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Employment Law Across the Globe: What’s Happened and What’s Coming Up?
A global guide to employment law developments reshaping the international workforce in 2026: from AI governance and accelerating legal reform to pay transparency, DEI and worker protections. Prepared by our UK law firm, Lewis Silkin, for its annual ‘Managing an International Workforce’ conference, on 11 June 2026….By: Ius Laboris
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The Unicorn in the Room: How the Triangle is Rewriting the Rules of Who Gets Funded
What does it actually look like when a community decides to stop talking about change and starts building the infrastructure for it? That’s the question at the heart of this episode of Founder Shares, recorded live at the Strength in Numbers mixer on the eve of Venture Connect — the Triangle’s premier gathering of founders,…
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Texas Business Court: Work Product Protection Can Extend to a Litigant’s AI “Conversations” — but With Important Limits
AI and Protected Work Product – A Texas Business Court recently addressed whether a litigant’s interactions with ChatGPT qualify for work product protection under the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure….By: Haynes Boone
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South Philadelphia E-Bike Fire Serves as Another Tragic Reminder of the Importance of Lithium-Ion Battery Safety
A recent fatal fire in South Philadelphia has once again drawn attention to the growing risks associated with lithium-ion batteries. According to news reports, investigators determined that an e-bike battery being charged inside a residence was the cause of a fire that tragically claimed a life….By: Stark & Stark
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Mass Torts Through the Decades
With mass torts as with many things in life, the aphorism – the more things change, the more they remain the same – rings true. Legal practitioners still grapple with the issue of causation and how to achieve collective redress, key issues in one of the seminal mass tort litigations involving Agent Orange, the herbicide…
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Supreme Court Backs Monsanto in Fight Against Roundup Warning Claims
In a much-anticipated decision, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Monsanto on Thursday in a 7-2 opinion in Monsanto Co. v. Durnell, No. 24-1068, holding that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) expressly preempts state law failure-to-warn claims….By: FBT Gibbons LLP
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Georgia Supreme Court Keeps Non-Economic Damages Uncapped in Medical Malpractice Cases
The Supreme Court of Georgia issued two significant decisions confirming that awards of non-economic damages for personal injuries in medical malpractice cases remain uncapped in Georgia. These recent rulings reinforce the Court’s 2010 decision in Atlanta Oculoplastic Surgery v. Nestlehutt, which held that statutory caps on non-economic damages violate the state constitution….By: Phelps Dunbar
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Retreating From The Elephant: The Perpetually Impending Demise of Indie Cinema
At any given moment, the movie I’m most looking forward to seeing simply doesn’t exist because no one financed it. Right now, it’s the new movie by Amanda Wilder. We are more than 10 years away from “Approaching The Elephant,” the magnificent and sensitive documentary about an alternative school in New Jersey, made by someone…
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A French-Language “Zorro” Offers a Charmingly Offbeat Interpretation of the Famous Vigilante
The character of Zorro has been around for over a hundred years. Created by American pulp writer Johnston McCulley in 1919, the popular masked vigilante has appeared in over 40 feature films and multiple television series, portrayed by actors ranging from Tyrone Power and Douglas Fairbanks to Guy Williams and Antonio Banderas. And although Zorro…
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Turtles Are Really Weird Animals. Where Did They Come From?
The origin of turtles has puzzled scientists. A new study provides more evidence that these shelled reptiles share a common ancestor with crocodiles and birds.
