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Atty's 'Fabricated Quotes,' 'Reliance on AI' Panned By Judge
A New York magistrate judge struck a brief Friday filed by an attorney representing a client suing Roc Nation after finding that it included numerous fabrications that may have resulted from artificial intelligence hallucinations, noting that the attorney has been "repeatedly" sanctioned or warned by multiple courts for the same behavior.
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11th Circ. Refers Atty For Discipline Over Suspected AI Entries
The Eleventh Circuit on Friday referred an attorney for potential discipline over a brief he filed in a client's retaliation lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections, ruling that the attorney failed to explain how several defective quotes and citations ended up in the brief.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Greene Broillet & Wheeler LLP and Ludd & Ludd lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a San Diego jury ordered Hyatt to pay $15.5 million over the death of a guest who was left uncontacted for a day after failing to check out.
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Baker Donelson Wins $45K From Tenn. Firm Over AI Misuse
Tennessee personal injury firm Reaves Law Firm PLLC must pay more than $45,000 in attorney fees to Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC over Reaves Law's misuse of artificial intelligence in a federal malpractice suit against Baker Donelson.
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Meet The Solo Employment Atty Who Is New DC Bar President
Diane Seltzer won last year's race to lead the District of Columbia Bar in an election with unprecedented member participation. Now that she's starting her term as president of the organization, Seltzer wants to motivate attorneys to stay involved.
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Paralegal Drops ADA Bias Suit Against Former Firm
A former paralegal who alleged a law firm fired her the day after she disclosed her cancer had recurred has voluntarily dismissed her disability discrimination lawsuit against the firm, a North Carolina federal court filing shows.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week as BigLaw firms expanded headcounts and practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Small Firms Are Billing More Hours, Report Says
Even amid an explosion of legal technology and artificial intelligence designed to make legal work more efficient, small firms are billing more hours per month on average, and the increase isn't impacting their collections rate, according to a report published Thursday.
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RICO Defendant Says Claims Target Protected Activity
An attorney named in a business owner's sprawling racketeering suit against his former business partner and numerous alleged co-conspirators has asked a California federal judge to throw out the claims, arguing the lawyer's actions were protected litigation activity and that the business owner lacks standing to sue.
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95% Of Surveyed Law Firms Losing Clients, Report Finds
Hundreds of law firms say they are increasingly losing clients and cite problems delivering their legal services as the top reason for the attrition, according to a report released Thursday.
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Meet The Attys Arguing EB-5 Biz Damages Fight In Delaware
Weir LLP and Prickett Jones & Elliott PA attorneys with experience handling corporate and shareholder disputes involving companies such as Insys Therapeutics and Tesla are set to bring before Delaware's justices next week a damages fight stemming from a case involving ownership interests in a venture focused on investment opportunities for foreign nationals.
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Freeman Mathis Grows In Midwest With Litigation Firm Combo
Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP has expanded into the Kansas and Missouri markets following a combination with regional firm Franke Schultz & Mullen PC, the firm announced this week.
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Arizona Atty Faces Possible Sanctions Over Bogus Quotes
An Arizona federal judge is mulling fee sanctions against an attorney found to have included erroneous quotations in a brief she filed in her client's employment discrimination case, amid what he called her history of "improper litigation conduct" in the pending matter and previous cases.
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Allegheny County Atty Suspended One Year For Violations
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has suspended an Allegheny County attorney for a year over accusations that she continued to represent clients after she received an administrative suspension, failed to respond to communications from the Office of Disciplinary Counsel and misrepresented her status to get her license reinstated.
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4th Circ. Rebuffs Tax Attys' Request To Rethink Convictions
The Fourth Circuit will not rethink its decision last month affirming the convictions of two St. Louis attorneys accused of engineering a $22 million tax avoidance scheme.
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Del. Judge Recuses Herself From Apollo $570M Payout Suit
The Delaware vice chancellor presiding over litigation regarding a $570 million payout to Apollo Global Management Inc. insiders has disqualified herself from the case after a possible conflict of interest arose due to her former role as an attorney with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, which was involved in a merger with ties to the payout.
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Ohio Fuels Litigation Funding Debate As Foreign Ban Is Enacted
Ohio has enacted a sweeping law that bans all foreign litigation funders from doing business in the Buckeye State, drawing praise from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and outrage from the litigation finance industry.
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Fla. Law Firm Must Pay Defense Costs In Loan Dispute
A law firm is on the hook for the defense costs of another firm that was sued by a litigation funder for allegedly failing to pay a loan, a Florida state court judge said, citing a previous joint venture agreement requiring indemnification for legal expenses.
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NC Bankruptcy Admin Seeks Sanctions For Ch. 7 Abuse
A North Carolina bankruptcy administrator is seeking sanctions against a Georgia "short sale" real estate dealer, claiming he filed bankruptcy papers "riddled" with lies as part of an attempt to sell a home on the verge of foreclosure.
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Judge Says Warning 'Sufficient Deterrent,' Nixing AI Sanctions
A Kentucky federal judge has declined to sanction two attorneys who filed a brief that included errors generated by artificial intelligence amid a fraud case against a notary public, finding the lawyers had no history of misconduct and had shown sufficient remorse.
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AI Speeds Up Litigation Tasks But Not Overall Pace Of Cases
Artificial intelligence can plow through mountains of information to unearth pertinent details far faster than any associate or paralegal, but the technology can't really speed up individual cases since lawyers still need to decide how to best use the material to make their arguments in court, litigators say.
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Less NJ Attys Litigated Disbarments In 2025 After Rule Change
Fewer Garden State attorneys are litigating their disbarments than in previous years, possibly due to the creation of a path to readmission for disbarred attorneys, according to the newly released annual disciplinary report for 2025 from the New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics.
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ChatGPT Edits Weren't 'Knowing' Errors, Conn. Justices Told
A GLG Law LLC lawyer who blamed ChatGPT for misquotes and citation errors in three filings told the Connecticut Supreme Court on Tuesday he did not violate an ethics rule requiring candor to the tribunal because his briefs, though inaccurate, contained correct assertions about the law.
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Veteran Patent Atty Joins Jeffer Mangels In San Francisco
Jeffer Mangels & Mitchell LLP announced Monday that a patent attorney with nearly 30 years of experience has joined the firm's San Francisco office as a partner from HG Law LLP.
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Moving Jobs The Norm For Young Lawyers, Survey Finds
Young lawyers continue to be very mobile, with roughly two-thirds of new graduates saying they have already held two or more jobs in a report released Tuesday by the National Association for Law Placement, which also found high levels of job satisfaction and large but decreasing amounts of law school debt.