When a key employee resigns from a competitor, many Michigan employers immediately fear the same sequence of events: files were copied, customer information walked out the door, a pricing strategy is about to be used in the next bid, and by the time ordinary discovery...
Generative AI has changed the economics of deception. What once required advanced visual-effects expertise can now be produced with consumer-facing tools, cloud-based inference, and an internet connection. That shift matters most where the harm is both intensely...
A Michigan Litigator’s Guide to Gen AI Records Retention The better question for Michigan litigators in 2026 is not whether generative AI is “special,” but whether the data it creates fits comfortably within the rules that already govern electronically stored...
The question of who owns generative AI outputs in commercial settings sounds simple, but the legal answer is much more nuanced than many businesses expect. In ordinary conversation, people often assume that the person or company entering the prompt automatically owns...
Current through March 20, 2026 Artificial intelligence has moved from the innovation lab into the decision engine of the modern company. It now screens job applicants, ranks borrowers, flags insurance claims, scores patients for intervention, prioritizes customer...
Closely held companies are rarely undone by a single dramatic event. More often, they are weakened by a series of avoidable problems that begin modestly and become costly only after trust has deteriorated. In Michigan, this pattern appears repeatedly in family...
There is a clear line running through the latest wave of AI enforcement: regulators are becoming less interested in whether a product sounds futuristic and far more interested in whether the company behind it can prove what it says. The Federal Trade Commission’s...
Michigan founders who build, fine-tune, deploy, or commercialize advanced AI systems should be paying close attention to House Bill 4668, even if they assume the bill is aimed only at the largest model developers. As of March 9, 2026, HB 4668 remains a proposed bill...
In Michigan M&A, the covenant not to compete has always been the paper shield for the thing the buyer is actually buying goodwill. The buyer may be paying for customer relationships, referral channels, brand recognition, pricing know-how, supplier leverage, and...
Michigan House Bill 4040 is built around a deceptively simple drafting move: it stops talking only about “employees” and starts regulating noncompetes through a broader category called “workers.” That shift matters because many organizations still treat restrictive...
