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Generative AI brings new insights to litigation analytics tools
Updated: With the emergence of generative artificial intelligence, many traditional software categories have been reinvented. Legal software has not been immune from this impactful change.…
Meet the sheriffs who believe they are ‘The Highest Law in the Land’
The first image conjured in your mind by the word “sheriff” might be the protagonist of a Wild West movie or Robin Hood’s foe, the…
DC Circuit allows trespassing charge used to prosecute more than 1,400 Jan. 6 defendants
Prosecutors don’t have to show that a Jan. 6, 2021, trespassing defendant was aware that the U.S. Capitol grounds were restricted because of the presence…
Anti-abortion princess explains her friendship with Justice Alito after he discloses $900 gift
A German princess has said she first met U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito at a Catholic conference while summering in Rome. Princess Gloria von…
Judge accused of ‘casual and illegal use’ of contempt power; crime victim cuffed
A Florida judge has been accused of conducting “improper or legally deficient” contempt proceedings in which she ordered the handcuffing of a crime victim and…
Your lawsuit against X is required to be filed in Texas, according to new terms of service
Lawsuits filed against X, formerly known as Twitter, have to be filed in federal court for the Northern District of Texas or in state court…
Columbia law prof facing probe over campus-protest comments says firm ‘abruptly’ dropped her as client
A Columbia Law School professor has said in an ethics complaint a law firm “abandoned” her as a client during a probe of her comments…
When queried by judge, chatbot had less faith in its output than expert who used it
When confronted with evidence that an expert witness used a chatbot to cross-check lost-value calculations, a judge in Saratoga County, New York, decided to query…
Overturning 45-year precedent, New Jersey gives disbarred lawyers second chance
Former New Jersey lawyers who are disbarred will in most cases be allowed to apply for reinstatement after five years, the New Jersey Supreme Court…