Baker McKenzie has added a cybersecurity, data privacy and incident response partner from Alston & Bird LLP, who joins the team in Washington, D.C., at a time when cyberattacks and data breaches against companies and others are increasing.
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Baker McKenzie Adds Alston & Bird Cybersecurity Atty In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Baker McKenzie has added a cybersecurity, data privacy and incident response partner from Alston & Bird LLP, who joins the team in Washington, D.C., at a time when cyberattacks and data breaches against companies and others are increasing.

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FDA Leaders Outline How AI Is Shaping The Agency's Work

By Dan McKay

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is using generative artificial intelligence to help redact records before public release, summarize documents and evaluate scientific literature, federal officials said in a recent conference.

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JAMS Launches Alternative Dispute Resolution Tech Group

By Matt Perez

Alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS announced Tuesday the launch of a technology industry group to address disputes regarding new innovations such as artificial intelligence, digital assets and biotechnology.

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3rd Circ. Says Financial Services Rule Thwarts Privacy Suit

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Third Circuit declined to reinstate class claims made by a group of John Hancock customers from Illinois accusing Amazon Web Services Inc. and Pindrop Security Inc. of collecting consumers' voice data without their consent, ruling Tuesday that exemptions under Illinois and federal law applied.

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Bitcoin Depot Allowed Crypto Scam Via ATMs, Couple Says

By Zak Kostro

Bitcoin Depot systematically facilitated fraud involving cryptocurrency through its bitcoin ATM network, which targeted consumers who have lost thousands of dollars through the machines, according to a proposed class action in Idaho federal court brought by a couple who alleged they fell victim to such a scam.

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Brief

Tobacco Giant RJ Reynolds Sued Over Telemarketing Texts

By Abigail Harrison

Cigarette and e-cigarette giant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc. was accused in North Carolina federal court of violating federal law by texting residential telephone numbers listed on the National Do Not Call Registry.

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Google, Meta Hit With Suits Over Use Of Voices For AI

By Adam Lidgett

A group of journalists and voice actors has hit Google, Meta, Microsoft, chipmaking giant Nvidia and speech synthesis software company ElevenLabs with proposed class actions in Illinois federal court accusing the companies of wrongly using the plaintiffs' voices to train their artificial intelligence models.

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7th Circ. Urged To Revive Hartford $4M Wire Fraud Fight

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois agency that administers financially distressed insurers' estates Tuesday urged the Seventh Circuit to revive its lawsuit seeking insurance coverage for a cyberattack during which its financial chief provided confidential login information to hackers, who used his email account to instruct employees to wire them nearly $7 million.

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Teen's Estate Says Grindr Suit Unfairly Sent To Arbitration

By Y. Peter Kang

The estate of a 16-year-old girl who was lured in by a 35-year-old man on the Grindr platform and tortured and murdered told a Florida federal judge to reconsider the court's decision to send the case to arbitration, saying developing case law says otherwise.

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House Dem Probes Retailers' Use Of Surveillance Pricing

By Allison Grande

The top Democrat on an influential U.S. House committee has begun to scrutinize corporate "surveillance pricing" practices, pushing Target, Walmart, Costco, Family Dollar, Whole Foods and 20 others Tuesday to explain whether and how they're using consumers' personal data to set individualized prices for certain products and services.

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Ex-Google Engineer's Bid To Nix Conviction Nears Partial Win

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge appeared open Tuesday to partly unwinding a jury's decision to convict a former Google engineer of trade secret theft and economic espionage, saying he's "somewhat skeptical" of the economic espionage charges since he doesn't see sufficient evidence the engineer intended to benefit China.

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Cigna Says HIPAA Doesn't Save Website Privacy Suit

By Matthew Santoni

A proposed group of Cigna health plan participants can't cite HIPAA to keep up their claims that the insurer improperly tracked their private information through its websites, since the privacy law doesn't cover the kind of information the company collected, the insurer told a Pennsylvania federal court.

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NYC China Police Station Case Is Overblown, Jury Hears

By Stewart Bishop

Counsel for a Chinese American man accused of running a secret police station in New York City for China's government told a Brooklyn federal jury Tuesday that his client is being railroaded for helping out his community.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

DOJ's FCA Data-Miner Focus Raises Compliance Stakes

A new U.S. Department of Justice initiative aims to help its Civil Division better vet False Claims Act suits brought by data-mining whistleblowers, signaling that data-driven qui tam enforcement is a priority and making it increasingly important for attorneys and companies to bolster compliance, documentation and internal data monitoring, say attorneys at Wiley.

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Legal Risks Rise As Construction-Site Drone Use Soars

Construction companies using drones face mounting legal risks as Federal Aviation Administration compliance requirements tighten, remote identification capabilities expand and proposed rules move toward organizational accountability, making it crucial to update contracts, schedules, safety protocols and data-governance practices now to avoid future liability, say attorneys at Cozen.

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Understanding The Legal Risks Of Fragile Supply Chains

To ensure supply chain resilience in times of crisis — such as the recent blockage of the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz — it is important for everyone involved in the chain to understand the distribution arrangements and laws applicable across jurisdictions, say lawyers at Brown Rudnick.

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Opinion

USPTO Must Address The Right Question In Sanofi Case

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Appeals Review Panel's questions in Ex parte Baurin indicate recognition of broader doctrinal issues, but rather than approaching from separate angles, the panel should concentrate on a single fundamental question about obviousness-type double patenting, says Jeremy Lowe at Spencer Fane.

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4 Emerging Approaches To AI Protective Order Language

Over the last year, at least five federal district courts have issued or analyzed specific protective order provisions restricting the use of generative artificial intelligence platforms with protected materials, establishing that proactive AI-specific provisions are now standard practice and demonstrating that no single model works for every case, says Joel Bush at Kilpatrick.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Murdaugh Murder Conviction Overturned By SC High Court

By Parker Quinlan

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a double murder conviction and ordered a new trial for disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh, finding the jury in his first trial was biased by a clerk of court who allegedly sought a guilty verdict in a ploy to juice sales of her book about the trial.

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Texas Atty Must Pay $5M For Groping Opposing Counsel

By Lynn LaRowe

A Texas state appellate court on Wednesday refused to disturb a $5 million jury verdict against a San Antonio lawyer for grabbing the buttocks of opposing counsel at the courthouse where they were arguing a family law proceeding in 2019.

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DOJ Goes After DC Bar, Courts For Discipline Of Ex-DOJ Atty

By Hailey Konnath

The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday sued the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel, D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility, D.C. Court of Appeals and the District of Columbia, claiming that they were "punishing" a former Trump administration DOJ official and trying to "control the executive branch."

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DOJ Fraud Division Set To Shake Up White-Collar Enforcement

By Phillip Bantz

President Donald Trump's administration created the U.S. Department of Justice's National Fraud Enforcement Division with a narrow focus on combating government program fraud, but a move to retain federal prosecutors focused on other types of fraud could signal a wider scope with potential ripple effects across white-collar enforcement.

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Arbitrators See Global Stakes In Trump BigLaw EO Fight

By Caroline Simson

Ahead of a D.C. Circuit hearing on Thursday in the Trump administration's effort to revive executive orders imposed against four BigLaw firms, an official at the College of Commercial Arbitrators told Law360 this week there are several things arbitrators are going to be watching for.

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Apple Targets Hagens Berman 'Gamesmanship' In ICloud Suit

By Bryan Koenig

Apple has lashed out at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP for trying to withdraw a named plaintiff from an iCloud antitrust case in California federal court without discovery into any directions she received to preserve now-deleted emails, raising concerns that the withdrawal is meant to "paper over lost evidence."

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Michigan Federal Judge Gets Probation For Drunken Driving

By Susan Smiley

Michigan federal Judge Thomas L. Ludington was sentenced by a state judge on Wednesday to six months' probation and fined $1,175 after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor drunken-driving charge last month in Emmet County.

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6th Circ. Says Kentucky Judicial Hopefuls May Tout Ideology

By Emily Sawicki

Kentucky judicial hopefuls are cleared to discuss their political leanings on the campaign trail, according to a precedential ruling by the Sixth Circuit, which permanently enjoined the state's Judicial Conduct Commission from pursuing an enforcement action against two candidates who described themselves as "conservatives" and "Republicans" amid the 2022 election season.

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Judge Says LegalForce Must Pay $93K After Losing TM Suit

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge on Wednesday ordered LegalForce RAPC Worldwide PC to pay nearly $93,000 in fees and costs to the company that operates LawFirms.com, finding the case to be exceptional because LegalForce alleged facts it knew were false and took steps to obscure other facts that showed its case was meritless.

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CORRECTED: Senate Advances 13 US Attorneys In En Bloc Vote

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 46-45, along party lines, to advance the nomination of 13 U.S. attorneys on Monday as part of a larger nominations package. Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the status of the nominees in the Senate.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alston & Bird

Baker McKenzie

Bracewell LLP

Brown Rudnick

Bruns Connell

Clement & Murphy

Cozen O'Connor

Dann Law Firm

Davis Wright Tremaine

Duane Morris

FBT Gibbons

Frederick M. Lehrer Attorney at Law

Goodwin Procter

Greenberg Traurig

Griffin Humphries

Hagens Berman

Hogan Lovells

Jenner & Block

Kilpatrick Townsend

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Lavin Rindner

LegalForce RAPC

Leonard Dicker & Schreiber

Loevy & Loevy

MH Sub I LLC

Maginnis Howard

Massey & Gail

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Perkins Coie

Richard A. Harpootlian PA

Schlichter Bogard

Scott & Corley

Spencer Fane

Stradley Ronon

Susman Godfrey

Thompson Hine

Wiley Rein

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Womble Bond

iGeneral Counsel PC

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Adobe Inc.

Aldi GmbH & Co. KG

Allergan PLC

Alphabet Inc.

Alvogen Group Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

Amicus

Apple Inc.

Athena Bitcoin Inc.

Aurobindo Pharma Ltd.

Biotechnology Innovation Organization

Bitcoin Depot

British American Tobacco PLC

CVS Health Corp.

Costco Wholesale Corp.

Dollar Tree Inc.

ElevenLabs

Federalist Society

Food & Drug Law Institute

Food Lion LLC

Gilead Sciences Inc.

Google LLC

Grindr LLC

Hannaford Brothers Co.

Harcros Chemicals Inc.

Inari Agriculture Inc.

Instacart

Instagram Inc.

International Council for Commercial Arbitration

JetBlue Airways Corp.

LinkedIn Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc.

NVIDIA Corp.

PAREXEL International Corp.

Pindrop Security Inc.

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Inc.

Roblox Corp.

Sam's Club

Sanofi

Stop & Shop Supermarket Co.

Tesla Inc.

The Cigna Group

The District of Columbia Bar

The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.

V2X Inc.

Verizon Communications Inc.

Village Super Market Inc.

Walmart Inc.

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

International Chamber of Commerce

New York Attorney General's Office

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

South Carolina Attorney General's Office

State of Michigan

Texas Tenth Court of Appeals

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

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

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

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

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

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United Nations

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the District of Kansas

United States District Court for the District of Wyoming