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Supreme Court Taps Latham Atty In Campaign Spending Case
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned to Latham & Watkins LLP's Roman Martinez to defend caps on coordinated campaign spending as amicus counsel in a case on tap for next term.
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Fla. Court Tosses NY Judge's Defamation Suit In Condo Feud
A Florida federal judge tossed a defamation suit between a senior federal judge in New York and former members of a condominium board where he owns a unit, saying neither party provided sufficient evidence of their claims stemming from a feud over renovations.
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The Sharpest Dissents From The Supreme Court Term
The term's sharpest dissents often looked beyond perceived flaws in majority reasoning to raise existential concerns about the role and future of the court, with the justices accusing one another of rewarding executive branch lawlessness, harming faith in the judiciary and threatening democracy, sometimes on an emergency basis with little briefing or explanation.
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Justices Face Busy Summer After Nixing Universal Injunctions
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to limit nationwide injunctions was one of its biggest rulings of the term 鈥� a finding the court is likely going to be dealing with all summer. Here, 极速赛车 takes a look at the decision, how it and other cases on the emergency docket overshadowed much of the court's other work, and what it all means for the months to come.
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Texas Rep. Must Tell Feds If He'll Blame Attys In Bribery Case
A Houston judge said Monday that U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife must disclose to federal prosecutors whether they plan to use an advice-of-counsel defense in their trial on bribery charges.
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Ga. Revenue Chief Picked To Head State's New Tax Court
Georgia's revenue commissioner was nominated by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday to serve as chief judge of the state's newly created tax court.
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Axing Lit Funding Tax Bid Relieves Industry But Fears Remain
Litigation funders are breathing a sigh of relief after a provision to impose a 41% punitive tax on the $16 billion industry was stripped Tuesday from the massive federal spending bill, but many think the episode is just the prelude to further battles with corporate opponents.
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US Attorney Picks Include Alina Habba And Senator's Son
The president sent 14 U.S. attorney nominations to the Senate on Tuesday, including Alina Habba, the president's former counselor and personal attorney, for the District of New Jersey and Arch Moore Capito, the son of Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W. Va., for the Southern District of West Virginia.
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Democracy Forward Boosts Appellate Bench With Latest Hires
The legal organization Democracy Forward announced a new round of hires Tuesday, adding a group that includes appellate practitioners with significant experience at the U.S. Department of Justice and major law firms.
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Senate Passes Budget Bill, Rebuking National Injunctions
The Senate voted 51-50聽on Tuesday to pass the budget reconciliation bill, including various provisions that seek to greatly restrict the use of nationwide injunctions, which Republicans聽heavily criticized after district courts repeatedly stalled parts of President Donald Trump's agenda with the legal maneuver.
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Trump Tariff Challenge Belongs In Trade Court, Groups Argue
The America First Legal Foundation and Coalition for a Prosperous America on Monday backed the federal government in an appeal brought by toy makers challenging President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs, arguing that the lower court should've never issued an injunction because the dispute belongs in the U.S. Court of International Trade.
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Philly-Area Law Firm's Bookkeeper Jailed For Embezzlement
The former bookkeeper at a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, law firm has been sentenced to one to two years of incarceration for embezzling more than $820,000 from the firm, state prosecutors announced Friday.
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Ex-Defender Tells 4th Circ. Bias Hearing Would've Been Futile
A former assistant public defender looking to revive her bias suit fought Monday to convince the Fourth Circuit that it would have been futile to wait for a final hearing on her sexual harassment claim through the judiciary's internal complaint process before quitting, citing in part her boss's alleged favoritism of the accused party.
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Ga. Judge Can't Quash Ethics Charges, Watchdog Panel Says
A Georgia superior court judge has lost her bid to quash the charges brought against her by the state's judicial watchdog, with the state's Judicial Qualifications Commission saying investigators' financial backing of one of her political opponents does not justify tossing the charges.
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Sotomayor Urges Tenn. To Address Jury Instruction Issue
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that聽Tennessee's high court should fix a logical knot that she says makes it impossible to get a verdict of voluntary manslaughter in the state, in a statement on Monday that came alongside the court's refusal to review a second-degree murder case centering on jury instructions.
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Trump Admin Appeals Perkins Coie Case To DC Circ.
The Trump administration announced in D.C. federal court on Monday that it's not giving up on its effort to punish Perkins Coie LLP through an executive order, even after losing four court rulings that found its actions in this and three similar cases are unconstitutional.
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Data Brokers Can't Escape NJ Judicial Privacy Law Actions
Data security company Atlas Data Privacy Corp. has won the go-ahead to proceed with dozens of lawsuits based on the judicial privacy measure Daniel's Law against a group of data brokers in New Jersey federal court.
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NJ Senate Confirms 17 New Superior Court Judges
The New Jersey Senate approved a slate of new judges for the state trial court on Monday, confirming partners from firms around the state as well as in-house attorneys for Rutgers and the state Legislature.
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Tillis Doesn't Plan Roadblocks On Judiciary Nominations
Following his announcement on Sunday that he won't be seeking reelection, Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who previously sank President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told 极速赛车 on Monday that his approach to judiciary nominations won't change.
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Judge Hits Pause On Civil RICO Suit Against NJ Power Broker
A New Jersey judge has entered a consent order pausing a real estate developer's civil racketeering suit against influential South Jersey businessman George Norcross III, holding the parties' dispute in stasis until an appeal over the dismissal of a related criminal indictment can be resolved.
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Baker McKenzie Hires Consumer Protection Prosecutor In DC
An 18-year veteran of the U.S. Department of Justice's Consumer Protection branch has left the agency to join Baker McKenzie LLP's Washington, D.C., office, where he'll work with a former colleague who was recently named leader of the practice group he is now joining, the firm announced Monday.
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Justices To Resolve Split On Supervised Release Fugitives
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments in a case poised to resolve a sharp circuit split over whether the "fugitive tolling" doctrine barring criminal defendants from earning credits to reduce prison sentences while they are not behind bars also should apply to defendants who abscond from supervised release.
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Ex-Ohio Speaker Calls 6th Circ. Bribery Ruling A 'Stretch'
Former Ohio House of Representatives Speaker Larry Householder urged the Sixth Circuit to rethink its decision to stand by his bribery conviction over the FirstEnergy nuclear bailout scandal that got him 20 years in prison, arguing the panel made "an illegal stretch" in assuming the jurors undertook proper analysis despite allegedly improper instructions.
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Justices To Review Persecution Standard In Immigration Appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to look at whether the First Circuit was right to give deference to the Board of Immigration Appeals' conclusion that a Salvadoran family failed to show it suffered persecution back home and is therefore ineligible for asylum.
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High Court To Hear Fight Over Investment Fund Suits
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday聽agreed to hear a case that could limit the ability of private parties to assert contract violations against investment funds, with one activist investor accusing several closed-end funds of shutting it out of its voting rights.
Expert Analysis
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Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Juggle Billables And Other Activities?
While involvement in internal firm initiatives can be rewarding both personally and professionally, associates' billable time requirements don鈥檛 leave much room for other work, meaning they must develop strategies to ensure they鈥檙e meeting all of their commitments while remaining balanced, says Melanie Webber at Fisher Phillips.
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Making Legal Cents: How To Adapt As Clients Tighten Budgets
Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.
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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 鈥� 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 鈥� 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 鈥� 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 鈥� even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.