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By Michael Kolcun and Amani Ambay Resolving a conflict among the DCAs, Florida’s Supreme Court settles the dispute over the standard for pleading punitive damages: the clear and convincing standard does not apply. Perlmutter v. Federal Ins. Co., __ So.3d __,  2026 WL 1689765 (Fla. June 11, 2026), arose from an alleged defamatory hate mail...Read More

 By Michael Bittner Your client sends over a messy set of deal documents or litigation materials and you do what increasingly feels normal: you paste them into a generative AI tool and ask it to find the problems. You just saved an hour. Depending on the tool and its terms, you may also have handed...Read More

By: Deedee Bitran Employers often hesitate to intervene when workplace conflict involves politically charged language, but that can be a mistake. At City College of San Francisco (“CCSF”), a union leader publicly berated Jewish professor Abigail Bornstein, calling her a “colonizer” and mocking her Jewish sounding last name. The case, in which StandWithUs and the...Read More