A sweeping federal insider-trading prosecution in Boston took a significant step forward on June 1, when 15 defendants pleaded not guilty in a case prosecutors say spanned roughly a decade and touched nearly 30 merger transactions. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston has charged 30 people overall, alleging that lawyers and financial professionals improperly shared
ResMed Faces New PTAB Challenge in IPR2026-00341
Another PTAB proceeding has been filed against ResMed, with IPR2026-00341 entering the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on June 12, 2026. The petition places one of ResMed’s patents under inter partes review, opening a new front in what could become an important dispute for companies operating in the sleep-disorder and respiratory-device space.
At this stage,…
Seven Legal Developments Shaping the U.S. Litigation Landscape on June 13, 2026
As of June 13, 2026, the legal headlines most likely to affect practice are clustering around a familiar mix: consequential court rulings, aggressive federal enforcement, and legal-system changes with downstream effects for companies and their counsel. For litigators, in-house teams, and compliance officers, the significance is less about any single headline than about what these…
Market Intelligence: AI reallocates eDiscovery channels as software gains five share points through 2030
Editor’s Note: The worldwide eDiscovery market reached an estimated 19.61 billion dollars in 2025 and is projected to climb to 28.08 billion dollars by 2030. The aggregate trajectory grows at a reconciled compound annual rate of 7.44 percent. Beneath that aggregate line are two segment trajectories moving at materially different rates: software grows at 10.41…
AI can write the pitch deck but not tell founders what is worth building
Editor’s Note: Startup accelerators have long focused on helping founders move faster. At Latitude59 in Tallinn, accelerator leaders, investors, and founders argued that artificial intelligence is changing that equation, increasing the value of judgment, mentorship, and critical questioning. A Future Stage panel featuring Tehnopol’s Anne-Liisa Elbrecht, Karma Ventures’ Linda-Riin Võeras, and Neocortex founder Sercan Altundas…
New PTAB Challenge Targets ResMed Patent in IPR2026-00341
A new inter partes review proceeding at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board could draw close attention from patent owners, challengers, and counsel following the medical technology sector. In IPR2026-00341, filed June 12, 2026, the petition is styled Resmed Corp., signaling that ResMed is involved in a fresh PTAB dispute over the validity…
DOJ Forces Divestitures in Taiheiyo-CalPortland Ready-Mix Deal
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has required Taiheiyo Cement Corporation and CalPortland Company to divest assets as a condition of moving forward with their acquisition of ready-mix concrete assets from Vulcan Materials Company. Although the matter did not produce a court opinion, it is a notable enforcement action in a sector that sits at the…
A Pox On Everyone’s House: Mississippi Court Disqualifies All 4 Attorneys In Major Hallucination Scandal
Federal District Judge Sharion Aycock has sanctioned and disqualified all the lawyers on both sides of a case, including local counsel, for including hallucinated cites in pleadings and for not verifying them. It’s a well-reasoned and well supported 23-page Opinion containing many of the relevant opinions from other courts. It’s also a textbook on how…
Introducing Talk to a Docket: Conversational AI Comes to Docket Alarm
Ask any docket a question. Get an answer with citations you can verify.Legal research has always involved a familiar pattern: open a docket, scroll through dozens of entries, open the filings that look relevant, read them, and try to hold the whole picture in your head. For complex litigation with hundreds of entries, that pattern…
Trouble For Midsize Law Firms: Is Their Titanic Sinking?
Are midsize law firms in trouble? A recent Thomson Reuters Institute Report reveals some troubling findings. As compared to other market segments, midsize expense growth is up, demand growth rate lower, investment in tech is less and less money is being spent on recruiting. That does not bode well if it continues. Here’s my thoughts…
Europe’s AI labeling rules arrive with a voluntary code and a hard deadline
Editor’s Note: Europe’s deadline for labeling AI-generated content now comes with an instruction manual. The European Commission’s final Code of Practice, published June 10, converts Article 50 of the AI Act from statutory text into operational steps: signed metadata, watermarking, free detection tools and a common set of EU labeling icons, all ahead of obligations…
Conti Ransomware Conspirator’s Guilty Plea Signals Continued DOJ Focus on Cybercrime
A Ukrainian national’s guilty plea in connection with the Conti ransomware operation marks another notable step in the Justice Department’s long-running effort to pursue transnational cybercrime actors through traditional criminal statutes. According to federal prosecutors, the defendant admitted participating in a wire fraud conspiracy tied to the Conti group, one of the most disruptive ransomware…
Flipping the Telescope: Cultivating Marginal Innovation and Talkability in a Decentralized America
At The Washington Post’s Building America Summit in Washington, DC, an insightful dialogue took place between Vineet Khosla, Chief Technology Officer at The Washington Post, and Marian Salzman, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Senior Advisor to the US CEO at Philip Morris International (PMI). Salzman, a globally recognized trendspotter and corporate strategist,…
Content Marketing in the Age of AI: Why Taste Is the Real Competitive Advantage
Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed the way businesses approach content creation, digital marketing, and audience engagement. Today, we have access to powerful AI tools capable of generating blog posts, social media posts, landing pages, email campaigns, ad copy, and even entire content marketing strategies in a matter of seconds.
What once required teams of writers,…
Supreme Court Preserves SEC Disgorgement Tool in Sripetch Fight
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered an important enforcement win to the Securities and Exchange Commission by preserving the agency’s ability to seek disgorgement in civil cases, including in the matter involving defendant Sripetch. For securities litigators and regulated businesses, the ruling is a reminder that even as the Court has shown increasing skepticism toward parts…
Supreme Court Preserves FCC In-House Penalty Process in Telecom Privacy Dispute
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday delivered a significant administrative-law win to the Federal Communications Commission, ruling 8-1 that the agency may continue using its longstanding internal enforcement process to pursue monetary penalties against regulated companies. The decision rejects a constitutional challenge brought by wireless carriers including Verizon and AT&T in a case arising from…