Why do companies need AI governance policies and procedures? In part because the legal landscape around AI is so unsettled…
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/ Labor & Employment Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
On July 31, 2025, the acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a memorandum making a significant change in Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) inter partes review (IPR) practice and…
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/ Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has agreed to make public a report from 2022 about US telecommunications networks' flawed security practices which relate to the Salt Typhoon attacks experienced by…
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/ Communications & Media Law
In July 2025, the U.S. Congress advanced a landmark package of legislative measures aimed at establishing a comprehensive federal framework for the regulation of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins…
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/ Finance & Banking
Effective September 2, 2025, the U.S. State Department is eliminating visa waiver of appointments (otherwise called dropbox appointments) for many visa applicants. Many visa applicants and their dependents previously qualified…
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/ Immigration Law
Energy and natural resources businesses in the United States continue to face legal risk in the United States from the human rights and environmental impacts of their operations abroad. However, these legal risks have declined…
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/ Environmental Law, International Law & Trade
The steam engine, the assembly line, the internet –most major transformations in economic systems are driven by innovations in technology or organizational principles, innovations that lower the costs of goods or increase their…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
While many systems that are described as AI have been around for decades (e.g., internet search engines), today’s AI tools are much more powerful and are widely accessible. Generative AI and agentic AI extend the power of…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Following a January 2025 decision by the Eleventh Circuit Court, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) has repealed its one-to-one consent rule for prior express written consent, consistent with its ongoing…
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/ Administrative Law, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection
One year has passed since the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit made its landmark decision in LKQ Corp. v. GM Global Tech. Operations LLC, which overruled the longstanding Rosen-Durling test for determining design patent…
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/ Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
As we reported last year, Missouri introduced its version of Commercial Finance Disclosure Law (“CFDL”) legislation, following the lead of other states with laws requiring consumer-like disclosures in certain commercial loans…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, Insurance
Nearly one year in, the Texas Business Court has been an unqualified success. Despite early skepticism, the Court, which started accepting cases on September 1, 2024, has lived up to its goal of moving business litigation in a…
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/ Civil Procedure
In this update, we cover the most impactful Supreme Court cases related to administrative law issues decided during the 2024-2025 term. The Supreme Court decided important administrative law cases falling into these general…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law
The dramatic increase in global reach that the internet provides U.S.-based companies comes as a double edge sword. While it significantly increases a company’s potential customer pool, it also subjects companies to…
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/ Privacy, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
As this blog has previously covered, various states have passed laws prohibiting plant-based products from being labeled like traditional meat products. A recent Oklahoma law bans using terms like beef, chicken, or bacon to…
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/ Agriculture, Consumer Protection
