JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday became the first US appeals court to propose a new rule requiring lawyers to certify that they either did not use generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs, like Chat GPT, to draft filings or that humans reviewed AI-generated material.

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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2023

LSCA argued that fossil fuel lawyers often wreak havoc on the environment by lobbying against environmental regulations, drafting and enforcing harmful fossil fuel production contracts and assisting climate polluters in avoiding accountability.

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OilandGasLawyer

APRIL 11, 2021

Last week the Texas Supreme Court issued a per curiam opinion, without oral argument, reversing the judgment of the El Paso Court of Appeals in Sundown Energy LP v. The case is another illustration of how parties fail to clearly express their intent in drafting retained acreage clauses. 3 Limited Partnership , No.

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Patently O

MARCH 14, 2021

Texas Judge Albright for his months long delay in deciding defendant’s motions to transfer/dismiss for improper/inconvenient venue. Texas will be proper if the defendant “has a regular and established place of business” within the district and has also “committed acts of infringement” within the district.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2021

A first-of-its-kind tool introduced last year to automate the drafting of litigation briefs has been named new product of the year for 2021 by the American Association of Law Libraries. Casetext says it can cut brief-writing time by 76%. Ethics Guide Honored for Innovation.

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Above The Law

MAY 6, 2022

State Legislatures Aren't Even Trying Anymore : Post- Dobbs draft, states are just going ahead and inserting religion into legislation. Bunker Mentality : Everyone's closing in on Texas AG Ken Paxton and he's ready to melodramatically grandstand to the bitter end. Staff Bonuses? Paralegal accused of embezzling over $600K.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Is there a better way to train lawyers to draft and negotiate contracts? This former Tesla and BigLaw commercial contracts attorney is the founder of How to Contract , a learning platform that trains lawyers and professionals how to draft and negotiate contracts in the real world. Laura Frederick thinks so.

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Patently O

JUNE 6, 2021

PerDiemCo is a Texas LLC with office space in Marshall, Texas (Eastern District of Texas). and has never visited the office space in Texas. PerDiemCo repeatedly threatened to sue Trimble in the Eastern District of Texas on the infringement accounts. Trimble Inc. , and litigating patents away from D.C.

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Law 360

MAY 16, 2025

A name mix-up in a petition will cost a lending company its claim to an interest in property forfeited in a criminal fraud case, the Fifth Circuit ruled Friday, agreeing with a Texas federal judge that the drafting error was fatal.

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Patently O

JULY 25, 2022

Texas A&M University (Supreme Court 2022). Bynum was seeking more materials from TAMU and sent a PDF draft version of the book to TAMU athletics publicity folks. “viable [as a] takings claim against TAMU for copyright infringement under the Texas Constitution.” Texas A&M U. by Dennis Crouch.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 24, 2025

Reynolds Vapor Company and a group of retailers based in Texas and Mississippi, primarily fielded questions from just two justices, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson a promising sign for his clients. During 72 minutes of oral arguments, almost all of the justices peppered Vivek Suri, the assistant to the U.S.

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LegalTalkNetwork

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Texas, 347 U.S. Her talent and grit were noticed, and she received a recommendation by the Texas congressional delegation for nomination by the White House to a United States District Court seat in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 2010. This year is particularly special because it’s the 70-year anniversary of Hernandez v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Here is what Thomas says about Texas, a state whose robust gun laws, he reluctantly concedes, undeniably support New York’s approach to public safety. “We acknowledge,” Thomas wrote, “that the Texas cases support New York’s proper-cause requirement, which one can analogize to Texas’ ‘reasonable grounds’ standard.

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The Crime Report

MAY 10, 2022

John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, the bill follows a leak last week of a draft Supreme Court opinion that, if unchanged, would overturn Roe v. Introduced by Sen. Wade and recently sparked a protest and vigil against the move at Justice Samuel Alito’s house, the author of the opinion.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 29, 2022

Nearly everything that happens during your day—meeting clients, scheduling appointments, and drafting and storing documents—can be accomplished more efficiently using virtual tools and platforms. . When it comes to drafting estate planning documents, Wealth Docx can help your law practice produce flawless estate planning documents online.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 11, 2020

While a world free of lawyers will most likely never come to fruition (to many parties’ chagrin), new technology in the form of smart contracts is changing how legal matters are drafted. Legal departments drafting contracts need to consider details like this in advance. Creating Logic Parameters.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Whether a lawyer is engaged to draft a will or defend an alleged crime, a written agreement spelling out the work to be done, the consideration to be paid, and the timing of both is a wise practice. Nevertheless, lawyers do not work for free and the Model Rules of Professional Conduct provide that lawyers are entitled to earned compensation.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Neither the Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws (§ 2) nor the draft Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws (§ 1.02) discuss the relationship between choice-of-law and time. In the spring of 2021, I saw that Jeff Rensberger at the South Texas College of Law had posted a paper to SSRN entitled Choice of Law and Time.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

Read the draft Order, here , and tune in on May 22 to watch the vote. The law gives the Texas Attorney General or an individual user the right to bring a legal action against a platform. Though the law would only be applicable in Texas, if it survives the court challenge, other states could look to pass similar laws.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 10, 2022

Texas : The case involves gaming activities on Native American land in Texas. Texas , 36 F.3d 1994) (“Ysleta I”) granted Texas regulatory jurisdiction over non-prohibited gaming activities on the Tribes’ lands. Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. 3d 1325 (5th Cir. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians , 480 U.S.

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Patently O

JANUARY 4, 2024

Winston Strawn Plagiarism Complaint Winston Strawn Plagiarism Attachments I recall being asked to draft my first patent infringement complaint back in early 2003 – a few months after graduating from law school. Similar issues also came up in the patent information disclosure statement cases a decade ago. 2013 WL 6242843, at *1 (N.D.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 11, 2021

The Media Bureau gave notice that the licenses of eleven Texas radio stations that did not timely file a license renewal application will be cancelled on August 1 if they do not file a renewal by that date. The proposed changes are detailed in the FCC’s draft of the proposal, here. The meeting will be streamed, here.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 29, 2023

This week, the FCC released a draft of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Order stemming from the Inquiry to be considered at that May 18 meeting. The FCC’s draft would formally propose and seek comment on rules that would authorize mobile broadband and other expanded uses in some or all of the 550 MHz of spectrum in the 12.7

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 27, 2022

Revisions to the pending Journalism Competition and Preservation Act were released to the public this week ( revised draft bill ). The new draft makes a number of changes, including providing more details on the mechanics for forming negotiating groups of traditional media companies to qualify for the antitrust exemption.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The action would allege both (1) Federal Patent Infringement; and (2) Unfair Competition (based upon Texas state law). Crunch then used that Technical Report to draft an Opinion Letter stating that: “ Amaxon is infringing Dryson’s IP rights.” Dryson is considering suing them all together in a single lawsuit to be filed W.D.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We are the first AI-driven platform to focus specifically on drafting litigation documents. The substantial amount of time lawyers spend drafting documents during litigation. It also improves access to justice for society as lawyers can handle more cases, as well as remove some bias from the legal system through fact-first drafting.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Under the Supreme Court’s 1965 decision in Texas v. At the time, the states say, the ordinary meaning of money order was “a prepaid draft issued by a post office, bank, or business entity used to transmit money to a named payee.” In this case, that’s Delaware.

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MyCase

APRIL 24, 2024

Survey respondents confirmed they use GAI to streamline firm processes, from drafting marketing content to finding specific statutes. With a detailed prompt or series of prompts, the application can quickly draft, edit, or summarize documents. ChatGPT can produce quick drafts of client emails. Drafting marketing content.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

At its March 16 regular monthly open meeting, the FCC will consider a draft Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“FNPRM”) that, if adopted, would formally propose to extend the FCC’s existing audio description requirements for broadcast television to DMAs below the top 100 (i.e., DMAs 101-210).

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 14, 2023

The Washington Post published a multi-page article , starting on the front page of its Sunday paper, on the issue of AM in cars, focusing on the importance of the local service provided for over a century by WTAW(AM) in Bryan-College Station, Texas.

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Patently O

MARCH 4, 2021

The court wrote: In short, retaining this case in the Western District of Texas is not convenient for the parties and witnesses. Folks who read this petition will recognize that it was not drafted by traditional Supreme Court council. but Judge Albright denied that motion. It is not in the interest of justice or proper administration.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 4, 2021

At the Association of Legal Administrators annual conference today in Austin, Texas, NetDocuments is unveiling a powerful knowledge management product to automatically add legal research intelligence to litigation documents, through a partnership with LexisNexis.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 24, 2024

Several of those facilities will be located in Texas and Louisiana on or near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, making them easily accessible to ships carrying carbon dioxide from overseas. It primarily examines how key states—North Dakota, Wyoming, Louisiana, and Texas—have implemented provisions under the SDWA.

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Patently O

MARCH 17, 2022

We find that while overall mandamus is rarely granted by the Federal Circuit, in a key area–petitions involving venue arising from Texas–that is not the case. The draft of that paper, entitled Legal Research as a Collective Enterprise: An Examination of Data Availability in Empirical Legal Scholarship , is now available.

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LegalTalkNetwork

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Texas Law Hawk Gets Loud About Marketing. Bryan Wilson, the Texas Law Hawk, joins Above The Law’s Joe Patrice, LegalZoom’s Chas Rampenthal, and Legal Talk Network’s Laurence Colletti to discuss personal branding and benefits/pitfalls therein. Listen Here: Clio Cloud 2016: Texas Law Hawk Gets Loud About Marketing.

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Parasec

JULY 6, 2023

Nationwide: UCC Form Changes The International Association of Commercial Administrators (IACA), which drafts the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) forms, has implemented changes to the UCC filing forms with a revised date of July 1, 2023. Furthermore, Texas will assess a penalty fees for all reports filed late. ” ~ Stacy H.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 20, 2022

He recounted how he was heading into an all-too-familiar pattern in Austin, Texas where he was born. He would go on to become a first round draft pick after playing for Langston University and being selected as Southwest Defensive Player of the Year. He decided to call his grandmother and ask if he could live with her.

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