A New Hampshire lawyer has been disbarred based on allegations that he destroyed his computer before an ethics hearing and altered metadata to make it appear that he had provided conflict letters to a client when borrowing $275,000 from her.
A Michigan lawyer was arrested in Washington, D.C., on Monday for failing to appear for a March 7 hearing on charges that she possessed and damaged a voting machine.
A longtime Miami-Dade County, Florida, prosecutor has resigned after a judge disqualified him and a colleague from the resentencing of an alleged gang leader convicted of four murders.
As Open AI’s ChatGPT ushers in an explosion of interest in generative AI, e-discovery experts are considering how user-entered prompts like the ones above can be obtained and if they would hold up in court.
Typically cautious with new technology, attorneys are dipping their toes into “a sea change” of new generative artificial intelligence tools for e-discovery.
Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Chantelle Jalland, a London-based managing director for digital investigations and discovery with J.S. Held, a global consulting company.
Updated: Rudy Giuliani, once a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, can’t immediately appeal a recent $148 million verdict against him for defaming two Georgia election workers.
Updated: A lawyer representing a county elections supervisor charged in Georgia’s election-interference racketeering case admitted in court Wednesday that he leaked proffer videos of co-defendants to one media outlet.
A trial-level judge in New York has sanctioned Robins Kaplan for “rummaging” through the Dropbox of its litigation opponent after a third-party vendor accidentally revealed the link in discovery.
Proskauer Rose has settled a lawsuit claiming that a clause that the law firm added to a contract in a “botched cut-and-paste” caused a client’s losses of around $636 million.
A federal judge in Seattle has ordered Buchalter to pay more than $147,000 to its opponents for prolonging discovery through "unsupported arguments" and false or misleading assertions in litigation.
“How long will this take?” An often-asked question clients pose to their lawyers. (The most often is, “How much will this cost me?”) In the legal world, unfortunately, it generally takes too long to get matters resolved.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., entered a default judgment Wednesday against lawyer Rudy Giuliani for failing to provide meaningful discovery to two Georgia poll workers who sued him for defamation after he falsely accused them of election fraud.
Three years after the reviews went home, law firms are discovering that the remote model they once viewed with great suspicion can enhance rather than endanger their projects. As a result, reviews are showing no signs of ever returning exclusively to the back room.
Unwitting money transfers to fraudsters yield reprimands
Three North Carolina lawyers have been reprimanded for separate incidents in which they or their staff members mistakenly transferred real estate money or…
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