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Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to Am Law’s 2024 Texas 100, which firm has the biggest Texas headcount? Hint: This firm has 460 attorneys in the Lone Star State — up 8.5% — and their biggest Texas office is located in Dallas. See the answer on the…
(Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) Last month, current British Prime Minister Keir Starmer won the role in a landslide victory. Starmer quickly canceled his predecessor’s, Rishi Sunak, planned mass deportations of “illegal immigrants.” Then the tragic Southport stabbing, which left three children dead, happened and fake rumors (easily debunked) calling the assailant an asylum-seeker or…
2023 is seen by some as the time when the Wild Wild West of the AI frontiers reigned. If that’s the case, then we can look to 2024 and beyond as the time when a new sheriff came to town: the EU AI Act. The excitement and frenzy that came from OpenAI’s ChatGPT was soon…
Google’s big antitrust loss is arguably the biggest antitrust development since the Microsoft case a quarter century ago. As much as the opinion shakes up the world of search, it might end up having bigger implications for the nascent artificial intelligence industry if it disrupts Google’s access to all the juicy user data it can…
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. There’s a lot of complexity to Big Law firms. But I try to simplify that, and say, “We’re competing everyday in two markets: we’re competing in the market for talent, and we’re competing for the market for clients.” I think, for me, trying to…
The bar exam is officially past, and now we wait to learn who passed. This year’s examination included dehydrating applicants and examinees missing out on their family’s Olympic success. While bar exam changes are coming — and law students can get paid to help — at the end of the day, it’s a giant boondoggle…
Law firms enjoyed monster profits during the lockdown as attorneys adapted to working from home. After the storm passed, firms tried to reconcile a workforce that had grown to appreciate the flexibility of home work with the long-term leases entered before 2020. While senior attorneys balked at being brought back to the office to put…
Can the prosecution be real for a second? There are times where it makes sense to pause and think before you answer a question. Dora The Explorer, one of the greatest characters of our time, frequently gives her viewers time to ruminate over questions like “What’s your name?“, “Can you see the Map?”, and “Holy…
(Image via Getty) A Texas adoption attorney is accused of a nefarious scheme of trying to purchase babies from pregnant inmates via money placed in commissary accounts. Jody Hall is facing two third degree felony counts of sale or purchase of a child, each of which carries a penalty of up to 10 years in…
The challenges facing legal departments are clear: tighter budgets, increasing workloads, and a pressing need for efficiency. While AI adoption in the legal profession is still in its early stages, it offers a promising solution to these issues, particularly for contract review. The question for many legal professionals isn’t whether to embrace AI — it’s…