July featured many strong posts from legal tech experts, so I’ve decided to share some of the most interesting pieces I read last month.
The AI Protective Order Double Standard
We will begin with an informative post from Craig Ball on his Ball in Your Court blog. He dissects two opinions both released on June
By Louis Lehot, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP. Garage to global, since Y2K.After 25 years advising companies from the garage to the public markets, I have learned to pay attention when a room of CFOs stops being polite. That happened on Tuesday, July 22, at our Foley office in Palo Alto, where we hosted the latest
The LSO Tribunal said the lawyer has no discipline history across her 30-year career
The public comment period for the long-awaited Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (“DFARS”) proposed rule, “Mitigating Risks Related to Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence” (the “proposed DFARS FOCI rule”), closed on July 6, 2026. But recent activity in Congress suggests that the Department of War (“DoW”)’s proposed rule may be only one part of a
Grok 4.5 has been designed to effectively handle finance tasks as well
Friends,In last month’s newsletter, we looked at how long hold periods and scarce exits are pushing sponsors to put artificial intelligence (AI) at the center of value creation. What a difference a month makes: the initial public offering (IPO) window is open.SpaceX went public on June 12, raising $75 billion in the largest IPO
Ruling finds psychological harm due to loss of cat that pet sitter refused to return
Authors: Steve Cernak, Luis Blanquez, and Kristen Harris
The comment period on the FTC and DOJ’s request for information on the HSR premerger notification form closed May 26, 2026, with 55 comments on the docket (FTC-2026-0298). That’s a small number for a rule that governs every reportable deal in the country,
Notes from an evening with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
By Louis Lehot and Kelly BoydIf you sit on a public company board, especially on the audit committee, your life already revolves around financial reporting, the audit and the audit process. The auditors are constantly in the foreground and the background of everything that goes
This article first appeared as an Edge International Communiqué at the Edge International website www.edge-international.com
Law firms do not change easily.
That is not because lawyers are unintelligent, stubborn, or indifferent to improvement. It is because human beings generally do not like change, and lawyers have especially good reasons to distrust it.
Doing things the