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Courts 'Turning Up The Heat' On AI Fake Citation Sanctions
As the volume of sanctions orders resulting from attorneys' use of faulty citations blamed on artificial intelligence continues to rise, federal judges are beginning to pivot from financial sanctions to more creative means of disciplining lawyers, including targeting their professional reputations in ways that could really hurt.
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Paxton Deputies Seek To Toss Ex-Colleagues' Conspiracy Suit
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's first assistant penned an email alleging sexual misconduct by a former deputy because he genuinely feared for his safety, according to a bid to dismiss a civil rights complaint filed by two former deputies who claim a conspiracy among officials in the Texas Office of the Attorney General to retaliate against them.
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蓝莓视频's Legal Lions Of The Week
Jones Day and DLA Piper lead this week's edition of 蓝莓视频 Legal Lions, after the Federal Circuit overturned a more than $125 million judgment against Medtronic's CoreValve unit for infringing a Colibri Heart Valve LLC patent.
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Will Tom Girardi's Wardrobe Mishap Help His Appeal?
When legendary attorney Tom Girardi's pants fell down as he finished testifying in his defense, the judge had to decide: Was this a desperate bid to feign incompetence and avoid prison for stealing client funds, or just an accident by an 86-year-old man with dementia? And if it really was an accident, does it now give Girardi a shot at winning his appeal and overturning his sentence?
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Boutique Upadhye Tang Gets McDermott Life Sciences Partner
A six-year veteran of McDermott Will & Emery LLP's Washington, D.C., team has moved his pharmaceutical patent litigation practice to Upadhye Tang LLP, a boutique that focuses on intellectual property and U.S. Food and Drug Administration matters.
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Voir Dire: 蓝莓视频 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week with more in-house moves, government attorneys returning to the private sector and office openings. Test your legal news savvy here with 蓝莓视频 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Jay-Z Defends Extortion Claims Against Buzbee, Other Attys
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter is urging an Alabama federal court to send toward trial his extortion lawsuit against attorney Tony Buzbee and his firm, a New York City lawyer and her firm, and a client of theirs who accused him of rape and then dropped her case.
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Atty To Give Up License After Giving Contraband To Detainee
A Connecticut criminal defense attorney will give up his law license for 10 years as part of a deferred prosecution agreement with federal authorities who allege he passed paperwork that had been treated with a controlled substance to a Rhode Island detainee during a visit in May 2023.
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'Tiger King' Atty Talks Building A Firm Through Social Media
Hours after a federal jury in Manhattan returned a mixed verdict in a sex trafficking case against Sean "Diddy" Combs, Molly Parmer, a Georgia defense attorney and TikTok content creator with more than 94,200 followers, posted a video outlining what he could expect in terms of sentencing. 蓝莓视频 spoke with Parmer about her practice and how she turned her solo firm, Parmer Law, into a space for online court observers.
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Greenspoon Marder Adds Entertainment, Sports Vet In Atlanta
Greenspoon Marder LLP has brought on a former solo practitioner as a partner in its Atlanta office, adding an attorney to its entertainment and sports and corporate practices who brings more than 30 years of experience in private practice, as well as in-house and public sector roles, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Buzbee Gets Ex-Client's Fraud Claims Moved To Arbitration
A Louisiana federal court has granted Houston personal injury attorney Tony Buzbee's request for arbitration in a lawsuit by an injured seaman who claims the Texas lawyer and his firm bilked him out of settlement funds in a Jones Act lawsuit.
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Paralegal Sues Firm, Alleging Harassment By Leader's Spouse
A former senior paralegal for Connecticut-based Vargas Chapman Woods LLC claims in a recently filed federal lawsuit that the firm leadership retaliated against her and created a hostile workplace when she alleged sexual and racial harassment by the managing partner's spouse.
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Post-Gazette Says Union Attys Can't Get 'Market Rate' Fees
The law firm of Jubelirer Pass & Intrieri PC should not be able to recover "market rate" attorney fees when it charged several unions at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "low bono" prices to defend pickets, the newspaper publisher told a state court.
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Office Snapshot: Heyman Enerio Gets Bigger Delaware Digs
Delaware litigation boutique Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP has moved into a new office across the street from its old Wilmington location, and the upgraded and larger digs are expected to聽better accommodate聽the firm's growth and ability to serve clients.
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Clients Name Top Firms For Service Amid Shifting Needs
The set of client service-related behaviors corporate clients demand from their law firms has dramatically shifted, creating a shakeup at the top of this year's BTI Client Service A-Team ranking released Thursday.
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Chicago Defense, Civil Liberties Icon Tom Durkin Dies At 78
Thomas Durkin, a celebrated criminal and civil rights lawyer, has died after a brief illness with lung cancer at the age of 78. Those who knew him remembered him as a brilliant lawyer who cared deeply for his fellow human beings and battled unwaveringly against what he saw as abuses of power.
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Abraham Watkins, Partners Move To Toss Atty's Firing Suit
A prominent Texas personal injury firm and three of its partners have moved to dismiss a wrongful termination suit brought by a former associate who says she was discriminated against for taking medical leave related to an eye condition.
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As AI Use Grows, Attys' Misgivings Remain, Survey Says
While adoption of artificial intelligence tools by legal professionals have surged this year, users remain concerned about overreliance, reputational risk and challenges adapting to the technology, according to a report Wednesday commissioned by insurance company Embroker.
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Stubbs Alderton Corporate Atty Joins Pryor Cashman In LA
Pryor Cashman LLP announced that a Los Angeles-based attorney has joined the firm's corporate group as a partner after nearly a decade with Stubbs Alderton & Markiles LLP.
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Gunster Adds Ex-Aballi Milne Wealth Attorney In Miami
Florida business law firm Gunster added a new of counsel as well as three associates to bolster its capabilities in tax, private wealth and immigration law in South Florida.
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Fubo Streamers Get Own Attys In Disney Suit
DiCello Levitt and Lite DePalma have won out over Bathaee Dunne in a battle to represent FuboTV subscribers suing Disney over ESPN streaming rates, with a judge saying he had "grave doubts" that Yavar Bathaee could adequately represent the plaintiffs after Bathaee undercut their case in a status conference.
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Del. Boutique Wins 'Heated' Battle To Lead Endeavor Suit
Litigation boutique Abrams & Bayliss LLP has been handed the reins to a potential blockbuster lawsuit alleging that sports and entertainment giant Endeavor Group Holdings was undervalued in a $13 billion take-private deal, with a Delaware vice chancellor聽on Tuesday settling what she described as a "heated," and at times personal, leadership fight in the case.
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Judge Nixes 'Ghost' Lawyer's Suit Against Ex-Employee, Atty
A Florida judge has tossed a lawsuit that an attorney accused of ghosting and defrauding his clients brought against his former paralegal and a legal malpractice lawyer alleging they conspired to steal his clients and trash his reputation.
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Maynard Nexsen Brings On 8-Atty Atlanta Real Estate Firm
Maynard Nexsen PC announced Tuesday that it has merged with Atlanta-based real estate firm Miller Lavoie LLP, bringing on eight attorneys to the firm's national footprint to strengthen its real estate investment, development and financing expertise as the firm CEO says they're "hyper-focused on growing our Atlanta presence."
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Ga. Justices Hand Atty Six-Month Suspension Over Lapse
A longtime Georgia attorney who warned that "'heads' would 'roll'" over a client's allegedly unpaid bill of $2,701 was given a six-month suspension that can only be lifted upon a behavioral health professional's evaluation, after the Georgia Supreme Court found he failed to provide his client with a timely financial accounting.
Expert Analysis
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10 Principles For Effective Partner Reward Systems
Several forces are reshaping partners鈥� expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.
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Why Interdisciplinarity Is Key To Designing The Future Of Law
The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.
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9 Writing Tips From The Justices' Opinions Last Term
Hidden in the U.S. Supreme Court鈥檚 opinions from the last term are each justice鈥檚 talents for crafting choice turns of phrase, highlighting best practices for attorneys to jump-start their own writing, says Ross Guberman聽at BriefCatch.