Technology

  • March 05, 2024

    Judges Unsure On Atty Sanctions In Robinhood Spam Suit

    Class counsel sanctioned $750,000 for helping instigate a spam text suit against Robinhood Financial likely engaged in "shenanigans," a Washington appeals judge said Tuesday, though a colleague on the bench questioned whether those sanctions should stick if Robinhood was nevertheless liable in the case.

  • March 05, 2024

    App Store Users Tell 9th Circ. To Reject Class Cert. Appeal

    Consumers pressed the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to not take up Apple's appeal of the certification of millions of App Store users, arguing the class action raises none of the issues justifying immediate intervention before trial on allegations targeting the technology giant's iron grip over app distribution on iPhones.

  • March 05, 2024

    Judge Lets Ramey Drop Client In Netflix Patent Case

    A California federal judge has allowed Ramey LLP to withdraw from representing a Finnish inventor in his patent infringement case against Netflix, saying he wasn't paying his required fees.

  • March 05, 2024

    IPwe Seeks Ch. 7 Liquidation After Ch. 11 Financing Loss

    Patent trading platform operator IPwe asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge Tuesday to convert its Chapter 11 reorganization to a Chapter 7 liquidation, saying it has lost its source of bankruptcy funding and has no way to continue with its planned going-concern sale.

  • March 05, 2024

    Gibson Dunn AI Leader On Weathering The AI Policy Blizzard

    Like a mountaineer leading a team through a snowstorm, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's artificial intelligence co-chair Cassandra L. Gaedt-Sheckter is guiding companies developing and using artificial intelligence through a blizzard of new laws and regulations coming online in Europe and the U.S., saying that assessing AI risks is the North Star to mitigating them.

  • March 05, 2024

    Senate Dem Sees Votes For Broadband Discount Funding

    A key Democratic senator said late Tuesday he sees momentum growing on Capitol Hill for at least a short-term funding renewal for the embattled Affordable Connectivity Program.

  • March 05, 2024

    Amazon Workers Push For Class Status In Military Leave Suit

    Current and former Amazon employees urged a Washington federal court to grant them class status in their lawsuit accusing the company of demoting or firing workers who took time off for military leave, saying the 15,000 members of the proposed class have plenty in common.

  • March 05, 2024

    Fed. Circ. Mostly Affirms IBM Defeat In Online Ad Patent Row

    The Federal Circuit has agreed that a New York federal court was right to invalidate claims in IBM Corp.'s patents covering online advertising, and also backed a finding that many of the claims were not infringed by pet goods retailer Chewy.

  • March 05, 2024

    House Bills Take Big Swing At TikTok

    On Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will once again scrutinize TikTok and consider legislation to shore up national security concerns that the technology company decried as an "outright ban."

  • March 05, 2024

    Social Media Created Public Nuisance, Schools Say

    School districts on Monday urged a California federal judge not to toss their suits in multidistrict litigation alleging that social media giants like Meta Platforms Inc. and Snap Inc. purposefully addict minors, saying that their deliberate targeting of students during the school day created a public nuisance.

  • March 05, 2024

    Cadence To Acquire Beta Cae In $1.24B Cash-And-Stock Deal

    Latham & Watkins LLP-advised Cadence Design Systems Inc. will pay $1.24 billion for engineering simulation software business Beta Cae Systems International AG, which serves Formula One racing teams and major automotive companies, according to an announcement Tuesday.

  • March 05, 2024

    Microsoft Says NYT Has No 'Real' Examples Of Infringement

    Microsoft Corp. urged a Manhattan federal judge to dismiss claims from a New York Times' copyright complaint that contends ChatGPT illegally reproduces the publication's content, arguing the newspaper has not produced "a single real-world example" of that happening.

  • March 05, 2024

    EV Maker Proterra's Ch. 11 Plan Gets Thumbs-Up In Del.

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved the reorganization plan of commercial electric vehicle technology company Proterra, which entered Chapter 11 to overhaul nearly $200 million in funded debt, overruling a handful of remaining objections.

  • March 05, 2024

    Meta Tells Chancery It Didn't 'Utterly Fail' To Stop Exploitation

    Shareholders accusing Meta's leaders of "utterly failing" to eliminate pedophilia, human trafficking and child sexual exploitation on its social media platforms didn't ask enough about the company's efforts and haven't shown any "corporate trauma," an attorney for Meta's board told Delaware's Court of Chancery on Tuesday.

  • March 05, 2024

    ADI Can't Recoup Full Quinn Emanuel Bill In IP Theft Case

    A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday compared Analog Devices Inc.'s pricey hiring of a Quinn Emanuel attorney to monitor its former engineer's trade secrets trial in person to paying "a brain surgeon to pop a pimple" in an order denying restitution for those costs.

  • March 05, 2024

    Ill. Atty Tells 1st Circ. Feds Botched Venue For Scam Case

    An Illinois lawyer convicted of receiving proceeds from business email compromise schemes orchestrated by others told the First Circuit on Tuesday that Massachusetts was the wrong place for him to have been tried, urging the appeals court to dismiss the charges underlying the guilty verdict. 

  • March 05, 2024

    IP Litigation Vet Joins Wiggin and Dana's NY Office From LTL

    Wiggin and Dana LLP said Tuesday that it is welcoming a technology and life sciences expert from litigation boutique LTL Attorneys LLP to its intellectual property litigation group.

  • March 05, 2024

    FCC Looks To Ban Bulk Billing In Apartment Buildings

    The Federal Communications Commission is considering banning bulk broadband billing in apartment buildings, with the hopes of expanding choice and lowering costs for residents of multi-tenant buildings, FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said in a release Monday.

  • March 05, 2024

    Splunk Investors Get Final OK For $30M Deal, $7.5M Atty Fees

    A California federal judge has granted final approval to a $30 million settlement, including $7.5 million in fees for class counsel, to resolve a securities class action accusing software company Splunk of lying about strategies it used to meet cash flow goals.

  • March 05, 2024

    Voyager Creditors Have Left $19M Of Checks Uncashed

    The wind-down administrator for defunct cryptocurrency brokerage Voyager Digital Holdings Inc. has told a New York bankruptcy judge that $19 million worth of checks sent to creditors were still unclaimed, setting an April 20 deadline to cash the checks or lose out on recovery for good.

  • March 05, 2024

    Technology Group Of The Year: Orrick

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP attorneys advised artificial intelligence companies including MosaicML and Casetext on multibillion-dollar sales and venture capital financings while leading Sonos' ongoing patent infringement fight against Google over the last year, cementing their place among Law360's 2023 Technology Practice Groups of the Year.

  • March 05, 2024

    Carrier Inks $1.4B Fire Biz Deal As Part Of Strategic Exit Plan

    Carrier Global Corp. said Tuesday it has struck an agreement to sell its industrial fire business to Sentinel Capital Partners for $1.425 billion, the latest step in the company's strategic plan to sell off certain business units and focus on its core ventilation business.

  • March 04, 2024

    Corporate Transparency Act Unconstitutional, Ala. Judge Says

    An Alabama federal judge has found that the Corporate Transparency Act is unconstitutional, dealing a blow to proponents of the anti-money laundering law, who anticipate the ruling will be appealed to the Eleventh Circuit.

  • March 04, 2024

    Pearson Can't Escape Facebook Data-Sharing Privacy Suit

    A New York federal judge on Friday refused to toss a proposed class action against online education company Pearson Education Inc. alleging it illegally shared subscribers' personal information with Meta Platforms Inc., saying the plaintiff sufficiently alleges Pearson disclosed his video viewing history to Facebook.

  • March 04, 2024

    Meta Asks Justices To Review Investors' Data Scandal Suit

    Investors' claims over the Cambridge Analytica data abuse scandal should not be given new life, Meta Platforms told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, asking the justices to review the Ninth Circuit's adoption of "extreme outlier positions" that will "light a beacon" for similar actions that would be dismissed elsewhere.

Expert Analysis

  • The Case For Post-Bar Clerk Training Programs At Law Firms

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    In today's competitive legal hiring market, an intentionally designed training program for law school graduates awaiting bar admission can be an effective way of creating a pipeline of qualified candidates, says Brent Daub at Gilson Daub.

  • SEC Whistleblower Action Spotlights Risks For Private Cos.

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent whistleblower action against Monolith Resources holds important implications for private companies, who could face unprecedented regulatory scrutiny amid the agency's efforts to beef up environmental, social and governance reporting and enforcement, say attorneys at Wiley.

  • Attorneys Have An Ethical Duty To Protect The Judiciary

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    The tenor of public disagreement and debate has become increasingly hostile against judges, and though the legislative branch is trying to ameliorate this safety gap, lawyers have a moral imperative and professional requirement to stand with judges in defusing attacks against them and their rulings, says Deborah Winokur at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Best Practices For Defense Tech Startup Financing

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    Navigating the expanding and highly regulated defense technology sector requires careful planning and execution, starting at incorporation, so startups should prepare for foreign investor issues, choose their funding wisely and manage their funds carefully, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

  • When Courts Engage In Fact-Finding At The Pleading Stage

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    It remains to be seen whether the Ninth Circuit's pleading-stage factual determination in a securities class action against Nvidia was sui generis or part of a trend, but the court has created a template for district courts to follow, says Jared Kopel at Alto Litigation.

  • AI Can Help Lawyers Overcome The Programming Barrier

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    Legal professionals without programming expertise can use generative artificial intelligence to harness the power of automation and other technology solutions to streamline their work, without the steep learning curve traditionally associated with coding, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.

  • Cos. Must Adapt To Calif. Immigration Data Privacy Law

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    California’s recently signed A.B. 947 expands the California Consumer Privacy Act and brings the state in line with other comprehensive privacy laws that address immigration status, meaning companies should make any necessary updates to their processes and disclosures, say Kate Lucente and Matt Dhaiti at DLA Piper.

  • How AI 'Cultural Fit' Assessments Can Be Analyzed For Bias

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    Attorneys at Sanford Heisler explore how the use of artificial intelligence to assess workplace cultural fit may provide employees with increased opportunities to challenge biased hiring practices, and employers with more potential to mitigate against bias in algorithmic evaluations.

  • How Legal Teams Can Prep For Life Sciences' Tech Revolution

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    The life sciences and health care industries are uniquely positioned to take advantage of new efficiencies created by cloud computing and generative artificial intelligence, but the sensitivity of their data also demands careful navigation of an expanding legislative and regulatory landscape, say Kristi Gedid, Zack Laplante and Lisa LaMotta at Ernst & Young.

  • Looking For Defense Contract Appeal Trends In Annual Report

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    A deep dive into the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals annual report for the 2023 fiscal year reveals increases in the number of cases filed, pending motions and expedited or accelerated cases, while the board disposed of fewer cases than in prior fiscal years, say Scott Flesch and Alexandra Prime at Miller & Chevalier.

  • Key Takeaways From CFPB's Proposed Data-Sharing Rules

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    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recently announced proposed rule for regulating personal financial data rights sheds light on the bureau's stance regarding practices like screen-scraping and may presage further activity that could involve more concrete enforcement actions, say attorneys at Wilson Sonsini.

  • 2nd Circ. Holding Could Disrupt SEC Disgorgement Methods

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    A recent Second Circuit decision in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Govil that held disgorgement to be an equitable remedy has the potential to substantially disrupt the SEC's long-standing approach to monetary remedies in many of the cases the agency brings, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Why The Effect Of Vivint Has Been Minimal

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    A survey of recent ex parte reexamination decisions since the Federal Circuit’s 2021 In re: Vivint decision appears to support the court’s conclusion that the ruling was limited in scope and would have limited impact, says Yao Wang at Fish & Richardson.

  • Transparency And Explainability Are Critical To AI Compliance

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    Although there is not yet a comprehensive law governing artificial intelligence, regulators have tools to hold businesses accountable, and companies need to focus on ensuring that consumers and key stakeholders understand how their AI systems operate and make decisions, say Chanley Howell and Lauren Hudon at Foley & Lardner.

  • Preparing Law Students For A New, AI-Assisted Legal World

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    As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the legal landscape, law schools must integrate technology and curricula that address AI’s innate challenges — from ethics to data security — to help students stay ahead of the curve, say Daniel Garrie at Law & Forensics, Ryan Abbott at JAMS and Karen Silverman at Cantellus Group.

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