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Observers in the legal tech industry speculate that firms’ caution stems from a commitment to a profitability model dependent on high leverage and hourly billing.        

“It will essentially break the internet” if consumers’ rights to opt out of website advertising are too sweeping, said Rick Arney, who co-wrote the legislation creating the California Privacy Protection Agency.        

Taft Stettinius is among 21 law firms to report data breaches this year.        

“Where, as here, parties have agreed to two contracts—one sending arbitrability disputes to arbitration, and the other either explicitly or implicitly sending arbitrability disputes to the courts—a court must decide which contract governs,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote.        

I will not present a side here because there isn’t a “good” side to take. In my opinion, there aren’t even “sides” as much as multifaceted issues at play.        

David Harrell, partner in Locke Lord in Houston, was named the 2024-2025 Houston Bar Association president during the association’s annual dinner on May 14, the HBA announced in a press release. Harrell succeeds Diana Gomez, who was recently elected to the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors representing District 4, Place 3. “I am […]

“The EPA’s new PFAS rule is the agency’s first-ever exercise of its authority under Section 102(a) to directly identify CERCLA-specific hazardous substances,” write Andrea Driggs, Meredith Weinberg and Benjamin Longbottom of Perkins Coie.        

The Academic Senate voted 43% in favor of the no-confidence resolution and voted 50% in favor of censuring Chancellor Gene Block.        

Ryan Salame’s attorneys from Mayer Brown asked U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan to impose a sentence of no more than 18 months, arguing that he was not part of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle.        

“I just want to commend this nominee for her comportment because what her comportment says to me is that she is going to be a damn good judge,” Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said of Sarah Netburn, a nominee for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.