Editor’s Note: Google Cloud entered the legal vertical Aug. 25 with Gemini Enterprise for Legal, announcing a preview during ILTACON week with four Big Law names and connectors into 11 named legal platforms. The roster is broad. The partner documents read differently: Relativity’s connector handles administrative orchestration while substantive analysis stays in Relativity aiR, Everlaw’s
Editor’s Note: July’s 233 Hart-Scott-Rodino reported transactions push fiscal 2026 to 2,091 with two months still to count, a preliminary total that already tops the finalized full-year figures for fiscal 2025 and fiscal 2024. This edition pairs that count with the fiscal 2025 annual report’s finalized monthly data, showing both the same-vintage preliminary comparison (up
Editor’s Note: A quarter of the Justice Department’s announced $400 million TikTok settlement does not become due unless a judge first vacates a 2019 consent decree. The government filed the motion asking for exactly that on Aug. 21, and a hearing is calendared for Sept. 21 before U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II.
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Editor’s Note: A cyberattack forced a small British generator offline for four days in July, and the minister for energy has since said nobody lost power. Both facts matter legally, and not in the way the headlines suggested.
Two tests stand between an incident and a mandatory notification under the UK’s NIS Regulations. The first
Editor’s Note: Russia’s war economy is running short on gasoline at the same moment its military leans harder on North Korean missiles and troops to sustain the fight, and the Kremlin is managing both stories with the same tool: control of the narrative. Four consecutive days of assessments from the Institute for the Study of
Editor’s Note: Silencing does not always take the form of direct confrontation. Sometimes a leader stops inviting the person who asks the inconvenient question, and that difference can decide what the decision costs. Dropping a name from a distribution list may leave no contemporaneous explanation, and can leave the affected person without a clear decision
Editor’s Note: Organizations often mistake visible activity for meaningful progress. In this Forbes Communications Council article, the author examines how communications and business leaders can become overly focused on output metrics, meeting volume, and organizational motion while losing sight of the outcomes those activities are intended to achieve. By highlighting the distinction between activity and
Editor’s Note: August’s Five great reads converge on a single question: when software acts, who holds the record? The EU’s e-evidence regime became applicable across 26 member states, allowing judicial authorities, where the necessary national implementation arrangements are in place, to serve production orders directly on covered providers’ designated EU addressees on a 10-day clock
Editor’s Note: Estonia’s restored republic turned 35 on Thursday. The flag went up over Toompea, the Tallinn seat of the Riigikogu, Estonia’s parliament, in the hands of four men who defended the city’s TV tower against Soviet paratroopers in 1991. They held the tower on the day Estonia voted to restore its independence. That vote
Editor’s Note: Two deadlines are bearing down on Relativity Server customers, and the one the industry keeps quoting is not the nearer. Jan. 1, 2028 restricts what may be created in Server. Included technical support and critical patches for Server 2024 stop on Dec. 31, 2026, and Server 2023 passed that point in March.
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Editor’s Note: Starting today, where national arrangements are in place, judicial authorities in any of 26 EU member states can compel a covered service provider in another participating member state to produce data on a 10-day clock, or an eight-hour one in emergencies, with the certificate served on the provider’s designated EU addressee. The e-Evidence
Editor’s Note: Artificial intelligence continues to reshape eDiscovery, legal operations, and information governance, driving organizations to reevaluate how they manage increasing data volumes, evolving regulatory expectations, and demands for greater efficiency. As AI capabilities become more deeply embedded within legal technology platforms and workflows, legal and compliance teams face growing pressure to balance innovation with
Editor’s Note: A pristine plan no longer proves that anyone did the planning. Large language models now produce strategy decks, annual revenue and sales plans, marketing launch and engagement plans, migration roadmaps, incident response playbooks and discovery project plans on demand, and the polish of those documents is no longer reliable evidence of the competence
Editor’s Note: Andrew Haslam’s eDisclosure Systems Buyers Guide crossed its 500,000th recorded pageview in the first 16 days of August, by the publisher’s own unaudited analytics, and the 2H 2026 update captures the reference at that threshold: a catalog of 235 named listings, three new market analyses since April, and pageview volume running at double
Editor’s Note: A presidential memorandum signed Aug. 12 tells the federal government to build a program that is not yet publicly operational, admitting vetted private companies to run surveillance and disruption operations against foreign criminal networks. Four weeks earlier, a bill landed in Congress to authorize much the same activity, with protections the memorandum cannot
Editor’s Note: Congressional scrutiny of Chinese AI models has found its operating rhythm, and it runs through the records a company keeps about its own engineering choices. Two House committees asked DoorDash for seven categories of documents by today, starting with every model from a PRC-based or PRC-controlled developer the company has evaluated or used