The New York Unified Court System's 49-member Judicial Task Force on Mental Illness also recommends the launch of a yearlong planning process to establish mental health courts within the Family Court system.

       

Like current Multistate Performance Test (MPT) questions, NextGen performance tasks will require examinees to demonstrate their ability to use fundamental lawyering skills in realistic situations, completing tasks that a beginning lawyer should be able to accomplish.

       

Texas legislators passed Senate Bill 293 in the final moments of the Texas 89th Legislative session. The bill provides a 25 percent increase in base pay for Texas district judges. It also imposes some new disciplinary measures.

       

“I think many people in the transportation and logistics industry were very pleased at the outset of this administration with the idea that enforcement may be more driven by common sense than by strict technical compliance, said Jonathan Todd, a partner at Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aranoff. “But there are some pockets of increased enforcement.

       

AI agents are becoming ubiquitous on the market, but how do they differ from other technology? And what do they mean for the legal market?

       

"In the government's view, so long as Harvard is punished for exercising its First Amendment rights, the ends justify the means," the memorandum in support of Harvard's motion for summary judgment claimed.

       

Tom Girardi's lawyers pleaded for the judge to impose a noncustodial sentence so that their client, who turns 86 years old Tuesday and has dementia, could serve his sentence at a memory care unit in assisted living. "Today is the last day he will ever step foot in a courtroom," federal public defender Sam Cross said at Tuesday's sentencing hearing.

       

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide next term whether to allow a lawsuit against a Pentagon contractor over a suicide bombing on a military base in Afghanistan in a case that could expose defense contractors to additional state tort litigation.

       

According to Pfizer Inc., only two Depo-Provera lawsuits had been filed in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas as of the company's May 29 petition submission. However, one of those actions had been brought on behalf of 100 individual plaintiffs.        

The partnership between the digital legal training provider and the law school comes after an earlier collaboration between Hotshot and a Suffolk Law professor.

       

Three federal judges in the past two years have upbraided the tech giant for destroying evidence and abusing attorney-client privilege.

       

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“For 30 years, Section 230 has been the impenetrable shield that social media companies have hidden behind to protect them from accountability for what is oftentimes really outrageous conduct, Goodman asserted. "Through the Anderson case, we have very much undermined that protection if not completely taken it away.

       

Predictive AI is already commonplace in entry-level hiring, but firms are envisioning additional ways to utilize a growing body of data on lawyer behavior and performance.

       

In all, 24 lawyers and 20 professional staff from Boston-founded boutique Faber Daeufer & Itrato will be joining Crowell in Boston, New York, San Francisco and London.

       

H. Lee Godfrey, who helped build Houston trial firm Susman Godfrey into a litigation powerhouse, was known for his charm, intellect and prowess in the courtroom.

       

At a Monday hearing, U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton found that Girardi, who has dementia, doesn't require a "suitable facility" to serve his prison sentence. Girardi will be sentenced on Tuesday, his 86th birthday.

       

The judiciary committee's approval of the candidates indicate their nominations can now proceed to a vote by the full Senate.

       

Microsoft says it 'disconnected' the International Criminal Court's top prosecutor due to U.S. sanctions while the ICC maintains the move disrupted the entire prosecutorial team, raising concern about EU digital sovereignty.

       

While the scope of any refund process would be massive, there is an entire class of attorneys who learned how to navigate customs during Trump's first term. “We have hundreds, thousands of customs attorneys across the country who are prepared to do this, said trade practitioner, Michael Cone.