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Biglaw
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.11.23
* Supreme Court steps in to block opioid settlement that would’ve immunized the Sacklers. Looks like someone needs to start buying some luxury vacations for Clarence! [CNN]
* FEC looking into campaign deepfakes. Not to offer Donald Trump free advice, but he might want to embrace AI and argue that all those election calls were just malicious AI phonies. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Law firm closing up shop after nearly a century in business. [Law.com]
* Ed Blum is taking his effort to stamp out diversity from the classroom to the boardroom, going after a venture capital firm that invests in Black-owned businesses. [Reuters]
* University of California drawing back from Lewis Brisbois over the email scandal. Though those guys aren’t there anymore so this is more of a “how did you let this happen?” penalty. [Law360]
* Caltech and Apple have settled lawsuit over Wifi. With that kind of money, maybe they can join the Big Ten too. [9to5Mac]
* Is an LLM worth putting off a Biglaw job? [LegalCheek]
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Small Law Firms, Technology
Maybe You Don't Need To ‘Recession-Proof’ Your Firm After All?
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Small Law Firms
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Courts, Health Care / Medicine
Nektar Sues Eli Lilly, Claiming The Big Pharma Breached Contract To Favor Another Drug
The biotech claims its former partner tried to disadvantage the asset in order to advance development of another drug it acquired in a billion-dollar deal. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.10.23
* Another day, another several hundred grand worth of unethical and undisclosed gifts for Clarence Thomas. [ProPublica]
* ABA encouraging law firms to redouble efforts to expand diversity… before the Supreme Court makes it illegal. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Lawsuit alleges private attorney took on upwards of 600 indigent client criminal cases, collecting huge sums from the city, and then not doing any work. That’s not totally true… the lawsuit alleges that the lawyer was quite diligent about filing motions for fees. [ABA Journal]
* Treasury announcing regulations to curb money laundering through real estate. Maybe Manhattan will be affordable again in 15 years! [Reuters]
* A Wisconsin police department refuses to divulge the name of officers who shoot people citing victim’s rights laws and arguing that if they shot someone they must have felt threatened and therefore are the real victims. [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]
* Don’t use AI to write your firm’s web content reports the department of obvious things. [Search Engine Journal]
* Ninth Circuit says text spam is not covered by the TCPA. Great! Just in time for generative AI to remove almost every entry barrier to mass text spamming. [Law360]
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Health Care / Medicine
How Did The 3 Biggest For-Profit Hospital Chains Perform In Q2?
HCA and Tenet reported net incomes for the second quarter, while CHS posted a net loss. All three health systems found themselves in a better financial position in Q2 2023 than they were in Q2 of last year, driven in large part by declining contract labor expenses. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.09.23
* Can you avoid discovery by saying, “the dog ate my homework”? Asking for a Rudy Giuliani. [Guardian]
* Anti-porn legislation is “Making the Online Porn Industry Retreat.” Impressed with the restraint it took not to say “pull out.” [Politico]
* Ohio voters reject effort to game the rules. [Courthouse News Service]
* Shareholders approved fewer ESG proposals this year because they’re fickle cowards. [Corporate Counsel]
* Starbucks can’t fire people just for being pro-union. [Law360]
* Teacher refusing to use student’s personal pronouns to test SCOTUS standard. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Southwest will appeal court’s order that it take training classes from a designated hate group. Too bad that appeal is going to the Fifth Circuit. [Reuters]
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In-House Counsel, Technology
Elevating The Human Experience: How GAI Transforms Legal Workflow Automation
Beyond legal research, workflow automation is likely to be one of the areas of legal tech most impacted by generative AI. -
Health Care / Medicine
Hospitals Still Struggling To Get Back Online 4 Days After Cyberattack On Prospect Medical Holdings
Hospitals and outpatient treatment centers in at least three states are struggling to get their systems back online following a ransomware attack waged last week against parent company Prospect Medical Holdings. Some of these facilities have partially or completely halted patient care.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.08.23
* Biggest law firm no more… Dentons splitting from Dacheng as China institutes new cybersecurity regulations. [Financial Times]
* The folks behind the Supreme Court case striking down affirmative action in higher education are now launching suits against diversity in the private sector. [WSJ]
* John Eastman wants his disbarment proceedings halted so he can concentrate on being an (as yet) unindicted co-conspirator. [The Hill]
* The Federal Circuit wants to sideline Judge Pauline Newman for not submitting to a mental health examination… or more accurately their mental health examination. Because she has been examined by a neurologist who blasted the circuit’s recommendation. First federal judges explain history to historians, now they’re explaining neurology to neurologists. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Trump judge orders Southwest Airlines attorneys to attend “religious freedom” training from designated hate group. [Law360]
* Stroock and Stroock and Leavin’. More partners jump ship as the firm votes to end its pension obligations. [American Lawyer]
* Attorneys in Wells Fargo case ask for $180 million. Or double what Wachtell wanted for the Twitter deal that got everyone in a tizzy. [Reuters]
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Courts, Health Care / Medicine
GSK Patent Suit Aims To Halt Pfizer’s RSV Vaccine For Adults, But Not Infants
GSK claims that Pfizer’s FDA-approved vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus infringes on four patents protecting its own approved vaccine, Arexvy. The patent suit comes with the RSV season approaching. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.07.23
* Elon claims that X will pay legal fees of users who lost their jobs over deplorable stuff they Tweeted. Bold promise from a guy who won’t even pay his own legal fees. [Fortune]
* Law firm demand is up as the market continues to fret about the recession that never materialized. [Reuters]
* Federal Circuit panel calls for Judge Pauline Newman to be suspended for a year for not submitting to a mental health examination to prove or disprove the mental health allegations that the Federal Circuit seeks to suspend her over. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Convicted war criminal seeks bar admission. In case you were worried about how character & fitness might eye your speeding tickets. [The Intercept]
* Ken Paxton’s lawyers recognize the broad gag order prohibiting them from discussing the case with the media beyond reciting information in public records… so they’re just going on the radio and reading selective, inflammatory passages from their filings. [KABB]
* Attorney David Oscar Markus snagged around 45 minutes with Trump attorney John Lauro. [For the Defense]
* Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree has passed away. [Politico]
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Health Care / Medicine
‘A Criminal Justice Approach To A Public Health Problem’: How The Justice System Can Improve SUD Support
There is inadequate substance use disorder support for people who are incarcerated or are leaving incarceration. But there are opportunities to make improvements, experts say. -
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Technology
AI Update: MIT’s AI Rules, BigLaw’s Slow AI Embrace, The NYSBA AI Task Force
This week in AI news. -