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
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
Will contests are among the most common and also the most emotionally charged types of estate disputes. A will is a legal document setting forth a person’s directions for the disposition of their probate estate upon their...more
In a dispute over whether individuals signing a franchise agreement are subject to the franchise agreement’s arbitration provisions, a federal court in Wisconsin denied a motion to dismiss a request for the federal court to...more
In L.S. v. Bolduan, 2026 WL 95689 (W.D. Wash. Feb. 12, 2026), under the “legal right test,” defense counsel–who obtained information from their institutional client in a State court case–did not have possession, custody, or...more
In In the Estate of Wheatfall, after Hugh Wheatfall died in 2018, Isaiah Wheatfall filed for letters of administration in February 2019, claiming intestacy, and Theresa DeBose filed to probate a 2009 will one week later. No....more
In a ruling with major implications for AI companies navigating copyright litigation, a federal judge in a copyright action against OpenAI has drawn a bright line between denying wrongdoing and inviting discovery into...more
On February 5, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissed with prejudice a putative class action lawsuit alleging race discrimination in mortgage lending. ...more
This LawFlash explains how the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s civil cause of action is being used to pursue sex trafficking claims against institutional defendants, why certain industries are being targeted, and what...more
On February 2, the union representing CFPB employees filed an en banc brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, urging the court to uphold the district court’s preliminary injunction preventing the executive...more
In In re Gregg, Kenneth Gregg, an elderly man with dementia, transferred property to his son Monte Gregg in 2023. No. 07-25-00035-CV, 2025 Tex. App. LEXIS 3805 (Tex. App.—Amarillo May 29, 2025, no pet.)....more
On September 17, 2025, Northern District of California Judge James Donato granted Hermes International and Hermes of Paris’s motion to dismiss the second amended complaint by a putative class on behalf of national and...more
Aloia v. Diament Bldg. Corp., 329 A.3d 586 (Pa. 2024) and Clearfield County v. Transystems Corp., 338 A.3d 110 (Pa. 2025) - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has accepted review in two matters that could materially affect the...more
Emily Laughlin v. Miami-Dade County, Florida, No. 24-13284, 2025 WL 3633853 (11th Cir. Dec. 15, 2025) - Emily Laughlin, a 12-month probationary employee with Miami-Dade County’s Animal Services Department, began experiencing...more
