The UK creative industry’s attempt to prevent tech giants from exploiting copyrighted work to train AI models has been largely thrown out by the High Court, in a move which one legal expert insists ...

Third-party funding of high-stakes litigation can often make the difference between litigating the case or walking away.  The financial arrangement often makes good sense, with investors helping to ...

In a new procedural development, U.S. consular posts have started forwarding B-1 in lieu of H-1B visa applications to the Department of State (DOS)’s Visa Office in Washington, D.C., for final review ...

While many artists see the training of AI image generators using unlicensed work as theft, but the UK High Court has just decided otherwise, and the case could influence future rulings and public ...

In this podcast recorded at our recent Corporate Labor and Employment Counsel Exclusive® seminar, Tae Phillips (shareholder, Birmingham), Jim Paul (shareholder, St. Louis/Tampa), and Scott Kelly ...

Employers often cling to misconceptions about non-compete agreements that can prevent them from effectively using these powerful tools or render such agreements unenforceable. Here are the seven most ...

Each year, California’s minimum wage rises, but along with hourly workers’ wages increasing, so too does the salary threshold for employees to be exempt from overtime. For an employee to be exempt ...

Highlights On Oct. 30, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in Merck Serono S.A. v. Hopewell Pharma Ventures, Inc., clarifying how “by another” prior ...

On October 31, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington halted enforcement of Section 3(b)(iv) of Executive Order 14173 (the “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Order”) ...

The question of whether SMS messages constitute calls for purposes of the TCPA’s DNC purposes is now on appeal to the Seventh ...

TCPA has been drawing a lot of attention lately–especially as Courts around the country struggle with whether the TCPA’s DNC provisions apply to SMS messages. There’s no question that CEMA DOES apply ...

When most people think about the lingering effects of a concussion, they picture persistent headaches, light sensitivity, or forgetfulness. But a new study published in Human Brain Mapping (2025) ...