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Va. US Atty Quits Amid Trump's 'Blue-Slip' Removal Bid
Erik Siebert on Friday resigned as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, just hours after President Donald Trump pondered ousting him from the position because Siebert received blue-slip approval from the commonwealth's two Democratic senators, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, according to media reports.
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Nevada Trust Accuses Texas Firms Of $9M Crypto Scheme
A Nevada-based trustee accused a Texas law firm and various other companies and residents of the Lone Star State, Wyoming and Florida of carrying out an "audacious, multi-layered scheme" to steal $9 million meant to be used for Bitcoin trades.
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NC Atty Charged With Embezzlement, Elder Fund Exploitation
A North Carolina attorney is facing 14 charges of embezzlement related to funds he allegedly rerouted to personal accounts that belonged to both his former law firm Walker Kiger PLLC and former clients.
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Bankruptcy Firm Fined, Banned For 3 Years Over Disclosures
A Michigan bankruptcy judge has hit Recovery Law Group, a national consumer bankruptcy law firm, with a fine of about $392,000 and a three-year ban on bringing insolvency cases in the Eastern District of Michigan, finding it violated fee disclosure requirements in 220 cases.
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Lawmakers' Exit Puts Court, Judicial Security Funds In Limbo
Congress left for recess Friday afternoon after the Senate failed to pass a stopgap spending measure that includes funds for judicial security and the courts.
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McCarter & English Expands In Philly With Ex-Federal Atty
A former assistant U.S. attorney has recently left the public sector and returned to private practice as a litigator with McCarter & English LLP's Philadelphia office.
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Calif. Bar Escapes Class Claims Over Girardi Case
A Los Angeles judge has dismissed a proposed class action brought against the State Bar of California accusing the agency and its former leadership of mishandling its investigation into former celebrity attorney Tom Girardi, who was convicted of swindling clients, after plaintiffs seemingly abandoned the case.
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LA Atty Rallies 'Speak Up' Coalition To Defend Rule Of Law
When a panel of state judges come together next week to discuss the increasing threats against them and the independence of the judiciary, it will be the latest in a string of events organized by a longtime plaintiffs attorney taking on the role of defender of judges and the legal system itself.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the last official week of summer with attorneys taking on new roles at law departments and firms across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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SouthBank Legal Adds DOJ Tax Appeals Leader In DC
The former chief of the Appellate Section of the U.S. Department of Justice's Tax Division has left the agency after 22½ years to join the Washington office of SouthBank Legal, which opened in 2021 with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's husband at the helm.
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Fla. Bar Must Conduct Bondi Ethics Probe, State Justices Told
An attorney has doubled down on his attempt to force the Florida Bar into investigating U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for alleged unethical conduct, arguing to the state Supreme Court that the bar has a clear legal duty to do so.
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Fla. Judge's Resignation Ends 'Dad Jokes' Ethics Case
The Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission has tossed an ethics case targeting a former state court judge over "dad joke" remarks that discipline authorities referred to as "grossly inappropriate," saying the judge's subsequent departure from the bench justifies the dismissal.
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Former Immigration Judge's Bias Suit Gets Trimmed In Fla.
A Florida federal judge has trimmed multiple counts from a former immigration judge's discrimination lawsuit, finding that she failed to back up her bias claims.
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Trump Asks High Court To Lift Block On Trans Passport Ban
The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to lift a nationwide order requiring the U.S. Department of State to issue passports to transgender and nonbinary individuals that reflect their gender identity, arguing the mandate wrongly compels the government to express speech it disagrees with.
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Calif. Bar Taps Judicial Council Pro For Director Role
The State Bar of California has announced the selection of a longtime statewide courts administrator as its new executive director, following the departure of its prior leader amid the fallout from the bungled administration of the February 2025 bar exam.
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Trump's Georgia Case: Legal Experts On What Happens Next
The 2020 Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and his co-defendants may be both "dead" and costly for taxpayers, legal experts told Law360, citing the expected reluctance of most prosecutors to take over the litigation and a new state law that allows criminal defendants to recover legal fees in certain circumstances.
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Ex-La. Prosecutor Convicted In Pretrial Program Bribery Case
A former Lafayette assistant district attorney was convicted Thursday in Louisiana federal court of bribery and other charges for conspiring to solicit kickbacks and accept bribes while overseeing the 15th Judicial District Attorney's Office's pretrial intervention program, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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DC Judge Included In Senate's Bloc Confirmation
A judge for the Superior Court of Washington, D.C., was confirmed on Thursday as part of the en bloc confirmation of 48 nominees to various positions following Republicans voting in favor of changing the rules.
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Senate Confirms Squires To Lead USPTO
The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Dilworth Paxson LLP partner John Squires to serve as the next U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director.
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Calif. County Deputy DA Loses Free Speech Retaliation Suit
A California federal judge has tossed a retaliation suit from a former Santa Clara County, California, deputy district attorney.
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Ex-Trump Atty Says Fla. Discipline Case Is Over 'Void' Charges
Former Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro told the Supreme Court of Florida this week to reject a push to discipline him over his conviction in Georgia's election interference racketeering case, arguing his name was cleared by a court order invalidating the charge to which he pled guilty.
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State Courts Group Outlines Guide For Reaching AI Maturity
State court administrators should spend adequate time assessing how ready they are to introduce artificial intelligence and carefully choose their first implementation project, according to leaders with the National Center for State Courts.
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Atty Apologizes For Bribery Accusation In Defamation Case
A former Holland & Knight LLP partner has formally apologized for communicating with his ex-wife, less than a week after his text to her — suggesting a Philadelphia federal judge had taken a bribe while presiding over a personal injury firm's lawsuit — prompted the judge to stay the case.
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Dems Demand Even More Funds For Courts, Judicial Security
An alternative continuing resolution unveiled by the Democrats in the House and Senate on Wednesday evening includes more funding for judicial security and the courts than the Republicans' version, but it's unlikely it will be adopted as is.
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Florida Judge Accused Of Making Improper Political Donations
A Florida state judge who donated almost $30,000 in more than 900 total contributions to political organizations — thereby becoming the "most prolific offender" of the rule barring judges from making those types of donations — may receive a public reprimand for her actions.
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.