Why Analytics Can Be Risky in the Wrong Hands

Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.

For most of its 136-year history, Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act was more of a threat than a weapon. The provision — which prohibits the willful acquisition or maintenance of monopoly power through anticompetitive conduct — carried demanding proof requirements, required expensive and expansive discovery, and produced so few trial victories that enforcers rarely tested it. When they did, they usually lost. That calculus may be shifting.

During a recent lecture, Morrison & Foerster partner Joseph Gratz noted the potential of harnessing AI as a tool to further “human expression” and dissected the snarl of novel copyright challenges that AI song generators present to the music industry.

A growing number of law firms looked to expand their office footprints in 2025 compared to the prior year, according to a new survey from commercial real estate brokerage CBRE, a sign that the contraction in law firm real estate that began with the COVID-19 pandemic is coming to an end.