In this week's Legal Speak episode, Spotlight Marketing and Branding Co-Founder Danny Decker reveals three steps attorneys and law firm operators can deploy to help attract potential clients via ChatGPT.

       

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh spoke Thursday evening at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas, about not allowing cameras in the courtroom, the importance of the Constitution and President George W. Bush's leadership on 9/11.

       

The list of firms demanding four days a week or more of office attendance is short, but with few exceptions, all these firms are compensating their associates and partners at the top of the market.

       

Hoffman, a firm CEO in the 1990s, led the firm's expansion throughout Florida and into key markets, such as New York, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Orlando, Tallahassee and Boca Raton, the firm said.

       

Sharif Jacob, a partner at Keker, Van Nest & Peters who is representing the plaintiffs, said the executive order is "an alarming example of presidential overreach."

       

McGuireWoods and Debevoise & Plimpton on behalf of plaintiff Capital One allege the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. misinterpreted the statutory definition of 'uninsured deposit' to erroneously conclude Capital One must pay a $475 million special assessment to the FDIC.

       

“All that Perplexity's answer engine' does is copy the expression, meaning, and message of others and repackage it to the consumer, the plaintiffs allege.

       

The federal judge highlighted decisions from the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Second and Eighth Circuits determining that inmates with knowledge of recordings undermines privilege given the Seventh Circuit's lack of precedent on the issue, the memorandum opinion and order said.

       

I have been using ChatGPT in my personal life for the past eight months (never for work) for a myriad of things, and found that my personal experience with AI came in handy when I wrote two stories about it last week.

       

A report by a consortium of New York City's largest employers, including law firms and banks, says the Empire State's soaring insurance costs are driven by "excessive" litigation, while suggesting reforms. But New York's largest lobby for trial lawyers fired back by saying the claims should be taken with a grain of salt, since the consortium is a longtime power-broker.

       

The challenge now for companies is to still embrace AI's potential while building the governance, safeguards and strategic foresight necessary to manage these risks.

       

Holders of the No. 1 and No. 2 slots on last year's list have traded places.

       

“I'll give you 90 minutes, Lee Circuit Judge Rachael Loukonen said ahead of closing arguments. “Go outside, and I suggest the parties think very hard about their true positions on this case."

       

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Philip Talmadge of Talmadge/Fitzpatrick in Seattle, representing the families of individuals who died after ordering and intentionally ingesting the product, contended at the hearing that sodium nitrite is "an invariably fatal poison" that Amazon knowingly "marketed" and delivered to vulnerable consumers.

       

The panel found that Union Carbide, which operated a West Virginia plant that exposed nearby residents to a cancer-causing gas, was responsible for paying for medical monitoring for the lead plaintiff, even though she didn't allege she had cancer.

       

Some firms are buying the bounce, while others await a true transactional rebound.

       

With the EU Data Act, penalties are determined by member states which means not only does the expense of fines vary state by state, but so does the level of enforcement.

       

“The court finds that default judgment is inappropriate here because plaintiff has failed to show that the unchallenged facts in the complaint constitute a legitimate cause of action, U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman of the Northern District of Illinois said.

       

With their terms set to expire Dec. 31, 2026, these Georgia appellate judges must soon decide whether to run to retain their seats on the bench.