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High Court Doubts Legality Of Late-Arriving Ballot Laws
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical Monday of Mississippi's law allowing state election officials to count mail-in ballots that arrive up to five days after Election Day, with the justices divided ideologically over whether historical practices or legislative history should control the outcome of the case.
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Day Pitney Fights DQ Over Ex-Justice's Time On Case He Heard
Day Pitney LLP has apologized after former Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson, now a firm partner, billed 15.7 hours for reviewing a since-remanded case he heard years ago as a justice, but the firm said the "error" should not disqualify its other lawyers from advancing the litigation.
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Attys Split Over Mandatory Hyperlinks To Curb Fake AI Cases
A new legal requirement to hyperlink case law is drawing support from legal professionals as a counter to artificial intelligence-generated fake cases in court submissions, but some aren't sure that it is enough to solve the problem and worry that it will be an added burden on lawyers.
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Attys For City Of New Orleans Sanctioned For AI Use
A Louisiana federal judge has sanctioned attorneys for the city of New Orleans over misuse of artificial intelligence that resulted in hallucinated case citations in a pro se civil rights case.
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Ex-Md. Attorney General Joins Greenberg Traurig In DC
Former Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler and his longtime colleague from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP have moved their practices to Greenberg Traurig LLP, where Gansler will co-chair its nationwide state attorneys general practice, the firm announced Monday.
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NJ Judges Name US Atty In Apparent End To Leadership Fight
The New Jersey federal court on Monday appointed a career federal prosecutor to serve as U.S. attorney for the Garden State in what appears to end a lengthy standoff between district judges and the U.S. Department of Justice over leadership of the office.
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In Their Words: Former Colleagues Remember Robert Mueller
Retired WilmerHale partner and former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III is being remembered as a tough, principled and capable attorney with tremendous integrity who unflinchingly took on the daunting tasks of remaking the FBI and investigating the president.
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Social Media Atty Sanctioned For 'Most Shameful Moment'
A California judge on Monday sanctioned an attorney for the plaintiff in a bellwether trial alleging Meta Platforms and Google's social media platforms harm children's mental health, fining him $1,100 and keeping him off the plaintiffs' steering committee for violating court rules by twice filming inside the courthouse.
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Justices Decline To Review Scope Of Wetlands Permit Waiver
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a petition from environmental groups seeking to revive a lawsuit accusing a Georgia resort of deceiving the Army Corps of Engineers to obtain a permit and illegally filling a protected wetland.
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Ex-Fla. Rep Denied 11th-Hour Depo In Foreign Agent Case
A Florida federal judge Friday denied a former congressman's requests to depose a key witness and have the government turn over interview notes before the start of a trial on charges of failing to register as a Venezuelan foreign agent, saying the defense counsel can still ask questions on cross-examination.
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Bondi Keeps Ousted Wisconsin US Atty With New Title
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi swapped Brad D. Schimel's title from interim U.S. attorney to first assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in order to keep him in charge of the office after his tenure expired earlier this week.
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DOJ, Texas Agency End Suit Alleging Firing Over Headscarf
The U.S. Department of Justice has wrapped up a lawsuit claiming the Texas Department of Criminal Justice questioned the sincerity of an employee's faith and effectively fired her for asking to wear a headscarf to work in accordance with her religious beliefs, according to a federal court filing.
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Up Next At High Court: Late Ballots And 'Last-Mile' Drivers
The U.S. Supreme Court will kick off its March oral arguments session by reviewing disputes over the validity of state laws allowing late-arriving mail-in ballots to be counted in federal elections and whether "last-mile" delivery drivers qualify for the transportation worker exemption to the Federal Arbitration Act.
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'Community Justice' Plan Aims To Meet DC Legal Needs
A Washington, D.C., court program launching next month aims to empower nonattorneys to provide some legal assistance, as a court task force found that a majority of district residents face civil legal issues without attorneys.
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Where Calif. State Courts Landed On Generative AI Use Rules
The majority of California's 58 superior courts — together making up the country's largest trial court system — have decided to greenlight the use of generative artificial intelligence in their work this year, a Law360 investigation found.
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Developer Sues GSA Over Hartford Courthouse Records
A Connecticut real estate company is suing the U.S. General Services Administration, claiming that the agency failed to produce documents connected to the government's site selection for a new federal courthouse in Hartford and ignored its Freedom of Information Act request.
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DOJ Rebuked Over Lack Of Candor For 'Imperious Client'
A Florida federal judge has rebuked government attorneys for failing to be up-front about legal authority that contradicts their position in a habeas case, warning them not to let their "imperious client" get between them and their ethical obligations.
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Ex-NJ Judge At Wilentz Talks 20 Years On The Bench
Robert Mega, formerly the head equity judge for Union County and now an ADR expert at Wilentz Goldman Spitzer PA, joined Law360 Pulse for a conversation on how he improved court operations as a judge and how that legacy will carry over to private practice.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
During this past week in legal industry news, there were leadership transitions, new offices, and the dissolution of a combination. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Justices Clarify Heck In Street Preacher's Free Speech Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday unanimously found that a street preacher convicted of violating a Mississippi city's rule governing public protests can use a federal civil rights lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of the law used to convict him, saying the man's conviction does not bar him from seeking "forward-looking relief."
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Ex-Judges Say Anthropic Case Doesn't Merit Court Deference
Nearly 150 former judges are backing Anthropic's fight against its designation as a "supply chain risk" by the U.S. Department of Defense, telling the D.C. Circuit in an amicus brief that the judiciary shouldn't simply defer to the executive just because it invokes national security.
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Feds Say Atty Used Stolen Nonprofit Funds To Buy Crypto
An attorney and former president of the nonprofit preserving Pittsburgh's Duquesne Incline has been indicted, accused of embezzling nearly $1.4 million from the organization, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
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Former Calif. Chief Deputy AG Joins Jenner & Block In SF
Jenner & Block LLP is bringing in the former second-highest-ranking member of the California Department of Justice, announcing Thursday that Venus D. Johnson is joining as special counsel in its San Francisco office.
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Sitting Judges Take Stand Over Threats Growing 'Ordinary'
On the heels of an ethics opinion giving them wider latitude to speak publicly, sitting federal judges brought attention Thursday to the increasing threats against them and their family members, warning about the dangers of such threats becoming "ordinary."
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AI Errors Likely To Persist Despite Escalating Court Sanctions
Judges have begun issuing sanctions to lawyers, escalating the consequences over artificial intelligence-generated errors, but attorneys say that penalties might not be enough to stop the problem.
Expert Analysis
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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.