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Microsoft’s promise to defend customers from copyright infringement lawsuits stemming from its Copilot artificial intelligence tools likely won’t require a mass deployment of its lawyers.
![Microsoft Sees Low Risk for Customers in AI Copyright Lawsuits](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8b70418a-828c-4021-9a54-f9df3bac2b2c.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Evidence of self-destructing company chats stands to play a central role in the US Justice Department’s blockbuster antitrust showdown with Alphabet Inc.‘s Google.
![Google Risks Attack Over Deleted Chats in Search Monopoly Trial](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1b1adf13-fc6e-4567-8768-e26903e40353.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Burford Capital’s share of the $16 billion a US judge in New York ordered Argentina to pay over its 2012 seizure of oil company YPF SA is around $6.2 billion, which would give the litigation funder a more than 37,000% return on its initial investment.
![Burford Eyes 37,000% Return in $16 Billion Argentina Award (1)](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8d73d0a5-5e5f-4797-80ec-27871f6945ad.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Mark Meadows fails in bid to move Georgia election case to federal court
Court eases curbs on Biden administration's contacts with social media firms
New gas-to-crypto projects present a glimpse of innovation between energy and technology. Reed Smith’s Luke Burns, Nicole Soussan Caplan, and Mason Malpass explain the possibilities and risks with this cryptocurrency model.
![Gas-to-Crypto Projects Provide New Revenue Streams, Novel Risks](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/69b773d2-3e65-4fd5-9e23-f1d125237b83.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Trump attorney John Eastman called a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice as his first witness while he defends his law license on state bar claims of ethical and legal violations.
![Eastman Lining Up Defense in California State Bar Ethics Case](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b2efa848-3bbc-4e99-8337-43871841248f.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
US executives drastically cut back on public discussions of workplace diversity last quarter, in the first earnings season since the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action sent a chill through corporate boardrooms.
![Executives Mum on Diversity After Affirmative Action Ruling (1)](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/91581e5a-b67a-43bf-ad80-85bb6af0150e.webp?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
This week, our experts covered topics ranging from an upcoming Supreme Court decision on a foreign earnings tax case to downward attribution rule changes. For a look at the latest commentary and analysis, check out our weekly roundup.
![Week in Insights: Capital Gains Taxes Deserve More Consideration](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/48c037c2-87ed-489b-9d75-6eacb573d425.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
A former Greenberg Traurig patent litigator sued a TikTok influencer whose videos about the lawyer’s divorce allegedly cost him his job and led to financial ruin.
![Ex-Greenberg Traurig Lawyer Sues Media Influencer on Abuse Claim](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6cfe19e6-dbfb-4528-baa0-e5509f4ff45e.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Justice Brett Kavanaugh said Thursday he’s “hopeful that there’ll be some concrete steps taken soon” regarding how the US Supreme Court self-polices ethics.
![Kavanaugh ‘Hopeful’ Supreme Court Will Act Soon on Ethics (2)](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cd50cb20-f308-44e8-9f58-2cdfc6ae4e47.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Former Donald Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro has been convicted of contempt of Congress for not complying to a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
![Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro convicted of contempt of Congress | CNN Politics](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/85006106-2df0-4308-b7f2-895672ce6bcf.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
This new pipeline program turned rejected applicants into new law students
X, the social network that used to be known as Twitter, updated its privacy policy to include a new kind of user data it plans to collect: biometric.
![X Plans to Collect Biometric Data, Job and School History (3)](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bfc20350-14bf-4754-996e-caa488975fba.webp?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
More than 3 million workers would be newly eligible for overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours a week, under a new proposal from the US Department of Labor.
![Millions More Workers Would Get Overtime Pay in DOL Proposal (1)](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/29d470c9-442e-42ff-9342-4798ad94131c.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
iFixit wants to fix McDonald’s ice cream machines for good.
![iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald’s ice cream machines](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0615395e-a706-4ea8-83e1-628f9e113e54.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Grayscale Investments LLC won a key legal fight in its push to launch a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, bringing the crypto industry to the precipice of tapping billions of dollars from everyday investors.
![Crypto Scores Landmark US Legal Win With Grayscale ETF Ruling](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/40085353-90a4-42b8-bd8b-1a4eb8c7dc92.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
A pension fund sued Peter Thiel and other Palanthir Technologies Inc. board members over claims they made billions in insider trades while jacking up its stock price through a spree of reckless investments with doomed blank-check companies.
![Palantir SPAC Spree Draws Insider Trading Lawsuit Against Thiel](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/52acd3d0-fe2a-4368-b74b-4a45e98894c8.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
The AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. investor whose settlement objections temporarily halted the conversion of its APE preferred units into common stock is seeking a financial reward for reducing the fees paid to the lawyers who negotiated the deal.
![AMC Settlement Objector Seeks Fees Over Collapsing Stock Price](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c1eaf433-510a-41ee-9854-cd96db07328c.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)