Plaintiff Firm Private Equity Deals, Uber MDL Ruling, and AI Adoption: July 10, 2026
Morgan & Morgan's June 2026 engagement of JPMorgan to explore a $1B-plus PE minority stake via MSO structure leads a week that also produce…
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PI Case Management Software 2026: MSO Capital, AI Platforms, and Lien Stack
Morgan & Morgan's $1 billion-plus PE stake exploration sets a compliance template for the MSO model under ABA Rule 5.4 that mid-market PI f…
PI Law at Midyear 2026: The Term That Rewrote the Rules
Two Supreme Court decisions pulling opposite directions, headline verdicts against Big Tech, and trucking awards insurers cannot control. A…
Running the Paralegal Desk on Lien-Heavy Personal Injury Files
On a soft-tissue file with two treaters, lien work is an afterthought. On a file with an ER admission, a surgical center, a Medi-Cal intere…
PE-Backed MSO Expansion and California's New Lien Cap Reshape PI Firm Operations in 2026
Uplift Investors' Orion Legal MSO added John Foy and Associates as its third PI firm partner in six months on June 16, 2026. California's S…
PI Market Week: Rideshare Preemption, NEC Verdicts, and PE Consolidation
The BUILD America 250 Act's Fong amendment, cleared by the House T&I Committee on May 22, 2026, would preempt state rideshare vicarious-lia…
SCOTUS Severs Roundup Warning Claims as Plaintiff Firm MSO Deals Hit $1B
The U.S. Supreme Court's 7-2 decision in Monsanto v. Durnell (No. 24-1068, June 25, 2026) severs the dominant plaintiff theory across 60,00…
PLaaS Pre-Litigation Workflow Outsourcing: Operations Benchmarks for PI Firms
EvenUp's PLaaS, launched May 2026 at a $2 billion company valuation, generated more than $10 million in early subscriptions and reported 66…
AI Demand Tools and Lien Economics Are Reshaping PI Firm Operations in 2026
EvenUp AI processed 10,000 PI cases per week as of June 2026, double its throughput from six months prior, while PE-backed MSO platforms ha…
California PI Referral Ban Initiative, $49M Trucking Verdict, and PLaaS: June 2026 Wrap
Uber's $77.5 million Initiative 25-0022 reached its June 8 signature deadline threatening to ban attorney-to-medical referral arrangements…
California Lien Billing Reasonableness and PE Consolidation Reshape PI Operations
California trial benches retain full discretion over CACI 3903A instruction language in every lien-treated plaintiff file, with no binding…
MDL 3047 Bellwether Looms June 15 as Hyundai Recalls and PI Firm Consolidation Accelerate
The first federal school-district bellwether in MDL No. 3047 opens June 15, 2026 in Oakland with 2,527 pending cases, up 153% since January…