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'Delay, Misdirection and Frivolous Arguments': Gibson Dunn, Facebook Sanctioned in Privacy Cases

"This case is an example of a wealthy client (Facebook) and its high-powered law firm (Gibson Dunn) using delay, misdirection, and frivolous arguments to make litigation unfairly difficult and expensive for their opponents," U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ruled.
4 minute read

Law.com

In Novel Case, Federal Judge OKs TCPA Class Action Over 'Textbook Example' of Website Hiding Consent Language

Finding courts in the First Circuit have yet to address the framework for determining whether online terms were sufficiently disclosed to provide a consent defense to a Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts relied on recent Ninth Circuit case law in allowing a putative class action to proceed.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

How Goodwin Procter Turned 1,000 Lateral Associates Into 250

Prior to January's layoffs, the law firm has hired more than 600 lateral associates and lost nearly 400 since 2020, an American Lawyer analysis found.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

House Republicans Grill Twitter Legal Brass Over Suppression of Hunter Biden Article

"I'm glad you all lost your jobs," Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told a trio of former Twitter executives.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In Amicus Briefs, Tech Heavyweights Say Weakening Section 230 Would Be Calamitous

Microsoft said that, if websites are no longer able to rely on algorithms, "the internet would devolve into a disorganized collection of haphazardly assembled information that would be impossible to navigate."
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

NFL Teams Vikings and Patriots Slapped With Patent-Infringement Lawsuits

The system, which includes stand-alone pods, some embedded in concrete walkways and in walls, supports communications of video and data to handheld devices.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Risks of Collaboration

Modernizing compliance monitoring, records retention and information governance to account for business communications going across digital collaboration platforms is now critical to reduce risk in today's workplace.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

ChatGPT Might Simplify Life for In-House Counsel—While Also Creating New Risks

Goodwin Procter partner Martin Gomez said ChatGPT can be useful for questions for which there are black-and-white answers, but in-house counsel are often faced with the opposite. "So much of being a lawyer is operating in the gray and making judgment calls," he said.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

$11.5M Settlement, $3.8M in Attorney Fees for Allegedly Overcharging Broadband Customers

"They were willing to resolve it but pay those people [with the mandatory arbitration clause] less because they had a stronger defense with those people," class counsel Stephen DeNittis said.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Ad-Tech Startup Backed by TV Networks Brings Aboard GC

Andy Dale says he's fascinated by the challenge of his new role. "The TV side is so innovative and full of interesting, complex privacy issues."
2 minute read

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