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His Client Got A Pro Se Suit. Then The AI Filings Started.

By Chris Villani

Employment attorneys say the increased use of AI by pro se plaintiffs has the potential to clog dockets, drag out cases and make litigation significantly more expensive.

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Wis. Judge Resigns After Conviction In ICE Arrest Case

By Jack Karp

A Wisconsin state judge has resigned from the bench after being convicted of felony obstruction for helping an unauthorized immigrant in her court evade arrest by federal immigration officers, the Wisconsin Assembly speaker confirmed to Law360 Monday.

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Quinn Emanuel Contempt In $600M Row Probed By Fed. Circ.

By Ryan Davis

A contempt finding against Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP that contributed to a more than $600 million patent judgment against the firm's former client NortonLifeLock was scrutinized by a Federal Circuit panel on Monday, with one judge saying the order appeared to be invalid.

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Feds Fight To Keep Goldstein 'Sham Employee' Evidence

By Cara Salvatore

Federal prosecutors heading to trial against former SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein are urging a judge to deny his bid to prevent a jury from hearing about four love interests allegedly paid as no-show employees at his former law firm.

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McGuireWoods Atty Fined Over Citation Errors In BoA Suit

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge has slapped a McGuireWoods LLP attorney with a $1,500 fine for using incorrect citations in a brief lodged in a recently dismissed mortgage suit against Bank of America.

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Atty Convicted Over Threats Storms Out Of Discipline Hearing

By Matthew Santoni

A Pennsylvania attorney jailed for threatening state disciplinary officials abruptly left a virtual disciplinary hearing on Monday after he unsuccessfully objected to an alleged victim remaining in the case as both a lawyer and a witness, then got into a shouting match with the hearing board.

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Ga. Justices OK Voluntary Suspension Of Ex-County Solicitor

By Emily Sawicki

The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday approved a voluntary 12-month suspension of a former county solicitor who admitted to stealing taxpayer dollars, with the suspension period backdated to begin June 2025, when the attorney voluntarily ceased practicing.

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Legal Asst., Law Firm Drop Claims In NM Pregnancy Bias Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A New Mexico-based personal injury law firm and a legal assistant agreed to drop retaliation and defamation claims in her lawsuit alleging she was forced to resign after disclosing her pregnancy, according to a federal magistrate judge's order filed in federal court.

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Ex-Seton Hall Prez Denies Leaking Info, Wants Suit Tossed

By Jake Maher

Seton Hall University's former president has moved to dismiss a suit from the school claiming that he leaked damaging information about his successor after he left the role, arguing that he never leaked anything and that the information in question is not confidential.

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Legatum Exec Keeps $8M Libel Verdict Against Investigator

By Jonathan Capriel

A private investigator can't escape an $8 million jury verdict on claims he and his company defamed a businessman by disseminating a bogus background report falsely stating the executive was a Russian asset, a D.C. federal court ruled, saying the defendants' "newly discovered evidence" is not important.

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Uber Sex Assault MDL Judge Won't Delay Bellwether Trial

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge on Monday denied Uber's request to postpone the first of some 20 bellwether trials in multidistrict litigation over passenger sexual assaults despite the company's assertion that the jury pool will be tainted by what it said was a plaintiffs' counsel advocacy group commercial saying Uber refused to make safety improvements.

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Town Must Reveal Atty Behind Email 'Threat,' NJ Justices Told

By George Woolston

A New Jersey attorney told New Jersey Supreme Court justices on Monday that when a public official discloses the substance of an email providing collegial legal advice in open court, the identity of the sender must also be disclosed under state's public records laws.

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Aviation Co. Wants Rosen To Pay For 'Abusive' Legal Tactics

By Jessica Corso

An aerospace company that successfully defeated a securities fraud suit is now seeking to recoup $580,000 in legal fees from Rosen Law Firm PA as punishment for its alleged "abusive tactics" in pursuing the litigation.

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Tribe Seeks $662K Atty Fees After RICO Win Over Pot Shop

By Jonathan Capriel

After successfully winning its RICO trial but securing an underwhelming monetary award, the Cayuga Nation urged a New York federal court to force the retailers who operated an illicit smoke shop on tribal land to cover the costs of the nation's legal fees.

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Forum Clause Keeps Holtec Consultant's Suit In Ohio

By Matthew Santoni

Energy technology company Holtec International can't dismiss or move a former consultant's federal lawsuit from Ohio to New Jersey, after a judge ruled Monday that the doctrine of "forum non conveniens" generally doesn't apply to choosing between states, and the parties' contract had a valid forum selection clause choosing Ohio.

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'Get Over' Yourself, Ho Says To Judges' Independence Worry

By Lauren Berg

U.S. Circuit Judge James C. Ho snapped back at colleagues on the bench who have raised the alarm over threats to judicial independence, writing in an article that those complaining judges "need to get over themselves" and stop bowing to the "cultural elites" who oppose the Trump administration.

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Trump Announces First Judicial Picks Of 2026

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday evening his first judicial nominees of 2026, a slate of four district court picks for Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana.

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Halligan Ordered To Explain Why She's Still Listed As US Atty

By Hailey Konnath

A Virginia federal judge Tuesday ordered Lindsey Halligan to explain why she was still identifying herself as a U.S. attorney despite another judge's order finding that the former insurance lawyer hadn't been properly appointed and was serving illegally on an interim basis.

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Judgeship Nomination Not Renewed Amid Fla. Charity Probe

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of John Guard, senior counselor to the attorney general of Florida, for a Middle District of Florida federal judgeship, has not been renewed for the new session of Congress after he came under scrutiny in a criminal probe regarding a charity connected to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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Atty Apologizes For ChatGPT-Hallucinated Citations In Briefs

By Elliot Weld

A patent attorney has apologized to a Kansas federal judge for submitting a court filing with case citations hallucinated by ChatGPT, calling the experience "shameful and embarrassing" and saying he was in a poor mental state at the time due to his mother and aunt being hospitalized and dying shortly after.

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Texas Justices Erase ABA Approval In Bar Admissions

By Lynn LaRowe

The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an order ending a longstanding rule requiring graduation from a law school approved by the American Bar Association for admittance to the state bar, with the court giving itself the authority for accreditation.

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WH Says Judge Can't Pursue Immigration Contempt Probe

By Jared Foretek

The Trump administration has once again told the D.C. Circuit that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg lacks the constitutional authority to open a contempt probe into the government's removal of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants against his emergency order in March, calling the investigation an "unprecedented criminal fact-finding inquisition."

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Judiciary Advisers Predict Clashes Over AI, Remote Testimony

By Jeff Overley

The federal judiciary's policy advisers appeared divided Tuesday over efforts to align procedural rules with digital age technology and preferences, and they predicted a torrent of impassioned input if they open up their delicate internal debates to the entire public.

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Girardi Keese CFO Must Use His Own Atty For Chicago Appeal

By Lauraann Wood

Girardi Keese's former financial chief cannot have counsel appointed to help him challenge the Illinois sentence he is serving alongside his 10-year California sentence for helping Tom Girardi steal millions from clients because he isn't pursuing the appeal in good faith, an Illinois federal judge has ruled.

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National Judicial College Names Idaho Law Dean As President

By Jake Maher

The National Judicial College has named a new president and chief executive officer, selecting the dean of the University of Idaho College of Law to become the first woman to hold the position.

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