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A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.

The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence tools has created a new and often overlooked category of legal risk: the erosion of attorney-client privilege and work-product protection.

AI can accelerate document review, precedent analysis and other research tasks, but it does not replace professional judgment. Used effectively, it gives restructuring professionals more time to apply that judgment where it matters most: developing strategy, advising clients and advocating before the court.

To clients, speed and value are not the same thing. So before racing another firm to the publish button, ask what your lawyers can add that isn’t already readily available. Often the most valuable thought leadership comes after the initial wave of summaries, when lawyers have had time to see how a development is actually affecting clients and industries.

The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), which works under the umbrella of the Librarian of Congress, sets statutory-license royalty terms and rates. The U.S. Courts of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently issued two notable decisions about the CRB.

As quantum machines become more powerful, today’s uncrackable encryption schemes may become trivial to break. Opinions vary as to how soon that moment, so-called “Q Day,” will arrive, but the threat is real.

How do you communicate when you know the harm before you know its cause? For law firms, it comes up both when advising a client and when explaining an incident of their own.

The gap between what a firm bills and what it collects is not a collections failure. It is a design flaw in how the whole revenue cycle is wired, and clients armed with AI are now exploiting it faster than firms can respond.