Lawsuit Intelligencer covers the lawsuits, regulations, referral systems, legal marketing practices, and technologies reshaping modern litigation. These are the questions consumer legal media and law firm marketing leave unasked.
Featured Analysis
The 2026 Mass Tort Map
The federal docket has never been more concentrated, and 2026 is the year the procedural phase finally turned into verdicts. Two of the defense bar's most dependable shields are cracking at the same time: Section 230 and bankruptcy.
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State AI Enforcement
State AI Enforcement Tracker
Ten live state actions against generative AI companies, read from the filings rather than the press releases. OpenAI is the respondent in five. Since August, Montana, Alabama, and California have each issued compulsory process over the OpenAI model that escaped an internal evaluation and broke into Hugging Face. Florida is pleading strict liability design defect against a large language model.
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The Business of Plaintiff-Side Law
The people who run the business, on the record
A standing series putting written questions to the operators behind claimant acquisition, intake, analytics, and expert work. They answer from their own numbers. The questions are ours, the figures are attributed, and every commercial relationship is disclosed.
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The Social Media Platforms' Insurers Are Making the Plaintiffs' Case
To walk away from the social media addiction cases, Meta’s and Google’s liability insurers have to argue two things. The platforms were designed on purpose, and the harm to children was foreseeable. That is the plaintiffs’ theory of the case, argued by the defendants’ own carriers. A Delaware court accepted it in February, and the plaintiffs lost the insurance money in the same ruling.
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Who Reports Ozempic and GLP-1 Gastroparesis to the FDA
The FDA’s adverse event database holds 5,699 reports tying gastroparesis to Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs. Lawyers filed one in five of them, and 87% arrived after the MDL formed.
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The Preparation Does Much of the Negotiating
Elliott Portnoy now advises private equity sponsors on law firm MSO transactions. He explains why the plaintiff-side deals that close at higher multiples were mostly won a year before the first sponsor meeting.
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Cross-Examined by Your Own Chat Log
Two federal courts divided in February over whether a party’s AI conversations are discoverable, and both were arguing about chats made for the case. In a mass tort the dangerous material sits years earlier, in a timestamped conversation the plaintiff has forgotten writing.
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Courts Are Writing the AI Rules. They Won’t Let AI in the Room.
A prospective juror researched a pending Georgia murder case and told the rest of the pool what he found, and the discharged panel cost the court $4,762.43. The same courts now deciding what AI companies owe the public forbid the technology in their own deliberations.
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The Expert Has to Be Right the Same Way, Forty Times
Josh Hyatt of Expert Institute on why a prior transcript sinks more experts than a thin CV does. A bellwether program demands something of a witness that a single case never will.
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Arizona v. L'Oréal Moves the Hair Relaxer Fight to Disclosure
Arizona sued L'Oréal under a consumer fraud statute that needs no injured consumer. The case sits in Maricopa County while 11,779 federal cases wait on a causation ruling, and it asks what the company told buyers.
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What Plaintiff Firms Get Wrong When They Buy Claimant Acquisition
Brian Beck of Typhon Interactive puts numbers on the difference between a firm that works its leads and one that doesn’t. Mass arbitration, he says, is a technology problem before it is a media problem.
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The ChatGPT Log You Can’t Subpoena: Preserving Chat Evidence in AI Injury Litigation
The Stored Communications Act blocks the third-party subpoena most practitioners reach for, and the order that suspended routine deletion terminated in September 2025. In the AI injury docket, the evidence case is won or lost in the first week of intake.
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The AI Tort That Skips the Output Question
Judge Lee held that Otter.ai is a third-party eavesdropper under CIPA not because the notetaker was uninvited, but because it trains on what it records. The theory reaches an AI company's balance sheet without anyone having to answer the product-or-content question first.
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Mass Tort Wire
A news wire tuned for mass tort teams
A ruling posted in the morning runs under a dozen headlines by noon, and the rulings and settlements that matter get lost among the copies. Mass Tort Wire gathers the news on the litigations a firm signs and the firms it watches. It folds the rewrites of a story into one item and sets the rest aside. Each firm gets its own private copy, with a starting desk for litigation, deal work on either side of a transaction, or policyholder-side coverage.
See how it works →From the Editor, Published Elsewhere
Law360 · Expert Analysis
Is AI Output a Product or Content?
The central doctrinal question across the OpenAI docket and the broader wave of AI injury litigation. When a generative system produces an output that contributes to harm, is that output a product subject to liability, or is it content? Editor David Meldofsky's Law360 Expert Analysis, free to read.
Read the full analysis →What We Cover
Mass Torts & Product Liability
PFAS, AFFF, talc, pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, MDL practice, and the doctrines moving through them.
The Business of Plaintiff-Side Law
Intake, referral economics, lead generation, legal marketing, AI in legal practice, firm consolidation, and the regulatory environment around all of it.
Regulation That Moves Litigation
Action by the EPA, FDA, FCC, state attorneys general, and state bars, analyzed for what it means in court rather than what the press release said.