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Mayer Brown

Navigating Complexity in US Consumer Financial Services: A Look Back at 2025

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Mayer Brown’s broad Financial Services practice has a long history of providing meaningful insights on how rapidly evolving environments for financial products may affect their business activities through both thought...more

Haynes Boone

Federal Circuit’s Holding on Patent Eligibility for Engineered Host Cells Dovetails With PERA

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U.S. Supreme Court opinions in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. and Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. V. CLS Bank International et al., have...more

Marshall Dennehey

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania Narrows Who May Seek Recourse Through the Workers’ Compensation Act’s Fee Review Process

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Scomed Supply v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company and Sedgwick Claims Management Services (Bureau of Workers' Compensation Fee Review Hearing Office), No. 79 C.D. 2025 (Pa. Cmwlth. March 16, 2026) - On March 16, 2026,...more

Haynes Boone

Generative AI in Litigation: Are Prompts, Outputs and AI-Assisted Drafts Discoverable?

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Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming litigation practice—reshaping how cases are investigated, analyzed and litigated. While there is no doubt that these tools can offer significant efficiencies, they also...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

A Cross-Country Trio of Appellate Decisions Tackles Novel LLC Disputes

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As I have written in the past, and repeat here, the statutes and judge-made law governing disputes among co-owners of closely held entities can vary significantly from state to state. Depending on the state, there also can be...more

Marshall Dennehey

School Districts Can Be Vicariously Liable When Students Are Sexually Abused by Their Employees

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In a precedential, consolidated opinion decided on March 11, 2026, the New Jersey Supreme Court held in Hornor v. Upper Freehold Regional Board of Education and Simpkins v. South Orange-Maplewood School District that the...more

CDF Labor Law LLP

Rolling Out Arbitration Agreements During Class Actions: Best Practices to Avoid Invalidation of Agreement

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The Ninth Circuit’s recent ruling in Avery v. TEKsystems, Inc. (9th Cir. 2026) 165 F.4th 1219, invalidating an arbitration agreement rolled out during pending litigation emphasizes the importance of clear communication with...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

The Need to Address Open-Source Artificial Intelligence in Bespoke or Model Litigation Protective Orders

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Much ink recently has been spilt regarding preserving the attorney-client and work-product privileges when parties or counsel use open-source artificial intelligence in litigation. The natural extension, however, is how...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Court Suggests That Opposing Counsel Also Failed to Check Citations

Do lawyers have an obligation not only to verify their own citations, but also to catch their opponents “hallucinated” authorities? A recent Seventh Circuit decision suggests that the answer may be edging toward yes....more

International Lawyers Network

Establishing a Business Entity in Argentina (Updated)

1. Types of business entities - The most common types of legal entities adopted in Argentina are the limited liability company (“Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada” or “SRL”), the corporation (“Sociedad Anónima” or “SA”)...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Trouble in Paradise: Subject Line Class Action Hits Florida

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In the year since the Washington Supreme Court opened the floodgates to subject line litigation, nearly 100 lawsuits have been filed in Washington State seeking rich statutory penalties for routine marketing subject lines,...more

Perkins Coie

Fifteen Years in the Making: First District Holds Res Judicata Bars Renewed CEQA Challenge to Richardson Grove Highway Project

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In Bair v. California Department of Transportation, ___ Cal. App. 5th ___, 2026 WL 835777 (Mar. 26, 2026), the First District Court of Appeal held that a losing party in writ of mandate proceedings may not resuscitate a CEQA...more

Goldberg Segalla

Insurer Intervention in Tort Lawsuits: Strategic Coverage Considerations and Legal Frameworks

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In the complex landscape of insurance litigation, the question of whether and when an insurer should intervene in an underlying tort lawsuit is increasingly critical. With rising exposure to mixed claims – those involving...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

For Whom the Discovery Tolls: Your Privacy Notice May Help Time-Bar Website Wiretapping Claims

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In a recent decision out of the Northern District of California, the court held that a website operator’s privacy policy, even one presented in a passive, browse wrap-style hyperlink, can defeat the delayed discovery doctrine...more

King & Spalding

Jurisdictional Limits: Key Decisions from the DIFC Court and the Abu Dhabi Court of Cassation

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Two recent decisions have shed important light on how jurisdiction is established in the courts of the Dubai International Financial Centre (the “DIFC”) and the Abu Dhabi Global Market (the “ADGM”), respectively....more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Sixth Circuit Upholds Labor Department's Narrow Interpretation of FLSA Companionship Exemption

In recent years, home healthcare agencies have faced a growing number of class and collective action lawsuits alleging failure to pay overtime. In response, some employers have attempted to claim the companionship exemption...more

Snell & Wilmer

The Choppy Waters Employers Are Navigating in California: Arbitration Limits and PAGA Maneuvering

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Employers in California continue to face rough waters when it comes to enforcing arbitration agreements. Through the lens of some recent California cases, this alert addresses questions employers may want to consider at each...more

Shipkevich PLLC

Default Judgments Are Not Precedent: Re-Examining the $5,000 Private Penalty Claim in Texas Telephone Solicitation Cases

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Companies operating in Texas have seen a notable increase in demand letters and civil claims citing Section 302.302(a) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code, which carries a civil penalty of up to $5,000 per violation. What...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

New Jersey bankruptcy court upholds debtor-chosen venue under Asset Based Approach

On March 16, 2026, Judge Michael B. Kaplan of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey (the “Court”) issued a letter opinion denying the motions by the United States Trustee (the “U.S. Trustee”) and...more

Troutman Amin LLP

CLASS IS STILL OUT: Court Again Affirms Denial of Class Certification in TCPA Lawsuit

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Hi TCPAWorld! It seems that at the same time students are out of school for a break, motions for class certification are denied. Such is the case for the plaintiff in Brian J. Lyngas, D.D.S., P.L.L.C., v. IQVIA, INC., 2025 WL...more

Ropers Majeski

Recent First Department Decision: Storm-in-Progress Doctrine Reaffirmed in Interior Slip-and-Fall Context

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In Alvizurez v. North State Realty Associates LLC, the First Department reversed two Bronx County orders and granted summary judgment to the owner and property manager in a lobby stairwell slip-and-fall case....more

Carlton Fields

Florida Appeals Court Decisions Week of April 6 - 10, 2026

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U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - Dish Network v. Fraifer - copyright infringement - Hayes v. OWCP - Black Lung Benefits Act, “year” - Faulk v. Dimerco Exp - § 1983, racial discrimination, improper arguments,...more

IMS Legal Strategies

Why Federal Rule 107 Matters for Your Trial Presentations

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Take a moment, close your eyes, and imagine this: You have just been selected to serve on a jury. You begrudgingly enter the courtroom, take your seat in the jury box, and begin watching the persuasive battle unfold....more

Cranfill Sumner LLP

NC Supreme Court Reverses Precedent by Holding that Denial of a Statute of Repose Defense Is Immediately Appealable

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The North Carolina Supreme Court’s decision in Byrd v. Avco Corp. (filed March 20, 2026) held that a trial court’s denial of a statute of repose defense can affect a defendant’s substantial right and is therefore immediately...more

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When CEQA Litigation Becomes “One Battle After Another”:  First District Holds Res Judicata Precludes Third CEQA Action...

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In an important published opinion filed March 26, 2026, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. 2) affirmed a trial court’s judgment denying the third CEQA writ petition filed over the last fifteen years challenging...more

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