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Supreme Court Rejects NJ Immunity Defense In NY, Pa. Suits
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that New Jersey cannot shield its public transit system from personal injury lawsuits by out-of-state plaintiffs under the doctrine of sovereign immunity.
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Cruz Fights Subpoena Review In Stone Hilton Employee's Suit
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has opposed the request of a former Stone Hilton PLLC staffer for a federal court to reconsider subpoenaing him in an ongoing employment lawsuit against two of the firm's partners.
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9th Circ. Says Ch. 11 Authority Doesn't Impact Jurisdiction
A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that disputed corporate authority to file a Chapter 11 petition doesn't affect a bankruptcy court's subject matter jurisdiction over the case, resolving part of a yearslong dispute over the bankruptcy of a family-owned real estate holding company.
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Early Publicity Could Poison DOJ's Criminal Cases, Attys Say
The U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump has shrugged off long-standing prosecutorial policies against publicizing criminal probes in their early stages and disparaging the targets, an "unusual" and "troubling" development that threatens the integrity of investigations, grand jury proceedings and the right to a fair trial, experts tell Law360.
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Ex-Georgia Judge Not Immune From Jailing Suit, Court Told
A woman has asked a Georgia federal court to reject a former state judge's bid to escape a lawsuit alleging the judge improperly jailed her when she was a witness in her parents' divorce, arguing judicial immunity didn't shield the decision to lock her up.
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DOJ Turns To 2nd Circ. In Bid To Revive James Subpoenas
The U.S. Department of Justice is urging the Second Circuit to revive an investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James launched by a federal prosecutor later found to have been serving unlawfully, arguing the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York had been rightfully appointed when he launched the probe.
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Day Pitney Faces DQ Bid Over Ex-Justice's Role In $1.3M Case
Day Pitney LLP should be sidelined from a $1.3 million private equity management company's windup lawsuit because former Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson, now a partner at the firm, heard the case before it was earmarked for a new trial, three company owners have argued.
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NY Judicial Watchdog Says Complaints Break Record Again
New York's judicial watchdog has reported a record number of new complaints filed against judges for the fourth year in a row in 2025.
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DOJ Nixes Plan To Drop Law Firm EO Appeals In About-Face
A day after informing the D.C. Circuit that it would no longer seek to defend the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump against four law firms, the U.S. Department of Justice reversed course Tuesday, requesting permission to withdraw its motion to voluntarily dismiss the appeals.
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High Court Blocks California's Gender Privacy Rule
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reinstated a lower court order that barred California public schools from allowing transgender and gender-nonconforming students to use different names and pronouns at school without their parents' knowledge or consent while the order is appealed.
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4 Things That Likely Sealed Fate Of SCOTUSblog Founder
When 12 "guilty" verdicts were read aloud by the jury in SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's tax evasion and mortgage fraud trial last week, it was the culmination of a 16-day trial that took jurors deep into Goldstein's ultra high-stakes poker playing, his lavish lifestyle and his former law firm's accounting. Here, Law360 looks at four key pieces of evidence that likely moved jurors to their decision.
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NC Woman Appeals Criminal Contempt After Atty Assault Trial
A woman who claims an attorney drunkenly punched her in the face in a hotel lobby is urging a North Carolina appeals court to undo her jail sentence, arguing that a trial judge wrongly found her in contempt of court after she accidentally violated hearsay rules while testifying.
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Cozen O'Connor Lands 2nd Highest-Ranking NJ AG Leader
Cozen O'Connor announced Monday that it has brought on the former second-highest ranking state prosecutor for New Jersey as a member in its state attorneys general group.
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DOJ Drops Law Firm Executive Order Appeals
The Trump administration told the D.C. Circuit on Monday that it is dropping its fight over executive orders targeting four law firms.
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Ga. Justices To Weigh Ex-Judge's Resignation In Ethics Case
The Georgia Supreme Court is digging into whether a former state judge's recent resignation spells the end of her disciplinary case after the investigative panel of a judicial ethics commission told the justices that it wants to consider sanctions other than removal.
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Hagens Berman Denied Rehearing Bid In Sanctions Dispute
The Third Circuit on Monday rejected plaintiffs firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP's request to reconsider weighing in on the sanctions dispute in a since-dropped product liability case that resulted in the trial court judge referring the firm for possible criminal investigation.
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Georgia Judge Fights Removal Based On 'Vague' Ethics Rule
A Georgia probate judge asked the state's Supreme Court to spare him from being removed from the bench, arguing that a judicial ethics watchdog is enforcing a vague rule in concluding that he isn't competent while he deals with a backlog of cases.
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Fla. Judge Faces Possible Suspension Over Bogus Recording
The Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission's hearing panel has recommended a 30-day suspension, $10,000 fine and public reprimand for a judge for sharing a fabricated recording of a chief judge disparaging another judge during her 2024 election campaign.
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6th Circ. Backs Ohio Judge's Firing Over Campaign Attack Ad
An Ohio magistrate judge who was fired after sharing campaign mailers attacking a fellow judge's work ethic may not pursue a freedom-of-speech suit against her supervisor and the court, a Sixth Circuit panel determined, finding that the election advertisements publicly undermined the court's policy decisions.
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WilmerHale Rehires Former Va. Solicitor General
WilmerHale has rehired Virginia's former solicitor general, who left the firm in 2022 to work in government, to lend his perspective on state attorneys general matters and appellate and government litigation, the firm announced Monday.
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Arnold & Porter Forms Team To Tackle Scrutiny By State AGs
With state attorneys general stepping up enforcement in a range of areas, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP has formed a task force to help clients navigate the heightened scrutiny, the firm announced Monday.
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Calif. Bar Charges Atty With Misconduct In LA Utility Case
The California State Bar has lobbed disciplinary charges against veteran plaintiffs attorney Paul Kiesel, accusing him of helping divert class action litigation against the city of Los Angeles over a botched utility billing system, allegations which he vigorously denied and slammed as "unfounded, misguided and fundamentally wrong."
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Calif. Mass Tort Firm Drops Suit Against ABS Fee-Sharing Ban
A California mass torts firm seeking to overturn the state's law banning alternative business structure fee sharing with out-of-state law firms owned by nonattorneys dropped its suit Thursday, three months after filing it.
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Fla. Legal Nonprofit Launches AI Tool To Bridge Justice Gap
As a way to help fill an access to justice gap, Florida nonprofit public interest law firm Bay Area Legal Services recently launched Bailey B., a free AI-powered legal assistant meant to help residents navigate landlord-tenant issues.
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Georgia Justice Reveals Cancer Diagnosis Amid Reelection Bid
The Georgia Supreme Court justice who is next in line to serve as chief justice and is seeking reelection announced this week that she has been diagnosed with "small, early-stage breast cancer," but plans to remain on the bench while undergoing treatment, the high court announced.
Expert Analysis
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter
Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?
Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?
Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.