Over the past several decades, the idea of what counts as corporate value has changed dramatically. Firms across technology, healthcare, and life sciences increasingly derive competitive advantage from intangible assets rather than physical capital. These assets include patents, software, proprietary data, and algorithms. As a result, lenders and private credit providers now finance companies whose
How Boutique Law Firms Can Use GenAI to Compete with Big Law: AI Webinars
By Doug Austin
Terrific topic! This webinar from Lexbe tomorrow – discusses how boutique law firms can use GenAI to compete with Big Law!
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AI Code Leak Exposes the Fault Lines of Copyright
By Diego Freire
One of the most valuable AI companies in the world may have just accidentally given away one of its crown jewels and immediately turned to copyright law to limit the damage. On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally exposed the source code for Claude Code, one of its most valuable AI products. The company issued Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests that removed over 8,000 copies of the leaked code from GitHub. However, within hours of the leak, and before those takedown requests could be processed, a developer used AI to translate the entire codebase into a new Python repository that became the fastest-growing in GitHub history. This all comes at a time when AI companies are relying heavily on fair use as a defense in their mounting copyright infringement lawsuits over their use of copyrighted works to train their models, and as courts have made it clear that copyright law does not recognize AI as an author. This article examines how copyright law applies to AI-generated works and what the AI Code leak reveals about the tensions at the heart of AI and intellectual property.
6th Circuit will answer when the workday begins for remote employees
When does the workday begin for a remote employee?
Not when they walk through the office door. There is no office door.
So is it when they log in? When they boot up their computer? When they launch the software that actually lets them take calls?
For remote non-exempt employees, those questions aren’t academic. They’re…
Vetting AI for Government: California’s Executive Order Sets New Expectations
California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a new executive order aimed at tightening California’s procurement rules for artificial intelligence (AI) vendors and “raising the bar” for companies that want to sell AI tools to the state. The administration says the goal is to ensure contractors meet strong standards and can demonstrate responsible policies that prevent misuse,…
An AI and Legal Tech Forecast for 2026
A recent webinar brought forward-looking insights across product, client strategy, business development, and legal innovation perspectives. The discussion centered on where AI is driving value and the shifts legal teams may want to prepare for in 2026.
What Is Agentic AI and Should Your Law Firm Care?
Just when lawyers are getting accustomed to incorporating AI into their daily routines, a new learning curve emerges: Agentic AI. In 2024, the legal world was captivated by questions like: Can AI write my blog posts? Attorneys experimented with ChatGPT, debated its ethics, and cautiously began to test its limits. The conversation was almost entirely…
The Threshold Moment
At a certain point in a long AI session, I can feel the texture change.The words are still smooth. The tone is still confident. But something underneath has started to slide and give way. The session is still moving forward, yet the logic is no longer holding together in the same way.That happened to me…
Advantages and Challenges of AI for Small and Mid-Size Firms: Artificial Intelligence Trends
By Doug Austin
What are the advantages and challenges of AI for small and mid-size firms? Elizabeth Guthrie of Nextpoint discusses that in this post!
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How Does AI Work? A Beginner Friendly Guide to Artificial Intelligence
If you have ever asked how does AI works, the short answer is simple: AI works by finding patterns in data and using those patterns to make predictions, decisions, or generate new outputs. It does not think like a human. It processes inputs, applies learned patterns, and produces a result based on how the system…