For the last several years, I've become obsessed with a particular legal, technological, and philosophical question: Can a robot invent on its own?

       

In the not too distant past, no one would mistake a law firm for a legal tech company. Now, it's not always as clear cut.

       

"Somewhere, some place, there is a court that will see the case for the farce it became," Norm Pattis of Pattis & Paz, counsel for Jones during the trial, said. "The court of last resort is the United States Supreme Court. I hope Alex petitions. At least Justice Ecker was paying attention."

       

Amazon said David Zapolsky's stock awards were due in part to "the quality and thoroughness of his counsel and advice to management and the Board on legal, regulatory and policy issues" amid the company's growth.

       

Ex-U.S. Attorney John Bash has announced plans to run for the Texas Attorney General. This comes after Texas AG Ken Paxton said he would run for the Senate seat currently occupied by Republican Sen. John Cornyn.

       

In addition, “noncompetes are back on the radar, United Airlines Managing Counsel Jenny Schwab said during a panel discussion Wednesday.

       

Of the schools listed in this year's T14, four are marked as participating.

       

"Part of the way I'll spend some of the money that we're getting from the law firms," Trump said, will be to "represent us with regard to the many, many countries that we'll be dealing with."

       

"He's taking the helm of the SEC on a time of transition and will work alongside the CFTC [Commodity Futures Trading Commission] to implement a new crypto regulatory framework," said Renato Mariotti, a partner at Paul Hastings. "Given all the uncertainty and change at the commission, his confirmation will provide much needed direction to the SEC."

       

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The D.C. Circuit affirmed that AI cannot be the sole author on a copyright-registered work, but left questions about the future of AI authorship in copyright for Congress to resolve.        

“The numbers are adding up. We're going to be close to a billion soon," said deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.

       

An event aimed to training pro bono lawyers for environmental work was founded as a way to promote a broad view of what environmental work is and to convince lawyers that they have the skills to do environmental pro bono.

       

One thousand general counsel and CLOs across 21 countries gave their views as part of the research.

       

President Donald Trump asked the justices to lift lower court orders requiring the reinstatement of National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox and Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris.

       

The dispute outlined in the 103-page complaint, originally filed under seal on April 3 and made public on April 8, is linked to Dropbox's reincorporation in Nevada, which was finalized in March, and the events preceding the move.

       

       

“This case highlights a critical issue for the entire digital asset industry, because there was the misuse of investment pool structures, and the investment pool structure was presented to be decentralized, said Eugene Uporov, the general counsel for the plaintiff, Hash Asset Management Ltd.

       

The defendant "accepted full responsibility for his conduct by pleading guilty," counsel for Nicholas Roske said after he admitted a failed attempt to kill U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh following the leak of a 2022 draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.