Attorney at Work
JUNE 24, 2023
What is it about the practice of law that invites loneliness more than other professions? While I am sure there are many additional factors, below are some of the common sources of loneliness that I regularly see in lawyers. The post Lawyer Loneliness: You’re Not Alone in Feeling Alone appeared first on Attorney at Work.
LawSites
JUNE 28, 2023
Law firms are awash in data. Yet relatively few firms know how to responsibly protect and leverage that data — let alone have the data infrastructure needed to achieve that. Fortunately, there are practical frameworks law firms can implement to manage their data, make the most of their internal applications, take advantage of third-party data sources, and address the critical challenges involved in building a modern data infrastructure, says Jeff Cox , director of content at legal data and analy
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Attorney at Work
JUNE 8, 2023
Nothing But the Ruth | Does the 'bogus cases' ChatGPT incident reveal a bigger problem? The post Make AI Your Intern, Not Your Replacement as a Lawyer appeared first on Attorney at Work.
ABA Journal
JUNE 28, 2023
Fat paychecks taken home by top BigLaw partners are outpacing earnings by investment bankers. The Wall Street Journal has the story.
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Above The Law
JUNE 16, 2023
Would've been nice to catch this a little earlier. The post Lawyer Figures Out ChatGPT Made Up Fake Cases In His Brief On Day Of Hearing appeared first on Above the Law.
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Above The Law
JUNE 6, 2023
It's impossible not to look at this law firm train wreck. The post ‘Maximum Damage’: Law Firm Partners Learn The Hard Way Never To Put Offensive Things In Writing appeared first on Above the Law.
The Crime Report
JUNE 15, 2023
Plea bargaining is, in theory, intended to serve as an integral part of our criminal legal system — rewarding those who quickly accept responsibility for their crimes with more lenient sentences, making efficient use of resources, and sparing both victims and defendants the stress of a trial. But it too often ends up in tension with the notion of justice, punishing those who exercise their constitutional right to trial and even, at times, coercing innocent individuals to enter a plea of g
Above The Law
JUNE 15, 2023
Seems like these in-office work mandates aren't going so well. The post Not Even Biglaw Partners Want To Return To The Office 3 Days A Week appeared first on Above the Law.
JURIST
JUNE 23, 2023
Four Sri Lanka activist organizations accused former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday of obstructing police investigations into mass graves discovered in an area where he served as a military officer during a Marxist rebellion in 1989. Activist groups the International Truth and Justice Project, the Center for Human Rights and Development, Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka, and Families of the Disappeared said in their report that Rajapaksa tampered with police records, t
Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA
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LawSites
JUNE 26, 2023
Rumors had been swirling that Thomson Reuters was about to acquire Casetext, and they proved to be true. Just before 9 p.m. Eastern time today, TR said it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Casetext for $650 million cash. “The proposed transaction will complement Thomson Reuters existing AI roadmap and builds on its recent initiatives, including a commitment to invest more than $100 million annually on AI capabilities, the development of new generative AI experiences across its p
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 22, 2023
Share Under a historic water crisis in the desert southwest, the Navajo Nation asked for a court order requiring the federal government to determine the Nation’s water needs and to devise a plan to meet those needs. In a 5-4 decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court held that the United States owes no “affirmative duty” to the Navajo Nation to secure water, reversing a decision by the U.S.
Patently O
JUNE 28, 2023
(Guest Post by Kevin Ahlstrom, Associate General Counsel, Patents, Meta. This post is part of a series by the Diversity Pilots Initiative , which advances inclusive innovation through rigorous research. The first blog in the series is here and resources from the first conference of the initiative are available here. – Jason) Guided invention sessions not only increase idea submission rates but also transform individuals’ perception of themselves as inventors.
The Crime Report
JUNE 14, 2023
Michael Tisius was executed on Tuesday, June 6, 2023. There was international opposition to his execution while he spent 23 years on death row waiting to die. He had no criminal record. He was 19 , not a mentally competent adult when he killed two jailhouse guards as he tried to help his 27-year-old cellmate escape after Tisius had been released for a minor offense.
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Above The Law
JUNE 27, 2023
Supreme Court reminds federal judges that Disney's right about the Contracts Clause. The post Supreme Court Subtweets Ron DeSantis That He’s Totally Losing To Disney appeared first on Above the Law.
JURIST
JUNE 9, 2023
The New York State Assembly and Senate passed legislation Thursday to establish a state commission on reparations for slavery. If Governor Kathy Hochul signs the bill into law, New York will become the second state with such a commission, following the creation of California’s Reparations Task Force in 2020. The legislation will establish a commission of nine members.
LawSites
JUNE 26, 2023
In what appears to be a first for a state bar association, The Florida Bar is providing each of its 110,000 members with free access to legal trust accounting software – a move its new president believes will help attorneys better comply with trust accounting requirements and better protect the public from trust violations. The Florida Bar, the official regulatory and disciplinary arm of the Supreme Court of Florida, has entered into a relationship with the legal financial management company Not
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 23, 2023
Share The Supreme Court on Friday decided Samia v. United States , making it easier for the government to introduce confessions in criminal trials involving multiple defendants. In civil and criminal trials involving multiple defendants, evidence is often admissible against one defendant but not another. The most common solution is a jury instruction.
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Patently O
JUNE 5, 2023
by Dennis Crouch Washington Post has published a long article titled, “ Colleagues want a 95-year-old judge to retire. She’s suing them instead ,” by Rachel Weiner. Judge Pauline Newman, the oldest active federal judge in the country, has been embroiled in controversy as she resists her colleagues attempts to urge/force her to retire. The article ends with a noteworthy quote from Newman that rings true to her characteristic resilience and dedication: “ I want to spend my last
ABA Journal
JUNE 15, 2023
A California lawyer has agreed to a plea deal to resolve charges that she gambled away and spent more than $8.7 million in investor money that was supposed to fund loans to celebrities, professional athletes and other wealthy people.
Above The Law
JUNE 20, 2023
Rudy used an alias for his election emails. but that's not the real problem. The post Rudy Giuliani Went By Fake Name ‘Helen’ While Building Fake Claims About Fake Ballots appeared first on Above the Law.
JURIST
JUNE 12, 2023
The US Supreme Court declined Monday to take up the question of whether states can impose schedule-based cash bail on an indigent defendant before allowing their pre-trial release from jail. Bradley Hester originally brought the case Hester v. Gentry in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama with the assistance of the Alabama ACLU, Civil Rights Corps and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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LawSites
JUNE 22, 2023
A federal district judge has imposed monetary and other sanctions on the two lawyers who filed a brief laden with bogus cases they found when they relied on ChatGPT for legal research. The judge ordered the lawyers, Peter LoDuca and Steven A. Schwartz, as well as the law firm of Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, to pay a penalty of $5,000. He also ordered them to notify their client of the sanctions, and to notify each judge who was falsely identified as the author of the fake court opinions gener
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 7, 2023
Share It has been just over two months since ProPublica revealed that Justice Clarence Thomas had not included over two decades’ worth of frequent luxury travel hosted by Harlan Crow, a Dallas billionaire, on the annual financial disclosures that the Supreme Court justices file each year. But court watchers interested in Thomas’ disclosures for 2022 will have to wait.
Patently O
JUNE 13, 2023
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced a call for nominations for membership in its esteemed Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) and the Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC). These committees were established under the Patent and Trademark Office Efficiency Act in 1999 with the task of advising the Secretary of Commerce and the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property on patent and trademark operations, including agency management, goals, performance, b
ABA Journal
JUNE 21, 2023
As Michelle Browning Coughlin, of counsel at ND Galli Law in Louisville, Kentucky, was raising her two daughters, she wanted her kids to understand what…
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