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A growing number of law schools are adding courses and degree programs in artificial intelligence as a way to meet employer demand and capitalize on the booming AI industry, reports Karen Sloan.
More than half of law schools now offer classes on AI, according to a recent American Bar Association survey, with the number of those courses accelerating since ChatGPT made its splashy debut in November 2022. At least two law schools are launching special degree programs focused on AI.
Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law will begin offering artificial intelligence specialization this year through its existing law, science, and technology certificate program, which students receive after completing a curriculum of tech-related courses. There is no additional cost to students. Meanwhile, University of California Berkeley School of Law on Aug. 1 will begin accepting applications for a yearlong, part-time advanced law degree program designed to prepare lawyers to counsel clients on AI, which will cost about $73,000.
Many of the AI classes law schools reported in the AI survey center on how to use that technology in legal practice. Others have a more narrow focus such as how to use AI in litigation and the ethics of that technology.
Besides the marketing boost that law schools can get by offering trendy AI courses and programs, legal employers said there’s a strong appetite for lawyers who can use AI in their own practices and counsel clients about it. Snell & Wilmer partner Tony Caldwell, co-head of the firm’s technology transactions practice, said a solid understanding of AI and the ability to leverage it is a “differentiator” for new hires.
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- The NLRB has ordered a Las Vegas casino operator to recognize and bargain with a union, in the first ruling of its kind by the agency since it created a path for unions to organize workers even after losing elections. The board said NP Red Rock, which owns the Red Rock Casino and two others, had engaged in “egregious and pervasive unlawful conduct” that tainted a 2019 election and warranted a bargaining order even though workers voted 627-534 against joining a union.
- The FTC said it had referred a complaint to the DOJ against the social media platform TikTok and its parent company ByteDance over potential violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Act. “The investigation uncovered reason to believe named defendants are violating or are about to violate the law and that a proceeding is in the public interest,” the FTC said in a statement.
- A new litigation finance firm that said it has secured access to over $100 million in capital to fund lawsuits launched this week, led by a trio of former Validity Finance professionals. David Kerstein, Ronit Cohen and Joshua Libling have set up New York-based Arcadia Finance, which said it will invest broadly in U.S.-based commercial and patent litigation, as well as U.S. and international arbitration.
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That’s how many legal claims alleging decades old abuse from priests were leveled against the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego, pushing the organization to file for bankruptcy protection for a second time. The claims came after California re-opened the statute of limitations for child sex abuse claims and created a new three-year window for filing older cases. The diocese first filed for bankruptcy in 2007, ultimately reaching a $198 million settlement of 144 sex abuse lawsuits that were filed after California lifted the statute of limitations for the first time in 2003.
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Has the 9th Circuit gone rogue when it comes to shareholder class actions? The U.S. Supreme Court will address that question next term, when it hears cases in which Meta and Nvidia are challenging 9th Circuit decisions that revived investors’ class actions after trial court dismissals. The companies say the 9th Circuit has gone out on a limb to create errant, plaintiffs-friendly dismissal standards. Shareholders say the companies have mischaracterized the circuit court’s decisions. Alison Frankel has the story on cases that could have a broad impact on securities litigation.
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“They’re all … just a pink cake with blue icing, and it’s only when they get into the home of the consumer that they take on a message.“
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—Colorado Supreme Court Justice Melissa Hart, who questioned attorneys for Masterpiece Cakeshop baker Jack Phillips as they argued that he had a constitutional right to not make a cake to celebrate a gender transition. Hart, who was among multiple justices who seemed skeptical of Phillips’ argument, posed a hypothetical that identical pink-and-blue cakes were ordered for four customers for different purposes. If the orders were mixed up and the cakes were delivered to the wrong customers, it would not matter, Hart said, as she questioned how it was that the cakes conveyed a message from Phillips and not the customers themselves.
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- The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to release more opinions in its outstanding cases from this term. Among the cases yet to be decided is one brought by the Biden administration that pits Idaho’s strict Republican-backed abortion ban against a 1986 federal law that ensures that patients can receive emergency care and former President Donald Trump’s claim of immunity from prosecution for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.
- U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly in Chicago will hold a bench trial on AstraZeneca’s defenses to Pfizer’s allegations that AZ’s blockbuster lung cancer drug Tagrisso infringed patents belonging to Pfizer’s Wyeth. Pfizer won a $104.5 million jury verdict in Delaware against AZ in the case last month. The bench trial on some of AstraZeneca’s remaining defenses could result in a ruling that negates the verdict.
- A group of TikTok creators and TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance face a deadline in the D.C. Circuit to file briefs in their challenge to a federal law that could ban the app in the U.S. The law gives TikTok’s ByteDance until Jan. 19 to sell TikTok or face a ban.
- The judge overseeing litigation filed after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore is holding a hearing after several crewmembers of the boat that struck the bridge were scheduled to leave the country today, before they could be deposed by the city of Baltimore and other claimants.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- The 10th Circuit revived a lawsuit challenging an Oklahoma law prohibiting transgender people from changing their birth certificates to match their gender identity. The court found that the law discriminates against transgender people without any rational basis, but the opinion said the state might be able to overcome the challenge if it could show it had a strong enough reason for the policy.
- A federal judge questioned what she called an “unusual” provision in an agreement between the DOJ and lead-testing device maker Magellan Diagnostics that would compensate victims of lead poisoning without any court supervision. During the first hearing on Magellan’s agreement to pay $42 million to resolve criminal charges that it concealed a malfunction in its lead-testing devices, U.S. District Judge Patti Saris in Boston questioned part of the deal that calls for an outside compliance monitor to administer a $9.3 million fund to compensate patients who suffered delayed detection of lead poisoning or lead exposure.
- Johnson & Johnson is facing a new proposed class action seeking damages and medical monitoring on behalf of thousands of women who have been diagnosed with cancer, or might develop it in the future, allegedly as a result of using the company’s baby powder and other talc products. The lawsuit, filed in New Jersey federal court, is the first to seek medical monitoring, or regular testing meant to catch cancer early, on behalf of talc users. J&J maintains its talc products are safe.
- The 4th Circuit temporarily halted a $320 million hospital industry acquisition in North Carolina as the FTC pursues a lawsuit that claims the deal would lead to higher prices and reduced innovative care. The court in a 2-1 ruling granted a request from the FTC to block for now Novant Health’s purchase of assets from Community Health Systems.
- The top U.S. oil and corn industry lobby groups sued the Biden administration over its plans to slash planet-warming tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks, arguing the regulations will cause economic harm. The groups challenging new EPA rules for semi-trucks, buses and other heavy-duty vehicles include the American Petroleum Institute, the National Corn Growers Association, the American Farm Bureau Federation and the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association.
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- Mayer Brown snapped up partner Gabrielle Levin from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Levin, who is based in New York, will co-lead the firm’s employment litigation and counseling practice. (Mayer Brown)
- Perkins Coie hired Jacquie Duval in New York from K&L Gates. Duval will be chair of the firm’s private capital and fund formation practice. (Perkins Coie)
- A&O Shearman picked up partner Keith Fujiu from Paul Hastings. Fujiu, who will be part of the U.S. debt finance practice at the firm, is based in Los Angeles. (A&O Shearman)
- Ryan Adams joined Morrison Foerster as a partner in the firm’s public company advisory and governance group. Adams, who is based in D.C., was previously at Skadden. (Morrison Foerster)
- Ryan Leichsenring left Robinson & Cole to join Day Pitney as a tax partner in Hartford, Connecticut. (Day Pitney)
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The Corporate Transparency Act has created unique uncertainty and ambiguity in the context of bankruptcy cases throughout the country, and FinCEN’s interpretation of the law is further complicating things for both Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 filers, write Bethany Simmons and Noah Weingarten of Loeb & Loeb.
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