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May 16th, 2023
How GCs Can Handle Internal Pressure To Hire A Certain Firm
Ethics & Professional Responsibility Partner Tyler Maulsby is quoted in the article, “How GCs Can Handle Internal Pressure To Hire A Certain Firm” published by Law360. The article discusses the pressure that general counsels face over sending work to certain law firms and how experts suggest handling these obstacles. Tyler is quoted saying, “Pressure on general counsel can be both perceived and actual. If an in-house attorney previously worked for a law firm that's capable of handling a certain matter, there's no harm in encouraging colleagues to hire those lawyers. But if there is outward, oppressive pressure to steer work to a certain law firm for political reasons, regardless of whether that is in the best interest of the company, that's where you get into issues with ethics, and that's where you also get into issues with all kinds of corporate officer and director liabilities for breach of fiduciary duty, et cetera.” Tyler adds, “Anyone in a hiring position, whether that's for legal services or otherwise, has to be careful about and cognizant about outside pressures when they have a duty to do something that's in the best interest of their employer or of their client.”
Read the full article here. (Behind paywall)
Other Quoted
4 Takeaways From 1st Opinion on AI Training and Fair Use
Law 360 quotes Jacqueline Charlesworth on the Third Circuit ruling granting summary judgment to Thomson Reuters, in a case alleging tech startup ROSS Intelligence infringed copyrighted material from Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw platform to create a competing legal research tool. Ms. Charlesworth stated the ruling is significant because many AI companies are asserting transformative use, in interpreting The Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith case. (Behind paywall) View Article
February 13 2025
Thomson Reuters Prevails in Copyright Battle with AI Company
MediaDailyNews quotes Jeremy S. Goldman on the federal court decision that Ross Intelligence infringed Thomson Reuters’ copyright by training its services using Westlaw summaries, known as “headnotes.” Mr. Goldman states the ruling could impact lawsuits by other copyright owners over the use of their material to develop AI. However, he distinguishes some of the high-profile cases such as those against OpenAI in training ChatGPT. He notes OpenAI argues it did not copy material to compete with authors and publishers but to create its language model and technology. View Article
February 12 2025
What a Character
Boston College Law School Magazine quotes Jeffrey A. Greenberg in a profile of Michael Schiffer, founder of S2 Advertising Law, and the former legal director at Twitter. The article titled "What a Character" notes that Mr. Greenberg was on the hiring committee that recruited Mr. Schiffer to join Frankfurt Kurnit’s Advertising group, where he worked for more than 10 years. View Article
February 11 2025
