“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hawley, a Missouri Republican, sent a letter to Sam Altman on Thursday demanding he produce data about ChatGPT's product design, engagement practices and harms inflicted on minors after an emotional hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.