In the third in a series of point/counterpoint-style articles stemming from the groundbreaking social media addiction verdict against Meta and Alphabet, Bloomberg Law legal analyst Travis Youlle argues that, unlike tobacco litigation, social media mass tort plaintiffs face difficult general and specific causation hurdles.

Lawyers should be aware of these five risks when using generative AI in addition to checking for hallucinated citations.

Distressed business value increasingly rests in assets that can metamorphose into something else. Audience, access, data, platform presence, permissions, and customer and employee behavior have always had value. Bankruptcy diligence must now include identifying what the debtor captures, maintains, and could conceivably convert into capital.

The Trump administration uses its financial regulators to attack state laws that impose more burdens than the administration would on the financial industry.

Given the ubiquity of AI tools in today’s legal practice and their associated risks, litigants should discuss potential guardrails on the use of AI tools on discovery materials as early as possible. Two recent federal district court decisions can guide practitioners as they negotiate and draft protective order language.

Congress and the executive branch have recently ramped up efforts to tamp down on upcoding in Medicare Advantage plans. In March, a group of senators renewed a push to pass the No UPCODE Act, which came on the heels of a CMS proposed rule that would target the practice.