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Law Firm Confidentiality Can’t Be Left To The Honor System

Joe Patrice — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:16:57 +0000

A law firm left its confidential internal documents with juicy information unprotected and was shocked, SHOCKED to find out attorneys read them. Pam Bondi is next at bat for the Attorney General job. While her decision to drop an official investigation into Trump University conveniently after he started supporting her will get a lot of attention, don’t sleep on the TAIL of her fight over another family’s dog. And, finally, we have an un-bear-ably wild tale of a “bear” attack on luxury cars.

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The Urge To Merge

Joe Patrice — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:32:24 +0000

Law firms are merging like crazy with announcement after announcement after announcement. What’s driving this big push and is this just going to be the way of the future? Also a judge invites us to meet the new racist, same as the old racist and we discuss the next must have for anyone taking depositions.

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Disney Lawyers Learn That Discretion Is The Better Part Of Valor

Joe Patrice — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:13:31 +0000

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Disney’s lawyers made headlines last week, but not the good kind like you want. After lawyers argued that a free trial to Disney+ required a wrongful death suit to move to forced arbitration, we wondered how everyone from outside to inside counsel dropped the ball here. Immediately after recording, Disney backtracked. Also, is Skadden falling behind? And we talk legal technology!

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Biglaw’s Parental Leave Backslide

Joe Patrice — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:43:10 +0000

Are law firms going to get stingy with parental leave? While most firms report solid revenue, sparking resentment over a few weeks of leave seems like a weird strategy, but DLA Piper recently cut back on the leave available to non-birthing parents. It’s a first as far as Above the Law can tell, but will it be the last? Also, the Supreme Court screwed up its metadata, committing an error that would get junior associates fired. And finally, Joe Biden offered the Court some tough talk… by quoting them.

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Roberts Explains That Artificial Intelligence Can’t Replace Judges Because How Would Billionaires Fly An AI To Luxury Resorts Anyway?

Joe Patrice — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:01:25 +0000

The Chief spent his entire annual report on the federal judiciary on the rise of artificial intelligence and how AI cannot possibly replace judges because the judge is so much harder and more nuanced than, say, calling balls and strikes. Not that anyone would be stupid enough to describe being a judge like that. Steven Calabresi has either lost his mind or is engaged in an epic troll with a series of pieces arguing that Clarence Thomas is the bestest and most incorruptible justice ever! Finally, plagiarism is all over the news for mostly bad faith reasons, but it highlights again that the law isn’t easily governed by rules of plagiarism and copying by design.

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The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Rudy’s Wallet

Joe Patrice — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:47:30 +0000

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Law firms may hem and haw about raises, but they’re still doing more than all right for themselves. Rudy’s defamation trial did not go well. Before the latest development in the case, we talked about Michael Cohen’s fake case brief and the implications of legal technology on criminal justice.

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Dispatches From The End Of Analog Lawyering

Joe Patrice — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:02:55 +0000

Joe checks in from the 2023 Clio Cloud Conference joined by Legaltech News editor-in-chief Stephanie Wilkins, dean of legal tech journalism Bob Ambrogi, and Legal Talk Network producer Laurence Colletti to talk about legal technology and the small law market. We talk artificial intelligence, hot legal trends, and access to justice.

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Biglaw Firm Offers Racy, Expensive Summer Event Before No-Offering Summers Anyway

Joe Patrice — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:46:17 +0000

Gunderson Dettmer got a lot of flack on Reddit from folks accusing the firm of hosting a summer event at a strip club. It wasn’t a strip club, but it was a nightclub with scantily clad go-go dancers, which doesn’t make it much better from the perspective of a harassment-free work environment. And after making it rain at the club, the firm ended up no-offering a bunch of summers anayway. Jeff Clark took shots at Neal Katyal on social media. He missed. And Goodwin unveiled an office presence tool to let folks know who is in and out of the office at all times. Folks don’t seem happy about it, but is it just the price we pay for hybrid work?

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Elon Musk Is Having A Very Litigious Week

Joe Patrice — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:03:56 +0000

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Elon Musk is desperately seeking a win and if he can’t get it in a cage match against Mark Zuckerberg, he’ll try his hand in court. Spoiler: it’s going to go just about as badly. He’s sent a legal threat to Facebook that fails to articulate much in the way of a legal issue and now he’s suing Wachtell for being the lawyers that forced him to buy the company in the first place. Meanwhile the Supreme Court Term ended in a blaze of gaslighting and a hail of disingenuous spin. And now law schools are facing legal threats if their student body looks diverse. Finally, bar prep is just a little bit more stressful for students prepping with Themis, which continues to suffer website problems in the critical weeks before the exam.

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Free Speech Hypocrisy, Hot Bench Troubles, And ChatGPT Legal Research

Joe Patrice — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 18:34:16 +0000

After a year of sword rattling that higher education is “hostile to free speech” because students don’t appropriately sit quiet and absorb what speakers on stage are laying down, the media grandstanding came to a halt — and in the case of the NY Post, went into reverse — amid calls to defund CUNY Law School over a speaker. Apparently it’s only a “free speech crisis” in one direction. Meanwhile, the Second Circuit seems highly skeptical of Central Park Karen’s claim that her former employer defamed her for citing its zero tolerance for racism in firing her. And by “highly skeptical” we mean the panel appears to have granted oral argument simply to dunk on her lawyer. Speaking of lawyers getting dunked on, the hapless attorneys who filed a response filled with fake caselaw they got off of ChatGPT are in serious trouble. But don’t mistake this for “the perils of technology” because this was a failure of good old-fashioned lawyering.

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