| ALM | Law.com Morning Minute Friday, July 18, 2025 |
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This is Alaina Lancaster in Chicago. U.S. District Judge William Alsup is not one to mince words. See: His ruling in a case testing copyright protections on data used to train large language models. Michelle Morgante reports Alsup found “It cannot be true that as the scope of copying grows, so does the impunity.” |
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LITIGATION: U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco certified a class action against Anthropic, calling the AI company’s training of its technology on two online collections of pirated books “straightforward piracy but at massive scale,” Michelle Morgante reports. LEGAL TECH: Experts say the aggressive adoption of AI in the legal industry has outpaced staffing to build and run the tools. So where are legal tech vendors finding AI talent? Benjamin Joyner has the story. BUSINESS OF LAW: Expectations that public relations backlash would be fleeting for firms who resolved executive order and agency inquiry concerns with the White House via dealmaking appear to have been misplaced, Amanda O’Brien reports. |
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INTERNATIONAL: U.K.-based Simmons & Simmons is planning a return to Abu Dhabi in early 2026 to focus on asset management, investment funds, and TMT—including AI—following in-principle licensing approval from the Abu Dhabi Global Market financial center and economic zone, Dario Sabaghi reports, adding that the firm is also exploring a strategic alliance in China to strengthen its presence in Asia. CORPORATE: Meta has settled an $8 billion class action lawsuit with shareholders who alleged the social media giant misled Facebook users about how it shared their personal data in violation of a 2012 FTC consent order, Dan Novak reports. REGIONAL: Controversial judicial nominee Emil Bove has gotten one step closer to taking a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, despite protests from Democrats, Avalon Zoppo reports. |
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