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    Who Owns Your Voice? Trademark’s Expansion into Identity Protection

    February 12, 2026By Victoria Reyes

      Actor Matthew McConaughey (“McConaughey”) recently sought an inventive shield against artificial intelligence (“AI”) impersonators: he registered trademarks on recordings of his own voice, including his iconic phrase, “alright, alright, alright.”[i] This move made headlines not for its legal precision but for what it revealed: a glaring gap in the law.[ii] As AI makes it […]

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    When Seeing Isn’t Believing: AI Deepfake Imaging and the Future of First-Party Property Insurance Fraud

    October 21, 2025By Laura Leyva Hevia

    First-party residential property insurance relies heavily on photographic evidence. When a homeowner experiences damage from a storm, fire or plumbing leak, the usual process is to file a claim, submit pictures of the damage and await inspection by an insurance adjuster. This pathway to collect evidence assumes that photos accurately capture real damage and that […]

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    IP in Pink: When AI Barbie Plays Dress-Up with the Law

    September 25, 2025By Chelsea Barcenas

    The “AI Barbie” trend became a viral sensation in early 2025 as millions of users uploaded selfies into generative tools that transformed them into Barbie-style avatars, complete with pink packaging and captions like “This Barbie is a Privacy Lawyer.”[i] Mattel, Inc. (“Mattel”), owner of Barbie since 1959, suddenly saw its product remixed at a massive […]

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    Justice May Be Blind, But AI Is Watching–and Quietly Reshaping the Legal Field

    September 24, 2025By Leyda Mujica

    The courtroom drama is no longer just human; Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is writing, arguing, and even confusing the script. A trending story that caused outrage in the courtroom and memes on social media occurred in the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division’s First Judicial Department earlier this year. Jerome Dewald, a plaintiff representing himself […]

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