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Daily Litigation
Jan. 6 Atty Says Ex-Prosecutor's Tweet Is 'Insidious Lie'Stefan Passantino, a former Trump administration attorney who represented former aide Cassidy Hutchinson during the House select committee's investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection, on Friday accused former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann of defamation for posting a tweet claiming Passantino coached Hutchinson to lie during her congressional testimony.
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Daily Litigation
Gibson Dunn Fees Halved In NY Eviction Law DisputeAttorneys from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP can recover $385,000 in fees for successfully blocking a pandemic-era anti-eviction law on behalf of New York landlords, after a federal judge rejected arguments that they should not be paid at all, but found their initial request of $735,000 "unreasonably excessive."
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California Pulse
Frost Brown Reelects Chairman, CEO For Another TermFrost Brown Todd LLC is betting on the same leadership to guide the firm over the next three years that in previous terms shepherded it through a pandemic, added offices, and sealed a merger that made its footprint national.
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Legal Tech
Here's An Analogy For AI Legal Ethics: OutsourcingSpeakers at a Federal Bar Association panel Friday offered a metaphor to describe the use of new artificial intelligence tools in legal work — it's much like outsourcing legal work to humans.
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California Pulse
Law360's Legal Lions Of The WeekStone Hilton PLLC, The Buzbee Law Firm, Cogdell Law Firm and Scheef & Stone LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions after they worked to unhook Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from impeachment allegations.
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Courts
Texas AG Paxton's Troubles Endure After Impeachment WinTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton is back on the job after being cleared by the Texas Senate at his impeachment trial over his ties to real estate investor Nate Paul. Yet the embattled politician's legal troubles are far from over.
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Legal Tech
Legal Tech Roundup: Paxton AI Secures $6M Seed RoundAnother legal generative artificial intelligence startup emerged with new funding this week.
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California Pulse
With Senior Status, Judge Wu Takes Legendary Mom's AdviceU.S. District Judge George Wu is not just a powerhouse of California's Central District, but also the son of famed Hollywood restaurant owner Sylvia Wu, a legendary entrepreneur whose advice he took when he recently made the decision to take senior status on the bench.
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In-House
Texas Judge Won't Block Biden Admin's ESG Investing RuleA Texas federal judge Thursday refused to block a rule allowing retirement advisers to consider issues such as climate change and social justice when choosing investments, holding that the rule does not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
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Courts
5th Circ. Scraps $125M Ruling Over Judge-Atty FriendshipThe Fifth Circuit on Thursday vacated a $124.5 million award to the tenant of a Lake Charles, Louisiana, seaport in its yearslong contract fight with the port, finding that allegations the magistrate judge never disclosed her longtime friendship with the seaport's counsel raise "serious doubts" about the port's consent for the jurist to hear the case.
