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Ex-NRA Head Faces Sanctions Bid For Throwing Water At Atty
The National Rifle Association asked a Florida federal judge to dismiss a suit from a former association president as a sanction because the former leader cursed at and threw water from her glass at the association's counsel when she was deposed this month.
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Simpson Thacher Hires Arb. Atty With Latin America Focus
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has hired the former leader of Linklaters LLP's Latin American arbitration team, who spent almost 12 years with the firm and who has also practiced at the ICC International Court of Arbitration.
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Canadian Nonprofit, Legal AI Settle Data Misappropriation Suit
Artificial intelligence-powered legal research startup Caseway reached a settlement with the nonprofit Canadian Legal Information Institute that resolves claims from 2024 that the startup misappropriated information from the nonprofit's website, according to an announcement.
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Mich. Panel Revives Kewadin Casinos Malpractice Suit
Michigan appellate judges have reinstated a legal malpractice action the Kewadin Casinos Gaming Authority brought against Patterson Earnhart Real Bird & Wilson LLP, which the organization's tribe had hired as counsel for a failed attempt to open two casinos, ruling the case is not barred by tribal sovereign immunity.
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Skadden Adds Mayer Brown Class Action Trio In DC, Palo Alto
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP announced Tuesday that it has added three partners from Mayer Brown LLP to strengthen its capacity to handle class actions, multidistrict litigation, appellate and other matters.
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Out-Of-State Counsel's Fake Citations Cost Oregon Atty $14K
An Oregon federal judge sanctioned an attorney about $14,000 after he failed to catch fake citations in a motion filed by out-of-state counsel he had associated with, saying Monday that the attorney "failed to meaningfully participate in the case."
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McGinnis Lochridge Adds Trial Lawyer In Dallas
Texas-based McGinnis Lochridge announced Tuesday that it has boosted its litigation bench with a partner who came aboard from Dallas firm Burke Bogdanowicz PLLC.
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Civil Rights Attys Sanctioned After Admitting AI Errors
A Utah federal judge sanctioned two solo practitioners Monday who represent a disabled teenager's parents in their civil rights lawsuit against a school district for filing a brief with two artificial intelligence-generated errors, ordering them to complete ethics training but declining additional fee sanctions, because they "sincerely" accepted their responsibility.
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Atty, New Firm Face DQ Bid In Fight Over Arbitration Fees
A woman being sued by a Chinese law firm in Washington federal court as it looks to get paid for its arbitration services seeks to disqualify the firm's U.S.-based counsel, saying her lawyer went to work for the American firm but didn't disclose that she had been involved in the case.
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Day Pitney Fights DQ Over Ex-Justice's Time On Case He Heard
Day Pitney LLP has apologized after former Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson, now a firm partner, billed 15.7 hours for reviewing a since-remanded case he heard years ago as a justice, but the firm said the "error" should not disqualify its other lawyers from advancing the litigation.
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Nursing Home Atty Fees Axed Over Lack Of Proximate Cause
A New Jersey appellate panel has ruled that an estate can't recover attorney fees under the state statute governing nursing home residents' rights because the jury in an underlying wrongful‑death and negligence trial found no damages tied to any statutory violation.
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ND Law Firm Can't Justify Equitable Tolling, IRS Tells 8th Circ.
A North Dakota law firm that got the U.S. Supreme Court to revive its day-late levy challenge has failed to prove that it deserved equitable tolling of its statute of limitations, the IRS told the Eighth Circuit on Monday.
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Attys Split Over Mandatory Hyperlinks To Curb Fake AI Cases
A new legal requirement to hyperlink case law is drawing support from legal professionals as a counter to artificial intelligence-generated fake cases in court submissions, but some aren't sure that it is enough to solve the problem and worry that it will be an added burden on lawyers.
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Law Firm Refiles 'Beer Law Center' TM Suit In Colorado
A law firm that uses the "Beer Law Center" trademark refiled an infringement suit in Colorado federal court against a firm that dubbed itself "Beer Law HQ," suing after a case in North Carolina was dismissed over a lack of ties to the state.
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Attys For City Of New Orleans Sanctioned For AI Use
A Louisiana federal judge has sanctioned attorneys for the city of New Orleans over misuse of artificial intelligence that resulted in hallucinated case citations in a pro se civil rights case.
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Ex-Md. Attorney General Joins Greenberg Traurig In DC
Former Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler and his longtime colleague from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP have moved their practices to Greenberg Traurig LLP, where Gansler will co-chair its nationwide state attorneys general practice, the firm announced Monday.
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Reed Smith Pushes To Continue Atty Depo In NJ Bias Suit
Reed Smith LLP is urging a New Jersey state trial court to allow it to resume its deposition of a former attorney suing it for gender discrimination years after the last deposition date in the wake of an appeals court decision widely expanding the scope of discovery.
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Judge Sanctions Atlanta Media Co. For Lack Of Counsel
A Georgia federal judge on Monday imposed sanctions on an Atlanta media company for failing to hire legal representation in a suit over alleged infringement of social media content, and also struck counterclaims lodged by the company because they were submitted without counsel.
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Akin Brings On Munger Tolles Employment Ace In LA
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced Monday that it has brought on a former Munger Tolles & Olson LLP partner in Los Angeles to bolster its capacity to handle labor and employment matters.
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NJ Law Firm Hit With Firing Suit From Former Paralegal
A former paralegal at Rainone Coughlin Minchello LLC has alleged the New Jersey municipal-law firm violated the New Jersey Family Leave Act in illegally firing her after she sought intermittent family leave to care for her mother‑in‑law following a debilitating stroke.
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Social Media Atty Sanctioned For 'Most Shameful Moment'
A California judge on Monday sanctioned an attorney for the plaintiff in a bellwether trial alleging Meta Platforms and Google's social media platforms harm children's mental health, fining him $1,100 and keeping him off the plaintiffs' steering committee for violating court rules by twice filming inside the courthouse.
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Ramey IP Attys, Client Must Pay $107K Fees In Bad-Faith Suit
A San Francisco federal judge has ordered three sanctioned attorneys, including Texas intellectual property lawyer William Ramey III, together with their client, to cover $107,389 in attorney fees stemming from three identical patent suits the lawyers launched and withdrew in 2024, also ordering Ramey to show cause why he should not face further sanctions.
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Emails Enough For Law Firm To Secure Fee, NC Justices Rule
Raleigh-based law firm Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers LLP secured a $13,500 victory in the North Carolina Supreme Court when the justices found that a father's emails to the firm satisfied the state's fraud statute requirement that a contract "be in writing."
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Judge Clears Way For Hearing On Fulton County Ballot Raid
A Georgia federal judge will allow Fulton County to move forward with its bid to force the U.S. Department of Justice into court this week to back up the evidence behind its January raid on the county's election office, when it seized 2020 ballots.
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Texas Boutique Mitby Pacholder Adds IP Litigator In Houston
Houston litigation boutique Mitby Pacholder Johnson PLLC has boosted its intellectual property offerings with an of counsel who joined from Cabello Hall Zinda PLLC.
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.