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Karl Seelbach wants to change that. As a personal injury defense litigator and the co-founder of Skribe.ai, he is pushing the legal industry to rethink deposition tech not as an optional upgrade but as foundational infrastructure. What he is building may be aimed at courtroom practice, but the implications reach far beyond litigation. For in-house teams who want to improve trust, clarity, and speed across their legal stack, this conversation is your wake-up call.

too many powerful, wealthy people in venture act like it's OK to break the law and systemically underpay and abuse their employees.

It's not only law firms and legal departments that are adopting GenAI systems without fully understanding what they can and cannot do - court systems may also be tempted to adopt these tools to short circuit workloads in the face of limited resources. And that poses some risks and concerns to the rule of law, a notion that hinges on accuracy, fairness, and public perception.

As early adopters have discovered, Copilot delivers real transformation only when it becomes an integral part of critical workflows. Enterprises are beginning to treat generative AI not as an isolated productivity tool, but as the connective layer linking business applications, data, and human judgment. Nowhere is this shift clearer than in organizations using Microsoft 365 Copilot as part of a broader architecture that spans CRMs, low-code platforms, and specialized AI systems.

Last August, my dream trip to India imploded before takeoff. A delayed flight from Orlando to Atlanta caused me to miss my connection to Paris. Delta Air Lines rebooked me 25 hours later through London, costing me $270 for hotels, meals and taxis. I'd wisely bought Trawick International travel insurance, which covers a trip disruption. But SureGo Claims, their administrator, became a nightmare. They demanded endless documents, assured me everything was received, then denied my claim with a lie: Your delay was only 3 hours.

The judges found that the state's policy of limiting open carry to counties with a population of less than 200,000 is inconsistent with the Second Amendment. California's legal regime is a complete ban on open carry in urban areas the areas of the state where 95% of the people live, they said in the decision. The dissenting judge disagreed and said California could limit open carry in more populated areas because it allows for concealed carry throughout the state.

Many readers of Above the Law eagerly await news about annual bonuses around the end of the year. Most Biglaw law firms award those bonuses based on seniority and perhaps other performance-based metrics. Some smaller law firms also have institutionalized year-end bonus initiatives through which attorneys may receive a bonus equal to one or two months of salary. However, most attorneys work at small law firms and are much less likely to receive an annual bonus at such firms.

The Court accepts as true all of the well-pleaded facts in the Complaint and draws all reasonable inferences in favor of Plaintiffs. So said U.S. District Judge Franklin Valderrama on 12.4.2025. According to Reuters: A group of companies that lease land for mobile homes has convinced a federal judge in Chicago to dismiss a proposed nationwide class action accusing them of conspiring to inflate lot rents.

Deciding to end a marriage can be difficult, painful and expensive, but the state is giving more couples who choose to amicably call it quits access to a low-cost divorce option. The average cost of a California divorce is about $17,500, due to court filings, proceedings and attorney fees. That's about $2,500 higher than the national average. But for $435, more California couples can avoid the onerous legal separation process and begin divorce proceedings in a more streamlined way.

A longtime Medford firefighter was arrested Monday night after he allegedly sent lewd images and videos to an undercover agent he thought was a 14-year-old, according to officials and reports. Hugh McEleney, 63, is charged with dissemination of matter harmful to minors, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan announced. He pleaded not guilty in Somerville District Court Tuesday. Medford police were notified in December that McEleney was identified during a federal investigation into child exploitation,

Touchy With The Teeth: Sidley associate fired after (politely) gnawing on her co-workers.

It's not just courts telling these lawmakers they are wrong. EFF has spent the past year filing friend-of-the-court briefs in courts across the country explaining how these laws violate young people's First Amendment rights to speak and get information online. In the process, these laws also burden adults' rights, and jeopardize everyone's privacy and data security.

A previously sealed Delaware court filing released Monday offered the most detailed picture yet of JPMorgan's claim that Javice, who was convicted in March of defrauding the largest US bank in a $175 million deal, abused a 2023 order requiring it to cover the costs of her defense. JPMorgan is seeking to avoid $10.2 million in disputed charges and end the requirement that it pay future bills.

* Another former partner sues Kasowitz alleging unpaid compensation. [ NY Law Journal] * The Post Office will no longer postmark mail on the day it's sent. The goal is to prevent mail-in voting, but... so long mailbox rule![ Brookings] * Alex Spiro writes California governor warning him that his clients will leave California if the state attempts to make them actually pay taxes. [ Yahoo] * Jeffrey Toobin profiles Tom Goldstein's predicament. Key takeaway... it seems as though he might not have been quite as good at poker as he thought. [ New York Times Magazine]

This notion masquerading as a truism sounds good. We like it. We want it to be true. It alleviates the need to worry about what AI is doing to our profession. It assures we will all have jobs in the future gazing out the window and thinking all day. And getting paid vast sums of money to do so. It's in every press release and white paper from vendors.

A nonprofit group that advocates for law clerks has taken the rare step of filing a misconduct complaint against a federal appeals court judge, alleging she bullies and mistreats law clerks and that the courts' process for fielding such claims is broken. The complaint from the Legal Accountability Project against Judge Sarah Merriam of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit states that it is based on conversations with multiple former law clerks who fear retaliation if they come forward themselves.

Samsung Electronics America Inc. escaped nearly all claims brought by a group of consumers who alleged the hinges on its Chromebook convertible laptop are defective.

Integrated social features allow users to share their achievements interact with other players and participate in community challenges thus creating an enriching social dimension and fostering long-term engagement on the platform. Interface design automatically adapts to various screen sizes and device orientations delivering optimal visual experience across desktop tablet and mobile devices through native apps or web browsers. Technical infrastructure is built on distributed server networks ensuring fast loading times smooth navigation and responsive performance even during high-traffic periods maintaining consistent user experience quality.

[W]e normally do not interpret claim terms in a way that excludes embodiments disclosed in the specification.

The court declares certain crimes to be " per se grave or serious," which in practice means that no one convicted of such crimes can ever challenge their sentence, no matter its severity. Colorado's state constitution prohibits "cruel and unusual" punishment, including excessive or "disproportionate" prison terms. To assess excessive punishment claims, Colorado courts begin by comparing "the gravity or seriousness of the offense to the harshness of the penalty." Normally, Colorado case law takes a relatively capacious view of how a crime's "gravity" should be measured.

A Utah judge on Monday ordered the release of a transcript from a closed-door hearing in October over whether the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk must be shackled during court proceedings. State District Judge Tony Graf said the transcript must be posted on the court docket by the end of the day. Attorneys for media outlets including The Associated Press had argued for details of the closed hearing to be made public.

Days ahead of trial, a federal judge has dismissed an indictment against a TikTok streamer shot by ICE earlier this year, citing constitutional violations by the government. In a Saturday order, U.S. District Judge Fernando M. Olguin cited the deprivation of Carlitos Ricardo Parias' access to counsel while held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and the government's failure to comply with discovery deadlines - including the timely release of body worn camera footage that captured the shooting.

An upstate couple who relocated to Florida is still on the hook for a $60,000 New York tax bill because they didn't prove their Sunshine State pad was their main residence, the state tax panel ruled in a recent bombshell decision. John Hoff and his wife, Kathleen Ocorr-Hoff, kept cashing paychecks here and didn't give up their local country club memberships, the tax panel found in the decision - which could give pause to snowbirds splitting time between the Empire State and Florida.

While campaigning for his seat in 2023, Plass, who served as a Hyde Park police officer and worked at his family's limousine business for decades, sent out a campaign mailer where he pledged to keep drug dealers off our streets and out of our hotels, incarcerate offenders and protect victims of domestic violence, and assure repeat offenders are sentenced to the full extent of the law.

In response, NWMLS has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, claimed that it has no duty to deal with Compass, and it most recently indicated that it intends to assert counterclaims, if the judge does not grant its motion to dismiss the suit. Earlier this month, Compass filed a motion to compel NWMLS to produce documents. In this motion and other filings, Compass has argued that NWMLS has delayed production of documents and has failed to respond to requests since discovery began in June.

Terrell Eleby, a Brooklyn native incarcerated in New York's Shawangunk Correctional Facility, wrote to a conviction review unit in Kings County in 2013, asking it to reinvestigate his murder and assault convictions. He claimed in part that police had threatened witnesses to keep them from testifying in his favor. A decade would pass before he learned the unit rejected his application.

Local News The injuries Kelsey Fitzsimmons suffered during the incident have now healed enough that she can use an alcohol breath test safely.