In northwest Georgia’s Coweta County, a new judge will soon take the state court bench. Handpicked by the governor, Newnan attorney John B. Cunningham is preparing to trade his part-time service as a City of Franklin Municipal Court judge for that of a full-time jurist. New  Seat Judge Matthew S. Swope, Coweta…

Following a prosecutor’s granted motion to dismiss, the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct lifted its suspension with pay of a Harris County judge accused of assault-bodily injury. On Feb. 7, the commission suspended 228th District Court Judge Frank Aguilar on receipt of information that the Galveston County Court at…

Am Law 100 firm ArentFox Schiff made headlines in 2022 when it became the first large law firm to launch an office in the metaverse. And now that early presence has put it on the map as a go-to firm for artificial intelligence, said chair Anthony Lupo. Lupo said the firm…

In an effort to pull back the curtain on artificial intelligence’s metaphorical “black box,” Louis Brulé Naudet, a French data analyst and law student, started a community of legal professionals on the AI platform HuggingFace earlier this month. The community, dubbed HF for Legal with the mission subhead “Breaking the opacity…

Counsel for Donald Trump may subpoena a Manhattan real estate lawyer who “boasted” about alleged ex parte communications with the judge overseeing the ex-president’s civil fraud case, a Supreme Court justice has said. “The subpoena is not wholly without merit,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron wrote in a Tuesday…

The founder and former CEO of tax compliance company Exactera has been harassing the corporation and its employees with frivolous litigation, according to a new lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court Commercial Division. Plaintiffs allege David Scherer—who stepped down as CEO in 2021 and left the board of directors in 2022—“is…