States are expanding the state child online state privacy patchwork despite court challenges. Social media app store laws, standalone child online privacy laws, and amendments to comprehensive privacy statutes to add data protection provisions for minors are some of the changes states are making.
As two Delaware cases involving controlling shareholders await adjudication by the state’s high court, the Court of Chancery is forging ahead and building on its well-developed body of case law to further delineate the contours of corporate control.
Cannabis workers are organizing less frequently today as the US cannabis industry grapples with a worsening financial crisis that is influencing employees’ attitudes towards unionization.
If the Colorado Artificial Intelligence Act, the first (and only) comprehensive AI legislation in the US, can survive renewed political challenges, its reliance on European Union-style oversight could prove to be the template for other states to follow.
State comprehensive consumer privacy law cure periods are expiring in a handful of states, which opens the door to enforcement scrutiny in the form of possible attorney general investigations for potential violations.
Unions called just over 100 strikes in US workplaces in the first half of the year, continuing a downturn in picketing activity that began in 2024. The total of 103 work stoppages initiated by unions makes H1 2025 the lightest half-year period for strikes since H2 2021.
States are expanding the state child online state privacy patchwork despite court challenges. Social media app store laws, standalone child online privacy laws, and amendments to comprehensive privacy statutes to add data protection provisions for minors are some of the changes states are making.
State comprehensive consumer privacy law cure periods are expiring in a handful of states, which opens the door to enforcement scrutiny in the form of possible attorney general investigations for potential violations.
As two Delaware cases involving controlling shareholders await adjudication by the state’s high court, the Court of Chancery is forging ahead and building on its well-developed body of case law to further delineate the contours of corporate control.
Cannabis workers are organizing less frequently today as the US cannabis industry grapples with a worsening financial crisis that is influencing employees’ attitudes towards unionization.
If the Colorado Artificial Intelligence Act, the first (and only) comprehensive AI legislation in the US, can survive renewed political challenges, its reliance on European Union-style oversight could prove to be the template for other states to follow.
Last year, law firm lawyers expressed high expectations for generative AI and predicted that
it would deliver substantial efficiency improvements in legal workloads and billing tasks. Fast forward one year, and lawyers’ survey responses suggest that AI’s impact on operations is, at least for now, falling short of expectations
A majority of surveyed lawyers say they have used generative AI. The tasks that AI tools are being called upon to handle can vary, as lawyers in different career stages have different needs. But at all legal career stages, experience with AI is now the norm, not the exception.
In response to the “DExit” phenomenon, several states have modified their business laws in an effort to make their states look more favorable to businesses. But those efforts don’t seem to be having much of an impact on where companies are choosing incorporate, at least not yet.
In today’s hyper-competitive AI marketplace, companies are increasingly embellishing their AI technology and marketing basic automation tools by using AI buzzwords. With charges of ‘AI washing’ reaching the courts and regulators circling closer, law firms and in-house legal departments have to think fast to avoid trouble.
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