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Atlanta Firm Working to Use AI Startup Platform in All Aspects of Operations

If AI represents the next wave of technology that allows lawyers to more efficiently run their business operations, an Atlanta-based firm intends to ride it all the way. Labor and employment boutique Barrett & Farahany is using Eve, an AI platform developed by a San Francisco-based startup company, for its legal work…

BREAKING: Judge Arrested for ‘Battery Against a Police Officer’

Rather than preside over her own docket Thursday, Douglas County Probate Judge Christina Peterson spent the morning at Fulton County Magistrate Court after being arrested overnight. According to Fulton County Jail records, Peterson faces felony charges of “Simple Battery Against Police Officer/Police Dog/Corrections Or Detention” and “Willful Obstruction Of Law…

The Whole Truth: Addressing Hypothetical Questions to Lay and Expert Witnesses

Hypothetical questions can help facilitate conversations on judgments about the perceived likelihood or potential consequences of an event or an action. They can also help reveal hidden or flawed assumptions. Supreme Court justices, for instance, often use hypothetical questions to test the outer boundaries of what the advocate is asking…

FTC Strikes Back at MGM for Fighting Its Probe of Massive Cyberattack

The Federal Trade Commission is asking a federal court to force MGM Resorts International to comply with its investigative demands regarding a crippling cyberattack in September that exposed the personal information of 1.5 million MGM guests and brought down the hotel and casino operator’s systems for more than a week.…