New York’s executive branch won’t divert $100 million from a fund that pays for low-income New Yorkers to receive civil legal services, apparently bending to pushback from a swath of the Empire State’s broader legal community, including Big Law. In January, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget team proposed to transfer the amount…

Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado Law School since 1990, settled a lawsuit against the university for alleged pay discrimination due to him being Latino. The settlement, reached on Monday, states that the university denies any wrongdoing and Campos dismissed his claims against Dean Lolita Buckner Inniss…

Stories of lawyers’ artificial intelligence mishaps have highlighted the risks of using generative AI for legal work, but that doesn’t mean attorneys should shy away from the new technology, panelists on an ethics webinar said Friday. Elias Mickle Kennedy partner Luciano Patruno and the Law Offices of Daniel J. Siegel’s…

The Seventh Circuit concluded that children whose parents had activated DNA test kits for them on Ancestry.com were not bound to Ancestry’s arbitration agreement, concluding the parents had not signed an agreement on behalf of the children. Parents who activated DNA test kits on Ancestry.com for their children filed suit…

Hinshaw & Culbertson is facing allegations of negligence following its work representing an insurer and a doctor in a malpractice suit filed in Florida state court. Dr. Anthony Battillo, a former chiropractor and the plaintiff in the negligence lawsuit, was sued in 2010 for malpractice after his client allegedly sustained…

Fort Lauderdale attorneys for the heiress to the Texaco Inc. fortune scored a defense verdict in a federal district court in Fort Myers against the U.S. Department of Justice, which was seeking to assess a $21 million penalty for a report of foreign bank and financial account violation. Jeffrey Neiman…