Researchers have analyzed a high-severity vulnerability in Linux that’s able to escalate untrusted users to root by exploiting a bug you don’t often see: a single errant character inside the kernel.

Victim-survivor groups and legal experts are split over “nation-first reforms” that ban offenders from using this tool in court. However, a loud cohort of legal experts and political figures have ...

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s latest crime drama is making headlines for reasons that have nothing to do with Netflix ratings. Two Miami-Dade law enforcement officers have filed a lawsuit claiming “The ...

The state of Pennsylvania has initiated a significant lawsuit against Character.AI, claiming that its chatbots breached state medical licensing laws. The lawsuit states that a Character.AI bot ...

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the appointment of Michael Buckner as chief legal officer, effective today. Buckner brings nearly three decades of experience as a senior global ...

This article is part of DWT's The Generative Slate series. It explores the use of generative AI in the production and distribution of content. In recent years, courts have increasingly grappled with ...

James Mertes sees dead people — on a court jury list. Mertes, a criminal defense attorney, was alarmed by the glut of dead people whose names turned up on a recent list of potential jurors in rural ...

Action movies are great for aptronym names. To the uninitiated, those are names that are perfect for their owner. It would be like if a man named Todd Flowers became a florist or if Kevin Bacon had ...

The heads of two Northwestern University law clinics targeted by a Congressional committee are suing the U.S. House of Representatives, the chairs of the committee and their own university to try and ...

The potential passage of landmark federal legislation is on the minds of many franchise-focused attorneys, but it’s not the only matter on the radar for the 2026 class of Legal Eagles. These top ...

A group of large PHL Variable policyholders, and the Connecticut insurance commissioner both took aim at Nassau Financial Group in separate court filings this week. Both the policyholders and interim ...