From Early Case Assessment to Early Case Intelligence
The Role of an Expert Witness
Podcast - Victories and "Losses" in the Courtroom
Introducing LighthouseIQ: Where Intelligence Meets Performance
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 541: Listen and Learn -- Injunctions and Restraining Orders (Civ Pro)
Podcast - Finding Humor in Law
Podcast - Keeping Your Vessel Stable During Cross-Examination
Podcast - Del juez al árbitro: Una nueva ruta para ejecutar obligaciones
Podcast - Reading the Room
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 75 - Who’s in Charge? Navigating Uncertainty in New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney’s Office
Building a Quantifiable Business Case for AI in Corporate Legal Departments
Identifying Good and Bad Use Cases for AI for Law Firms
AI's Impact on Litigation
The Modern Discovery Traps that Are Upending Cases
Podcast - Telling the Whole Story
The "Lesser-Included" Email Debate: What Does Rule 34 Really Require for Production?
Trust Is Key
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 72 - Beyond the Headlines: Unpacking a Pivotal Case on Privilege Protections
Curtailing Civil RICO: The Rise and Fall of Securities Fraud Claims Under the PSLRA — RICO Report Podcast
Podcast - Part II: Recent Changes in Jury Dynamics and How to Prepare Your Expert Accordingly
Developments in securities litigation move fast, and not all of them matter equally. Each month, Alto Litigation curates and summarizes the cases, rulings, and regulatory actions most likely to shape risk and strategy in the...more
The two largest judicial districts in Florida will now require lawyers to certify whether artificial intelligence was used in any fashion to create pleadings filed in their courts. Legal research and document drafting, both...more
Discovery is a two-way street. In any litigation, parties are entitled to discover relevant information related to any party’s claims or defenses. This is particularly important in patent litigation where discovery often...more
In Virginia, when a person (the principal) signs a power of attorney (POA), they authorize an agent to act on their behalf. Transparency is essential. If an agent will not provide information, concerned loved ones must act...more
Most lawyers are familiar with the basic concepts underlying the absolute, but fragile, attorney-client privilege. But beyond those very basic principles, where do lawyers look for more specific guidance? In Johnson v....more
Morgan & Morgan. They claim to be the biggest plaintiff’s firm in the country– and maybe they are. But they’re just a bunch of car crash lawyers right? Well maybe not....more
In last week's opinion in In re ColossusBets Limited, the Fifteenth Court of Appeals offered a clear illustration of how Texas’ new Business Court interacts with traditional pleading amendments — and what happens when a...more
If you’re the kind of person who waits until April 15 to drop off your federal tax return in a blue mailbox, or who trusts a mailed check will always be dated the day you dropped it in the slot, the U.S. Postal Service just...more
An emerging split in the Colorado Court of Appeals may force the Colorado Supreme Court to revisit the state’s anti-SLAPP statute—soon after finally weighing in on the statute’s first prong as a novel question in Lind-Barnett...more
On Feb. 10, 2026, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a bench ruling holding that documents prepared using generative AI were not protected by attorney-client privilege...more
On Feb. 10, 2026, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York delivered a ruling from the bench in United States v. Heppner that dismantled a central pillar of the defendant’s legal shield. The court held that...more
Americans have long viewed large organizations, both governmental and corporate, with considerable skepticism. In civil litigation, jurors will often perceive corporate defendants through an interpretive lens colored by...more
Seven workers’ compensation decisions were released by the New York 3rd Dept. the week of 2/11/2026: Matter of Jackson v New York Foundling Hospital - The claimant, a social worker, had a variety of ailments that led to an...more
On February 10, 2026, the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held that a criminal defendant could not claim attorney-client privilege over documents he produced using a commercially available...more
Aww the terrible AFLAC Duck. With college football season behind us– great national championship game BTW– I probably won’t hear from that terrible annoying duck for a while....more
Somewhere right now, an adversary is quietly siphoning encrypted financial data off a major bank’s network—not to read it today, but to crack it open the moment quantum computers catch up....more
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana - Plaintiffs Erica Dandry Constanza and Monica Dandry Hallner allege the decedent, Michael P. Dandry Jr., had occupational exposure to asbestos by...more
Ingevity Corporation v. BASF Corporation, Appeal No. 2024-1577 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 11, 2026) - In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit affirmed a $85 million antitrust verdict from the District of Delaware, based on...more
A recent decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit serves as a stark reminder to companies and individuals in the state-legal cannabis industry that the federal illegality of cannabis can jeopardize their...more
On February 5, 2026, Judge Victor Marrero of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed a putative class action asserting claims under Sections 11 and 12(a)(2) of the Securities Act of...more
Hughes Hubbard successfully represented a group of 11 Ukrainian petrol companies, led by Stabil LLC, before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which affirmed the United States District Court for...more
On February 10, 2026, in Hong Thanh Ha v. Philip Ha, Record No. 1348-24-4 (Va. Ct. App. Feb. 10, 2026), the Court of Appeals of Virginia decided a significant case affirming an order entered by the Circuit Court of Prince...more
Disputes among company owners (called “members” for limited liability companies and “shareholders” for corporations) often escalate into legal action. One type of dispute is a derivative action—a claim brought by a minority...more
AI, Privilege, and the Courts: Key Ruling on AI-Generated Legal Materials As artificial intelligence (AI) transitions from experimental models to practical, agent-driven applications in 2026, legal professionals and clients...more
Contracts in the energy and construction sectors regularly provide a party with a right to terminate for specified defaults by their counterparty. Where, for example, an employer fails to pay on time, this may only give rise...more
