Attorney at Work
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Danielle DavisRoe | Use these law firm tech cleanup tips and clear the way for a more productive, profitable year. The post Law Firm Tech Cleanup: 6 Steps to Boost Efficiencyand Cut CostsNow appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Chloe Miracle-Rutledge is a JURIST Supreme Court Correspondent and a 2L at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. On Wednesday morning, I walked up to an unusually quiet Supreme Court building to attend oral arguments for Ames v. Department of Ohio Youth Services , a case in which the Court has been asked to clarify the requirements for majority-group plaintiffs bringing employment discrimination claims.
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Above The Law
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Before law school sucks their dreams away under a mountain of student debt, many students picture themselves getting into the entertainment industry. Famous clients! Exciting legal problems! Hollywood living! Then everyone ends up drafting venue clauses for regional office supply distributors. But SOME lawyers do make it into the entertainment game and those lawyers belong to the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel (AMEC).
JURIST
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Digital rights organization Eko filed complaints with data protection authorities in multiple European countries on Thursday, challenging US technology giant Meta (the parent company of Facebook and Instagram) over its targeted advertising practices. Five thousand members of the group filed complaints with the data protection watchdogs in Norway, Germany, and Spain after having collected evidence that Meta had disregarded their explicit user requests to opt out of data collection and targeted ad
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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.
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Last week, ATL released its 2024 report on in-house compensation , providing a detailed look at how much corporate counsel make. The report draws on information from more than 1,100 attorneys working at private companies, public corporations, and nonprofit organizations. The results show that compensation rose in the last year, with median annual pay (including base salary and most recent cash bonus) increasing from $284,000 to $300,000.
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Above The Law
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! The late Justice John Paul Stevens was known to enjoy what kind of sandwich? Hint: Indeed, Sonia Sotomayor confirmed, Justice John Paul Stevens would have [this kind of sandwich] virtually every day that I sat with him for a year. See the answer on the next page. The post Supreme Court Justice Knows What He Likes appeared first on Above the Law.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
The Metropolitan Police published a new charter on Thursday governing stop and search tactics. The charter guides how the police force should use the tactic. 8,500 Londoners were engaged in producing the report, with the Met hosting events across 32 London boroughs to seek the opinions of those affected by the policy. The Met stated that the tactic captured 17,500 weapons off the streets over the last four years.
Law 360
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
The Ninth Circuit will mull Express Scripts and OptumRx's bid to force a public nuisance suit brought by the state of California into federal court, and the Second Circuit will hear from pensioners who say that IBM's use of outdated mortality tables shrank their benefits payouts. Here, Law360 looks at these and other appellate arguments happening in March that should be on benefits lawyers' radar.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Romanian prosecutors opened a criminal case on Wednesday against ultranationalist politician Clin Georgescu, who won the first round of the country’s annulled 2024 presidential election. Georgescu was stopped by police in Bucharest traffic and taken to the Prosecutor General’s Office for questioning. Prosecutors announced they were carrying out 47 searches of people and associations, including those of a group led by Horaiu Potra, Georgescu’s security chief and a former mercena
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Law 360
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
A Delaware federal court's recent decision in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence is not likely to have lasting effect in view of the avalanche of artificial intelligence decisions to come, but the court made two points that will resonate with copyright owners who are disputing technology companies' unlicensed use of copyright-protected materials to train generative AI models, says David Ben-Meir at Ben-Meir Law Group.
Attorney at Work
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Call Rail Legal trends 2025: Your guide to understanding emerging technologies, client expectations, and how to position your firm for success. The post 6 Key Legal Trends 2025: Prepare Your Firm for the Future appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
“Luigi Mangione Says Pennsylvania Search, Arrest Were Illegal; Lawyer says police failed to read Mangione his rights; Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in December”: David Voreacos and Patricia Hurtado of Bloomberg News have this report.
LawSites
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Are you still on the fence about whether generative artificial intelligence can do the work of human lawyers? If so, I urge you to read this new study. Published yesterday, this first-of-its-kind study evaluated the performance of four legal AI tools across seven core legal tasks.
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HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
“Was it sexist for Brad Schimel to say liberal justices, all women, were ‘driven by their emotions’?” Columnist Daniel Bice has this essay online at The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. And Scott Bauer of The Associated Press reports that “ Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates criticism of liberal justices called disgusting.
Patently O
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
by Dennis Crouch The vast majority of patent appeals are heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Such cases typically include at least one claim or compulsory counterclaim "arising under" U.S. patent laws. However, patent-related issues occasionally arise in contexts outside the Federal Circuits jurisdiction, notably in breach-of-license disputes involving patent misuse.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, Nobel laureate David Card recognized at Princeton Alumni Day”: Emily Aronson of Princeton University has this report. Princeton University has posted on YouTube a video titled “ Elena Kagan talks about her life, career and the Supreme Court with Princeton President.
LLRX
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AIs fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions.
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Analyzing contract trends with manual contract management is like sifting through a pile of papers in a dimly lit room, trying to find clues manually. Advanced CLM software’s contract data analytics, on the other hand, is like having an AI-based, intelligent magnifying glass that not only highlights key clues but also connects the dots for you. With innovative, AI-powered contract data analytics, you can solve the mystery of trends faster and with greater accuracy, making informed decisions base
Law 360
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
A former Kraft Heinz research and development manager cannot go to trial over claims the companydiscriminated against her religious beliefs by rejecting her COVID-19 exemption request, with an Illinois federal judge saying on Friday her concerns were not religious in nature.
iHire
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Learn the early signs of a toxic workplace, from poor communication to burnout, and discover ways you can combat workplace toxicity and improve company culture.
Law 360
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench Monday to consider Mexico's attempt to hold gun manufacturers and distributors liable for cartel-related gun violence and a nuclear waste site dispute that could determine who can challenge future agency actions.
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Everyone knew that putting a conspiracy theorist with no Justice Department experience in charge of the US Attorney’s Office in DC would be a disaster. But no one could possibly have predicted the tire fire currently raging in the nation’s capital. Ed Martin, the January 6 protester nominated to lead the USAODC, spent the past five weeks waggling his wizened bits at various Democrats in a pathetic attempt at intimidation, while prostrating himself before the DOGE dauphin in the vain
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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?
Law 360
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority including attorney insights into federal lease upheaval, the impact of AI efficiency on data centers and price-gouging in the aftermath of the Los Angeles wildfires.
At the Lectern
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
On Monday morning, the Supreme Court will file its opinion in People v. Patton. (Briefs here ; oral argument video here.) Assummarized by court staff(see here ), the opinion is expected to decide whether the trial court engaged in impermissible judicial factfinding by relying on the preliminary hearing transcript to deny defendants Penal Code section 1172.6 petition at the prima facie stage.
Law 360
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
A Bioventus Inc. stockholder sued 15 current and former directors and officers of the medical device venture in Delaware's Court of Chancery to recover for the company tens of millions in losses tied to alleged mismanagement and corporate duty failures over a two year period.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
“Pam Bondis Jeffrey Epstein stunt reveals populisms limits; The attorney generals promised revelations about Jeffrey Epsteins associations were a dud”: Columnist Jason Willick has this essay online at The Washington Post.
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