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Ex-Top DOJ Atty In Law Firm EO Appeal Joins Holtzman Vogel
Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC has brought on a former U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor who recently argued the Trump administration's appeal to revive executive orders targeting four law firms, the firm announced Monday.
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Justices To Probe Habeas Route In Latest First Step Act Case
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to resolve a circuit split over whether prisoners may seek early release under the First Step Act through habeas petitions, taking up the appeal of a former Texas lawyer who was convicted in a Mafia takeover scheme of a mortgage loan company.
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M&A Atty, Others Deny Roles In BigLaw Insider Trading Ring
Fifteen defendants, including an ex-Goodwin Procter LLP associate, pled not guilty Monday to participating in an insider trading scheme involving confidential deal information stolen from some of the largest U.S. law firms.
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NJ US Atty Appoints Longtime Prosecutor As 1st Assistant
New Jersey's top federal prosecutor said Monday that he has named the office's national security chief as his second-in-command.
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As Judicial AI Use Gains Steam, Training Lags
Court systems around the country are emerging bullish on the use of generative artificial intelligence by judicial officers, but implementation, training, resources and overall regulations remain scattershot, giving rise to concerns that a learning gap could lead to missteps.
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Fla. Judge Again Loses Bid To Dismiss Ethics Charges
A Florida judicial panel has for a second time denied a Florida appellate judge's bid to dismiss an ethics case accusing her of attempting to influence lower court proceedings for an incarcerated man formerly on death row.
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New NY State Bar President Talks Advocacy, AI And More
Attorney Taa Grays speaks about her goals and concerns for the legal industry as she becomes the first Black woman president of the New York State Bar Association on June 1.
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Justices Won't Eye Burden Of Notice For Immigration Hearings
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it won't review a Ninth Circuit decision requiring the federal government to take additional steps to notify noncitizens of immigration hearing dates when their original notices initiating removal proceedings return unread in the mail.
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Trump Urges 3rd Circ. To Reverse 'Bizarre' Anti-SLAPP Loss
President Donald Trump urged the Third Circuit on Thursday to find a Pennsylvania anti-SLAPP statute shields him from the Central Park Five's defamation claims, slamming the lower court's "truly bizarre" ruling in an opening brief filed the same day a DLA Piper partner and others joined Trump's defense team.
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Calif. Panel Reverses Order For Citing Atty's Bogus Case Law
A California appellate panel on Thursday reversed a judgment in favor of a man accused of abusing his son, finding that "without doubt" the trial judge abused her discretion by incorporating the man's bogus legal citations into her ruling, despite being alerted to the mistakes in advance.
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NC Prosecutors Oppose Criminal Contempt For Witness
A woman who was allegedly punched in the face by an attorney should not have been held in criminal contempt for giving too much hearsay testimony, North Carolina prosecutors told a state appeals court.
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Akin Gump Owes Fees For Winebow's 'Self-Indulgent' Appeal
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday ordered an importer's Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys to pay a European winemaker fees for having to defend against the importer's "spurious objections" to the winemaker's valid arbitral award, ruling that the importer's "self-indulgent" appeal warrants sanctions in the form of fees.
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Calif. Supreme Court OKs Challenges To Blanket Judge DQs
The California Supreme Court has opened the door to challenges to blanket judicial disqualifications across the largest state court system in the country, partially overturning a precedent established nearly 50 years ago.
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Georgia Lawyer Again Seeks To DQ Judge Over Bar Referral
A Georgia attorney has launched at least the second attempt to disqualify a federal judge from presiding over a case he is handling because the judge previously referred him to the state bar, alleging ethics violations.
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Ex-Judge's Move To Firm Earns DQ In Fla. Divorce Case
A Florida appeals court ruled Friday that a Daytona Beach law firm should have been disqualified from representing a man in a divorce proceeding for failing to provide proper notice that a judge who previously oversaw the case had joined the firm as a partner.
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Baker McKenzie Asks Judge Not To Toss Suit Against Ex-Atty
A lawyer for Baker McKenzie on Friday urged a Washington, D.C., judge not to dismiss the BigLaw firm's defamation suit against a former tax associate who accused a firm office leader of sexual assault, telling the court the accusations were false and made with "malice."
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court issued four rulings this week, one concerning whether local delivery drivers are exempt from federal arbitration requirements and three in criminal cases involving jury selection and compassionate release. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the high court.
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Dems Say DOJ Blocked Bondi On Trump Questions
Democrats were incensed on Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice attorneys who accompanied former Attorney General Pam Bondi to her committee interview stopped her from answering questions about President Donald Trump.
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Ex-Calif. Appellate Judge To Take Over As Law School Dean
A former California appellate justice, who was the first Muslim to serve as a Court of Appeal justice in the U.S., has been named Western State College of Law at Westcliff University's next dean.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
Attorneys took on new roles and law firms expanded their operations as the legal industry closed out May this week. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Ex-Fla. Chief Justice Fred Lewis Dies At 78
Former Florida Chief Justice R. Fred Lewis, who spent two decades on the bench of the Florida Supreme Court, has died at 78, the court announced Thursday.
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Del. ACLU Legal Director Challenges Jennings In AG Race
The legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware is challenging the state's incumbent Attorney General Kathy Jennings for the Democratic nomination for the First State's top law enforcement post.
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'Socioeconomic' Remark At Atty's Homicide Trial Vexes Judge
A prosecutor's "socioeconomic" description of the man shot to death by a former Cramer & Anderson LLP partner may have been improper, a Connecticut appellate judge said Thursday, casting some doubt on the integrity of Robert L. Fisher Jr.'s manslaughter conviction.
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Goldstein Says Bad Jury Instructions Warrant New Trial
SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein said that the prosecutors who convicted him on 12 tax and mortgage fraud charges in February are now contradicting arguments they made at the end of his trial in their attempt to deny him a bench acquittal or new trial.
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Florida High Court Adopts AI Policy For Lawyers
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday amended the state's rules to require those filing court documents to check any artificial intelligence-generated content for accuracy, and allow for sanctions if the content contains errors.
Expert Analysis
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.