Attorney at Work
MAY 6, 2025
Susan Cohodes | Don't allow AI to replace your crucial "lawyer's voice." The post AI Is No Substitute for a Lawyer’s Voice appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
JURIST
MAY 6, 2025
The far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) filed a lawsuit on Monday against the classification by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency as an extremist organization. The legal action was filed in the Cologne Administrative Court and claimed that the intelligence agency classification infringes democratic competition and the AfD’s rights under Article 21 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Above The Law
MAY 6, 2025
Ask most attorneys where their best business comes from, and the answer is almost always the same: referrals. Word of mouth remains one of the most powerful sources of new clients, and for good reason. Its built on trust. But heres the question too few law firms are asking: How many referred clients are you losing because they cant find you online, or dont like what they see when they do?
JURIST
MAY 6, 2025
The International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) on Monday dismissed Sudan’s case accusing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of violating the Genocide Convention by allegedly arming and financing the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group implicated in atrocities during Sudan’s ongoing civil war. The ICJ found that it lacked jurisdiction to proceed.
Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor
Get ready to master the art and science of trial preparation organization that top attorneys rely on in this exclusive webinar! Attorney and law professor, Joe Stephens, J.D., will walk through proven systems for creating comprehensive trial notebooks and binders that transform scattered case materials into powerful litigation tools. Learning Objectives: Strategic Organization 📊 Learn the essential sections every trial notebook needs and how to structure them for maximum clarity and acce
Above The Law
MAY 6, 2025
Ed. note : This is the latest in the article series, Cybersecurity: Tips From the Trenches , by our friends at Sensei Enterprises , a boutique provider of IT, cybersecurity, and digital forensics services. Like most professional service firms, law firms continue to experience increased cybersecurity attacks, mostly phishing and Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, aimed at compromising and stealing payment information.
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Above The Law
MAY 6, 2025
The past year was wonderful for law firms, and the Am Law Second Hundred had an incredible showing when it came to all things financial. The American Lawyer recently released its Am Law 200 law firm rankings — a closely watched list of the smaller yet still elite law firms that represent the very best of what the legal profession has to offer.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MAY 6, 2025
Lithium has become a cornerstone of the global energy transition, powering technologies central to decarbonization efforts, such as electric vehicle batteries and large-scale renewable energy storage. As demand for this critical mineral accelerates, mining activity has intensified across the so-called lithium triangle Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile a region that holds nearly 60 percent of the worlds lithium reserves.
Above The Law
MAY 6, 2025
How well are law departments and law firms working together today? What are the biggest challenges to collaboration? What emerging skills are becoming must-haves? Above the Law and our friends at iManage are looking for insights from private practice law firms and in-house lawyers. Participants in this brief and anonymous survey will receive a chance to win a $250 gift card.
LawSites
MAY 6, 2025
Vals AI has put out an open call for legal technology vendors to participate in its legal AI benchmarking studies, including its upcoming evaluation of U.S. legal research tools. Readers may recall that, in February, Vals AI issued the first-of-its-kind benchmark study of legal AI tools.
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Why does it take 20-40 hrs. to create a compliant legal brief? TypeLaw analyzed 10,000+ briefs to determine the anatomy of the average brief—how many words, paragraphs, citations to the record, and more. See the research results in this infographic.
iHire
MAY 6, 2025
Recruiting passive candidates in healthcare is a smart move in a competitive market. Read these tips to attract healthcare talent who might not be actively searching for a job.
Law 360
MAY 6, 2025
The Fourth Circuit seemed split Tuesday on whether Bank of America should be able to use its tax overpayments to offset interest on tax underpayments by companies that merged into it, with one judge pressing the government to respond to what he described as the bank's "common sense" argument in the $163 million case.
Conflict of Laws
MAY 6, 2025
By Guillaume Croisant (Linklaters LLP) The United Kingdom deposited an instrument of accession to the Hague Convention of 30 June 2005 on Choice of Court Agreements (the Convention ) on 28 September 2020. This instrument of accession became effective after the Brexits transition period, on 1 January 2021, and gained binding force within the UK legal order following the adoption of the Private International Law (Implementation of Agreements) Act 2020.
The Relativity Blog
MAY 6, 2025
Ever feel out of place in technical meetings? You can still contribute meaningfully. These habits can help legal professionals in every role build greater confidence.
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CaseFleet
MAY 6, 2025
AI Is Reshaping the Litigation Landscape Litigation has long been a demanding field, requiring attorneys to juggle thousands of pages of documents, cross-reference key facts, track witnesses, and build persuasive timelinesall under strict deadlines. In fact, the average complex case involves reviewing thousands of pages of documentationa task that traditionally consumes hundreds of billable hours.
Patently O
MAY 6, 2025
by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit's May 6, 2025 decision in Jazz Pharmaceuticals v. Avadel focuses on the scope of injunctive relief for infringement under 271(e). The appellate court held that a district court may not enjoin a pharmaceutical company from initiating new clinical trials or offering open-label extensions where such activities are protected by the Hatch-Waxman Act's safe harbor provision, even when the company's commercial product has been found to infringe a valid patent.
HowAppealing
MAY 6, 2025
“Anonymous pizza deliveries to judges appear to be threats, senator says; Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) called on the Justice Department and FBI to investigate anonymous pizza deliveries made to federal judges homes”: Derek Hawkins of The Washington Post has this report.
Law 360
MAY 6, 2025
WeightWatchers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware bankruptcy court Tuesday, saying the restructuring will eliminate $1.15 billion in debt and allow the company to focus on its telehealth services.
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ABA Journal
MAY 6, 2025
The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.
Above The Law
MAY 6, 2025
Employers should review their contracts, conduct claims analyses and more to meet their fiduciary responsibility, according to one expert. The post 7 Things Employers Should Be Doing to Fulfill Their Fiduciary Duty appeared first on MedCity News.
ABA Journal
MAY 6, 2025
An assistant prosecutor in Knoxville, Tennessee, has been fired because of his alleged social media posts and reposts that praised Nazis and disparaged Black people…
Above The Law
MAY 6, 2025
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to data collected by ALM, what percentage of the Am Law 200 say they plan on increasing billing rates 7% or more next year? Hint: As you might imagine zero firms say they plan on decreasing billing rates next year and 0.9% say they plan on keeping rates where they currently are.
Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?
L4SB
MAY 6, 2025
Episode 3: “Can We Actually Do This?” (Part 2) In Part 2 of this special two-part episode of Online Reviews On Trial, Law 4 Small Business founding attorney Larry Donahue.
At the Lectern
MAY 6, 2025
Court of Appeal Presiding Justice — and long-time legal columnist — Arthur Gilbert recently wrote in the Daily Journal a piece cryptically headlined “Part II,” but more illuminatingly subtitled, “The remarkable Philip S. Gibson shaped California law through his relentless pursuit of clarity and constitutional justice.” The piece is full of effusive praise about Gibson and includes lengthy quotes about the former Chief Justice by Ellis Horvitz , whom Gilbert ca
Court-MartialTrialPractice
MAY 6, 2025
In United States v. Johnson , the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals decided that the military judge was correct in denying suppression of evidence gained from searches of his cell phones under the ‘OSI acted “in good faith,” so no reason to suppress evidence. I. Summary of Facts and Proceedings In United States v. Johnson , the appellant moved to suppress evidence extracted from two personal cell phones on two grounds: (1) the searches were not authorized by an individual who
Law 360
MAY 6, 2025
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Tuesday that it will not prioritize enforcement actions taken on buy now, pay later products, adding to the list of positions the agency is reviewing or rolling back under the organization's new leadership.
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