Ga. Justices Probe Savannah's Immunity In Tourist Fall Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

Georgia's justices Wednesday questioned how much immunity property owners should enjoy under a state law designed to limit liability during recreational activities as it considered whether to revive a woman's trip-and-fall suit against the city of Savannah.

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Brief

Ga. Justices Take Up Fight Over Fulton Board Seats

By Kelcey Caulder

The Georgia Supreme Court will hear an appeal of a ruling that Fulton County, Georgia's commission did not have to appoint two Republicans to the county's five-member elections board.

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Ga. High Court Allows Rape Evidence In Separate Murder Trial

By Parker Quinlan

The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that prosecutors can bring in evidence of rape and aggravated sexual battery as part of a man's parallel malice murder case in the killing of an Atlanta woman.

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ADT Says Worker Can't 'Veto' Ogletree In Pregnancy Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

ADT urged a Georgia federal court Wednesday to uphold an order denying a bid by a former ADT worker's attorney to disqualify Ogletree from representing the security company in a pregnancy bias suit, saying she's essentially asking for "veto power" to knock out an opposing party's counsel.

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Citigroup Says Foreign Bondholders Can't Bring RICO Suit

By Carolina Bolado

Citigroup urged a Florida federal magistrate judge Wednesday to dismiss racketeering claims in a suit accusing the bank of running a massive cash advance fraud scheme, arguing the bondholder plaintiffs suffered no domestic injury that would allow them to sue under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute.

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Opinion

Rule Of Law Requires Gov't Engagement With Bar, Not Retreat

A federal agency's absence from national and local bar conferences, most recently illustrated by the U.S. Department of Justice's withdrawal from a New York City Bar Association white collar conference, disserves the bar, the government lawyers themselves and, ultimately, the administration of justice, says Muhammad Faridi at Linklaters.

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Judiciary Cites AI Deepfakes In Opposing Courtroom Cameras

By Courtney Bublé

Two bipartisan bills to bring cameras into federal courtrooms advanced Thursday, but the policymaking body for the federal judiciary continues to oppose them and raised the issue of deepfakes in the age of artificial intelligence.

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Trump Lawyer Advances In Senate Judiciary Noms Vote

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of Matthew Schwartz to be a judge on the Second Circuit advanced out of committee Thursday.

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'Mortified' Atty Takes Blame For Fake Quotes In Taco TM Fight

By Ivan Moreno

A Connecticut attorney facing possible sanctions over fake case quotations in a taco restaurant trademark fight told a federal judge Thursday that he takes "full and unqualified responsibility" for the flawed filings, saying he is "mortified" and acknowledging that his verification process for AI-assisted legal work fell far short.

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Calif. Moves On Proposal To Allow Legal Aid By Nonlawyers

By Lynn LaRowe

The California Supreme Court has directed the state bar to solicit public comments on a proposed community justice worker program that would allow nonlawyers to provide limited legal assistance under the supervision of qualified legal aid organizations, according to a Thursday announcement.

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Analysis

Law Students Undeterred Under Trump's Immigration Climate

By Britain Eakin

In a climate where immigration lawyers are coming under the Trump administration’s scrutiny to tamp down on asylum fraud, law students are being ignited to enter the workforce early and rectify the injustices they see.

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Mich. Panel Sanctions Atty Over AI-Hallucinated Cases

By Susan Smiley

A medical malpractice suit in the Michigan Court of Appeals led to financial sanctions against an attorney who the court said during litigation repeatedly cited nonexistent cases that were generated by artificial intelligence.

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Ford Says 'Lemon Law' Firm Faked Bills Using Overseas Staff

By Linda Chiem

Ford Motor Co. on Thursday accused California personal injury firm Quill & Arrow LLP of defrauding it out of more than $25 million in high-priced legal bills for work actually handled by virtual assistants overseas and non-lawyers in scores of product liability cases against the automaker.

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NY High Court Upholds Mandatory Judge Retirement Age

By Dorothy Atkins

New York's highest court Thursday affirmed a ruling that rejected jurists' challenges to the Empire State's mandatory retirement age of 70 for state judges and justices, finding that the centuries-old constitutional mandate doesn't conflict with a recent state civil rights amendment banning age discrimination.

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Tort Report: Meta Set To Face Facebook Sex Trafficking Trial

By Y. Peter Kang

An upcoming trial in Texas for a first-of-its-kind case against Meta and claims against a health clinic owned by a U.S. senator lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

General counsel may cringe at the news, but their chief financial officers will rejoice over a new study that shows the average spending by legal departments dropped to a six-year low in 2026. And two in-house Cigna lawyers are at the center of a finding of "improperly asserted privilege" over key company documents related to a payment lawsuit brought by three labs.

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