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Wash. Justices Reject Judge's Removal Over Staff Treatment
Washington's highest court on Thursday unanimously declined to remove a Bremerton Municipal Court judge that the state's Commission on Judicial Conduct said mistreated court staff and attorneys, with a majority of the justices ruling instead to censure and suspend Judge Tracy S. Flood for 30 days.
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Pot Shop Associate Doubts Judge's Neutrality In RICO Case
A landlord accused of allowing an unauthorized cannabis shop to operate within the Cayuga Nation is asking a New York federal judge to recuse herself less than a week before trial is set to begin, suggesting that the jurist might not be unbiased because counsel for the tribe "helped" her "son get a job."
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Senate Impeachment Hearing On Judges Likely In January
The Senate hearing on impeachment of "rogue" judges is likely going to be rescheduled for January, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who will be chairing the hearing, told Law360 on Thursday.
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Suspension Over For Pa. Judge Accused Of COVID Fraud
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Thursday ended a suspension without pay for a county judge who was accused of COVID-19 employment relief fraud following his entrance into a diversion agreement with federal prosecutors that ended with the indictment being dismissed.
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SDNY Judge Unsure Of Jurisdiction In Maurene Comey Suit
A Manhattan federal judge said Thursday he may not have jurisdiction over former prosecutor Maurene Comey's suit claiming President Donald Trump's rivalry with her father, former FBI Director James Comey, led to her firing.
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Senate Confirms 4th NC Federal Judge This Week
The Senate on Thursday confirmed its fourth federal judge this week for North Carolina.
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Fla. Judge Admits To Ethics Breach Over Bogus Recording
A Florida state judge has admitted to an unintentional violation of the state's judicial ethics code over her publicly sharing a fabricated recording of a chief judge disparaging another judge during her 2024 election campaign.
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Data Co. Seeks To Consolidate NJ Judicial Privacy Law Cases
The data privacy firm Atlas Data Privacy has asked the New Jersey Supreme Court to consolidate over 100 ongoing cases where it is suing data brokers under the state judicial privacy statute Daniel's Law into a single multicounty litigation, according to a notice to the bar filed this week.
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Judge Nixes Hagens Berman's Recusal Bid After DOJ Referral
Two days after referring powerhouse plaintiffs firm Hagens Berman to the U.S. Department of Justice for alleged misconduct, a Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday dismissed the firm's request that he recuse himself from the long-running product liability suit, calling the firm's arguments "absurd."
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Democracy Forward Announces New Leadership Hires
Democracy Forward, a progressive nonprofit that has lodged some 85 actions against the Trump administration, announced Thursday it hired new staff, including a new deputy managing attorney and a new director of a collaborative initiative focused on reshaping the federal government with community-driven policies and public servants.
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Google Fights Unlockd's Judge Recusal Bid In Antitrust Case
Google is opposing a move by Unlockd Media seeking the recusal of U.S. District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. in an antitrust lawsuit in California federal court, arguing that the judge's close relationship with Google's vice president for litigation and discovery doesn't require him to step away from the case.
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Appeal Of US Atty Invalidations May Be 'Devastating' To DOJ
As the list of interim and acting U.S. attorneys found to be unlawfully appointed under President Donald Trump grows, so too does the pressure on his administration to make the next move, which could force a risky strategic decision on whether to push the issue up to the U.S. Supreme Court, experts said.
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Street Preacher Goes Up Against Heck At High Court
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday heard arguments over whether a street preacher convicted of a Mississippi state crime can use a federal civil rights lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of the law used to convict him.
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Trump Would Prefer Jack Smith Testify In Public
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, subpoenaed former counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday for a closed-door deposition, to which President Donald Trump said he would rather see a public testimony.
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Troutman Atty Is 3rd NC Federal Judge Confirmed This Week
The Senate voted 57-41 on Wednesday to confirm Matthew Orso, a partner at Troutman Pepper Locke LLP, to the Western District of North Carolina as a federal district judge.
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Mich. Chief Appeals Judge Tapped For State Court Of Claims
The Michigan Supreme Court has appointed the chief judge of the state's intermediate appellate court to serve a partial term on a specialized court for claims against the state government.
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Virginia Bar Declines To Investigate Interim US Atty Halligan
The Virginia State Bar has declined to investigate whether Lindsey Halligan should face discipline over her scandal-plagued tenure as the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, just days after a federal judge ruled she was not properly appointed to that post.
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Ex-Stone Hilton Assistant Pushes For Texas OAG Subpoena
A former Stone Hilton PLLC executive assistant has doubled down on her bid to subpoena the Texas Office of the Attorney General in her suit accusing former OAG attorneys and firm founders Judd Stone and Christopher Hilton of sexual harassment.
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ABA Urges Attys To Guard Confidentiality In Withdraw Motions
The American Bar Association on Wednesday advised attorneys that they must leave information about their representation of a client out of any motions they file to withdraw as their counsel unless they have an explicit exception to existing confidentiality rules or the client's consent.
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Mass. Court Says Plea Deal Inattention May Be Ineffectiveness
Massachusetts' highest court on Wednesday concluded that a lawyer's failure to seek a plea bargain if asked to do so by a defendant may amount to ineffective assistance of counsel requiring a new trial under certain circumstances.
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Wiley Adds Another Federal Atty In DC, This Time From DOJ
A U.S. Department of Justice attorney who was staffed on one of the agency's high-profile monopolization cases against Google, has joined Wiley Rein LLP as a partner, the firm announced Wednesday.
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1st Circ. Doubts Ex-BigLaw Atty's Campaign Finance Appeal
The First Circuit on Wednesday expressed misgivings about a former BigLaw attorney's argument that a jury that convicted him of a campaign finance scheme during a failed run for Congress should have been required to unanimously find that each specific transaction was illegal.
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Former Gov't Workers Challenge Trump's DEI Firing Spree
The Trump administration unlawfully targeted perceived political enemies, women and people of color when it fired all federal employees who served in roles related to diversity, equity and inclusion, former government workers said Wednesday in a proposed class action.
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Trump Pardons Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar And Wife
President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday he pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and his wife, Imelda Cuellar.
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Fed. Circ. Pushes DC Circ. Not To Rethink Newman Decision
The Federal Circuit has urged the D.C. Circuit to ignore Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's request to rehear a decision upholding the dismissal of her suit against the colleagues who suspended her, saying the judiciary has the right to police its own internal matters.
Expert Analysis
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter
Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?
Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?
Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.