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Jan 2, 2025 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Keith Fisher |Christina Houston
CURRENT MONTH (December 2024)Stanford Study Reveals Hallucinations in Lexis & Westlaw ToolsBy Keith R. FisherArtificial intelligence (AI) in law practice continues to make headlines, with the technology morphing at an ever-accelerating pace.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Keith Fisher |Shannon Singleton
Artificial intelligence (“AI”) can be defined in several ways. The Oxford English Dictionary definition refers to “software used to perform tasks or produce output previously thought to require human intelligence, esp.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Keith Fisher |Shannon Singleton
Among the factors in the devolution of the law from a learned profession to a trade is competition amongst an ever-growing pool of lawyers for an ever-shrinking pool of clients. Particularly in “eat what you kill” economic circumstances, there is tremendous pressure to generate client revenues. Law firms emphasize marketing more than ever before.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Keith Fisher |Shannon Singleton
Recently, the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (the “Bureau” or the “CFPB”) survived an appropriations-based challenge to its funding mechanism.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Daniel Shortt |McGlinchey Stafford PLLC |Keith Fisher |Gregg Stevens
CURRENT MONTH (May 2024) Table of Contents hide DEA Proposes Rule to Reschedule Marijuana: Key DefinitionsBy Daniel Shortt, McGlinchey Stafford PLLCOn May 16, 2024, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) released the proposed rule (Proposed Rule) to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The rule was published in the Federal Register on May 21, 2024, kicking off the notice and comment period. Comments must be submitted by July 22.
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May 9, 2024 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Keith Fisher |Shannon Singleton
The 2023 Merger Guidelines (“2023 Guidelines”)[1] jointly issued by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) (collectively, the “Agencies”) represent the latest iteration of a fluctuating interpretation over time of of 1914, which prohibits mergers the effect of which “may be substantially to lessen competition” in any section of the country.[2] The Merger Guidelines serve the goals of transparency in merger enforcement by discussing...
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May 7, 2024 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Keith Fisher |Shannon Singleton
The “revolving door” is not just a department store– or hotel-entry challenge for the unwary. The phrase is also a metaphor for the shuttling of lawyers back and forth between government service and the private sector, which has long captured the attention of courts[1] and commentators.[2] The rules that have been adopted seek to balance various interests.
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May 2, 2024 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Keith Fisher |Barbara Sicalides |Millie Krnjaja |Rachael Aspery
CURRENT MONTH (April 2024) Table of Contents hide Urgent: FTC Final Rule Outlaws Nearly All Noncompete Agreements By Keith R.
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Jun 13, 2023 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Keith Fisher |Christina Houston
CURRENT MONTH (May 2023)Ethics and Professional ResponsibilityABA Calls on SCOTUS to Adopt a Code of EthicsBy Keith R. FisherAt the ABA midwinter meeting in February, the House of Delegates adopted a resolution calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to develop and implement its own code of ethics. On May 9 ABA President Deborah Enix-Ross issued a statement to the same effect. The full text of that statement may be found here.
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May 17, 2023 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Keith Fisher |Shannon Singleton
Has the administrative state gotten “too big for its britches”? Certainly, the pendulum of virtually uncritical deference to federal agencies has swung sharply in the opposite direction in various decisions of the Roberts Court. Five years ago, in Lucia v.
