Shannon Singleton

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.