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Sixth Circuit Slaps Steep Sanctions On Two Lawyers For Fake Citations And Misrepresentations In Appellate Briefs
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Legalweek Has Left The Building – And Successfully Landed In A New One
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AI Legal Research Startup Descrybe Launches ‘Legal Reasoning’ Tool; Says It Outperforms ChatGPT, Claude, And Gemini On Bar Exam Benchmark
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The Justice Department Is Lowering Its Ethical Guardrails
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AI Adoption Among Legal Professionals Has More Than Doubled In A Year, New 8am Report Finds, But Firms Lag Far Behind Individual Practitioners
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Exclusive: Confido Legal Raises $9 Million To Expand Embedded Payments And Disbursements For Law Firms
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Three Years After Launching As First AI Legal Assistant, CoCounsel Reaches 1 Million Users — And Thomson Reuters Teases What’s Ahead
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Donald Trump Has Choice Words For SCOTUS Justices In The Wake Of Their Tariff Decision
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Paul Weiss Is Still Catching Heat For Selling Out — See Also
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The Judiciary’s Overwhelming Response To Trump’s ‘Mandatory Detention’ Immigration Policy
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Judge Declares Mistrial Over Civil Rights Fashion Choice
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Stock Traders Are No Longer Taking Employment And Inflation Data From The Trump Administration At Face Value
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AI Takes The Blame, Epstein Takes The Careers
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Nonequity Partners: It’s Not Personal, It’s Just Business
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Trump DOJ Can’t Answer, ‘What Law Did My Client Allegedly Break?’
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Deposition Simulator Uses AI To Bring Training Opportunities To Young Lawyers
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Agentic AI Is Forcing Contracts To Govern Continuous Behavior
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District Court Upholds Decision That Restaurants Can Coast On Vibes
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Could Artificial Intelligence Bankrupt Social Security?
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California AG Says Paul, Weiss Sold Out The Profession
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NYU Langone Health: We’re Close To Clinical AI With No Human In The Loop
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What Is This, A Louis C.K. Bit? — See Also
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Supreme Court Adopts ‘New’ Process To Avoid Conflicts Of Interest 20 Years Too Late
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Trump Administration Learns To Its Dismay It ‘Cannot Alter Substantive Rights’
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Houston Is Becoming A Biglaw Stomping Ground
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Trump Ally Jason Miller Attacks His Paternity Case Judge In Social Media Blast
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Federal Judge Tells The Trump Administration To Quit Acting Like Big Brother
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Got In To Your Dream Law School? Federal Loan Caps Could Change The Math
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The Votes Are In! Here Are The 15 Legal Tech Startups Selected For The 2026 Startup Alley At ABA TECHSHOW
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Masturbating In Court Not ‘Inappropriate’ As Long As No One Notices, Prosecutors Argue
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3 Questions For A Litigation Funding Startup Founder (Part II)
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Even A Trump Judge Knows We’re In The Middle Of A Constitutional Crisis
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Texas Takes A Flamethrower To Higher Ed (And Calls It ‘Reform’)
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Paperwork Stands Between Law School Receiving Millions In Funding
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How Will AI Transform Litigation, And What Should Law Firms Do To Prepare?
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Pentagon Declares War On Good Law Schools Because Of Woke
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The Mental Load Of Working Parenthood In Biglaw
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Rubio Tries To Reassure Europe That US Is Not About To Sever Transatlantic Ties
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Layoffs, And Mergers, And Epstein, Oh My! — See Generally
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New Beginnings After Nearly 20 Years — See Also
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The Alito Retirement Rumor Mill Is Swirling
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Harvey Opens Brick-And-Mortar Shop In Dallas
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The Moment Legal Found Out What ‘Ready’ Really Means
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Hubris Or Poor Judgment? As Epstein Files Loomed, The Clock Was Ticking On Brad Karp’s Power At Paul, Weiss
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DOJ Flames Judiciary Over Impertinent Demand For Competent US Attorneys
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Georgetown Law Hires New Dean With Experience Surviving GOP Witch-Hunt
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