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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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1st Circ. Upholds Block On Trump Admin NIH Funding Cuts

By Hailey Konnath

The First Circuit on Monday affirmed a Massachusetts federal judge's order permanently blocking the Trump administration from gutting National Institutes of Health funding for biomedical research, agreeing that the government didn't have the authority to cap indirect costs for research grants.

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Analysis

4 Mass. Rulings You May Have Missed In December

By Julie Manganis

Insurers seeking to cap their losses in a serious construction accident and a fintech startup offering what the state says are illegal mortgages were on the losing side in December, but two other companies defeated proposed consumer class actions in Suffolk County Superior Court's business litigation session. Here are four notable rulings you may have missed last month.

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Mass. High Court Allows Delayed Cell Data In Murder Case

By Parker Quinlan

Massachusetts' highest court on Monday upheld the murder conviction of a man who allegedly drove a getaway vehicle during a 2018 Fourth of July drive-by shooting, finding that cellphone data recovered from a warrantless search of his phone could be admitted into evidence.

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Fed. Circ. Examines Timing Of $452M Trade Secrets Suit

By Ivan Moreno

A Federal Circuit panel delved into the statute of limitations for trade secrets cases Monday, pressing an attorney for a South Korean company seeking to reverse a verdict that prompted a $452 million jury award to explain why the clock should start when a plaintiff suspects misappropriation rather than when it is actually discovered.

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Brief

Insurer Says AAA Flouting Exclusivity Pact In Mass.

By Julie Manganis

Massachusetts insurer MAPFRE has alleged in a state court complaint that AAA Northeast is violating a joint marketing agreement valued at more than $200 million a year in order to sell its own affiliated insurance product.

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Cancer Biotech Co. Eyes $182M IPO

By Grace Dixon

A company developing new drugs for treating cancer disclosed Monday it is looking to raise roughly $182 million in an initial public offering guided by Paul Hastings LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, teeing it up for the first major IPO of 2026.

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MoFo US Offices Lead 2026 Partner Promotions

By James Boyle

More than a dozen attorneys at Morrison Foerster LLP have started the new year with new titles following the firm's Monday announcement of its partner promotions for 2026.

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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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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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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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