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Employment Law Update: AI Hiring Under Fire: Algorithmic Screening Enters The Chat

A major class action lawsuit filed in January 2026 is reshaping the legal landscape around AI-powered hiring tools and algorithmic bias is not the basis of the lawsuit. In Kistler et al. v. Eightfold AI Inc., filed in California’s Contra Costa County Superior Court, the plaintiffs allege that Eightfold AI scraped personal data on over one billion workers, scored applicants on a zero-to-five scale, and discarded low-ranked candidates before any human reviewed their applications.

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Client Alert: What’s Market in Private M&A?

As private M&A deal terms continue to shift, understanding what’s market has become increasingly important when negotiating transactions. We reviewed key data points drawn from publicly available acquisition agreements filed on EDGAR, with a focus on deal terms we are seeing most frequently negotiated in practice, including indemnification, earnouts, and representations and warranties insurance (RWI). For our valued relationships, we prepared a short summary intended as a practical reference point for evaluating deal terms in today’s market and in ongoing transactions.

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Employment Law Update: Federal Court Rejects Rehearing of Religious Accommodation Claim

Five years after the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, cases involving religious objections to employers’ vaccination requirements are now reaching the federal appellate courts. In the latest round, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in Detweiler v. Mid-Columbia Medical Center, et al., the full court recently turned away a request for rehearing in a case turning on the burden, if any, an employee has to demonstrate the religious basis of their objection to an employer’s work requirements. 

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