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Disgruntled Dems Move On From Appellate Noms Deal
While some Democrats have gripes about the deal Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer made with Republicans before Thanksgiving on judicial confirmations, they grudgingly concede the deal helps them fill as many seats as possible even if it means leaving choice circuit seats for President-elect Donald Trump to fill.
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Sentencing Judge Wants Jail Healthcare Info In Threats Case
Saying he needed additional briefs on mental health treatments in federal prisons, a Connecticut federal judge on Thursday postponed sentencing a man who pled guilty to mailing more than 150 threatening letters to U.S. Supreme Court justices, state and federal judges, other officials and journalists.
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Lowenstein Sandler Suit Gets New NJ Judge After DQ Request
Lowenstein Sandler LLP has persuaded an Essex County Superior Court judge to recuse himself from the firm's $800,000 fee suit against a cannabis dispensary over social connections to the litigants and their counsel and had the case assigned to a new judge this week.
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'A Different Ballgame': Courts Contend With AI Deepfakes
Lawyers, judges and forensics experts must be proactive in recognizing deepfakes, or artificial intelligence-modified content, in courts, a panel of experts said during a webinar on Thursday.
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Meet The Nominee For Next Vice Chancellor In Delaware
Bonnie W. David, who has served as a magistrate in Delaware Chancery Court since last year, has been nominated by outgoing Gov. John Carney to serve as a vice chancellor to fill a seat that will be left vacant by the judge she clerked for a decade ago.
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Combs Demands Court Inquiry Into Copied Jail Notes
Sean "Diddy" Combs urged a Manhattan federal judge to hold a special hearing and consider dismissing his sex-trafficking indictment after staff at the Metropolitan Detention Center photographed his allegedly privileged, handwritten notes during a sweep of the prison and sent them to prosecutors, who he says used the information to argue against bail.
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NC's Top Justice Elevates 2 Judges To Chief Roles
North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby on Wednesday named two new chief judges to helm multiple county courts in the Tar Heel State, one in the east and one in the west, one of whom has already started serving in her new role overseeing state district court proceedings.
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Senate Confirms New Mexico Prosecutor To Federal Bench
The Senate voted 52-45 on Thursday to confirm Sarah Davenport, an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of New Mexico, as district judge.
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What's Next For The Global Legal Market In 2025?
While U.S.-based firms with an international footprint are pulling back from some locations, they may still consider building out a new, albeit smaller, footprint in other countries, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia.
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These Law Firms Are Law360 Pulse's Global Leaders
What does it mean to be a truly global legal powerhouse? The law firms spotlighted in our 2024 ranking are setting the standard for worldwide reach.
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Chancery Gets Another Magistrate To Help Move Its Caseload
Another former Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP attorney who previously worked for Delaware's Department of Justice, and most recently was chief legal counsel to outgoing Gov. John Carney, has joined the Chancery Court as a magistrate.
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Senate Confirms Judges To NY's Central, Northern Districts
The Senate confirmed two judges on Wednesday for the Northern District of New York, one of whom is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Jackson's 'Quite Worried' About Equal Protection Precedent
The U.S. Supreme Court's Republican-appointed justices' apparent willingness Wednesday to rule that a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming healthcare for transgender minors didn't rely on sex-based classifications worried Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who warned that such a decision would undermine decades of the court's equal protection clause precedent.
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Gorsuch Exits Utah NEPA Suit Amid Flak Over Billionaire Ties
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch recused himself from a case involving a controversial railway project Wednesday afternoon, the high court's clerk said, following calls for him to step away from the National Environmental Policy Act dispute in light of his connections to a Colorado billionaire.
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Trump Asks Ga. Appeals Court To End Election Prosecution
President-elect Donald Trump moved Wednesday to scuttle the last pending criminal charges against him, telling the Georgia Court of Appeals it's time to end the election interference case against him as he prepares to return to the White House next year.
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DeSantis Says Ousted Fla. Atty's Election Loss Dooms Case
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and a state attorney he suspended made competing pitches to the Eleventh Circuit this week over whether the ousted prosecutor's First Amendment lawsuit is now moot since he lost his bid for reelection last month.
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Ex-Trump Atty Chesebro Looks To Invalidate Ga. Plea Deal
Kenneth Chesebro, a former attorney for President-elect Donald Trump and one of four Trump co-defendants to strike a plea deal with Georgia prosecutors, sought to overturn his agreement in a filing on Wednesday.
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For ADR And Judiciary In Ga., Diversity Brings Understanding
Fostering greater diversity among alternative dispute resolution providers and judges in Georgia is critical for navigating cultural differences and helping litigants feel better understood, according to a series of panel discussions this week.
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Texas High Court Suggests Atty Discipline Case Is Too Old
The Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared sympathetic to a lawyer's claim that suspending her now for misconduct that occurred in Illinois in 2017 is barred by a four-year limitations statute and unfair.
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Former AUSA To Lead Bradley Arant's Financial Crime Team
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP announced that a former assistant U.S. attorney who joined the firm in October has been named chair of its newly formed financial crime and economic sanctions practice group.
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Justices Seem To Back Ban On Transgender Youth Care
The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority on Wednesday seemed poised to greenlight a Tennessee ban on minors receiving gender-affirming care, despite arguments from the court's liberal block that finding the law constitutional would fly in the face of the court's equal-protection precedents.
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Fulton County DA Must Produce Trump Election Probe Docs
A Georgia state court judge has ordered the Fulton County District Attorney's Office to turn over documents from its election interference investigation that were sent to or received from special counsel Jack Smith and the U.S. House Jan. 6 Committee to conservative nonprofit Judicial Watch.
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Jan. 6 Rioter Unlikely To Succeed On Appeal, Judge Says
A District of Columbia federal judge ordered a convicted rioter from the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol to serve the remainder of his more than four-year prison term while he appeals, saying his legal arguments are substantial but unlikely to result in a reduced sentence.
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Trump Changes Course On Pick For WH Counsel
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday he was naming a Dhillon Law Group Inc. partner who has represented his campaign to serve as White House counsel, replacing the ex-Jones Day attorney he'd previously picked as the top lawyer in his new administration.
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Trump Names Slater To DOJ Antitrust Against 'Wild' Big Tech
President-elect Donald Trump signaled a full steam ahead approach to reining in major technology platforms with the announced nomination Wednesday of former Federal Trade Commission staffer and Trump administration economic adviser Gail Slater to run the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division.
Expert Analysis
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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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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Series
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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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Series
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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.