The practice of law is a demanding profession. Lawyers often are highly-motivated individuals, driven to serve clients and succeed in matters. They typically are engaged in adversarial relationships with other lawyers (whether in litigation or transactional matters), and measure their lives in tenths of an hour. In such a demanding,…

Chief Judge A. Gregory Poole of Georgia’s Cobb County Judicial Circuit declared a judicial emergency on the morning of Aug. 7 due several “serious issues” that have persisted since a software conversion in late June. A CMS conversion from the previous CRIS system to the CMS360 Icon electronic management system…

The U.S. Department of Justice’s victory this week in its antitrust case against search engine giant Google will likely have little impact on the government’s claims against other big tech companies, antitrust experts said. Douglas Ross, a University of Washington law professor, cited the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against…

Citing attorney-client privilege, dozens of law firms are urging a federal appeals court to reverse a judge’s order that required a company to turn over documents from internal investigations conducted by Jones Day and Squire Patton Boggs. Kirkland & Ellis, Cooley and DLA Piper are among 39 prominent law firms…

A judge’s use of ChatGPT in a recent judgment has prompted outrage, disbelief and concern in the Netherlands. A judge in the Dutch center-east province of Gelderland used the popular language model in a June 7 decision to determine the efficiency loss of solar panels in a dispute between two neighbors.…

Personal injury firm Trantolo & Trantolo is in a legal battle with two attorneys who left to create their own firm—and allegedly poached clients and copied business practices in the process. The defendants, Agron Etemi, Lulzim Etemi and Etemi Law, have denied all the allegations. They also brought counterclaims, according to court…