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How an AI Chat Platform Made Its Pitch for $100M in Trade Secret Damages

In closing arguments Tuesday, Kirkland & Ellis partner Michael De Vries told jurors that [24]7.ai was so brazen about its theft of competitor LivePerson's rules and data that it even referred internally to "the LivePerson rules." O'Melveny partner Darin Snyder argued there was nothing improper about that because LivePerson assigned all the IP generated on customer websites to its customers.
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The Recorder

Gibson Dunn Defends Wish and Morgan Lewis Reps Investment Bankers in Securities Suit Over Wish IPO

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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The Recorder

Would You Like a Jury Trial? Chat Companies Square Off Over Alleged Trade Secrets

Kirkland and O'Melveny are litigating the protectability of rules and data that AI machines use to keep customers engaged on e-commerce websites. The case is one of the first in-person civil jury trials in the Northern District of California in the last year.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Houston Startup Taps Longtime Corporate Energy Lawyer as General Counsel

Julie Gremillion, who spent nearly a decade in Big Law before joining Anadarko Petroleum Corp., is now heading up the legal department at GoExpedi.
6 minute read

Law.com

Skilled in the Art: The Waymo v. Uber of Self-Flying Taxis Has Achieved Liftoff + Judge Tells Amazon It Can't Win Counterfeiting Trial + Netflix and Broadcom Revive the ISP Venue Wars

Instead of self-driving cars, Quinn Emanuel is squaring off with MoFo (and Gibson Dunn) over self-flying taxis.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

Second Circuit Panel Hears Bid to Revive Amazon Workers' COVID-19 Safety Lawsuit

The workers at the Staten Island facility said a trial judge was wrong to find that the doctrine of primary jurisdiction applies to their claims.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

As Online Shopping Explodes, So Do Product Liability Claims Against E-Commerce Platforms

Prior to 2019, courts around the country consistently held that e-commerce platforms were not liable for injuries caused by products sold on their platforms, finding them to be mere facilitators of third-party transactions. More recently, however, their potential liability is less clear. This article examines this shift in order to provide guidance as to how companies may be able to limit future potential liability.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Case for a National Cyber Privacy Standard

This article examines some of the challenges created by the kaleidoscope of state-level laws and regulations, as well as inconsistent case law, and analyzes potential federal level solutions, including the recently proposed Information Transparency & Personal Data Control Act that could provide consistency across not only geography, but industries.
8 minute read

The American Lawyer

Associate Lateral Moves in Data Privacy Accelerate, as Client Demand Remains Stiff

"There's absolutely no shortage of work," said Alan Friel, of Squire Patton Boggs. "There's more a shortage of people who know what they're doing."
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Lawyer: Ruling on Website Accommodation Is About Separation of Powers—Not ADA

Attorney David Ferleger is planning to appeal the Eleventh Circuit ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court due to a conflicting ruling with a separate federal appellate court.
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