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Best of WIPL Webcast: Intentional Leadership - Lessons You Can Use Now

Mon, 2025-09-22 11:45

This webcast distills the most practical lessons from the Women, Influence & Power in Law 2025 conference into one focused session.

       

How I Made Practice Group Chair: 'Try to Keep Your Career in Perspective,' Says Rachel Faye Smith of Morrison Foerster

Mon, 2025-09-22 10:59

"Try to keep your career in perspective and be open to opportunities. There are infinite ways to be successful. I didn't even know ERISA existed when I went to law school, and here I am, two decades later, happy and with a career that I am proud of. Who knew?"

       

AI Firms Have Every Incentive to Settle Copyright-Infringement Suits, Even If It Costs Them Billions

Mon, 2025-09-22 10:53

“It's certainly reasonable that some companies will see the numbers and say that it's safer to resolve the cases, because then it becomes a line item, a business cost, rather than a risk that's hanging over their heads for years, said Regina Sam Penti, a partner at Ropes & Gray.

       

AI and the Fair Use Defense: Lessons from Two Recent Summary Judgment Rulings

Mon, 2025-09-22 10:17

Two judges in the Northern District of California recently issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company's scraping and ingestion of copyrighted works to train its LLMs qualified as fair use. Both decisions carry potentially seismic importance for AI companies and intellectual property litigators.

       

When Patent Prosecution Becomes Something More

Mon, 2025-09-22 10:07

Most days, preparing and prosecuting patent applications follows a familiar rhythm. Talk with the inventors. Draft the application. Wait for the Patent Office. Argue a few times. Secure the patent. Repeat. But every so often, a case reminds us that our work can mean much more — especially when something has gone wrong, and someone needs an advocate to make it right.

       

As Kirkland and Other Big Law Firms Get Bigger, Revolving Lines of Credit Grow

Mon, 2025-09-22 05:59

Kirkland's revolver credit is perhaps the largest in the legal industry—more than 10 times the size of the average Am Law 100 firm's revolving line of credit.

       

Lights, Camera Accident? PI Lawyer's Crime Thriller Set for Atlanta-Based Film Adaptation

Mon, 2025-09-22 00:15

Brian Cuban, a Texas-based attorney and brother of billionaire Mark Cuban, recently announced that his novel “The Ambulance Chaser, a thriller starring a personal injury lawyer, is now getting a film adaptation set in Atlanta.

       

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