Lawyers should not be barred outright from using artificial intelligence tools to prepare court documents, a New York court system advisory committee said in its annual report on Thursday.
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NY Courts Open To Attys Using AI To Prep Filings

By Andrea Keckley

Lawyers should not be barred outright from using artificial intelligence tools to prepare court documents, a New York court system advisory committee said in its annual report on Thursday.

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Bruce Fein Unauthorized To Represent Maduro, Atty Says

By Rachel Rippetoe

When constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein entered in appearance as counsel for former Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro on Tuesday, it was without having ever spoken to the client, according to a Thursday filing by Maduro's attorney Barry Pollack seeking to remove Fein from the case.

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How NY Atty Helped Win 12-Year Fight Over Hospital Pricing

By Daniel Connolly

When Matthew Cantor got involved in a sweeping antitrust case against California-based healthcare network Sutter Health, his youngest son was in the first grade. By the time the case settled in the fall, he was a sophomore in college. Here’s the story of how Cantor and his team kept fighting for more than a decade.

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Beveridge & Diamond Re-Elects Leader, Names Office Heads

By Lynn LaRowe

National environmental law firm Beveridge & Diamond PC has re-elected its current managing principal to a second term and chosen new office leaders for shops in Texas, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.

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Law Firms Closed 2025 With Continued 'Appetite For Hiring'

By Tracey Read

The legal sector continued to defy hiring expectations in spite of uncertainty in the U.S. economy as 2025 drew to a close.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed a ruling in which Apple beat claims it illegally blocked third-party access to Apple Watch medical data so it could create rival software.

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Comey, James Fight DOJ Push To Combine Dismissal Appeals

By Jack Karp

Former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James are pushing back against federal prosecutors' effort to consolidate their currently separate appeals of the beleaguered prosecutions against the pair at the Fourth Circuit.

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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

By Sarah Martinson

The legal industry kicked off the new year with a busy week filled with lateral moves, leadership changes, office openings and judicial nominations. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Beveridge & Diamond

Block & Leviton

Carmichael Ellis

Cleary Gottlieb

Cohen Milstein

Constantine Cannon

Cooley LLP

Farmer Brownstein

Gentry Locke

Gibson Dunn

Hach & Rose

Hach Rose Schirripa

Harris St. Laurent

King & Spalding

Kropf Moseley

Latham & Watkins

Lieff Cabraser

Lowell & Associates

Mehdi Firm

Meritz Reddy

Orrick Herrington

Shinder Cantor

Sidley Austin

Steyer Lowenthal

Wilson Sonsini

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alivecor Inc.

American Bar Association

American Enterprise Institute

Appian Corp.

Apple Inc.

Block Inc.

Cash App

Cogentrix Energy Power Management LLC

Hatch Henderson Fivel LLC

LinkedIn Corp.

NHK Spring

Optimum

Pegasystems Inc.

Sutter Health

United Food & Commercial Workers International Union

Vistra Corp.

WikiLeaks

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

National Security Agency

New York Attorney General's Office

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

Texas Supreme Court

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California