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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.
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Carlton Fields Adds Longtime Federal Prosecutor In LA
Carlton Fields is expanding its West Coast team, bringing in a former federal prosecutor as a shareholder in its Los Angeles office.
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SDNY Head Backs Good Deals For Quick Cooperation By Cos.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton on Tuesday said he's prepared to offer "real benefits" to corporations facing criminal investigations if they quickly agree to cooperate and compensate victims, ideally in the form of comprehensive, government-wide resolutions.
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2nd Circ. Reinstates Ex-Exec's $4M Bridgegate Fees Suit
The Second Circuit on Tuesday revived claims from former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executive William E. Baroni Jr. seeking $4 million in legal fees over his Bridgegate criminal case, saying the trial court was wrong to find that the Port Authority had sovereign immunity.
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Fed. Judges' Public Spat With Justices May Undermine Courts
Public criticism being traded back and forth in recent months between U.S. Supreme Court justices and lower-court federal judges over the justices' emergency orders is highly unusual in itself, but it also raises the risk of eroding public trust in the judiciary.
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Justices Skeptical Of NJ Subpoena For Anti-Abortion Donors
Several U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared sympathetic Tuesday to an anti-abortion pregnancy-center network's bid to challenge a subpoena from the New Jersey attorney general, pressing the state on whether its demand for donor identities and internal documents risked unconstitutionally chilling First Amendment associational rights.
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Hagens Berman Referred To DOJ For Alleged Misconduct
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday recommended to the U.S. Department of Justice that it investigate powerhouse plaintiffs firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP's conduct in connection with several since-dropped product liability cases that a special master found to be filed in bad faith.
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Accusers Seek To Revive Katt Williams Suit Over Judicial Bias
Four women whose suit against comedian Katt Williams was tossed by a Georgia federal judge on a finding that the claims related to a 2016 altercation outside a nightclub were time-barred, asked the court Tuesday to reconsider on the basis that the judge is hostile to their lawyer and did not render an impartial decision.
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Trump Seeks To Block Final Classified Documents Report
President Donald Trump sought Tuesday to fight two groups' efforts to undo a Florida federal judge's order blocking release of the final report from former special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents.
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4th Circ. Rejects Rehearing In Ex-Defender's Harassment Case
Former assistant public defender Caryn Devins Strickland lost her bid to have the full Fourth Circuit rehear her sexual harassment suit against the federal judiciary, as judges ruled they didn't overlook her pro bono legal team's withdrawal on the eve of her bench trial.
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2 New Judges Confirmed To NC Federal Court
The U.S. Senate confirmed two federal judges for North Carolina on Tuesday.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Robart On Living Under Threats
It's been nearly nine years since U.S. District Judge James Robart blocked President Donald Trump's 2017 executive order barring travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, and though the judge has had a long career — including groundbreaking patent and securities decisions — he still occasionally gets recognized as that "so-called judge."
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Ex-Immigration Judge Accuses DOJ Of Political Retaliation
A former Ohio immigration judge sued the U.S. Department of Justice in D.C. federal court Monday, alleging she was discriminated against and unconstitutionally fired for her liberal political beliefs while slamming the Trump administration's recent "unprecedented assault" against longstanding civil service laws that protect millions of federal employees.
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Justices Probe Limits Of Deference In Asylum Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday grappled with when courts can review the Board of Immigration Appeals' persecution findings, showing little appetite for allowing courts to routinely second-guess agency expertise while expressing concern that the government was advocating for too much deference.
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NJ Comptroller Bill Debate Turns Into Fight Over AG's Record
A New Jersey Senate committee hearing on Monday about a bill that would remove investigatory powers from the Office of the State Comptroller devolved into attacks on the state attorney general's record and accusations of "textbook" First Amendment violations.
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Judge-Shopping Sanctions Order Must Stand, 11th Circ. Told
The Alabama federal judges who sanctioned a trio of civil rights attorneys for allegedly judge shopping are defending that outcome, telling the Eleventh Circuit the controversial process was above board and rejecting the "scheming" attorneys' claims that they simply wanted to ensure they received a randomly assigned judge.
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What MDL Judges Can Get Done With A New Civil Rule
As the first federal procedure rule geared toward multidistrict litigation goes into effect, judges will have a new buffet of best practices to guide them, but little in the way of hand-tying mandates.
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Calif. Ban On Fee-Sharing With 'Alternative' Firms Challenged
A new law barring California lawyers and firms from sharing fees with out-of-state law firms owned by nonlawyers is unconstitutional and will harm the state's mass tort lawyers and their clients, according to a lawsuit filed last week.
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.