Sophia Contreras Schwartz became Nextdoor Holding Inc.’s general counsel in May after more than five years overseeing increasingly larger portions of the social network’s legal operations, including ...

A New York lawyer cited fake cases generated by ChatGPT in a legal brief filed in federal court and may face sanctions as a result, according to news reports. The incident involving OpenAI’s chatbot ...

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank may have appeared sudden and unexpected on the outside. But the company and its chief risk officer parted ways in April 2022, and its risk committee more than ...

Dive Brief: Visa operates an illegal monopoly in the market for debit card payments, and “wields its dominance, enormous scale, and centrality” to impose agreements on merchants and banks that exclude ...

Dive Brief: Donald Trump’s attorneys did not forget to check a box to request a jury trial in the Trump Organization fraud trial, New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron said this week in an ...

After sharing a post condemning violence against Israelis, Benjamin Neel, director of the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, was suspended and then fired by his employer, New York University, ...

Dive Insight: DOJ and the FTC, chaired by Lina Khan, seek second request reviews as part of the Hart-Scott-Rodino pre-merger review process. The HSR reviews are intended to give the agencies a chance ...

Attorney Steven A. Schwartz first landed him and his colleague Peter LoDuca in hot water with a federal judge through his use of ChatGPT for legal research, which resulted in six fake cases being ...

Everything you thought you knew about being a lawyer is about to change. For in-house attorneys, that’s one of the profession’s current shibboleths as widespread trials of artificial intelligence ...

The top 100 U.S. law firms charged clients an average of $961 an hour in the first nine months of 2023, a recent report found. The average blended rate billed by Am Law 100 firms is a 4.8% increase ...

The legal world has debated the demise of the billable hour for years, with generative artificial intelligence merely the latest rationale offered for its extinction. The traditional billing model ...

Rolling out even ordinary workplace rules can put in-house counsel in a legal minefield if the organization tries to do it while employees are unionizing, labor specialists say. The National Labor ...