“You play to win the game” (Herman Edwards)

Good morning all you Law Buffs and Calves,

“You play to win the game” (Herman Edwards). We are one week from Spring Break! Let’s get it, let’s go. Just remember, if you need reference or circulation help, be sure to reach out to your friendly neighborhood law librarian. We’ll be here, with or without you.

The following are 10 interesting articles from the previous week. These articles were pulled from either the: ABA Newsletter, AALL Newsletter, vLex Newsletter, Law360, Law Practice Magazine Newsletter, LexisNexis’ Practical Guidance Newsletter, Bloomberglaw Filings of Note and/or Frontiers Newsletter. Enjoy!

“According to a list published recently by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, which audits federal agencies and programs, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is currently involved with more than 685 artificial intelligence (AI) projects. Some of these projects include major weapon systems such as the MQ-9 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and the Joint Light Tactical...”

Introduction: “Via LLRX – Using News and Social Media for Finding Financial Assets—5 Top Tips—Private investigator Marcy Phelps searches social media and online news for clients on a daily basis and recommends specific sources as useful for asset investigations. Phelps notes that not everything will show up in public records, and news and social media research helps fill in the gaps.”

Introduction: “It’s no secret that history often overlooks the women who have shaped our present. But make no mistake, women were there—battering down the doors and fighting for change. As part of our effort to write a new history of women, Atlas Obscura went hunting through our own archives to bring you the stories of female activists whose names you should know, from 1910s Japan to 2011 on a lush hillside of Cherán, Mexico.”

Introduction: “Thrice has SAS Institute tried to persuade courts that World Programming Ltd. infringed copyright in its widely used statistical analysis program by emulating the SAS program’s functionality. WPL designed its directly competing program to emulate the SAS functionality so that people who wrote programs in the SAS Language for various statistical procedures would be able to execute those programs on WPL’s platform if they chose to switch from SAS’s software to WPL’s. SAS’s latest appeal of an unfavorable ruling is now pending before the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit (CAFC). After describing the three SAS v. WPL lawsuits, this column gives examples of emulation programs that have either not encountered or overcome copyright lawsuits. It then explains why there is reason to worry that SAS’s latest lawsuit might succeed.”

“Avoid disgruntled clients, their complaints and disciplinary actions with these defensive strategies”

Introduction: “As law firms and attorneys rely on artificial intelligence to analyze data, handle client queries and check and review documents and contracts, they have to educate themselves about the tech’s liability risks. That was a key takeaway from an ABA Techshow 2022 panel hosted Friday by technology lawyer and Fastcase executive Damien Riehl and co-presenter Darla W. Jackson, a librarian at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.”

“The retiring sponsor of a federal bipartisan bill to expand the cannabis industry's access to banking said Tuesday he was confident the long-delayed legislation could finally become law before his final term ends within the year.”

“Former Goldman Sachs partner and star witness Tim Leissner on Tuesday was pilloried in the trial of his former subordinate Roger Ng over $6.5 billion in corrupt bond offerings by Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, as the defense sought to use his many romantic entanglements to attack his credibility through questioning about how he impersonated his now ex-wife to deceive his current wife.”