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Unlawful Law Practice Reforms Needed To Account For AI
State bar associations and state supreme courts have to reimagine the rules governing the unauthorized practice of law if artificial intelligence is going to help close the justice gap, according to a new paper out Wednesday.
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NC Bankruptcy Atty Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder
A North Carolina bankruptcy attorney is facing murder charges after police said he shot and killed a 43-year-old man in a small town in the mountains over the weekend, court records show.
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Judge Accused Of Berating Teens Blames Training Shortfall
A New Jersey municipal judge accused of berating children during truancy hearings, threatening their families with deportation and questioning their immigration status in open court has cited a lack of training in his formal response to the ethics complaint by the state supreme court's judicial conduct committee.
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Counsel Switch For 'Jailhouse Lawyer' Comes With Warning
A New York City recidivist fraudster convicted of fleecing inmates' families by charging them for unauthorized legal filings got new counsel on Wednesday, after a Manhattan federal judge said she thinks he is "playing games" ahead of a potentially long sentence.
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NJ Judge Files Corrected Version Of Error-Filled Opinion
A New Jersey federal judge Tuesday filed a new, corrected version of an opinion he withdrew last month in securities litigation against CorMedix Inc. after an attorney for the biopharmaceutical firm pointed out the opinion contained "a series of errors."
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Bribery Case Against Rep. Cuellar And His Wife Trimmed
A federal judge agreed Tuesday to drop two counts from a bribery indictment against U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and his wife, but said dropping the counts did not warrant dismissal of the entire indictment.
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NY US Atty Hit With Complaint For Alleged Media Retaliation
A collection of nonprofit organizations that support press freedoms has called for an ethics investigation of acting U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III of the Northern District of New York, saying he may have "unconstitutionally retaliated" against a newspaper that reported on him.
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Ex-Girardi Keese Atty Pleads Not Guilty To Chicago Charges
Former Girardi Keese attorney Keith Griffin pled not guilty Tuesday to a Chicago indictment accusing him of helping Tom Girardi violate court orders to disburse settlement funds to certain plane crash clients and concealing the theft of those funds.
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Former Husch Blackwell Chair Named Missouri AG
Former Husch Blackwell LLP chair Catherine L. Hanaway has been appointed Missouri's next attorney general by Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe, according to the firm on Tuesday.
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Ex-DOJ Antitrust Leader Joins Axinn In San Francisco
Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP announced Tuesday that a longtime U.S. Department of Justice attorney who most recently served as civil chief of the antitrust division's San Francisco office has joined the firm as a partner.
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Archer & Greiner Lands Former Chief Asst. Prosecutor In NJ
Archer & Greiner PC has added a former chief assistant prosecutor who led the major crimes unit in Bergen County, New Jersey, to bolster its corporate compliance, investigations and criminal defense practice group.
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Ex-Judge Gets Law License Back After Bribery Suspension
A former Philadelphia Municipal Court judge can practice law in Pennsylvania again following a split state Supreme Court decision to reinstate his license that had been suspended after he admitted to accepting $90,000 to drop out of a congressional election.
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DOJ Environmental Atty Joins McGuireWoods In DC
A former U.S. Department of Justice lawyer who helped the Biden administration fight for the removal of a 1,000-foot buoy barrier in the Rio Grande and defended EPA guidance on forever chemicals has joined McGuireWoods' office in Washington, D.C.
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Squire Patton Rehires Orrick's White Collar Co-Head
Squire Patton Boggs announced the return of its former government investigations and white collar practice head on Tuesday after the Department of Justice alum spent the last four years co-leading the white collar and corporate investigations practice at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.
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NJ Feds Say Habba's US Atty Role Unusual, But Not Unlawful
Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba on Monday doubled down on her argument that President Donald Trump legally appointed her New Jersey's top federal prosecutor, telling a federal judge that this is simply "an unusual situation" created when the district court last month refused to extend her interim tenure.
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Ex-NY AG Immune From Malicious Prosecution Suit
Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has immunity from a suit by a former New York City Council member claiming wrongful prosecution, a federal judge has ruled.
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SDNY Judges OK Trump's Selection Of Jay Clayton As US Atty
The Southern District of New York on Monday permitted Jay Clayton to continue overseeing the district's prosecutorial office, appointing Clayton as U.S. attorney just a day before his tenure as interim U.S. attorney was set to expire.
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Fla. Suit Over Atty Access To Detention Center Transferred
A Florida federal judge on Monday transferred a proposed class action lawsuit accusing the government of restricting attorney access to an Everglades immigrant detention center, ruling that the current district isn't proper for the claims against state officials.
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Ga. Gov. Hopeful Asks Judge To Spurn AG's Fundraising Suit
Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones hit back Monday at Attorney General Chris Carr's suit alleging state fundraising laws have given Jones an edge in their upcoming contest for the state governorship, accusing his Republican primary rival of flip-flopping on a law that Carr himself has defended in court on numerous occasions.
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JAMS Brings On Former US Magistrate Judge In Calif.
Alternative dispute resolution service JAMS continues expanding its roster, announcing Monday it has added a former California federal magistrate judge as one of its neutrals.
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Stone Hilton Takes Aim At Sex Harassment Claim
For the second time this month, Stone Hilton PLLC has asked a federal court to trim a former employee's lawsuit, saying her allegations of sexual harassment and intentional infliction of emotional distress do not rise to the level of "severe or pervasive" or "extreme and outrageous" as the law requires.
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Judge Known For Nixing ACA To Lead Texas' Northern District
A conservative judge known for declaring Obamacare unconstitutional, among other high-profile rulings, took over as chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Monday, according to an announcement from the court.
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NJ Seeks To Toss Ex-Judge's 'Second Bite' In Firing Suit
New Jersey on Friday asked a state court to award it a victory over some claims by a former workers' compensation judge that she was unconstitutionally removed from her job after similar claims in a separate suit of hers were rejected in December.
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Saxton & Stump Keeps White Collar Leadership In The Family
The former deputy chief of the violent crime unit in the U.S. attorney's office in Philadelphia has moved to the private sector and joined Saxton & Stump, replacing his father, retired U.S. District Judge Lawrence Stengel, as the new co-chair of the criminal defense group.
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Trump Admin Calls Judge's Inaction An 'Affront' To High Court
The Trump administration said a Massachusetts federal judge who didn't vacate a decision barring certain staffing cuts at the U.S. Department of Education is showing "disregard" to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, calling it an "affront" to the high court's authority.
Expert Analysis
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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Series
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.