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Washington State, DC District Court Picks Secure Seats
The Senate on Wednesday voted 50-48 to confirm Washington Court of Appeals Judge Rebecca L. Pennell to the Eastern District of Washington and 50-49 to confirm Amir Ali, former president and executive director of the MacArthur Justice Center and co-director of the Criminal Justice Appellate Clinic at Harvard Law School, to the District of Columbia.
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Fla. Judge Can't Get Free Speech Ruling In Ethics Case
A hearing panel chair for the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission on Wednesday denied a state judge's attempt to prevent authorities from presenting evidence or argument that her "philosophical beliefs" violated judicial ethics guidelines because she improperly used a particular kind of motion.
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Georgia Justices Won't Consider DA's Bid To Escape Suit
A Georgia district attorney being sued over her policy to not prosecute low-level marijuana possession can't dodge the suit after the state's supreme court refused to take on the case, marking the latest blow to the DA who lost her reelection bid this month.
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NJ Courts Allow Fees For Retired Judges In Housing ADR
The New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts has revised ethical rules this week to allow retired state judges to collect fees for doing alternative dispute resolution work relating to the state's Fair Housing Act.
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Calif. Judicial Nominee Asked About Race, Parenting Writings
A California judicial nominee's previous writing about the murder of George Floyd in 2020, which sparked a national reckoning on race, was the subject of debate during a Senate nomination hearing on Wednesday.
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Fla. Judges May Create Nonprofits To Improve Legal System
Sunshine State judges may form nonprofit, nonpartisan organizations with a focus on improving the legal system, the state's judicial ethics watchdog has found, also clearing the way for judges to serve as board members of these nonprofit groups.
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Trump Wants 'Immediate Dismissal' Of NY Hush Money Case
President-elect Donald Trump's legal team told the New York judge who presided over his hush money trial that his conviction should be thrown out due to his "overwhelming victory" at the polls, according to a filing released Wednesday.
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'Blackballed' Bailiff Who Reported Jury Tampering Loses Suit
A Texas appeals court on Tuesday tossed a former courtroom bailiff's suit alleging Brazoria County "blackballed" him for reporting several instances of a clerk's jury tampering, saying the county had no control over the state-elected judge who stopped assigning him as a bailiff.
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Senate Confirms 5th Lame-Duck Judge
The Senate voted 50-44 on Tuesday evening to confirm Sarah French Russell, law professor and director of the Legal Clinic at Quinnipiac University School of Law, to become a judge in the District of Connecticut.
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Ex-US Attorneys See Risks In Working Under Gaetz
Some prospective U.S. attorneys may think twice about joining the U.S. Department of Justice if Matt Gaetz ends up in charge, veterans of the position told Law360.
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Recount Underway In Tight NC Supreme Court Race
The votes for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat that Democratic incumbent Justice Allison Riggs has clinched by a narrow margin will be recounted starting Wednesday, at the behest of her Republican opponent, according to the state Board of Elections.
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Feds Ordered To Delete Combs Notes From Raid, For Now
A Manhattan federal judge directed prosecutors Tuesday to temporarily delete potentially privileged notes recovered from the jail cell of Sean "Diddy" Combs pending briefing, after lawyers for the hip-hop mogul called the seizure "outrageous."
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Calif. Judges Get 'Road Map' For Recall, Election Comments
A California Supreme Court committee on Tuesday laid out a "road map" for judges to make comments during an election or recall with respect to decisions that come under fire, saying they must follow ethics rules with such remarks.
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Ballard Spahr Brings On Former Federal Prosecutor In LA
Ballard Spahr LLP is expanding its consumer finance services team, announcing Tuesday that a former assistant U.S. attorney is joining its Los Angeles office as of counsel.
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In 'Perplexing' Move, Ga. Appeals Court Cuts Trump Oral Args
Attorneys described the Georgia Court of Appeals' decision this week to cancel oral arguments over whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified from the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants as "perplexing," saying it may be the result of Trump's recent reelection or simply having enough information already to make a decision.
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NY Judge Rejects Ozy Media CEO's DQ Bid Over Investments
U.S. District Judge Eric R. Komitee of New York's Eastern District on Tuesday refused to step aside from former Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson's fraud and identity theft case, slamming as meritless Watson's effort to undo his convictions over the judge's financial investments.
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Former Georgia Judge's Law License Suspended After Ouster
After removing a Georgia Court of Appeals judge from the bench last year, the Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended his law license until August 2025 for taking advantage of an elderly client, calling it "an appropriate sanction in this case" in light of case law and the State Bar of Georgia's support of the suspension.
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Ex-NJ Prosecutor Seeks To Revive Claims Over Resignation
A former Garden State county prosecutor has asked a state court to rethink its dismissal of his claim that his resignation was involuntary, arguing the court only partially addressed one of the two legal theories raised.
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Senate Confirms Oregon Judge Following Many GOP Hurdles
The Senate voted 51-44 on Tuesday to confirm Magistrate Judge Mustafa Taher Kasubhai to the District of Oregon following hours of Republicans' delay tactics the night before.
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Trellis CEO On Leaving Law And Starting Legal Tech Co.
Legal analytics company Trellis on Tuesday launched a generative artificial intelligence platform that can draft arguments and provide case assessments. Here, Trellis co-founder and CEO Nicole Clark spoke with Law360 Pulse about how she pivoted from law to legal tech, and how generative AI is accelerating her company's vision.
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DA Says Trump Sentencing Could Be Delayed Until 2029
Manhattan prosecutors on Tuesday suggested that President-elect Donald Trump's criminal sentencing could be delayed until after he serves out his next term, but urged a judge not to throw out his conviction over an alleged hush money scheme.
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Ohio Officials Want Out Of Justice's Partisan Label Rule Suit
Two of Ohio's top ethics officials and the chief justice of the state's intermediate appellate court urged a federal judge to let them out of Ohio Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Brunner's challenge to a law requiring judicial candidates to list their political party affiliations on general election ballots.
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Diddy Calls DOJ's Possession Of His Notes 'Outrageous'
Sean "Diddy" Combs said Monday that federal prosecutors are in possession of privileged attorney-client materials, including his own written notes, which they're "actively" using to detain him ahead of his trial, a move the hip-hop mogul called "outrageous government conduct."
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Senate Confirms Fla. Magistrate Judge To 11th Circ.
The Senate voted 49-45 on Monday to confirm U.S. Magistrate Judge Embry J. Kidd of the Middle District of Florida to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
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Menendez Calls Trial Evidence Flub 'Deeply Troubling'
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez raised red flags Monday about "deeply troubling" recent revelations that Manhattan federal jurors accidentally received unredacted text messages before convicting him of bribery, slamming prosecutors for trying to brush aside the significance of this evidence.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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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.