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Where Lawyers Stand On Generative AI Tools
Lawyers are approaching generative artificial intelligence with caution, despite its promised advantages, and the use of legal AI tools is only slowly catching on, according to a new survey.
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How Law Firms Can Create Winning Generative AI Policies
Relatively few firms are encouraging their lawyers to use generative AI, according to a new survey by Law360 Pulse, and many do not seem to have policies about AI use in place.
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What Lawyers Really Think Of AI
Most lawyers aren't worried about being replaced by robots, but they are broadly concerned about the accuracy and ethical implications of generative artificial intelligence, a new survey shows.
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Why A New York Federal Judge 'Loves' Discovery Disputes
While discovery disputes can be a frustration for many judges and attorneys, U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote says that she loves them because they teach her a lot about the cases she is overseeing, the parties involved and the attorneys working on them.
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Trump Atty 'Losing Credibility' In Defending Posts, Judge Says
The New York judge presiding over former President Donald Trump's hush money case on Tuesday gave a harsh appraisal of defense attorney Todd Blanche's attempts to keep his client out of criminal contempt for disparaging witnesses online, saying the lawyer was "losing all credibility" as he argued Trump was "being very careful" with his words.
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Shearman Hires Weil RE Atty In New York
Shearman & Sterling LLP has hired a real estate partner in New York from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP whose practice focuses on advising clients on real estate matters who work in the hospitality, digital infrastructure and a range of other industries, the firm announced Monday.
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Law Firm Billing Rates Rose At 'Record Setting Pace'
Average law firm partner billing rates rose 5.4% in 2023, higher than any other year in the last decade, with the largest law firms hiking prices the most, according to a report released Tuesday by LexisNexis' CounselLink.
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As DA Aims High, Trump Defense Gets 'Down And Dirty'
Donald Trump lifted the curtain Monday on his strategy to win over jurors in his New York criminal hush-money trial, as a lawyer for the former president hammered the state's "liar" star witness and rejected the prosecution's quixotic framing of the case, experts observed.
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Davis Wright Unveils Its Latest Leadership Appointments
After celebrating a lucrative 2023, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP announced several new additions to its executive committee and practice group leadership Monday.
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Perkins Coie CFO Jumps To BCLP In Seattle
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has added a top financial executive to its leadership team from Perkins Coie LLP, where he served as chief financial officer for the past seven years, the firm said Monday.
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Walden Macht Launches Securities Group With Ex-Sidley Atty
White collar boutique Walden Macht & Haran LLP announced Monday that it has launched a securities enforcement defense practice headed by a recent arrival from Sidley Austin LLP in New York.
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Unemployment Rate For Recent Law Grads Improves, ABA Finds
Fewer recent law school graduates were unemployed in March than in the previous year, as the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic further recede into memory, according to data released Monday by the American Bar Association.
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Chiesa Shahinian Names New Fidelity, Surety Leadership
Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC, a regional law firm with offices in New Jersey and New York, announced Monday it appointed new co-chairs and a new practice leader for its fidelity and surety group.
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Royer Cooper Launches Gaming & Sports Practice
A former in-house attorney for Penn Entertainment Inc. has moved back to private practice and joined Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld's Philadelphia office as the firm launches a new gaming and sports practice.
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Columbia Law Honorees Say Pro-Palestine Voices Are Curbed
More than 100 public interest honorees at Columbia Law School effectively renounced their ties with the university in an open letter, saying the university has repressed pro-Palestinian voices.
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11 State AGs Urge Senate To Confirm Mangi For 3rd Circ.
A group of 11 attorneys general is calling on the Senate to confirm Adeel Mangi, nominee for the Third Circuit, who would be the first federal Muslim appellate judge if confirmed, condemning allegations that he is antisemitic or anti-law enforcement.
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Trump, NY AG Reach Deal To OK $175M Fraud Appeal Bond
Donald Trump's lawyers agreed Monday to bond conditions requiring the former president to give up control of his $175 million cash deposit pending appeal of a $465 million civil fraud judgment, staving off scrutiny from both the New York attorney general and the judge who entered the award.
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Trump Led Plot To Undermine 2016 Election, NY Jury Told
A prosecutor told a Manhattan jury on Monday that Donald Trump was the head of a conspiracy to undermine the integrity of the 2016 election through hush-money payments, kicking off the first criminal trial of a former president.
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Coverage Recap: Day 1 Of Trump's NY Hush Money Trial
Law360 reporters are providing live updates from the Manhattan criminal courthouse as Donald Trump goes on trial for allegedly falsifying business records related to hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. Here's a full recap from day one.
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Trump On Verge Of Legal History As Full NY Jury Picked
Jury selection wrapped up Friday in the hush money trial of Donald Trump, setting the stage for opening statements to begin on Monday after a New York appeals court denied a last-ditch bid by the former president to delay the unprecedented case.
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NY AG Doubts Trump Insurer Can Cover $175M Bond
The New York Attorney General's Office told a Manhattan court Friday it has doubts about a California insurer's ability to cover a $175 million bond imposed on Donald Trump after a civil trial in which he was found responsible for conspiring to inflate his wealth for financial gain.
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Trump's Trial Is Unprecedented. Attys On Juries? Not So Much
With two BigLaw attorneys tapped for the jury box in Donald Trump's first-in-history criminal case, Law360 spoke to trial vets who said their own experience in this tables-turned situation shows lawyers can make for highly engaged jurors under the right circumstances.
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How A Local Garden's Fight Touched 'Generations' Of Attys
It was more than four decades ago when locals began cultivating a plot of land on a once-derelict corner of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Today, its existence is a testament to the gardeners who refused to retreat from it — and the lawyers whose careers came of age during the fight to save it.
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Gibbons Atty Won't Testify In Menendez Bribery Trial
A Gibbons PC lawyer who is counsel for one of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez's co-defendants in his federal bribery trial set to start next month will not be called to the witness stand after defense lawyers and prosecutors agreed Friday to a stipulation about the facts that would have been part of his testimony.
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9 Ex-Ingram LLP Attorneys Join Tarter Krinsky In New York
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP announced that nine attorneys from the now-defunct firm Ingram LLP joined its New York office, expanding the firm's litigation, real estate, and landlord and tenant practice groups.