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Legislative Memorandum regarding the application of Israeli law to foreign dealers and international companies

The Ministry of Justice published a new legislative memorandum (Draft Bill) for public comments a few days ago, which seeks to regulate the application of Israeli law to foreign dealers who target customers in Israel. The...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

State Compounding Legislation: Federal Preemption, State Limits and Patient Impact

Legislative sessions are underway in most states, and some have introduced novel legislation to regulate compounded medications, including those specific to weight loss....more

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The Tort of Deceit, Double Actionability and Renvoi; the decision in Bidzina Ivanishvili & Ors v Credit Suisse Life (Bermuda) Ltd...

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On 24 November 2025 the Privy Council handed down a judgment in a Bermudian claim for breach of contractual and fiduciary duties and fraudulent misrepresentation, issued by a high-net-worth individual Bidzina Ivanishvili...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

New York Amends Shield Law

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The New York “Shield Law” refers to several statutes intended to protect patients and providers seeking or offering services concerning gender-affirming care or abortion. These statutes were enacted in response to certain...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

New York’s New AI Guardrails on AI Generated Performers and Postmortem Digital Replicas: What Institutions of Higher Education...

New York has enacted two significant AI-related laws aimed at “protecting consumers and boosting AI transparency” as part of the state’s AI regulatory agenda at the very moment the federal government is asserting a contrary,...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Colorado Files Opposition to Plaintiffs’ Rehearing Petition in Opt-Out Litigation

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As we reported previously, a petition for rehearing en banc was filed by the plaintiff bank trade associations in National Association of Industrial Bankers v. Weiser. In that case, the panel’s 2-1 decision held that a loan...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

UPC Key Documents – Legislation And Guidance (UPDATED)

A collection of easy links to the key pieces of legislation and rules governing the Unified Patent Court and unitary patent...more

K&L Gates LLP

Has the Texas Two-Step Become the Thames Two-Step?

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In the first of its kind, a US company with no prior connection to the United Kingdom, has financially restructured via a Part 26A Companies Act (UK) Restructuring Plan (the RP), in respect of which it also achieved Chapter...more

Alston & Bird

FTC Reverses Rytr Consent Order Amid Push for Federal AI Standards

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On December 22, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) set aside its 2024 consent order against Rytr, a generative AI-powered company, concluding that the original complaint “failed to satisfy the legal requirements of the...more

Proskauer - The Patent Playbook

Updates on APEX-related Personal Jurisdiction Considerations Since SnapRays

Last year we discussed the implications of the Supreme Court’s choice not to review the Federal Circuit’s SnapRays decision for patent owners that rely on the Amazon Patent Evaluation Express (“APEX”) program. A recent case...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Colorado argues against en banc review in DIDMCA opt-out legislation challenge

On January 21, representatives from Colorado filed a response in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit opposing a petition for rehearing en banc in a case involving the state’s opt-out from federal interest rate...more

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U.S. Artificial Intelligence Law Update: Navigating the Evolving State and Federal Regulatory Landscape

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The U.S. artificial intelligence regulatory landscape in 2026 is defined by a complex and evolving patchwork of state laws in the absence of comprehensive federal AI legislation....more

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Cross-Border Investigations: Managing Data, Law, and Risk

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Cross-border investigations are rarely straightforward. Legal obligations vary by country, and cultural expectations can shape both access and cooperation. By the time counsel gets involved, the investigation is already...more

Freeman Mathis & Gary

Big changes in med-mal: SCOTUS bars Delaware’s affidavit-of-merit in Federal Court

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In Berk v. Choy (Jan. 20, 2026), the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether Delaware’s medical-malpractice “affidavit of merit” statute applies in federal court when a plaintiff sues under diversity jurisdiction. Delaware law...more

Lewitt Hackman

Franchisor 101: A Franchisee’s Senior Moment

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A federal court in Illinois granted a franchisor’s motion for preliminary injunction against a former franchisee in California, accused of breaching post-termination obligations in a franchise agreement. Applying Illinois...more

White & Case LLP

Anti-suit kit bag: Peremptory orders provide newly tested means of obtaining relief from English courts

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In what is believed to be a first for the English Courts, the Court of Appeal in LLC Eurochem North-West-2 v Tecnimont SpA and MT Russia LLC [2026] EWCA Civ 5 ("NW2 v Tecnimont") this month upheld a court order under Section...more

Maynard Nexsen

New Year, New Minimum Salaries for Non-competes in Some States

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While the Federal Trade Commission no longer seeks to ban non-competes nationwide, individual states continue adding limits on restrictive covenants including non-competition provisions and non-solicitation provisions. One...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Why Are British Artists Suing a British Fashion House Over Graffiti on British Buildings, in America? - The Katten...

This case seems so straight-forward that fans of self-effacing legal articles might question why this one is worth the ink. UK-based graffiti artists Cole Smith, Reece Deardon and Harry Matthews, known professionally as DISA,...more

A&O Shearman

Navigating Evolving Guardrails For Internal Investigations

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Those involved with internal investigations will continue to contend with a set of increasingly defined and evolving set of constraints in 2026: rules on data access and cross border transfers, persistent jurisdictional...more

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AI Legal Watch: January 2026

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Multiple significant state AI laws became effective January 1, 2026. California's Transparency in Frontier AI Act (SB 53), signed September 29, 2025, requires developers of large AI models trained using greater than 10²⁶...more

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Inside the DOJ’s New AI Litigation Task Force

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On January 9, 2026, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced the creation of an Artificial Intelligence Litigation Task Force (“Task Force”) through an internal memorandum....more

A&O Shearman

Managing Conflicting Laws Amid National Security And Geopolitical Pressures

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Corporate crime and investigations in 2026 continue to be shaped by national security and geopolitics, producing overlapping and sometimes contradictory legal regimes. Companies face stricter scrutiny of cross-border data...more

FBT Gibbons LLP

Prediction Markets Face New Compliance Era as Federal Oversight Intensifies

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Over the last several years, prediction markets (venues where traders buy and sell binary contracts tied to real‑world events) have moved from the margins of academia into a federally supervised market structure....more

Dacheng

EU v China: The WTO Arbitration Award on Chinese Anti-Suit Injunctions in SEP Disputes: Key Holdings and Practical Takeaways

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Rapid advances in 5G, the Internet of Things, and other next-generation technologies have transformed standard-essential patent (“SEP”) disputes from bilateral commercial conflicts into broader contests over global forum...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

English High Court Refuses Anti-Suit Injunction to Block Subpoenas in BHP v. Pogust Goodhead

The English High Court has dismissed a claim for an anti-suit injunction (ASI) by BHP Group (UK) Ltd and BHP Group Limited (collectively "BHP") against PGMBM Law Ltd, trading as Pogust Goodhead. ...more

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