Litigation Management

Generative artificial intelligence developers face lawsuits over user suicides

As the legal system struggles to catch up with technology, lawsuits are seeking to hold artificial intelligence tools accountable.

Sep 10, 2025 8:53 AM CDT

Immunity doesn’t protect Trump from $83.3M defamation verdict over sexual assault denials, 2nd Circuit rules

A federal appeals court has affirmed an $83.3 million defamation verdict against President Donald Trump for denying writer E. Jean Carroll’s claim that he sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s.

Sep 9, 2025 9:19 AM CDT

Not Chickening Out: The world’s oldest profession is fighting

"Tweedledum and Tweedledee agreed to have a battle; for Tweedledum said Tweedledee had spoiled his nice new rattle." —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

Sep 3, 2025 2:03 PM CDT

Penn Law prof’s discrimination claims ‘do not pass the plausibility test,’ judge says in tossing her suit

A law professor suspended and reprimanded for remarks that “demeaned and denigrated racial minorities” can’t pursue her discrimination lawsuit in federal court, a federal judge in Philadelphia ruled last week.

Sep 3, 2025 10:33 AM CDT

Confronted with AI hallucinations in filings, one court shows ‘justifiable kindness,’ while another gets tough

Updated: Many federal courts are trying to teach lawyers a lesson for court filings with errors generated by artificial intelligence, but one recent case takes a kinder, gentler approach.

Aug 19, 2025 10:56 AM CDT

Boies Schiller sanctioned nearly $15K for ‘uniquely eye-opening breakdown in civility’

Boies Schiller Flexner must pay $14,866 for disobeying court orders to cooperate with an opposing counsel on joint case filings, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled last week.

Aug 11, 2025 10:14 AM CDT

How to maximize case management to empower modern litigation

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Keao Caindec, the co-founder and CEO of Clarra, a case management platform.

Aug 8, 2025 9:34 AM CDT

Who—or what—is to blame for 2 federal judges’ error-filled withdrawn opinions?

The responsibility for substantial errors in opinions recently withdrawn by two federal judges likely lies in the first instance with artificial intelligence, but the buck doesn’t stop there, observers say.

Aug 7, 2025 9:56 AM CDT

LSAC hit with lawsuit challenging application fees

“LSAC has violated federal antitrust law and gouged law school applicants attempting to follow their dreams,” the suit states.

Aug 6, 2025 3:04 PM CDT

Nonequity partner’s unjust enrichment suit against Duane Morris remains largely intact after judge’s ruling

A federal judge has refused to dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that Duane Morris saddles nonequity partners with business expenses and partnership taxes, even though they have no power in the law firm.

Aug 6, 2025 9:02 AM CDT

Bondi files ethics complaint against federal judge who reportedly expressed concern about ‘constitutional crisis’

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a misconduct complaint against Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of Washington, D.C., said U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in a post Monday on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Jul 29, 2025 12:57 PM CDT

After mass terminations at DOJ, former top ethics official is 1 of 3 plaintiffs suing the agency

Updated: Three former Justice Department officials, including a longtime federal prosecutor who handled cases against the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol rioters, filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Pam Bondi and President Donald Trump’s administration for failing to follow the administrative guardrails protecting employees from arbitrary or unlawful termination.

Jul 25, 2025 9:59 AM CDT

Can you hear me out there? Jane’s Addiction lawsuits allege erratic behavior and loud instruments

Sex. Drugs. Rock ‘n’ roll. Litigation. All pretty run-of-the-mill with some bands. But what’s less common, entertainment lawyers say, is a rock band dispute spiraling into an onstage physical altercation that is captured on camera and circulated on social media. That’s what happened last year, when Jane’s Addiction lead singer Perry Farrell punched guitarist Dave Navarro during a concert at Boston’s Leader Bank Pavilion. The fight ended the band’s reunion tour and ultimately resulted in a litigation scuffle.

Jul 24, 2025 9:56 AM CDT

Special master to decide whether Quinn Emanuel lawyers must contribute to $3M sanction

Updated: A federal judge in San Francisco ordered the payment of nearly $3 million in legal fees to a medical diagnostics company and appointed a special master to determine whether individual lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan should be at least partly responsible for payment. Senior U.S. District Judge…

Jul 15, 2025 8:45 AM CDT

Litigation finance tax, limits on contempt power dropped from Senate’s version of budget megabill

Two proposals of concern to many lawyers are being dropped in the U.S. Senate's version of a budget megabill, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Jul 1, 2025 9:21 AM CDT