DuBose Miller, LLC 01/23/2024Daily Report TO: ALL MEMBERS OF THE BAR AND ALL CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF ATLANTA The Atlanta Judicial Commission is now accepting nominations for the position of Municipal Court Judge for the City of Atlanta Municipal Court. Members of the bar may nominate themselves or others,…

On her move and rapid rise within the New York State Inspector General’s office, after a long career in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, Michele Bayer recalled an important question from her young son during the height of the pandemic: Bayer said her then seven-year-old son, who was growing more…

Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, stars of the 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet,” have filed suit against Paramount Pictures, Criterion Collections, and Janus Films over digitally enhanced nude photos of them, contending they never consented to the digital enhancement of their body parts. This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source…

Lawyers doling out fees in Roundup litigation stood by their decisions on how to allocate the funds, despite objections raised by other firms. The fee committee, which is comprised of the three lead plaintiffs firms in the Roundup multidistrict litigation, allocated 81% to themselves and the rest to four other…

TOO MUCH, TOO FAST  – Despite impressive gains at the top of the Am Law 200 charts and a mindset geared more toward growth, layoffs and cuts continue to rattle the industry. Productivity and utilization remain a problem, observers and analysts have told Law.com’s Andrew Maloney , as some firms expect deal work…

As is often the case with disruptive technologies, the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has outpaced our ability to regulate it. Predictably, this has led to some cautionary examples of ill-considered use of AI. For instance, a Colorado attorney’s use of generative AI to prepare a motion to set…