What Legal Learned About Gen AI This Year: The Morning Minute
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December 08, 2023 at 06:00 AM
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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING
MACHINE LEARNINGS - First, generative AI was exciting, then it was frightening, now it's a little bit of both—but there's evidence that we're getting beyond the hype. It was a roller coaster year for technology and innovation, but, as Law.com's Stephanie Wilkins writes in this week's Barometer newsletter, the legal industry has come out on the other end wiser for the experience and ready to embrace generative AI in a thoughtful, meaningful way to improve the profession. And we're only just getting started. "Much of the past year's developments were dominated by OpenAI, but now there are a number of competitors who are catching up and are poised to create significant disruption," Wilkins writes. "And with the recent release of Google's long-anticipated Gemini AI model, the game will potentially be turned on its head yet again."
GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION? - Companies that use social media influencers to review their products or services felt the heat when the FTC issued revised compliance guidelines for endorsements. But, as Law.com's Chris O'Malley reports, there are now at least 50 more regulators ready to smash that "Dislike" button on companies and their influencers. "I would expect [state attorneys general] to generally take the position that their unfair and deceptive acts and practices laws already prohibit influencers from misrepresenting the reasons they are promoting a product," said Paul Singer, a partner at Kelley Drye & Warren. "Moreover, states are increasingly signaling a renewed focus on fake reviews and testimonials," said Singer, former chief of the Consumer Protection Division of the Texas Office of Attorney General.
ON THE RADAR - Ooredoo Group, Mobile Telecommunications Co. KSPC and TASC Towers Holding announced a $2.2 billion partnership Tuesday in a deal guided by a bevy of law firms. Doha, Qatar-based Ooredoo Group was advised by DLA Piper partners Mike Conradi, Ehab Elsonbaty, Ben Forgiel-Jenkins, Michael Hazzard and Duncan Pickering. Mobile Telecommunications, which is based in Kuwait City, was represented by Herbert Smith Freehills; and Norton Rose Fulbright. Shearman & Sterling counseled Digital Infrastructure Assets. Stay up on the latest state and federal litigation, as well as the latest corporate deals, with Law.com Radar.
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Michael G. Bongiorno, Andrew Scott Dulberg and Elizabeth E. Driscoll from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have stepped in to represent Symbotic Inc., an A.I.-enabled technology platform that focuses on increasing supply chain efficiency, and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The case, filed Oct. 2 in Massachusetts District Court by the Brown Law Firm on behalf of Stephen Austen, accuses certain officers and directors of misleading investors in regard to Symbotic's potential for margin growth by failing to disclose that the company was not equipped to timely deploy its systems or manage expenses through project delays. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, is 1:24-cv-12522, Austen v. Cohen et al.
Who Got The Work
Edmund Polubinski and Marie Killmond of Davis Polk & Wardwell have entered appearances for data platform software development company MongoDB and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The action, filed Oct. 7 in New York Southern District Court by the Brown Law Firm, accuses the company's directors and/or officers of falsely expressing confidence in the company’s restructuring of its sales incentive plan and downplaying the severity of decreases in its upfront commitments. The case is 1:24-cv-07594, Roy v. Ittycheria et al.
Who Got The Work
Amy O. Bruchs and Kurt F. Ellison of Michael Best & Friedrich have entered appearances for Epic Systems Corp. in a pending employment discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed Sept. 7 in Wisconsin Western District Court by Levine Eisberner LLC and Siri & Glimstad on behalf of a project manager who claims that he was wrongfully terminated after applying for a religious exemption to the defendant's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anita Marie Boor, is 3:24-cv-00630, Secker, Nathan v. Epic Systems Corporation.
Who Got The Work
David X. Sullivan, Thomas J. Finn and Gregory A. Hall from McCarter & English have entered appearances for Sunrun Installation Services in a pending civil rights lawsuit. The complaint was filed Sept. 4 in Connecticut District Court by attorney Robert M. Berke on behalf of former employee George Edward Steins, who was arrested and charged with employing an unregistered home improvement salesperson. The complaint alleges that had Sunrun informed the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection that the plaintiff's employment had ended in 2017 and that he no longer held Sunrun's home improvement contractor license, he would not have been hit with charges, which were dismissed in May 2024. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer, is 3:24-cv-01423, Steins v. Sunrun, Inc. et al.
Who Got The Work
Greenberg Traurig shareholder Joshua L. Raskin has entered an appearance for boohoo.com UK Ltd. in a pending patent infringement lawsuit. The suit, filed Sept. 3 in Texas Eastern District Court by Rozier Hardt McDonough on behalf of Alto Dynamics, asserts five patents related to an online shopping platform. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, is 2:24-cv-00719, Alto Dynamics, LLC v. boohoo.com UK Limited.
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