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Alaina Lancaster

Alaina Lancaster

Alaina Lancaster, based in San Francisco, covers disruptive trends and technologies shaping the future of law. She authors the weekly legal futurist newsletter What's Next. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @a_lancaster3

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September 30, 2020 | The Recorder

Inside the SEC's First Registered Blockchain Assets

McDermott's Mark Selinger shares why it took almost three years to finalize the first registered blockchain assets offering.

By Alaina Lancaster

8 minute read

September 30, 2020 | The Recorder

Latham & Watkins Asks for Sanctions in Motion to Compel Trump's Census Bureau

In a motion to compel and for sanctions filed Wednesday, attorneys from Latham & Watkins and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law argue that the court could hold the heads of the U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Commerce in contempt, but that they are reserving the more extreme measures in hopes that the agencies will comply.

By Alaina Lancaster

4 minute read

September 30, 2020 | Law.com

What's Next: Inside the SEC's First Registered Blockchain Assets + A Joint Jury Trial Ahead for Apple, Google + Settlement Ends Google's Mandatory Arbitration of Sexual Harassment

McDermott's Mark Selinger tells us why it took almost three years to finalize the first registered blockchain assets offering.

By Alaina Lancaster

12 minute read

September 29, 2020 | The Recorder

Judge Koh Says Trump Administration Should Face Consequences for Defying Census Order

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said a new Oct. 5 deadline to wrap up census field gathering operations appears to violate a preliminary injunction order she issued last week and suggested it was time to move toward contempt proceedings.

By Alaina Lancaster

3 minute read

September 28, 2020 | The Recorder

Battle Over AB-5 Exemptions Moves From the Legislature to the Ballot Box

"The newly created exemptions in AB-2257 are probably just the beginning. While the bill is styled as 'cleanup' legislation, attempts to further amend these statues are likely," says Signature Resolution's Mark Loeterman.

By Mark Loeterman

5 minute read

September 28, 2020 | The Recorder

Judge Questions Whether Epic's Case Can Address Antitrust Allegations in Apple and Google's App Stores

"As we frequently are in the Northern District of California, we're in a new world," said U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. "They don't call it the Wild West for nothing."

By Alaina Lancaster

3 minute read

September 25, 2020 | The Recorder

Google Ends Mandatory Arbitration in $310M Sexual Harassment Settlement

Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll in Washington, D.C., and Bottini & Bottini—a La Jolla, California, firm suing Oracle and Facebook in shareholder derivative suits over their diversity practices—helped negotiate the settlement.

By Alaina Lancaster

3 minute read

September 23, 2020 | The Recorder

Virtual Reality Concert Company Sues Business Partner Over 'Hostile Takeover'

Los Angeles virtual reality company Red Pill VR Inc. sued a Canadian company it founded to develop virtual concert worlds after it reportedly refused to turn over proprietary source code.

By Alaina Lancaster

3 minute read

September 23, 2020 | Law.com

What's Next: Judge Highlights Contradiction in Trump's WeChat Ban + Why Discord Wants to Win Over Regulators + Judge 'Completely Unsympathetic' to Postmates' Mass Arbitration Concerns

A judge threw Trump's own executive order back at him in WeChat's injunction ruling.

By Alaina Lancaster

9 minute read

September 23, 2020 | The Recorder

California Gets Even More Aggressive on PFAS

The cost of regulatory compliance is compounded by the risk of litigation that has spread across the nation like asbestos, lead paint and tobacco litigation, says Alston & Bird's Jeffrey Dintzer and Gregory Berlin.

By Jeffrey Dintzer and Gregory Berlin

6 minute read