Attorney at Work
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Marc Lauritsen | We may not welcome artificial minds into our law societies, but they will grace our workplaces. The post Societies of Legal Minds: A Lens on AI appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Amnesty International on Thursday welcomed the acquittal of prominent refugee rights lawyer and former chair of the organization’s Trkiye branch, Taner Kl , following an eight-year judicial process but expressed concern over continued repression of human rights activists. In its statement, the human rights organization said that Kl’s case exemplifies the Turkish authorities’ attempts to criminalize human rights advocacy through politically motivated prosecutions.
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Above The Law
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
This week, UnitedHealth Group faced two new investigations from federal lawmakers. The first was a senators probe into its Medicare Advantage billing practices, and the second was a Congressman’s investigation into a decline in care quality at Optum-owned clinics in New York. The post UnitedHealth Hit with 2 New Federal Probes in 1 Week appeared first on MedCity News.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Conservative criminal reform advocacy group Right on Crime urged lawmakers to reform the criminal mental state requirement in federal criminal codes in a report published on Thursday. The report also criticized the proliferation of laws that require no specific mental state as contributing to over-criminalization in the country. Right on Crime contends that “there has been an explosion of criminal laws passed by Congress and promulgated by federal executive agencies” where mens rea r
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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
In Japan, climate litigation ( / Kiko soshou ) has been used to challenge the legality of the construction and operation of the coal-fired power plants and promote coal phase-out. The first climate case in Japan was filed in Sendai in 2017 ( Sendai Citizens v. Sendai Power Station ). Subsequently, two administrative cases were filed, one in Kobe in 2018 ( Citizens Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v.
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FDA Law Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
By Julie Kim & Deborah L. Livornese As anticipated, the International Council for Harmonization (ICH) published the Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guideline E6(R3) Principles and Annex 1 on January 6, 2025. While ICH E6(R3) was still in the development phase, the FDA released a draft guidance in May 2023 in the form of the draft ICH E6(R3). No word yet on whether FDA will issue guidance endorsing the final ICH E6(R3).
JURIST
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Kenya’s High Court of Garissa ruled on Wednesday that the Kenyan government’s refusal to issue identification documents to ethnic Kenyan Somali nationals was unconstitutional and infringed on their rights. Kenyan NGO Haki-na-Sheria issued a statement on Wednesday welcoming the judgment on its official X account. The NGO stated that the High Court ordered the Kenyan government to remove within 60 days all names of ethnic Kenyan Somali nationals incorrectly registered in the country
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Back in November, after his trial had already started, a former Biglaw tax partner pleaded guilty to one count of aiding or assisting in the filing of a false or fraudulent tax return. It seems that he was helping his high-profile clients — including DJs Tisto and Afrojack — hide millions upon millions of dollars from the IRS, and it was likely that he could face time in federal prison for doing so.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Share Gary Waetzig filed an age discrimination suit against his former employer, Halliburton. He then dismissed the suit when the company pointed out that he had agreed to arbitrate. When he lost in arbitration and tried to return to federal court, the statute of limitations on the alleged age discrimination had passed, and he asked the court instead to grant relief from the previous order of dismissal, essentially reopening that first case.
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LawSites
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Wolters Kluwer today beefed up its LegalCollaborator product for corporate legal departments with the addition of new summarization functionality driven by generative artificial intelligence and the ability for legal departments to now leverage reverse auction capabilities to drive more competitive law firm bids.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Share The issue in Dewberry Group v. Dewberry Engineers is whether a federal court calculating the defendants profits in a trademark infringement lawsuit can include all the profits of related entities in the same corporate group. Justice Elena Kagans succinct opinion for a unanimous court squarely rejected the lower courts approach, ruling that profits only of the named defendant can be awarded.
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
(Image via Getty) I havent written about my state bar for some time, figuring I would give it a break after the Tom Girardi FUBAR. (And give my editor a break as well.) However, I cant resist writing about the California State Bars latest snafu: the February bar exam held this week. Are you familiar with the term BOGO? Its a common marketing term meant to entice retail purchases: Buy One, Get One.
Patently O
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
by Dennis Crouch I am teaching professional responsibility this semester and it is fascinating to read about all the different ways legal professionals can stumble on their own feet. In a recent nonprecedential decision, the Federal Circuit upheld the USPTO's denial of a former patent examiner's application to register as a patent practitioner. Behnamian v.
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Above The Law
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Ed. note : Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I just dont think other professionals get paid really anything like what lawyers are getting paid. Every year [the industry] gets stronger and bigger and more profitable, but can you keep doing that forever? I cant think of any industry that keeps doing that forever, theres always a reckoning.
LawSites
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
LexisNexis Legal & Professional and OpenAI today announced plans to work more closely with each other to integrate OpenAI’s large language models and APIs across the LexisNexis product ecosystem. LexisNexis will incorporate OpenAI’s technology across its various products, including Lexis+ AI and the Protg personalized AI assistant.
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
(Image via Getty) Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! What was the second law school founded in the United States, five years after William & Mary School of Law? Hint: Though the school has been defunct since 1833, it counts two U.S. Vice Presidents, 101 congressmen, 28 senators, six cabinet secretaries, three justices of theUnited States Supreme Court, 14 state governors, and 13 state supreme court chief justices among its alumni.
EvidenceProf Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Mississippi Rule of Evidence 702 provides that A witness who is qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education may testify in the form of an opinion or otherwise if: (a) the experts scientific, technical, or other.
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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?
LawSites
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Intapp, a global company that provides cloud-based software tailored to legal, accounting and financial services firms, has unveiled DealCloud Activator, an AI-enabled growth platform designed to help professional services firms adopt and sustain successful business development practices.
NCBA
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
By Sarah L. White In North Carolina, while the File & Serve (eFiling) system is widely implemented to streamline the filing process, there are still significant inconsistencies across different counties and courts. These inconsistencies can create challenges for legal professionals, including paralegals, who need to navigate the system for filing documents.
FDA Law Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
The American Conference Institutes popular FDA Boot Camp now in its 43rd iteration is scheduled to take place from March 19-20, 2025, at the NY Bar Association in New York, NY. The conference is billed as the premier event to provide folks with a roadmap to navigate the difficult terrain of FDA regulatory law. And it is exactly that! The conference equips legal professionals without prior regulatory experience, as well as life sciences executives involved with FDA-regulated products, with a
ABA Journal
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Two Department of Justice nominees refused to say whether court orders must always be followed during questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. D.
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HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Alito blasts 9th Circuit in San Jose police shooting case”: Sonja Sharp of The Los Angeles Times has this report.
ABA Journal
FEBRUARY 27, 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.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
“Elon Musks Attacks On Judges Are Getting More Racist and More Dangerous; Of the many federal judges who have blocked the unelected billionaires efforts to take over the government, you can probably guess which ones he is angriest about”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.
ABA Journal
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
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