2024 Commercial Litigation Outlook | Corporate Compliance Insights

Commercial Litigation Outlook

What’s in this report from Seyfarth Shaw:

Emerging technologies and contentious business issues, including artificial intelligence, ESG and intellectual property, will be focal points of litigious disputes in the coming year, according to Seyfarth Shaw’s annual commercial litigation analysis.

“The legal focus for AI today is largely clustered around the business and legal risks posed by the fairly limited use cases, and the legality of the AI tools themselves,” the authors write. Seyfarth’s IP team discusses these issues, explaining important developments likely to happen in the areas of patentability of AI subject matter and in copyright fights over vast amounts of protected material used to train large language models.

Other key areas covered include:

• Antitrust
• Bankruptcy
• Consumer class actions
• Consumer financial services
• Franchise and distribution
• Healthcare
• Insurance
• Real estate
• Securities and fiduciary duty
• Trial outlook