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'Grave Errors': 5th Circ. Boots Judge After AI 'Botch Job'
A Mississippi federal judge's careless use of artificial intelligence tools led to "sloppy edicts" riddled with "falsehoods and fabrications," the Fifth Circuit held in a Thursday night opinion removing the judge from litigation over an anti-DEI law in the Magnolia State because of his "extraordinarily grave errors."
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Reed Smith Seeks 2nd Circ. Emergency Stay In Eletson Row
Reed Smith urged the Second Circuit in an emergency motion to pause lower court decisions requiring the firm to turn over client files related to shipping company Eletson, saying the courts have "presumed the outcome" of a bankruptcy appeal before scheduled December oral arguments.
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MSU Board, GC Sued By Trustee For Racial Discrimination
A Michigan State University trustee is suing the university's general counsel, other officials and her fellow trustees, claiming she suffered discrimination and retaliation when she spoke publicly about MSU's handling of the Larry Nassar scandal.
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Law Firm Can't Kick Muslim Worker's Bias Suit To Arbitration
A New York federal judge refused to compel arbitration in a Muslim ex-law firm worker's gender bias suit claiming her bosses began mistreating her after she wore a hijab, backing a magistrate judge's conclusion that she asserted a viable sex harassment claim.
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Atty Faces Sanctions Bid Over Negotiation Remarks In Suit
A plaintiff's attorney is facing a sanctions bid for including in an employment discrimination complaint specific statements made by defense counsel during confidential severance negotiations.
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Meet Attys Arguing Electronics Co.'s $48.5M Tax Fight In Del.
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP attorneys who have experience handling high-profile class actions and other litigation will next week argue to Delaware's justices a tax dispute related to electronics manufacturer Flex Ltd.'s 2024 spinoff of Nextracker Inc.
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Conn. Firm Botched Suit Over Keith Haring Art, Ex-Client Says
Shuttered Connecticut law firm Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan LLC and one of its former attorneys have been accused of professional negligence by a client being asked to pay $805,000 in legal fees to a gallery he sued in 2023 for allegedly selling a poorly documented Keith Haring drawing.
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Jackson Walker Hits Back At Fee Clawback Sanction Move
Law firm Jackson Walker said Wednesday that it should not be sanctioned for failing to bring to a Texas federal judge's attention additional cases involving an undisclosed romantic relationship between a bankruptcy judge and one of its attorneys because the U.S. Trustee already investigated those cases and didn't take action.
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Gordon Rees Lands Wilbraham Lawler's Delaware Leader
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP announced Thursday that it has brought on the longtime managing shareholder of Wilbraham Lawler & Buba PC's Delaware office to bolster its capacity to defend clients in mass tort, liability and other matters.
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Hueston Hennigan Bumps Clerkship Bonus To $205K
Trial boutique Hueston Hennigan is offering a $205,000 bonus to lawyers who have completed one or more federal clerkships, the firm confirmed Thursday.
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Epstein Aides Deny NM's Claims They Enabled Sex Trafficking
The co-executors of Jeffrey Epstein's estate on Wednesday denied allegations in a new federal lawsuit that they enabled the financier's expansive sex trafficking operation, with their counsel questioning the New Mexico attorney general's motivations for filing it.
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DLA Piper Hires Shook Hardy Product Liability Partner
DLA Piper has hired a former Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP product liability partner in San Francisco who has decades of experience defending companies in high-stakes disputes involving hundreds of millions of dollars.
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JPMorgan, Ex-Frank Execs Clash Over $2.1M In Legal Fees
JPMorgan Chase & Co. faced renewed demands in the Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday to pay about $2.1 million in withheld legal fees for convicted Frank founder Charlie Javice and former executive Olivier Amar, as their lawyers accused the bank of using repeated billing objections to delay funding for their criminal defenses.
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Fontainebleau Wins Access To Some Of Rabbi's AI Chats
A Florida magistrate judge ruled Wednesday that Miami Beach hotel Fontainebleau may obtain some of rabbi and media personality Shmuley Boteach's AI chats about the five-star hotel and its personnel, saying they could help determine punitive damages in the defamation suit against him by showing whether he intended to harm the company.
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NJ Town, Retired Judge End Fight Over Health Benefits, Leave
A retired chief judge of a New Jersey municipal court agreed to dismiss her suit alleging the local government refused to cover her retirement health benefits and pay her for unused sick and vacation time after 27 years of employment.
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Longtime Quinn Emanuel Partner Launches Calif. Boutique
After nearly 30 years with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, a former partner is pursuing her self-described "entrepreneurial streak" with the launch of a California-based boutique firm focused on business and private wealth litigation.
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BakerHostetler Launches 'SWAT Team' For Equitable Relief
BakerHostetler announced Thursday that it has created an emergency equitable relief team with litigators who are prepared to appear in court on short notice to seek or oppose temporary restraining orders, preliminary injunctions and other emergency relief.
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6th Circ.'s Sutton Floats Class Action Limits At Judiciary Panel
An influential federal judge is proposing new restrictions on class actions that aim to broadly block government policies, judiciary advisers heard at a Wednesday gathering, which also explored transparency ideas affecting legal finance and hard-to-access court records in the red-hot realm of immigration litigation.
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Google Must Provide Limited Depo In Apple Antitrust Case
A California federal magistrate judge on Tuesday ordered Google to provide deposition testimony in a proposed class action accusing Apple of monopolizing cloud storage for its mobile devices, although she placed limitations on the topics the plaintiffs can ask nonparty Google about.
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Blank Rome, Ex-Associate Agree To Wrap Up Sex Bias Suit
Blank Rome LLP and one of its former attorneys told a Pennsylvania federal judge Wednesday that they have agreed to end her suit claiming the firm didn't do enough to protect her after she said a male colleague sexually assaulted her.
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Drexel Keeping Its Counsel In Ex-Exec's Bias Suit
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday denied a former Drexel University compliance executive's bid to have the school's attorney dismissed from the case over an alleged conflict of interest and tossed the executive's motion for sanctions against Drexel's attorney over comments he made during a deposition.
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Ex-Employee Of Seyfarth Client Drops Suit Over Data Breach
A Texas woman who filed a proposed class action against Seyfarth Shaw LLP over a data breach voluntarily dropped the claims Tuesday without prejudice, according to a filing in Illinois federal court.
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Fla. Court Refers Atty To Bar Over Pro Se-Like Filings
A Florida appeals court on Wednesday referred a divorce attorney to the Florida Bar for filings with AI-hallucinated quotations and motion practice that the judges said they "typically see from vexatious pro se litigants."
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Czech Search Engine Co. Escapes Suit Over NJ Privacy Law
A federal judge has thrown out a data privacy firm's lawsuit against a Czech website operator over alleged violations of a New Jersey judicial privacy law, finding the court does not have jurisdiction.
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Watchdog Can Pursue Jackson Walker Fees, Judge Says
The U.S. Trustee's Office has standing to pursue millions of dollars in fees paid to Jackson Walker LLP in cases assigned to a judge who was in an undisclosed romantic relationship with one of the firm's ex-partners, a Texas bankruptcy court has concluded.
Expert Analysis
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RFP Reset: Standardize Pricing Requests
To keep up with rising legal costs amid an industry overhaul fueled by artificial intelligence, legal departments can make outside counsel requests for proposal more defensible and cost-effective by making pricing requests uniform, requiring comparable fee templates and evaluating staffing assumptions, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Making Legal Cents: Create Marketing Clients Find Useful
The law firm marketing efforts with the best return on investment are things that actively provide value to potential clients: practical business guidance, uncluttered proposals that anticipate their questions and opportunities to participate in curated industry conversations, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Law Firm Leaders Should Adopt Founding Fathers' Bold Ideas
To ensure continued success, law firm leaders helming their firms through the legal industry revolution should take inspiration from the Founding Fathers' bold decisions, such as James Madison's abandonment of the Articles of Confederation and George Washington's trust in junior officers', says Samuel Pond at Pond Lehocky.
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The AI Ownership Question Firms Can't Afford To Skip
The artificial intelligence conversation among law firm leaders has advanced from adoption to governance and business impact, but it hasn’t resolved who maintains ownership and operational responsibility, which should be determined by the range of functions that AI touches, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Practice AuthenticityAttorneys who demonstrate who they truly are and what they stand for by sharing the human impact of their results, earning the media's trust by providing accessible analysis, and providing hands-on aid to their communities can build stronger reputations than any advertising budget can buy, says Ray DeLorenzi at RebuttalPR.
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Legal AI Adoption Tips And Takeaways From Dot-Com Bubble
Legal artificial intelligence is on a similar trajectory as the internet in the dot-com era, where several internet companies failed after the initial market frenzy, but even if AI company valuations take a hit and the industry goes through a major reordering, legal leaders should note that the technology itself remains genuinely transformational for the delivery of legal services, says Gabriel Buigas at Integreon.
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Opinion
Keeping PE Out Of Law Is Job For Courts, Not Capitols
Efforts by lawmakers in California, Colorado and Illinois seeking to bar private equity firms, hedge funds and other nonattorney investors from owning or financing law firms risk intruding on authority that state constitutions and the inherent powers doctrine have traditionally assigned to the judiciary, says attorney Felix Shipkevich.
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Legal Tech Talks: WordSmith AI's CEO On Shifting Mindsets
Ross McNairn, founder and CEO of Wordsmith AI, discusses how the lawyers who treat legal work like an engineering problem and can deploy legal intelligence at scale will define the next decade.
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Public AI Disclosures Raise Stakes For AI Agent Oversight
Two recent reports shift the legal posture of every organization deploying artificial intelligence agents because they establish the foreseeability, for negligence liability purposes, of an AI agent becoming weaponized for data exfiltration, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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7 AI Training Tips For Law Firm Summer Associate Programs
Law firms trying to weave artificial intelligence into summer associate programs should build a program that isn't really about AI but teaches students how to think about using AI, with the goal of building judgment, understanding implications and leveling up in a way that's repeatable, says Zeynep Ersin at Seyfarth.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Don't Obstruct Knowledge
Lawyers and firms should treat knowledge transfer as a business development function, using the sharing of context and institutional know-how to preserve continuity through change, strengthen relationships and create long-term competitive advantage, says Mark Wraight at Stinson.
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How Private Equity Priorities Will Test The Law Firm Model
The biggest question about private equity moving into the legal sector is no longer whether it can financially succeed, but how law firms can contend with the unavoidable economic, institutional and ethical tensions introduced by external ownership without compromising their core professional commitments, say Kirsten Vasquez and Allison Rosner at Major Lindsey.
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AI-Powered Search Demands New Legal Marketing Playbook
As potential clients use artificial intelligence tools instead of search engines when looking for counsel, it is a democratizing moment for specialized midsize firms and a compression threat for generalist big-firm brand positioning, says Ronn Torossian at 5WPR.
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What Law Firm MSOs Can Learn From Accounting Co. Model
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Private equity capital has been flowing into accounting firms for years, with investors developing creative structures to work within that field's specific ownership restrictions, and the framework developed by these transactions offers valuable insights for law firms looking for outside investment, says Russell Shapiro at Levenfeld Pearlstein.
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Legal Tech Talks: StrongSuit CEO On The AI Gold Rush
Justin McCallon, CEO of StrongSuit, discusses how the potential for automation and insight generation with artificial intelligence is massive, but that in legal work, especially litigation, the margin for error is essentially zero.