Corporations often adjust their compliance operations when a new presidential administration takes office. The Trump administration promised a pro-business agenda with less corporate enforcement action. However, compliance attorneys are observing an overall general trend of clients either maintaining or strengthening their policies since the beginning of the year.
The rise of generative AI has introduced a new challenge to the relationship between corporate legal departments and law firms: the question of accountability for a technology that can be easily misused by lawyers, with costly results for their clients. Whose responsibility is it to ensure that hallucinations don’t happen?
The IPO market continued getting healthier in Q3 2025, with more and larger offerings than the year before—but the federal government shutdown looms large over the end of the year’s performance.
Newly hired law firm associates will be the first to spend their entire legal careers using AI. But a lawyer’s true value lies in distinctly human skills and abilities that no algorithm can replicate. Here’s a list of tasks that AI can’t perform as well as a new associate can.
State lawmakers have proposed a much larger number of bills aimed at regulating litigation finance year to date than they have in the recent past. This is a reflection of the increasing scrutiny the industry is facing by both federal and state governments about transparency and improper influence concerns.
Corporations often adjust their compliance operations when a new presidential administration takes office. The Trump administration promised a pro-business agenda with less corporate enforcement action. However, compliance attorneys are observing an overall general trend of clients either maintaining or strengthening their policies since the beginning of the year.
Litigants’ usage of AI-hallucinated cases, quotes, and citations in briefs and other case filings is becoming increasingly common, based on a Bloomberg Law analysis of court opinions and other judicial orders. In 2025, instances in which lawyers and pro se litigants were caught misusing generative AI have increased sevenfold.
State lawmakers have proposed a much larger number of bills aimed at regulating litigation finance year to date than they have in the recent past. This is a reflection of the increasing scrutiny the industry is facing by both federal and state governments about transparency and improper influence concerns.
The rise of generative AI has introduced a new challenge to the relationship between corporate legal departments and law firms: the question of accountability for a technology that can be easily misused by lawyers, with costly results for their clients. Whose responsibility is it to ensure that hallucinations don’t happen?
The IPO market continued getting healthier in Q3 2025, with more and larger offerings than the year before—but the federal government shutdown looms large over the end of the year’s performance.
Newly hired law firm associates will be the first to spend their entire legal careers using AI. But a lawyer’s true value lies in distinctly human skills and abilities that no algorithm can replicate. Here’s a list of tasks that AI can’t perform as well as a new associate can.
Over the past decade, there’s been a substantial drop in the number of companies that reincorporate to Delaware, while more companies are leaving. Factors cited for leaving are often related to recently amended corporate state laws in Nevada and Texas.
Union organizing activity is showing signs of entering a cooling period, based on Bloomberg Law’s midyear calculations of NLRB election records. Unions participated in—and won—fewer representation elections in H1 2025 than in the first halves of any of the previous three years.
AI in legal workflows creates accountability gaps when outside counsel use vendors deploying AI. Data oversight often ends at first-tier contracts, leaving risks of misuse. In-house counsel must demand transparency, audit rights, and AI specific safeguards to comply with cross-border obligations on data protection.
Court review of the DOJ’s settlement permitting the Hewlett Packard Enterprises merger with Juniper Networks Inc. probably can’t meaningfully impact the deal. But the process highlights the importance of state enforcers in antitrust as longstanding federal precedents face new challenges.
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