at least briefly, to support a Republican senator's alternative solution to the "anti-weaponization" $1.8 billion fund that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday the department is abandoning.

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Crowell Unveils DC Office In Revamped Former Metro HQ

By Alison Knezevich

Crowell & Moring LLP has a new home in the nation's capital, with the firm announcing Wednesday it has moved its D.C. office to the redeveloped former Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority headquarters.

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BigLaw Insider Trading Defendants Have Big-Name Legal Help

By Chris Villani

An insider trading case involving nonpublic information prosecutors say was stolen from some of the largest law firms in the U.S. has ensnared more than two dozen defendants, many of whom have turned to lawyers with notable clients including Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein and Luigi Mangione.

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Rocade Capital Buys LFG To Create Combined $2B Lit Funder

By Ryan Boysen

Rocade Capital LLC has acquired fellow litigation funder Law Finance Group LLC, creating a combined platform that has deployed more than $2.3 billion and specializes in $10 to $50 million deals, including post-judgment financing, portfolio deals and lending to plaintiff's firms.

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DOJ Sets New Healthcare Fraud Convictions Record

By Phillip Bantz

The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced that its Health Care Fraud Unit secured six jury trial convictions across the country in less than three weeks, with the cases involving more than $1.1 billion in fraud losses.

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'Read The Cases': Conn. Judge Offers AI Advice To Attys

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut federal judge told a gathering of attorneys Tuesday that his law clerks are not allowed to use generative artificial intelligence for any purpose involving legal research, his interns are barred from using it at all, and lawyers must be careful when relying on the material that the tools produce.

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Court Reporter Shortage A 'Crisis,' Calif. Supreme Court Told

By Bonnie Eslinger

Two legal nonprofits urged the California Supreme Court to issue an order entitling low-income civil litigants to electronic recording if a live court reporter is not available, saying at a hearing Wednesday that a court reporter shortage in the Golden State has created a "crisis."

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Colo. Firm Accused Of Giving Bad Immigration Filing Advice

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado personal injury law firm gave faulty legal advice to two clients regarding the filing of their immigration documents and caused them to lose their ability to lawfully work in the United States, the former clients alleged in Colorado state court.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Aaron Katz Law

Aeton Law Partners

Agnifilo Intrater

Altshuler Berzon

Barrack Rodos

Butters Brazilian

Covington & Burling

Crain Caton

Crowell & Moring

Dardarian Ho

Day Pitney

Fox & Robertson

Gardner & Rosenberg

Girardi & Keese

Goodwin Procter

Guardian Accident & Injury Lawyers

HWG LLP

Harris Beach Murtha

Hecht Partners

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Hueston Hennigan

Hunton Andrews

Latham & Watkins

Levi & Korsinsky

Logan Vance

McCarter & English

McDermott Will & Schulte

Milbank LLP

Milberg PLLC

Morgan Lewis

Munger Tolles

Nicholas & Tomasevic

Nixon Peabody

Pollack Solomon

Ropes & Gray

Shipman & Goodwin

Sidley Austin

Silva Kettlewell

Tousley Brain

Troutman

Viorst Law Offices

Wachtell Lipton

Weil Gotshal

Werksman Jackson

White & Case

Wilson Sonsini

Zimmerman Reed

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

10x Genomics Inc.

AT&T Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Airlines Group Inc.

Anthropic PBC

Bank of America Corp.

Bay Area Legal Aid

Broadcom Inc.

Citigroup Inc.

Connecticut Bar Association

Conservation Law Foundation Inc.

Costco Wholesale Corp.

Dahua Technology Co. Ltd.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Equity Residential

Family Violence Appellate Project

Federation Internationale de Football Association

Gen Digital Inc.

Google LLC

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

JetBlue Airways Corp.

Kaiser Permanente

Law Finance Group Management Co.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Motorola Mobility LLC

OpenAI OpCo LLC

ParkerVision Inc.

Pinnacle Bank

Rocade LLC

Rockefeller Group International Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Service Employees International Union

State Street Corp.

Synopsys Inc.

Therapeutics Inc.

University of Southern California

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

Wells Fargo & Co.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Supreme Court

City of New York

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

Internal Revenue Service

National Institute of Standards and Technology

National Security Agency

Office of Foreign Assets Control

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

US Office of Management and Budget

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the District of Nevada

United States District Court for the District of Utah