The year was 1978. Ashton Kutcher and John Legend were born, the Jonestown Massacre occurred, the first Garfield comic was published, the first baby was born through In Vitro Fertilization, and it was also the year the federal government banned lead paint in consumer goods. While the splashes of red and white in your favorite […]
March was a busy month in the class action world. Here is a summary of a few of the most notable cases. Finding NeMo, But in Court Nvidia, the $2 trillion chipmaker powering the AI boom, joins the likes of OpenAI, Microsoft, and others who are facing class action lawsuits from authors alleging copyright infringement. […]
2023 was a banner year for class actions. In total, class action settlements swelled to over $51 billion. As tallied in Duane Morris’s 2024 Class Action Review, that number, when considered along with 2022’s $66 billion, marks the highest 2-year period for class action settlements in American history. 2024 looks to make that a 3-year […]
Law firms, like any other business, need cash to operate. Famously, our court system moves at a rather deliberate pace, and attorneys often find themselves waiting, sometimes for years, for a settlement to reach the finish line and turn into a payment. This is where post-settlement funding comes in. It allows law firms waiting on […]
Transparency is something that we can all appreciate, especially when it comes to the law. Legislation, however, has gotten so complicated, that even our own government finds itself confusing. Just last year, the President signed the Providing Accountability Through Transparency Act, which requires agencies to include a 100 plain word summary of any proposed rule. […]
If you are worried that A.I. will put us all out of the job, the courts haven’t exactly sought to protect those individuals whose works have been, or will be, freely used to train the very A.I. that will potentially put them out of the job one day. In order to develop a Generative A.I., […]
