Overview
The days of the "Nigerian prince" email are behind us. Fraudsters have become increasingly sophisticated in engineering payment fraud schemes. According to Visa Acceptance Solutions' 2025 Global eCommerce Payments & Fraud Report, 80% of merchants saw an increase in the use of real-time payment fraud over the past year and the same number of merchants struggle with using data and techn…
ALFA International Publications
Introduction
The Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo,[1] significantly reshaped the administrative law landscape by ending the long-standing practice of Chevron deference. Agencies can no longer rely on courts to defer to their reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes, which shifts more interpretive authority back to the judiciary. As a result, courts now are …
The Interconnected Workplace
Why does it seem as though the collection and preservation of evidence with respect to legal claims continues to become increasingly complicated? Because it is! Each of us creates many digital footprints every day and the workplace is no longer just at the office. Employees work remotely from home, on the road, and in shared workspaces. Hours of work are fluid and …
Artificial Intelligence in Litigation: Transformative Benefits and Necessary Caution
I. Introduction
Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged rapidly as a transformative force across almost every industry, and the legal profession is no exception. In litigation, AI-driven tools are increasingly used to support tasks such as legal research, document review, case strategy development, and predicti…
Introduction
The theme for ALFAI’s 2026 International Client Seminar concerns global perspectives for legal practice. For many of the lawyers attending the ICS, we and our companies or clients are engaged in business in multiple jurisdictions. We frequently are involved in corporate or commercial transactions with counterparties located in different countries, where relevant third parties are in…
Fragmented Landscape of U.S. Privacy Law
Publicity is no longer left to the discretion of a newspaper editor or television producer. Any detail about anyone, no matter how minor, can be distributed anywhere in seconds. From printing presses to pixels, technology has changed privacy expectations. In this hyper-connected world, every digital interaction leaves a trail, and as the law continues t…
Overview
Law firms continue to face elevated cyber risk because they aggregate sensitive client data, depend on uninterrupted access to document and communication systems, and increasingly rely on shared vendor platforms. The straightforward conclusion for insurance professionals is that cyber events in legal organizations present material frequency and severity risk, with loss drivers that are in…
AI Arbitration
The Vision
Judge.ai represents what has been called “the platonic end result of the textualist project”—the theoretical ideal of algorithmic adjudication where legal rules are applied with perfect consistency, speed, and precision. The insight is simple: on almost every conception of law, consistency is all a judiciary really needs. Not wisdom, not intelligence, not a pulse. Consist…
Why Conduct a Mock Trial?
High-stakes or emotionally charged litigation often merits a mock trial or focus group exercise. Depending on format, these events provide an opportunity to develop and refine themes, test theories, and obtain feedback from members of the community in which the actual trial will take place. Nothing is better than a mock trial to assist with case evaluation, theme develo…
Georgia
Introduction
In April 2025, Governor Brian Kemp signed SB 68[i] (Georgia Tort Reform Act) and SB 69[ii] (Georgia Court Access and Consumer Protection Act) into law. Together, they reshape closing arguments, civil procedure timing, evidence rules, negligent security standards, apportionment, the handling of medical specials (“phantom” damages), and third‑party litigation financing. Before G…