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MAY 7, 2025

A California jury ordered NSO Group Technologies to pay WhatsApp $444,719 in compensatory damages and $167,254,000 in punitive damages on Tuesday. The jury found that “NSO engaged in malice, oppression, or fraud in violating the California Comprehensive Data Access and Fraud Act” WhatsApp brought its complaint against NSO , an Israeli cybersecurity company, on October 29, 2019, in the District Court for the Northern District of California.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 12, 2025

Learn to read a legal marketing report the way you read any complex document: critically, strategically and with an eye for what matters. The post The Smart Lawyers Guide to Reading a Marketing Report appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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MAY 9, 2025

Book Review | Richard Susskind's much anticipated book on AI offers clarity for perplexed lawyers. Jerry Lawson takes us through it. The post Richard Susskind on AI for Lawyers: A Review of ‘How to Think About AI’ appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Above The Law

MAY 9, 2025

Ed. note : Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. [The legal profession] is poised to show its greatness. I tell law students if youre not used to fighting losing battles, dont become a lawyer. Our job is to stand up for people who cant do it themselves. Our job is to be the champion of lost causes. But right now we cant lose the battles we are facing.

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MAY 5, 2025

Have you ever wondered why your supervisor makes such a big deal about your billable time entries? It’s not just about keeping you busy. It’s about keeping the law firms doors open. That’s not me being overdramatic! Please stick with me. In most law firms, unless you work for a plaintiff firm, billable hours are the lifeblood that keeps the doors open, pays your salaries, and pays the bills.

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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 12, 2025

(Image via Getty) In Season 9, Episode 6 of “ Notes to My (Legal) Self, “ I had the privilege of speaking with Horace Wu, founder and CEO of Syntheia, a company revolutionizing contract data analytics and smart drafting for transactional lawyers. Horace shared practical insights into building successful legal tech products, particularly those leveraging large language models (LLMs).

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MAY 11, 2025

“Riggs won NCs Supreme Court battle, but elections will face long-term consequences”: Kyle Ingram of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has this report. And that newspaper has also published an editorial titled “ These six judges brought shame to our state in the NC Supreme Court race.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MAY 12, 2025

Under Texas law, if a criminal defendant fails to object to an error in the jury instructions, an appellate court will only reverse if the error caused him "egregious harm." So, is there "egregious harm" to a defendant being prosecuted.

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JURIST

MAY 10, 2025

A US federal judged on Friday ordered the release of Turkish national and PhD student Rmeysa ztrk. ztrk was detained by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in March after her student F-1 visa was revoked and has remained in custody for several weeks. In April, US District Judge William Sessions in Burlington, Vermont, ordered her return to Vermont , the jurisdiction in which her habeas petition was transferred after having been filed in Massachusetts.

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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.

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Above The Law

MAY 8, 2025

Ed. note : This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Sonya L. Sigler to our pages. Click here if you’d like to donate to MothersEsquire. I have two kinds of days, a colleague who had just become a new mother once told me. The kind where Im full of fire, and the kind where Im burning out.

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HowAppealing

MAY 5, 2025

“Federal judge orders NC to certify Riggs as winner in Supreme Court election”: Kyle Ingram of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has this report. Jack Hagel and Brian Murphy of WRAL News report that “ Federal judge tells state board to certify Riggs’ victory in disputed NC Supreme Court race; A federal judge ordered North Carolina elections officials to certify Democrat Allison Riggs’ narrow victory in the November election for a seat on the state S

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MAY 8, 2025

Bayer AG unit Monsanto failed to erase a $175 million verdict awarded to a man who alleged his cancer was caused by using the company's flagship weedkiller Roundup, with Pennsylvania Superior Court ruling Thursday that a Philadelphia jury's verdict in his favor was fair.

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JURIST

MAY 8, 2025

The EU Parliament on Wednesday urged a stop to Trkiye’s plans for accession into the EU after the country failed to address major democratic shortcomings and silenced dissident voices. Members of the EU Parliament (MEPs) have cited fears that Trkiye is well on its way to becoming an authoritarian state after politically motivated attacks on opposing political figures such as Istanbul Mayor Ekrem mamolu. mamolu poised as the national favourite to be President Erdoan’s successor, but w

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MAY 7, 2025

by Dennis Crouch In a significant decision narrowing the scope of Inter Partes Review (IPR) estoppel, the Federal Circuit has held that a patent challenger who previously pursued an IPR can still rely on system prior art in district court litigation, even when that system was fully documented in publications that could have been raised during the IPR.

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Above The Law

MAY 5, 2025

Chaos is a ladder if you’re plotting to conquer a dragon-themed fantasy world or practicing law at the highest level. Thanks to the latest global trade war, Biglaw is enjoying a boom straight out of their wildest revenue fantasies. But the Q1 2025 Law Firm Financi a l Index suggests the good times may not last, with the market delivering some of the same warning signs that preceded the last time the bottom fell out of the industry.

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MAY 12, 2025

“Trolling About Habeas Corpus; On the aims of disruption through provocation”: Jack Goldsmith has this post at the “Executive Functions” Substack site.

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MAY 12, 2025

With the right systems in place, planning for leadership transitions becomes more manageableand more effective. In many law firms, the senior partners who built the business are now approaching retirement. Theyve brought in clients, developed relationships, and set the tone for how the firm operates. But what happens when theyre ready to step awayand theres no plan in place to carry that legacy forward?

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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.

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MAY 8, 2025

Paladin, a company whose platform connects lawyers with opportunities to provide free legal help, today launched a province-wide pro bono portal for Ontario, developed in partnership with the Ontario Bar Association. While Paladin has launched pro bono portals in 13 U.S. states, this is its first outside the U.S.

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Above The Law

MAY 12, 2025

Not content with arresting judges, ICE is now arresting mayors who have the temerity to object to rounding up immigrants and warehousing them in ICE detention facilities. On Friday, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka attended a protest at Delaney Hall, a private prison owned by The GEO Group which just inked a 15-year, $1.2 billion contract to run a 1000-bed immigration facility in his town as a hub “serving” the New York metro area.

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MAY 11, 2025

“David Souter Set an Example for the Supreme Court; A former clerk of the justice writes that his career stands as a model for the court to emulate to survive the dangers it is facing”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

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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.

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JURIST

MAY 8, 2025

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) alerted the public on Tuesday of a second case of spyware attack on a journalist and urged Italian authorities to investigate. CPJ’s Europe representative, Attila Mong, criticized the targeting of journalists and categorized it as “a pattern of surveillance aimed at intimidating and silencing investigative reporting” Mong recognized these cases as a “chilling signal to journalists in Italy” and urged Italian authorities to

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