A fast-rising legal technology company from Sweden has secured a massive $550 million funding round, setting the stage for an aggressive push into the United States legal market. The company, Legora, announced that the Series D investment values the startup at $5.55 billion and will fuel a major expansion across the U.S., where demand for …

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A federal appeals court has allowed West Virginia to continue blocking Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgeries, marking a significant development in the widening legal fight over transgender healthcare across the United States. The ruling came from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, where a three-judge panel concluded that the state’s law targets …

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A legal fight has begun in the United States after immigrant rights advocates challenged a federal decision that could strip hundreds of Somali nationals of the legal protections that allow them to live and work in the country. The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Boston, seeks to block the government’s plan to terminate …

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A senior official at the U.S. Department of Justice is confronting professional misconduct charges after a controversial letter sent to Georgetown University Law Center ignited accusations that he attempted to pressure the school over its diversity curriculum. The complaint, filed in Washington’s attorney discipline system, centers on Ed Martin, who currently serves as the Justice …

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A significant cyberattack has pushed the American federal judiciary to accelerate long-delayed plans to modernize its electronic case management system, a platform that stores and processes court filings across the country. The push for speed came during a closed-door meeting of the Judicial Conference of the United States, the policy-setting body for the federal courts, …

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A major confrontation between the U.S. government and one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence developers has spilled into the courts, with Anthropic suing the U.S. Defense Department after being placed on a national-security blacklist that restricts the military’s use of its AI systems. The dispute centres on the company’s refusal to remove built-in restrictions …

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