(Photo by Curtis Means-Pool/Getty Images) Donald Trump is now a convicted felon and everyone wants to know why his attorneys phoned in the defense. They… don’t have good answers. At all. Continuing the Trump beat, Judge Aileen Cannon continued to display a delicate mix of cynical obstinance and outright incompetence, slow-playing a motion to keep…
The UK’s Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has referred Nicholas Williams, a former Freshfields partner, to its Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal in the wake of allegations of inappropriate conduct that took place while he still worked at the firm, in December 2017. Law.com International has additional details: In its decision, announced on Monday, the SRA said that…
Most recently, Open AI introduced chat GPT, a form of generative AI – an LLM – that generates texts and images based on user queries and requests. The days following the launch of Open AI’s Chat GPT were fraught with uncertainty as pundits, tech experts, and even novices deliberated on the implications of Chat GPT…
On the heels of the Alabama debacle — where the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that fertility clinics could be liable for the wrongful death of a minor child in the case of the destruction of a cryopreserved embryo — a lot has happened. Just weeks after the decision, Alabama rushed to enact emergency legislation giving blanket immunity…
UPDATED (June 4, 2024): Victory! On May 28, FIRE followed up its letter to the Florida Department of Education with a public comment concerning its proposed library media training document, which misinterpreted state law governing school library materials. The following day, before approving the training document, the DOE amended the inaccurate slide flagged by FIRE….
WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Jun 5, 2024 at 10:24 am Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Coming up: On Thursday, June 6, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the…
When someone buys a cannabis business, and not just that business’s assets, they essentially inherit all of its liabilities. And there are usually a lot. If the business is in the midst of a lawsuit, owes back taxes, is behind on rent, etc., the buyer will need to deal with those problems on its own–unless…
$125 million might be nice, but in a building where the penthouse is seeking $105 million, not as nice as actually being able to sell your condo. The post Noise, Floods, Faulty Elevators Apparently Not Great Selling Points For Billionaire’s Row Condos appeared first on Above the Law. #Noise #Floods #Faulty #Elevators #Apparently #Great #Selling…
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* ACLU suing Biden administration over new asylum rules that were basically the Trump Muslim ban… but for Latin America. [Axios] * Linklaters pulls back from plan to just not pay partners what they’ve earned if they decide to lateral. [Law.com International] * Trump asks judge to formally lift gag order now that there aren’t…