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Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence are likely to soon upend the balance between those who discover and exploit software vulnerabilities and those responsible for protecting organizations from them.

Grant of Temporary License to Developer UpheldSite Plan Denial Improperly Based On Community Opposition

A boutique firm’s PR issue is usually one of specificity and trust. You’re not trying to be known for everything — you’re trying to be known, deeply and credibly, for the three or four things you’re actually excellent at. That’s a fundamentally different PR strategy than “get our name in the paper.”

Law firms do not have a training-hours problem. They have an operating-model problem. They select leaders without defining the job, ask them to own outcomes without giving them authority or time, and measure the financial result without tracking the behaviors that produced it. Training can strengthen a leader, but it cannot repair those contradictions.

The assignment for the benefit of creditors (ABC) is having a moment. The Uniform Law Commission’s 2025 Uniform Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors Act has been enacted in six states, while economic concerns are pushing distressed middle-market companies toward this faster and less expensive bankruptcy alternative.

Questions on who owns AI training models using copyrighted material are no longer hypothetical, they are already the subject of active litigation, with several cases moving beyond the pleading stage.

Unit Owner Cannot Recover for Expenses Personal to Its Principal

We have reached a point where AI processing software has become effective enough to nearly replace the need for initial lawyer or paralegal reviews of deposition, preliminary hearing or trial transcripts. But while AI can quickly provide initial summaries of such documents, producing a legal evaluation of those summaries is another story.