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Ethics complaint dropped against Texas AG over challenge to 2020 election results
The Texas Commission for Lawyer Discipline has dropped an ethics complaint alleging that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made dishonest statements in December 2020 litigation…
Should defendants without court-appointed lawyers be released? Should charges be dropped? Judge weighs remedies
A Maine judge is considering how to remedy the state’s failure to provide lawyers to indigent defendants on a timely basis. The American Civil Liberties…
Accent stereotypes can influence judgments about guilt, study finds
A British study has found that people with accents linked to higher social status were generally judged less likely to commit crimes. Working-class accents, on…
How agentic AI services are revolutionizing contract management and compliance
Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Shashank Pande and Rachita Maker, the co-founders of Ekamm8, a new forward-thinking legal innovation and consulting company. They discussed how…
Supreme Court will decide whether Oklahoma can fund Catholic charter school
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether the First Amendment allows Oklahoma to fund a Catholic online school as part of its…
Access to Justice 2.0: How AI-powered software can bridge the gap
Many predictions have been made about the impact of artificial intelligence on the legal profession. From the demise of the billable hour to robots replacing…
ABA calls on senators to oppose ‘deeply concerning’ immigration bill
The ABA is urging the U.S. Senate to vote against an immigration reform bill that would require the detention of noncitizens who committed “certain low-level…
SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein faces tax evasion charges
Updated: SCOTUSblog publisher and co-founder Tom Goldstein was indicted on federal tax evasion charges Thursday. Between 2016 and 2022, Goldstein allegedly schemed to “evade the…
Stanford Law prof fires Meta as client, citing platform’s ‘descent into toxic masculinity’
Updated: A professor at Stanford Law School announced on LinkedIn on Monday that he could no longer “in good conscience” represent Meta, the parent company…
Most lawyers aren’t using AI to address growing workloads, new report says
A new study has found that most legal professionals are not yet using artificial intelligence to address increasing workload challenges. On Tuesday, Washington, D.C.-based legal…