4/7/2026 12:41:08 AM From Regional to Relational Powerhouses: How Upper-Middle-Market Firms Are Rewriting the Rules of Legal Competition By Henry O'Connor The traditional distinction between “national” and “regional” law firms is becoming less predictive of where high-end legal work and the...
3/26/2026 3:00:48 PM Is Prior Authorization Reform in Name Only? By Jennifer P. Ungru Prior authorization reform is suddenly everywhere. States are passing new laws. CMS has finalized sweeping interoperability rules. And...
3/26/2026 2:21:11 PM Mississippi Drops the Ball on NIL Tax Break By Brandon DeRojas John Fletcher Mississippi’s proposed legislation to exempt student-athletes’ NIL income from state taxation has officially been shelved, halting what...
3/24/2026 9:10:38 PM Fewer OSHA Inspections Causing Alarm By Jane Heidingsfelder A group of Democratic US senators sent a letter to the Department of Labor expressing alarm over a significant drop in workplace safety...
3/24/2026 6:30:56 PM Personal Injury Attorneys Convicted in Staged Accident Case By Michael Magner A federal jury has convicted New Orleans personal injury attorneys Vanessa Motta and Jason Giles for orchestrating a years‑long scheme...
3/23/2026 3:20:38 PM Dot Your I's and Cross your T's: New LAT Verification Form Required in Tax Year 2026 By Jesse "Jay" R. Adams, III Starting in property tax Year 2026, any taxpayer that renders personal property on a LAT form and wishes to submit any additional...
3/19/2026 5:30:44 PM With Thaler Closed, Courts Must Now Turn to the Harder Question of AI-Assisted Authorship By Hugh Warren Whit Rayner The Supreme Court’s recent denial of certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter[1] leaves undisturbed the decision from the DC Circuit’s ruling...
3/18/2026 2:40:38 PM Latest on OSHA's Heat Standard By Jane Heidingsfelder Under the proposed Biden-era standard, employers would be required to provide water and shaded rest areas once temperatures reach 80...
3/12/2026 2:40:43 PM Move to Cut Red Tape for Offshore Oil and Gas Industry By Mallory G. Wynne The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) published a proposed rule in March 2026 that would significantly roll back financial...
3/10/2026 10:10:41 PM Taxing Talent: State Efforts to Carve Out NIL Income from Tax Bases By Brandon DeRojas During the final week of February, House Bill 4014 cleared the Mississippi House of Representatives. The bill exempts income earned by...
3/10/2026 4:40:39 PM BOEM Proposes Amendments to Its 2024 Offshore Financial Assurance Rule By Sarah Dicharry Madeline M. Freese On Monday, March 9, 2026, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) published a proposed rule (91 Fed....
3/9/2026 6:00:38 PM New Report Illustrates Complications With College Athlete Unionization By William D. Hall, III Sidney F. Lewis, V As debate surrounding Name, Image, and Likeness-related issues swirls, one common refrain is that unionization/collective bargaining...
3/2/2026 10:51:11 PM BOEM Issues Record of Decision Reaffirming Gulf of America Lease Sales 259 and 261 By Sarah Dicharry Madelyn Graves On February 24, 2026, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued a Record of Decision (ROD) reaffirming its approval of Outer...
2/27/2026 7:20:41 PM New York Targets Valve's Loot Boxes as Illegal Gambling By Daniel J. McGinn For years, private plaintiffs challenging loot boxes in video games have run into a brick wall in federal court. State consumer...
2/27/2026 5:51:09 PM The Fifth Circuit's 10 Commandments Ripeness Ruling and Environmental Regulation Challenges By Philip Wood The Fifth Circuit's en banc decision in the Louisiana Ten Commandments case grabbed headlines last week, but the most significant part of...
2/27/2026 5:50:40 PM Turbines at the Fence Line: How Gas Power Is Fueling the AI Data Center Race By Mallory G. Wynne The scale of AI infrastructure buildout is staggering with nearly 4,000 data center projects currently under construction globally,...