If 2023 was the year of, “What is AI?” and 2024 was the year of “Be afraid of AI,” then 2025 is the year of “If you aren’t using AI, you are already behind.”
That was the message of Womble Bond Dickinson’s AI Toolkit for...more
6/24/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Business Development ,
Business Strategies ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Security ,
Innovation ,
Legal Operations ,
Legal Technology ,
Professional Conferences ,
Professional Development ,
Risk Management ,
Strategic Planning
As data breach litigation continues to increase, companies need to worry about a new point of vulnerability - overseas employees. Many large companies outsource customer services to India and other low-cost providers to take...more
6/5/2025
/ Bribery ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Security ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Foreign Official ,
Outsourcing ,
Popular ,
Risk Management ,
Supply Chain
With humanoid robots looming in the future, look for a brand-new field of personal injury claims. The introduction of the automobile led to the most common civil lawsuit - auto accident personal injury claims....more
The Supreme Court of Louisiana this week recognized the dangers of AI manipulated video and ruled that defendants have the right to assess purported videos and photographs to assess authenticity and test for manipulation. ...more
5/27/2025
/ Appeals ,
Appellate Courts ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
CA Supreme Court ,
Deep Fake ,
Discovery ,
Evidence ,
LA Supreme Court ,
Legal Technology ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Photographs ,
Video Recordings
AI notetakers, like Fireflies, record meetings and business conversations. While they may improve business efficiency, they also present new and unique challenges for compliance and records retention officials. With the...more
AI is transforming business and industry virtually overnight, and many leaders are left asking, “What do I do next?”
Womble Bond Dickinson’s virtual summit – AI Intensive: Playbook for Innovation and Risk Mitigation – will...more
Legal Week (formerly LegalTech) had over 6,000 attendees last week, with virtually all the vendors either promoting AI Tech or using AI to enhance existing services....more
Over 30 lawsuits challenging the training of Generative AI on copyrighted materials are pending, most in federal courts across the country. The copyrighted materials range from news stories to photographs to music. The law is...more
Class actions arising from data breach represented the fastest growing segment of class action filings. In 2023, more than 2000 class actions were filed, more than triple the amount filed in 2022. These cases were filed in...more
12/19/2024
/ Best Practices ,
Class Action ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Defense Strategies ,
FTC Act ,
Identity Theft ,
Personal Data ,
Popular ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Sensitive Personal Information ,
Standing ,
TransUnion ,
TransUnion LLC v Ramirez
Plenty of empirical evidence exists to show that pursuing ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) goals also has an economic benefit for companies. But how do businesses know they are going about ESG in the right way?...more
Womble Bond Dickinson’s The Evolving Dance thought leadership series continued with a look at current challenges involving data retention and e-discovery. In particular, the session looked at employee use of personal devices...more
Even at companies with separate legal and compliance departments, Department of Justice-enforced compliance is a key concern for in-house counsel. Those pressures only will increase in the near future and are rapidly...more
1/19/2023
/ C-Suite Executives ,
Certification Requirements ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Compliance ,
Compliance Monitoring ,
Corporate Crimes ,
Corporate Culture ,
Corporate Misconduct ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Priorities ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Monaco Memo ,
White Collar Crimes
Remote work already was a growing trend before the COVID-19 pandemic, and that trend rapidly accelerated when the pandemic hit in early 2020. Even as conditions have improved and restrictions have been lifted, many employers...more
Takeaways:
..In recent remarks, top DOJ officials stated that DOJ will “surge resources” and “redouble efforts” for corporate enforcement.
..Areas of particular concern include Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,...more
11/4/2021
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Benchmark Pricing ,
Biden Administration ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Compliance ,
Cooperation ,
Cybersecurity ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Energy Sector ,
Enforcement ,
Federal Contractors ,
Financial Fraud ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Fraud ,
Government Investigations ,
Price Manipulation ,
White Collar Crimes
Takeaways:
..Telehealth greatly expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic, in large part due to regulatory waivers. Those regulatory waivers aren’t permanent, but lawmakers are evaluating ways to permanently expand some...more
9/29/2021
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Investors ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
OIG ,
Opioid ,
Physician Fee Schedule ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine ,
Venture Capital ,
Waivers
Womble Bond Dickinson attorney Carri Bennet talks with Mark Henriques about how the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will greatly benefit broadband expansion, particularly to underserved rural areas. This episode is...more
Employment-related antitrust regulation is intensifying amid a volatile labor market so Mark Henriques asked David Hamilton and Sarah Motley Stone, two of Womble Bond Dickinson's brightest minds on this subject, to share some...more
9/24/2021
/ Anti-Competitive ,
Antitrust Litigation ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Biden Administration ,
Employment Contract ,
Employment Litigation ,
Executive Orders ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
No-Poaching ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Non-Solicitation Agreements
The M&A market is at a record pace in 2021. Womble Bond Dickinson attorneys D. Scott Anderson and Dean Rutley discussed the ongoing M&A boom and the factors they see impacting corporate transactions in the near future....more
The COVID-19 pandemic greatly expanded the use of telehealth due to necessity. But many healthcare providers and patients alike have found significant benefits of using remote technology-delivered healthcare...more
Takeaways:
..The M&A market is at a record pace in 2021, with a variety of factors (a thriving stock market, available debt, vaccines fueling a pandemic recovery, low interest rates, etc.) driving this growth....more
9/10/2021
/ Acquisitions ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
Biden Administration ,
Commercial Insurance Policies ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Digital Communications ,
Digital Platforms ,
Due Diligence ,
Economic Downturn ,
Equity Markets ,
Mergers ,
Representations and Warranties ,
Strategic Planning ,
Underwriting ,
Virtual Currency
Takeaways -
..The Biden administration’s recent executive order takes a hard line on limits to employment mobility, such as non-compete agreements.
..No-poach agreements—companies agreeing not to recruit each other’s...more
9/2/2021
/ Acquisitions ,
Antitrust Division ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
Biden Administration ,
Competition ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Due Diligence ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Enforcement ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Manufacturers ,
No-Poaching ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Risk Management ,
Wage-Fixing
Last month, Womble Bond Dickinson launched “Doing Well by Doing Good,” a thought leadership series focused on ways in which environmental and social governance impact business. The following article summarizes “Win-Win...more
Plaintiffs are inventing new theories to attack businesses for alleged ESG-related deficiencies. Companies need to carefully manage their ESG initiatives, performance, and representations....more
The program will address important issues related to incorporating ESG into compensation programs, including:
- What has pushed ESG to the forefront of compensation design (i.e., what stakeholders are influencing these...more
The road to 100% renewable energy may be long and circuitous for a host of factors, not the least being that renewable sources likely will rely on existing infrastructure and fossil fuels for some time to come. Still, there...more
5/28/2021
/ Carbon Emissions ,
Energy Market ,
Energy Projects ,
Energy Sector ,
Green Energy ,
Investors ,
Oil & Gas ,
Renewable Energy ,
Renewable Energy Investments ,
Technology Sector ,
Webinars