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Law firms moving quickly on AI weigh benefits with risks and unknowns

Updated: Law firms and legal technology companies are confronting the unique security and privacy challenges that come with using the software and its tendency to produce inaccurate and biased answers.



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Most class of 2019 law grads are satisfied with their jobs, but debt still affects life choices, new study says

Forty-seven percent of class of 2019 law graduates are “extremely satisfied” with their current job, up from 42% of class of 2018 graduates who were surveyed a year ago, according to a new report by the National Association for Law Placement and the NALP Foundation.



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Free litigation training for attorneys who represent domestic violence survivors is available through the ABA

The ABA Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence Trial Skills Institute helps attorneys who represent survivors of domestic violence improve their advocacy and litigation skills. Participants act as counsel for a party in a hypothetical case involving domestic violence and develop theory, opening statements, closing arguments, direct examinations and cross-examinations.



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Workplace bias is theme of prof’s winning story in ABA Journal's 2023 Ross Writing Contest

A college professor with a passion for labor and employment law is the winner of the 2023 ABA Journal/Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction. Kiren Dosanjh Zucker won the $5,000 prize for her short story, “Memory of a Braid.”



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Concerns about office-sharing arrangements addressed in new ABA ethics opinion

Attorneys can engage in office-sharing arrangements with other lawyers but must take care to ensure they comply with legal ethics rules. Everyone should avoid discussing cases in common areas, and lawyers may need to have separate lobby or waiting areas to ensure confidentiality. Other possible measures include installing privacy screens on computers, locking down computers when not in use and providing training to staff about ensuring confidentiality.



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Legal services sector nears 10-year high for jobs

The legal services sector added 5,100 jobs in June, nearing the 10-year high-water mark set almost a year ago.



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Giuliani should be disbarred for basing election suit on 'speculation' and 'suspicion,' ethics committee says

Lawyer Rudy Giuliani should be disbarred for making “malicious and meritless” claims of election fraud in a lawsuit that challenged the results of the 2020 presidential election in Pennsylvania, according to a hearing committee in Washington, D.C.



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Judge rejects Tulsa Race Massacre survivors’ reparations claim

An Oklahoma state court judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, ending what could be the survivors’ best hope for justice for one of the worst racial terror attacks in U.S. history.



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6th Circuit panel believes law banning transgender care for minors is likely constitutional

A federal appeals court on Saturday allowed Tennessee to enforce a law that bans gender-affirming surgeries, puberty blockers and hormones for transgender minors. But the appeals court acknowledged “we may be wrong” and expedited the appeal.



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Twitter challenges Wachtell’s 'gargantuan' success fee for work before Elon Musk takeover

The new management at Twitter contends Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz exploited the social media company and violated its fiduciary duties by charging $90 million in fees—including a “gargantuan” success fee—before Elon Musk’s takeover.



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