Martin Edwards, vice president of Taft’s Public Affairs Strategies Group in Taft’s Washington, D.C. office, contributed to this post.
Early on July 1, the U.S. Senate voted to halt an effort to impose a 10-year moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence. The vote, 99-1, removed the AI provision from President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” that had evolved from a
Taft partner Marcus Harris was quoted in the TechTarget article, “SAP agrees to allow Celonis data access until case resolved,” published on June 26. In the piece, Harris provided insight into the ongoing legal dispute between SAP and Celonis, addressing the implications of SAP’s agreement to permit continued data access while litigation is pending.
Read the article here.
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In this video, I discuss two recent ERP lawsuits involving SAP and Oracle.
On June 5, 2025, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Jackson in Ames v. Ohio Dep’t of Youth Services, ruling that the “background circumstances” test—which applies a heighted evidentiary standard to majority group plaintiffs seeking to state a prima facie claim for disparate treatment under Title VII—is inconsistent with Title VII. The Court vacated
Vendors often minimize an ERP implementation’s complexity, cost, and length.
Understanding your business requirements and how you want your ERP software to address those requirements is critical to success.
Taft Partner Marcus Harris will moderate the panel “Safeguarding and Upholding Intellectual Property in Emerging Digital Landscapes” at ITechLaw’s 2025 World Technology Law Conference in San Diego. The panel is scheduled for May 15 at 1:10 p.m. PDT and will bring together legal professionals to discuss the evolving challenges of protecting intellectual property (IP) as digital technologies, including artificial intelligence,
On April 9, 2025, Kansas Governor Laura Kelley signed into law Senate Bill No. 241 (the “Bill”), which amends the Kansas Restraint of Trade Act (the “Act”) to (a) create presumptions of enforceability for non-solicitation covenants meeting the Act’s requirements, and (b) require reformation of overbroad restrictive covenants. The Act expressly excludes non-competition covenants from its scope. K.S.A. § 50-163(d)(6).
Make no mistake. If you are about to start a digital transformation, the cards are stacked against you.
To some extent, that is by design.
Software demonstrations are a key part of the sales cycle and your evaluation of competing software products.
Vendors will sometimes show specific demonstration software that has little resemblance to
Adopting technology for the sake of adopting technology rarely makes sense. This is true for Artificial Intelligence.
To utilize AI, you must have a well-thought-out strategy for selecting, implementing, and using AI.