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Meta Hit With Textbook Authors’ IP Suit Over AI Training
June 2, 2026 Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with a proposed class action Thursday in California federal court accusing it of feeding copyrighted textbooks into its Llama large language model to train the artificial intelligence product without getting permission from or compensating the textbooks’ authors… Read more
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Gaw | Poe LLP Partners Randolph Gaw and Mark Poe Both Selected to List of Super Lawyers for SIXTH Straight Year
SAN FRANCISCO – June 30, 2026 – Gaw | Poe LLP announced today that for the sixth straight year, partners Randolph Gaw and Mark Poe were both selected as Northern California Super Lawyers by Super Lawyers. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer…
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OnlyFans Users Ask 9th Circ. To Revive Calif. Auto-Renew Suit
June 9, 2026 OnlyFans subscribers on Tuesday urged the Ninth Circuit to revive a proposed class action alleging unlawful subscription auto-renewals, arguing California courts have jurisdiction over the platform’s U.K. parent company because it auto-renews thousands of Golden State subscriptions and generates $400 million from the state annually… Read more
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Gaw | Poe LLP Obtains Inaugural Rankings in Chambers USA Legal Guide 2026
June 4, 2026 Gaw | Poe LLP today announced that it has achieved its inaugural rankings in the annual Chambers & Partners USA Legal Guide. Gaw | Poe received a Band 3 ranking in the categories of California: Antitrust, Mainly Plaintiffs and California: Litigation: Mainly Plaintiffs. Read more
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Is $1,314 Per Hour Too Much For A Small Firm? Court Says No
April 2, 2026 Attorneys from small firms usually charge less than lawyers from bigger firms, but in fights over attorney fees, should lawyers from small firms be forced to accept smaller amounts of money… Read more
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Emotional Abuse in College Sports
March 15, 2026 March Madness is here. The high-stakes, sudden-death college basketball tournament is a beloved tradition in American sports. For the players, it’s a chance to showcase the skills they’ve developed through years of hard training of the body and mind. In many cases, that push produces incredible feats of athletic performance. But an…
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9th Circuit restores attorney fees slashed over firm size
February 26, 2026 The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a $4.5 million fee reduction, ruling that a winning law firm’s size cannot be used to justify lower fees and declaring that “brilliance at the bar” is not measure by the number of associates a lawyer commands. Read more
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9th Circ. Grants Atty Fee Appeal In Eye Drop Pricing Suit
February 25, 2026 District courts cannot reduce fee awards to attorneys based on a firm’s size, the Ninth Circuit ruled in a published opinion on Tuesday, sending a case back to a California federal court to recalculate attorney fees awarded to a “small” firm that represented wholesalers in a Robinson-Patman Act suit against eye drop…
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It’s Not The Size Of The Firm, It’s How You Use It: Ninth Circuit Smacks Down Fee-Shaming Of Small Law
February 25, 2026 The Ninth Circuit just made clear, size isn’t everything. And pretending otherwise is just compensating for something else entirely. Read more
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US appeals court says law firm’s size doesn’t limit legal fees
February 24, 2026 A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that a trial judge in California improperly slashed the hourly rates sought by a small law firm after it won an antitrust case, saying that a law firm’s size cannot be used to justify awarding lower fees. Read more