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
Podcast - Miss Lillian "Testifies": The Importance of Witness Preparation
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 70 - Fireside Chat With Rachel Barkow and Casey Michel
Key Discovery Points: Think About Who Has Control Over a Hyperlinked File
Podcast - Bad Facts Make Bad Law
High Crimes and Misdemeanors: Unruly Passengers – How a Bad Flight Could Ruin Your Travel Future
How to Handle Service of Process Effectively
How the Boards of Contract Appeals Work—And Why It Matters for Your Bottom Line
Key Takeaways: Supreme Court to decide if “generic version” marketing can support induced infringement claims. On Jan. 16, 2026, the Court granted Hikma’s petition for cert. in a closely watched case that could redefine...more
The Justice Department knows how to use the False Claims Act — it is the primary tool against fraudsters in the healthcare industry, and going back even further, it was used against the defense industry in the 1980s and...more
Recent years have featured an increasing number of civil actions against corporations asserting claims under the federal Antiterrorism Act of 1990 (ATA), as amended by the 2016 Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act...more
The UK Supreme Court has ruled on the interpretation of clauses in a standard form JCT Design and Build Contract. For the construction industry, the case is useful for illuminating the meaning of certain ambiguous JCT Design...more
Trademark lawyers eventually learn a hard truth: brands often do not die; instead, they drift. Sometimes they drift quietly into nostalgia. Sometimes they drift into the hands of the entrepreneurial and well-advised. Other...more
The Court of Appeal’s judgement in Various Claimants v. Standard Chartered plc is a significant decision on whether an English court may compel disclosure of documents that are confidential under foreign regulatory regimes –...more
Addressing an issue of first impression, the First Circuit has clarified the burden to satisfy the knowledge element required in False Claims Act (FCA) cases in the context of laboratory testing and Medicare fraud....more
In 1979, an IBM training manual offered a principle that now reads as prophecy: “A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.” Nearly five decades later, computers—now...more
Jurisdiction: United States District Court for the District of Oregon - Plaintiffs Robert and Delores Thrasher sued 42 defendants alleging that Robert Thrasher’s asbestos exposure as a child in Oregon and in his Navy...more
The Federal Circuit’s ongoing struggle over how aggressively district courts should police expert testimony has once again divided the court, exposing a fundamental disagreement about the proper limits of Rule 702....more
Our Texas Round-Up for December 2025 covers decisions from the Eastern District addressing subject matter eligibility under Section 101 and the timeliness of expert opinions on non-infringing alternatives....more
On December 22, 2025, Magistrate Christian Douglas Wright of the Delaware Court of Chancery granted default judgment in a books and records action brought by the Company’s former CEO and largest stockholder. Moran v. Unation,...more
In a decision that may foreshadow major doctrinal change, two judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals have urged the court to rethink – or abandon – its long‑standing framework for assessing substantial similarity in...more
On Jan. 20, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a significant ruling about when certain state statutes may apply in diversity actions in federal court. In Berk v. Choy (24-440), the Supreme Court addressed a Delaware statute...more
On January 20, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States issued three decisions: Berk v. Choy No. 24-440: This case involves state “affidavit of merit” statutes that require certain types of lawsuits, like medical...more
On January 12, 2026, Judge Robert Pitman of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas granted a motion to dismiss a putative securities class action against a cybersecurity company (the “Company”) and...more
The First District Court of Appeal’s decision in Quilala v. Securitas Security Services USA, Inc. underscores the significant reach of the federal Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021...more
eDiscovery has become increasingly complex and costly. What once involved a few servers and email archives has become a vast network of cloud systems, collaboration tools, and AI-driven applications. As the volume and variety...more
New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed the Consumer Litigation Funding Act (the Act) into law, significantly expanding state regulation of consumer litigation funding. The Act requires plain language contracts that...more
In Deutsche Bank National Trust Company v. LeTennier, the Appellate Division, Third Department issued a significant published decision that not only affirms the challenged orders, leaving the foreclosure judgment in favor of...more
Last week, the Supreme Court declined to review Percipient.ai, Inc. v. United States, 153 F.4th 1226 (Fed. Cir. 2025), a high‑profile Federal Circuit decision that limits who may bring a protest at the U.S. Court of Federal...more
On January 16, 2025, Foley Hoag filed two amicus briefs on behalf of leading U.S. and international jurists on foreign sovereign immunity before the U.S. Supreme Court in Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Corporación CIMEX, S.A. (Cuba)....more
Florida Court Warns Attorneys: Verify AI-Generated Citations or Face Discipline - Russell v. Mells, Fla. 2d DCA, No. 2D2024-1560, 2025 WL 3533637, Dec. 10, 2025 - More and more, judges are referring attorneys to the bar for...more
In Formal Opinion 2025-100, the Pennsylvania Bar Association Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility emphasizes the importance of written fee arrangements. The recent Opinion clarifies the minimum...more
Welcome to the Shipping and Energy Year in Review 2025 from the London office of Haynes Boone. As editor of our quarterly newsletter, I am delighted to bring together, in one place, the alerts, articles, publications and...more