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Meta's In-House Legal Moves Blur Line Between Risk, Error
Ahead of the company's $17 billion settlement over claims its content harmed children, Meta's in-house lawyers drew criticism from a federal judge last week over their handling of privilege claims and damaging internal research. But attorneys and academics differ over whether the moves reflect legal missteps or defensible efforts to manage litigation risk.
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Ex-Judge To Guide Fund Wind-Down In Elliott-Stronghold Row
A Delaware vice chancellor has appointed former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher S. Sontchi as a special magistrate to oversee the wind-down of an oil and gas investment fund at the center of litigation between Elliott Investment Management LP and Stronghold Resource Partners.
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Combies Hanson Accused Of Missing 2-Year Lawsuit Window
Massachusetts personal injury firm Combies Hanson PC has been accused of missing Connecticut's two-year statute of limitations when filing an underlying lawsuit against Delta Air Lines on behalf of a man who alleges he was injured by an airplane's beverage cart.
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Sullivan & Cromwell Hires Ex-DOJ Antitrust Atty In DC
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has hired a former Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP partner who focuses on antitrust issues and spent three and a half years in the Justice Department, the firm said Monday.
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Eve Legal Says AI.Law Doc Drafting Patent Is Invalid
California legal tech company Eve Legal wants out of a patent lawsuit brought by Ohio-based rival AI.Law, telling a San Francisco federal judge that the patent is insufficient, covering little more than using ordinary artificial intelligence tools to draft legal documents.
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Vartabedian Katz Adds McKool Smith Litigation Trio In Dallas
Vartabedian Katz Hester & Haynes LLP has bolstered its commercial litigation practice and gained a new intellectual property practice with the additions of three former McKool Smith lawyers in Dallas.
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Linklaters Welcomes J&J Litigation VP In New York
Linklaters LLP announced on Tuesday that Johnson & Johnson's vice president of litigation has joined its ranks in New York, touting his experience "leading the company through some of its most significant and complex legal challenges, including the litigation and resolution of one of the largest and most consequential mass torts in U.S. history."
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Fla. Bar Seeks Protective Order Against Suspended Atty
The Florida Bar has asked the state's highest court for a protective order to "substantially" limit a suspended lawyer's "unduly burdensome" and "excessive" initial request for production of documents in a protracted disciplinary proceeding.
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5th Circ. Judge Hints Court Order With AI Errors Can't Stand
A Fifth Circuit judge wanted to know why a panel should keep intact a court order blocking an anti-DEI Mississippi law that contained artificial intelligence hallucinations, asking whether the judges could confidently find that made-up citations did not ultimately sway the district court's decision.
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Judge Albright Joins A&O Shearman In Austin
Former U.S. District Judge Alan Albright has returned to private practice, joining Allen Overy Shearman Sterling as a partner in its intellectual property litigation team in Austin, Texas, the firm said Tuesday.
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9th Circ. Won't Rehear Eye Drop Antitrust Suit Despite Dissent
A forceful dissent from a pair of Ninth Circuit judges wasn't enough to keep the full appellate court from letting stand a panel decision preserving wholesalers' district court win accusing the maker of Clear Eyes drops of illegal price discrimination favoring Costco.
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Jones Day Vet Returns After 'Intense' Run In High DOJ Post
An appellate attorney who fought some of the second Trump administration's biggest legal battles — involving immigration, the environment, spending conditions and more — is rejoining Jones Day after more than a year in the U.S. Department of Justice's top ranks, the firm announced Monday.
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How Did Litigants Fare In Judge Albright's 55 Patent Trials?
U.S. District Judge Alan Albright oversaw more than 50 patent trials between his 2018 arrival on the bench and planned Monday departure, and in a surprise for many attorneys, there was a near-even split between victories for patent owners and accused infringers.
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Whistleblower Atty Award Cut To $5.4M After 9th Circ. Remand
A California federal judge cut fees and expenses to $5.4 million for attorneys representing a whistleblower in her suit against Academy Mortgage Corp., after a Ninth Circuit remand deemed the previously awarded $8.6 million to be too high.
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Ex-Broncos Player Says Attys Flubbed Indecent Exposure Case
A former professional football player is accusing his former attorneys of malpractice, claiming they ended his career by pressuring him into pleading guilty to crimes that labeled him a sex offender, restricted his travel and prevented him from contacting his younger brother and nieces, in a suit filed in Colorado state court.
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Quinn Emanuel Scoops Up Antitrust Pro From Kirkland In DC
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP announced on Monday it has welcomed a Kirkland & Ellis LLP antitrust star with a storied background trying cases involving novel legal issues and representing major clients like UnitedHealth.
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Ramey Wants Full Fed. Circ. To Reconsider $207K Sanctions
William Ramey of Ramey LLP has urged the full Federal Circuit to review his liability for more than $207,000 in sanctions in a client's patent infringement suit against Volkswagen, arguing that his notices of appeal were faulty but still adequately identified him as a party.
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Ex-Blanche, Bondi Aide To Join Boies Schiller In DC
A former chief of staff at the U.S. Attorney General's Office for both Todd Blanche and Pam Bondi is joining Boies Schiller Flexner as a partner in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Monday.
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Ex-Clifford Chance Attys Fight Bid To Toss Clawback Suit
The two partners facing a $6 million clawback demand by Clifford Chance LLP have again asked a federal judge to decide whether English or New York law should govern the arbitration, claiming the firm's partnership agreement is unclear.
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Washington Litigation Group Makes Another High-Profile Hire
Washington Litigation Group, a D.C.-based boutique firm that says it aims to protect the rule of law, announced another high-profile hire on Monday, bringing on an attorney who argued Trump v. Slaughter, the U.S. Supreme Court case that addressed the constitutionality of independent agencies.
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New Report Rings Alarm On Threats To Judicial Independence
Verbal attacks on judges, disinformation about the courts and the defiance of court orders are undermining the independence of the federal judiciary and significantly affecting individual judges' ability to do their jobs, a report out Monday says.
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Meyer Unkovic Discovery Bid Partly Granted
A Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge partly granted Meyer Unkovic & Scott LLP's bid for discovery in a malpractice suit over a $3.3 million default judgment that was later thrown out, ruling the firm can obtain documents about defenses raised in the underlying landlord-tenant case.
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NJ Legal Malpractice Suit Revived Over Expert Rulings
A New Jersey state appellate court on Monday revived a legal malpractice suit over an underlying medical malpractice action, saying a trial court was wrong to exclude the plaintiffs' legal expert and subsequently dismiss the case for lack of expert testimony.
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Law Firm's Calif. Claims Stayed Over AI Comms Co.'s NY Suit
A California federal judge ruled that AI communications company Connex One cannot escape claims brought by a personal injury law firm alleging it faced harassment and threats of litigation after it declined to renew their contract, saying the case will be stayed until a New York lawsuit brought by Connex against the firm runs its course.
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'Kentucky Hammer' Pushes To Duck Antitrust Suit
A Kentucky personal injury firm led by litigator Darryl "The Hammer" Isaacs is looking to duck an antitrust suit filed by a former firm lawyer, arguing the suit fails to state a plausible claim for any allegations leveled against it.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.
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5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent
Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.