Above The Law
JUNE 9, 2025
While practicing lawyers embrace generative AI as a quicker and more efficient avenue to sanctions , law professors have mostly avoided AI headlines. This isn’t necessarily surprising. Lawyers only get into trouble with AI when they’re lazy. It becomes a problem when someone along the assembly line inserts AI-generated slop without taking the time to properly cite check.
Attorney at Work
JUNE 9, 2025
Process Improvement Tips | The 5-Minute Matter Review is a simple away to bring visibility, control and accountability to your work. The post The 5-Minute Matter Review: A Weekly Ritual for Project-Oriented Law Firms appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
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JURIST
JUNE 9, 2025
A judge in the UK has warned lawyers of the consequences for submitting court filings with fake cases generated by artificial intelligence (AI). In a judgment made available to the public on Friday, Dame Victoria Sharp considered two cases in which legal professionals were suspected of using AI involving non-existent citations in their submissions to the courts.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 9, 2025
A privately owned company is proposing a pipeline across five states. While some of the state governments appear to be on board, the project is facing backlash from a large and formidable population: property owners. The pipeline, known as Summit Carbon Solutions, would span 2,500 miles and transport carbon dioxide (CO2) captured at 57 ethanol plants in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and the Dakotas to a permanent underground storage site in North Dakota.
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JURIST
JUNE 9, 2025
Thousands of opposition protesters demonstrated in Madrid, Spain, on Sunday, accusing Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) of corruption and calling for an early election. The protest was organized by the country’s main opposition party, Partido Popular (PP), after leaked audio recordings revealed a PSOE campaign to discredit the Central Operative Unit (UCO).
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Above The Law
JUNE 9, 2025
In my experience, few moments feel as disorienting as receiving a hefty law firm invoice that reads like a puzzle and realizing no one’s available to explain it. That’s not luxury, that’s just expensive confusion. If that sounds familiar, you’ll want to hear more from Brent Dyer, director of legal operations at Trend Micro. In our full conversation, Brent breaks down what outside counsel should really be delivering, and how in-house teams can raise their expectations.
JURIST
JUNE 9, 2025
On May 28, Indonesia’s Minister of Manpower (Menaker), Yassierli, issued Ministerial Circular Letter (SE Menaker) No. M/6/HK.04/V/2025 on the Prohibition of Discrimination in the Employment Recruitment Process. This move offers fresh air for job seekers in Indonesia, many of whom have long been hindered by minimum and maximum age restrictions.
Above The Law
JUNE 9, 2025
Biglaw firms with single partnership tiers are now few and far between, with more big-name firms showing that they’re ready, willing, and able to welcome nonequity partners to their ranks. Cravath was one of the first longtime holdouts to cut bait and create a “salaried partner tier” (i.e., nonequity partners) back in November 2023. That move gave other highly ranked firms permission to tread the same path, including Paul Weiss, which announced its new two-tier partnership plan in March 2024; Wi
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 9, 2025
Dario Amodei, CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, published a guest essay in The New York Times Thursday arguing against a proposed 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation. Amodei argues that a patchwork of regulations would be better than no regulation whatsoever. Skepticism is warranted whenever the head of an incumbent firm calls for more regulation, and this case is no different.
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SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 9, 2025
On April 23, 2025, United States Deputy Solicitor General Edwin S. Kneedler made his 160th argument before the Supreme Court, following which he will be retiring. This article is one in a series of tributes from Mr. Kneedler’s former colleagues on his remarkable career. Ed Kneedler retires as the most prolific Supreme Court advocate in modern history.
HowAppealing
JUNE 9, 2025
“Maryland Supreme Court upholds gun possession ban in some non-felony cases”: Maryland Matters has this report on a 6-to-1 ruling that the Supreme Court of Maryland issued last Friday.
JURIST
JUNE 9, 2025
Amnesty International, in conjunction with numerous nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), released a statement calling for Egyptian authorities to immediately set free lawyer and activist Ibrahim Metwally after nearly seven years in pre-trial detention. The statement recounted the series of injustices that have befallen Metwally since his arrest. NGOs claimed Metwally has been tortured, mistreated by police, and denied access to his family and legal representation: Following his arrest, he was h
HowAppealing
JUNE 9, 2025
“Supreme Court rejects Fane Lozman’s latest bid to force Riviera Beach to pay him millions; Fane Lozman sued Riviera Beach in 2022 over the $49 million he claimed city officials robbed him of when they made his submerged land off-limits to developers”: Hannah Phillips of The Palm Beach Post has this report.
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EvidenceProf Blog
JUNE 9, 2025
During closing arguments, it's perfectly proper for the prosecutor to criticize defense theories and tactics, which is why there was no error in United States v. Aceituno, 2025 WL 1553681 (1st Cir. 2025). In Aceituno, "[a]fter a jury trial in.
HowAppealing
JUNE 9, 2025
“157. A Busy (and Glitchy) Week: The Supreme Court capped off a busy week with two major late-Friday-afternoon rulings on emergency applications — and a harmless but nevertheless alarming glitch prematurely releasing today’s orders.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.
ABA Journal
JUNE 9, 2025
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HowAppealing
JUNE 9, 2025
“The Supreme Court Is Divided in More Ways Than You’d Think”: Law professor J. Joel Alicea has this guest essay online at The New York Times.
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The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 9, 2025
The opinion (132 pages long) by Judge Lewis Liman (S.D.N.Y.) is here ; the court also rejects the Baldoni side's civil extortion, breach of contract, false light, promissory fraud, and breach of contract claims. The opinion is too long to summarize here, but the key arguments that the court accepted as to the defamation claims are: Statements quoting from Lively's California Civil Rights Department complaint are protected by the "fair report" privilege, which covers fair reports of court filings
HowAppealing
JUNE 9, 2025
“Judicial Notice (06.08.25): Noisy Withdrawals; Damian Williams’s departure from Paul Weiss, three notable SCOTUS rulings, the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and another Biglaw firm opening in Boston.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.
LegalSifter
JUNE 9, 2025
Contract review takes time. For many legal, procurement, and finance teams, that time adds up, slowing down deals, increasing legal spend, and introducing avoidable risk. Manual reviews often miss key details or lead to inconsistent decisions, especially when different people handle similar agreements.
HowAppealing
JUNE 9, 2025
“After Kennedy: pondering Eighth Amendment functioning and litigating; With states enacting new capital child rape laws, whither the Supreme Court’s 2008 ruling Kennedy v. Louisiana?” Douglas A. Berman has this post at the “Sentencing Matters Substack.
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Above The Law
JUNE 9, 2025
Ed. note : Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I take boxing lessons. And I think that helps you to really get out any frustrations. — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson , in comments noted by the ABA Journal , concerning how the Supreme Court’s most junior justice deals with judicial disappointment that may result from being a member of the high court’s liberal minority.
HowAppealing
JUNE 9, 2025
“Federal judges are powerful. Some of their law clerks describe a toxic work culture.” Carrie Johnson had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.” And Saturday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered” contained an audio segment titled “ Carrie Johnson on her reporting that uncovered pervasive abuse of clerks by some judges.
HarrisBricken
JUNE 9, 2025
We’re proud to share that attorney Jason Adelstone will be a featured panelist at this year’s Cannabis Law Institute (CLI 2025) , hosted by the International Cannabis Bar Association (INCBA). Taking place June 12–13, 2025 at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law , CLI 2025 is widely recognized as the leading annual conference for cannabis law professionals.
Law 360
JUNE 9, 2025
The U.S. government hoped to reach an agreement Monday with China's government to loosen export controls on rare earth elements in exchange for the U.S. relaxing controls on semiconductors, the White House National Economic Council director said.
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Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?
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