Now that the honeymoon period surrounding the adoption of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) tools has begun to fade, the reality of this breakthrough technology has come under the microscope. And while many legal professionals are still trying to get...
The past year was filled with exciting breakthroughs of products built with new generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) technology, but it also ushered in a peculiar new regulatory skirmish that in-house counsel would be wise to monitor in 2025. The first...
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Cyrus Mehta, Dec. 23, 2024 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a final rule, effective January 17, 2025 , that will “significantly enhance U.S. companies’ ability to fill job vacancies in critical fields, strengthening our economy...
Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP, Dec. 18, 2024 "Under a legal settlement presented to the court today by ECBAWM and Benno & Associates, P.C., New York City has agreed to pay up to $92.5 million to resolve claims by individuals who...
Don Lee, Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 31, 2024 "Support for retaining H-1B from Elon Musk, the incoming president’s new closest associate, has stirred rage through much of Trump’s MAGA base, which is against immigration in almost any...
USCIS, Jan. 28, 2025 "On Jan. 28, 2025, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem vacated the Jan. 17, 2025, notice that extended a Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Venezuela. The Department will revert to the TPS redesignation and extension...
Dara Kerr, The Guardian, Feb. 6, 2025 "US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations ... Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s...
WSB-TV, Jan. 28, 2025 "Kenia Colindres thought she’d be safe going to church like she did with her family every Sunday. However, this past Sunday, her life changed when US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested her husband, Wilson Rogelio...
By Madison Johnson, Esq. | Manager, Large Markets Successful litigators often talk about the importance of grounding their case strategies in objective data and then relying on their experience to make nuanced judgments as they go about the litigation of the...
Businesses across the globe are bracing for potential increases in tariffs on imported goods flowing into the U.S. in 2025. “On the campaign trail, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump proposed instituting a range of unprecedented tariffs, including...
By Madison Johnson, Esq. | Manager, Large Markets Legislative activity surrounding the regulation of AI has begun to take greater shape this year, especially at the state level, and industry observers are bracing for an onslaught of new proposed legislation in...
In-house legal professionals are entering 2025 with an expectation that the year will bring challenges they can anticipate, as well as a host of headaches that are unexpected right now. They are considering strategy involving not only technology-enabled business...
By Madison Johnson, Esq | Manager, Large Markets The return of President Trump to the White House for another four-year term has large law firms moving to adapt their service offerings and practice area capabilities in a way that aligns with where their corporate...
By Madison Johnson, Esq. | Manager, Large Markets Big Law is coming off a highly profitable year in 2024, and one implication of this financial success is the generation of cash flow that can be invested in technology innovations to improve performance and efficiency...
By Emily Sawicki Law360 (December 12, 2024) -- Burton's Legal Thesaurus recently announced this year's top new words in law, with entries like "coffee badging" and "hot-tubbing" joining the echelons of 2022's "meme stock"...
Zach Despart, Yuriko Schumacher and Uriel García, photography and video by Ben Lowy and Eli Hartman, Texas Tribune, Dec. 19, 2024 "In December 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott traveled to South Texas to inaugurate the first 880-foot stretch of the state’s...
David Olson, Newsday, Dec. 26, 2024 "Julio Zambrano was nervous as he walked into a downtown Manhattan courtroom Nov. 13 and stood before the immigration judge. He removed the backpack that carried three pieces of paper ordering the Ecuadorian migrant and...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 02/03/2025 "Through this notice, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announces that the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) has decided to vacate the January 10, 2025, decision...
New York Times, Feb. 2, 2025 (gift link) "The Trump administration has revoked Temporary Protected Status, or T.P.S., for more than 300,000 Venezuelans in the United States, leaving the population vulnerable to potential deportation in the coming months...
By Madison Johnson, Esq. | Manager, Large Markets The new year has introduced some terminology into the vocabulary of everyone who is trying to keep up with the pace of innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) technology. “Artificial intelligence agents...
Cassandra Burke Robertson, Irina D. Manta, The Conversation, Jan. 20, 2025 "...We are law professors who’ve studied the complex intersection of executive power and immigration enforcement . Our research suggests that Trump may have some legal authority...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 12/30/2024 "On December 15, 2022, DHS published a Federal Register Notice entitled “Trial Testing of Redesigned Naturalization Test for Naturalization Applications,” which...
USCIS, Dec. 19, 2024 "Policy Highlights • Draws upon previously issued event-specific guidance on certain flexibilities available during an emergency or unforeseen circumstance relating to extensions of stay and changes of status, employment authorization...
Dan Berger, Emily Cohen, Jonathan Grode, and Stephen Yale-Loehr, Dec. 18, 2024 "Since the 2024 presidential election results, immigration lawyers have been building on strategies and advice that we gave during the previous Trump administration. We realize...