On Thursday, February 27, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced that it would not “issue any fines or penalties or take any other enforcement actions against any companies based on any failure to file or update beneficial ownership information (BOI) reports pursuant to the Corporate Transparency Act [CTA] by the current deadlines.”

With the new Texas Business Court set to open on September 1, 2024, the Texas Supreme Court has approved final rules for the court’s operation, largely adopting the preliminary rules published earlier this year. 

After several decades as a curiosity among computer programmers and science fiction fans, artificial intelligence (AI) is igniting the global economy.  Among those enchanted by its seemingly limitless modern applications is the litigation finance industry—an unfortunate product of skyrocketing large-scale litigation costs following the ESI (Electronically Stored Information) Revolution, where third parties invest in litigation for a chance to share in equally inflated judgments and settlements.