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• Legal Departments Are Evolving. How Does Yours Compare?

  24-09-2026 17:20 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Participate in our 2026 Global Corporate Counsel Benchmarking Survey, which examines how in-house teams set priorities, structure their departments, deploy technology and decide who does the work.       
  
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• Uber Dispute: Widow's User Agreement Doesn't Force Wrongful Death Claims to Arbitration, State High Court Says

  24-09-2026 22:52 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  "Arbitration is a matter of consent, and Uber has failed to establish that the estate or the statutory beneficiary consented to arbitrate this pending wrongful death dispute," the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously agreed.       
  
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• New Mass. Bar President, Former 'Subsidized Lunch Kid,' Plans to Expand Free Legal Services, Clear Court Congestion

  24-09-2026 22:27 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  "My passion is making sure that the the ladder doesn't get pulled up behind us so people have a route to pursue their goals and dreams in a fair and meaningful way," personal injury attorney Samuel A. Segal told Law.com.       
  
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• Live from WIPL with Yeliz Atak

  24-09-2026 18:11 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Legal Speak, recorded live, from the 2026 Women, Influence and Power in Law Conference in Nashville.       
  
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• Live from WIPL with Nancy Allred

  24-09-2026 18:09 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Legal Speak, recorded live, from the 2026 Women, Influence and Power in Law Conference in Nashville.       
  
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• Why Training the Next Generation of Lawyers Requires Play, Failure, and AI

  24-09-2026 16:56 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  As AI transforms legal practice, law schools must shift from teaching perfection and certainty to fostering exploration, trial and error, and human-centered skills. The University of Michigan's AI Law and Policy Clinic demonstrates this approach by having students build AI tools for real justice issues, proving that combining technology with empathy and iteration prepares lawyers to lead a more accessible legal system.       
  
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• Roblox and Discord Move to Arbitrate Child-Exploitation Cases, Arguing There Was No 'Sexual Act' or 'Contact'

  24-09-2026 16:41 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Both companies pushed back on plaintiffs' allegations that the federal End Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021, or EFAA, applied to the cases, which they insisted didn't involve physical contact between the perpetrator, a third party, and the child user.       
  
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• More Democratic? The Use of Designation of PE Deals is Evolving

  24-09-2026 11:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The practice of sponsor-side lawyers designating their counterparts on the lender side in private equity deals has evolved from a top-down power play into a more collaborative process, though critics say the underlying ethical issues and conflicts of interest remain unchanged.       
  
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• Stability in Uncertainty: Leveraging D&O Insurance to Protect Higher-Ed Decision-Makers

  24-09-2026 06:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance can provide an important source of protection, not only against potential liability, but also to defray the significant costs of investigating and defending these claims. The practical question is whether the institution's existing policies will respond when the claim arrives.       
  
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• As British Columbia Sues in US Courts Over Mass Shooting, OpenAI Wants Victims' Cases Heard in Canada

  24-09-2026 01:56 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  British Columbia's lawsuit over a deadly mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School comes as OpenAI has moved to dismiss dozens of lawsuits in California filed by the families of the victims on grounds that the litigation belongs in Canada.       
  
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• Arbitration Rules Dispute on Hold After NLJ 500 Firm Files Brief With False Citations

  24-09-2026 00:13 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Attorneys at Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, representing McDonald's and Nornat Management Service, have until Oct. 19 to file a response also addressing why the Illinois court shouldn't issue sanctions, or what sanctions, if any, should be imposed.       
  
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• DOE Committee Punts Decision About ABA's Accrediting Authority Following 7-Hour Hearing

  23-09-2026 23:47 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  After a seven-hour hearing, the Department of Education could not come to a decision about whether to continue recognition of the American Bar Association's Accreditation Council as the accrediting authority for law schools.       
  
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• How I Made Partner: 'Do Your Best Every Day,' Says Matthew Winne of Lightfoot Franklin & White

  23-09-2026 17:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  "Do your best every day. This is a stressful job and one of the hardest things is that there is always more you can do. There will be nights you file a brief knowing you could have done one more pass, or you'll leave a deposition knowing there were more questions to ask. I have not had a single day in my career where I felt I was done and there was nothing else I could do. It takes time to get used to that."       
  
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• Critical Mass With Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: MDL Panel Takes Up More Spinal Cord Stimulator Cases This Week, Edison International Could Face Trial Over Los Angeles Wildfire

  23-09-2026 17:54 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Abbott Laboratories and Nevro are back before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation this week to argue why lawsuits over their spinal cord stimulators shouldn't be coordinated.       
  
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• The Race for AEO Visibility: What Is Schema, and Why Is It Essential for Law Firms?

  23-09-2026 17:51 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Law firms are racing for position in the new world of answer engine optimization (AEO) and AI-generated search. One of the most important tools in that race is something many law firm marketers may not have heard of: schema. Schema is standardized code added to a website to help search engines and AI systems understand what the information on a page means and how it relates to information elsewhere on the site.       
  
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• Live from WIPL with Zahreen Ghaznavi

  23-09-2026 16:26 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Legal Speak, recorded live, from the 2026 Women, Influence and Power in Law Conference in Nashville.       
  
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• Live from WIPL with Tania Bryant

  23-09-2026 16:25 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Legal Speak, recorded live, from the 2026 Women, Influence and Power in Law Conference in Nashville.       
  
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• McDonald's to Face Smaller Portion of Franchisees' Benefit Claims, Judge Rules

  23-09-2026 00:32 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  U.S. District Judge Steven Seeger allowed a narrow portion of claims to proceed that allege McDonald's denied Black franchisees benefits given to other stores.       
  
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• UCLA Chancellor Faces Law School Faculty Backlash Following Comments About 9/11 Symposium

  22-09-2026 22:57 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk is facing mounting criticism from law professors and academic groups who say his response to a controversial 9/11 symposium undermined academic freedom and amplified false claims that the event promoted terrorism or antisemitism.       
  
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• 5 Lessons From Legal Teams On Where AI Adoption Is Headed Next

  22-09-2026 22:07 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  How can legal teams move fast, reduce costs, and handle greater volumes of information? AI has rapidly become the de facto answer. But beneath the enthusiasm for AI, how are practitioners actually using AI-driven tools — and what are they learning as adoption shifts from experimentation to daily operations?       
  
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• From Dictation to Draft: How AI Is Reshaping Legal Document Creation

  22-09-2026 17:13 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Join us to explore how AI-assisted drafting, voice-enabled workflows, and firm templates can streamline legal document creation and boost efficiency.       
  
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• Beyond Meat's $23.5M Trademark Verdict Cut to $37.5K, but Boston Fed Judge Upholds $15.4M Profit Award

  22-09-2026 16:52 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The court found that Sonate Corp. had adequately established a limited amount of lost profits from its existing business but that its larger damages claim—which was tied to a proposed product expansion called Vegadelphia 2.0—was too speculative and lacked a sufficient casual connection to Beyond Meat's infringement.       
  
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• Live from WIPL with Jennifer Barnett

  22-09-2026 16:23 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Legal Speak, recorded live, from the 2026 Women, Influence and Power in Law Conference in Nashville.       
  
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• Live from WIPL with Sara Garvey

  22-09-2026 16:22 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Legal Speak, recorded live, from the 2026 Women, Influence and Power in Law Conference in Nashville.       
  
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• Law Firms and Clients Battle Over Who Reaps AI Savings

  22-09-2026 12:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Big Law and corporate legal departments may ultimately agree on one avenue forward: billing by the outcome and value—not by the hour, corporate counsel sources and consultants say.       
  
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• Ill. Appellate Court Upholds $41M Med-Mal Verdict Against OSF HealthCare, Clarifies Statute of Limitations Question

  22-09-2026 01:00 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  "A representative may sue on behalf of a disabled person, but the representative's ability to sue neither removes the disability nor starts the statutory periods," Judge Michael Hyman wrote. "Otherwise, the protection afforded a disabled person would depend on someone else's diligence."       
  
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• Quinn Emanuel Brings London Head To Blockbuster Mariana Dam Case

  21-09-2026 23:20 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Mining giant BHP, represented by HSF Kramer, faces up to $36 billion in damages for the toxic mining spill in Brazil.       
  
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• With Merger Rumors Swirling, Weil Says It's Staying the Course

  21-09-2026 23:10 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The sources of the rumor mergers are unclear. Still, sources close to Weil said firm partners had floated with others internally the idea of a merger with specific firms.       
  
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• An Inside Look at Cooley's New AI Tool for IPOs, Developed With OpenAI

  21-09-2026 22:09 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Cooley GO Public, the first software released by the firm's AI development company, is designed to generate first drafts of SEC S-1 forms, a key form used in the IPO process, saving time for both the firm's attorneys and client executives.       
  
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• Discrimination Against Whites? Admitting No Wrong, Starbucks Agrees to $1M Payment

  21-09-2026 22:08 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  A $1 million settlement between Starbucks and Florida's attorney general settles what could have been a costly legal battle, with the company accepting significant restrictions on the use of race and sex in employment decisions.       
  
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