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AZ Election Lawyer Sanctioned After Bragging In Court That He Was Too Old To Care About Sanctions

[photo1]Yesterday, a Big Lie dead ender in Arizona got sanctioned, along with their lawyer. Nope, not Kari Lake ... another one."Arizona's courts have emphasized that sanctions should be awarded only ...

Mar 2023

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Musk suspends "overzealous" rightsholders for "weaponizing" DMCA on Twitter

Yesterday, Twitter CEO Elon Musk declared that Twitter will now be temporarily suspending any accounts found to be "engaging in repeated, egregious weaponization" of the Digital Millennium Copyright A...

Mar 2023

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Trump Lawyer Gets Bar Complaint. Yeah, Another One.

[photo1]Yesterday, the group Lawyers Defending American Democracy (LDAD) filed a complaint to the DC Board of Professional Responsibility against Stefan Passantino, a lawyer for the Trump Organization...

Mar 2023

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Tesla shareholder suit says Musk and co. lied about Full Self-Driving safety

A class-action complaint alleges that Tesla and CEO Elon Musk repeatedly made false statements about the capabilities and safety of the electric carmaker's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) techno...

Feb 2023

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Attorney Sued For 'Quiet Quitting' Her Law Firm Job

[photo1]The pandemic changed society in a number of ways, but in terms of our working lives, the biggest impact of COVID was the ubiquity of working from home. That ushered in a number of other trends...

Feb 2023

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Apple's focus on secrecy violated employee rights, US regulators find

Apple violated US labor laws through various workplace rules and statements made by executives, National Labor Relations Board officials determined after reviewing allegations from two for...

Jan 2023

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Biglaw Firm Lashes Out At Ex-Exec And Calls Out 'Facially Absurd' Story

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The latest filing in the explosive lawsuit between Biglaw firm Proskauer and its former Chief Operating Officer, Jonathan O'Brien, reveals the type of rancor we're rapidly coming to expect...

Jan 2023

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Lawsuit: Twitter stopped paying rent at headquarters after Musk took over

Twitter is being sued for alleged nonpayment of rent by the owner of its US headquarters building in San Francisco, the latest of several lawsuits saying Twitter stopped paying bills after...

Jan 2023

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BENCHSLAP: Trump And His Lawyers Fined $1M For Filing Garbage RICO Suit Against Hillary Clinton

[photo1]This is not what you want to read when you're on the pointy end of a sanctions order:
This case should never have been brought. Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start. N...

Jan 2023

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First, They Came For The Artists. Second, Pictures Of Some Dude's Junk -- See Also

Guess who just CALI'd legal writing?
Legal Writing Is About To Get A Lot More Technical: Law school dean wants a novel program undergrads use to write papers without doing the read...

Jan 2023