Guidance on using artificial intelligence in litigation was recently released by the New York State Unified Court System; subtopics include understanding the technology’s limitations and best practices for verification.
Holland & Knight lawyers involved in a lawsuit over an NCAA football player’s eligibility were caught hurling insults in emails obtained by GoLocalProv, including a reference to a “dumb judge” in Rhode Island.
Within days of his death, clients and friends of a prominent Rhode Island attorney have alleged that money that they loaned him or that he was holding as part of legal actions is missing or unavailable.
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—The pizza delivery was strange. No one at U.S. District Judge John McConnell’s home had ordered it. But it was the name on the order that shocked him.
After the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently criticized a federal judge in Rhode Island for releasing a man described as a “violent criminal illegal alien,” the judge said she is referring an assistant U.S. attorney "for disciplinary proceedings" for not disclosing that the detainee was wanted in the Dominican Republic for murder charges.
Frank Caprio, the Rhode Island jurist whose compassion in the courtroom found him fame on TV and online, earning him the nickname “the nicest judge in the world,” has died. He was 88.
A Massachusetts law that bans assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition feeding devices is likely to survive a Second Amendment challenge, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Boston ruled last week.
A Rhode Island federal judge’s order requiring President Donald Trump to keep appropriated grant flowing to the states will remain undisturbed during appeal after a federal appeals court declined to issue a stay.
The question was considered during President Donald Trump’s first term in office: What would happen if his administration ignored a court order? Now, news articles are considering the issue once again, and commentators are using the term “constitutional crisis” to describe worst-case scenarios.
Updated: The Trump administration failed to comply with a “clear and unambiguous" temporary restraining order lifting a freeze on federal funds, a federal judge said Monday.
“I subscribe to the theory of ‘compassionate justice,’” Judge Frank Caprio, 88, says about his judicial philosophy. “I think everybody’s situation is different, so I take people’s personal life story into consideration in the disposition.”
MoFo expands DEI fellowship after suit Morrison & Foerster has changed the eligibility criteria for a diversity, equity and inclusion fellowship after being sued by a conservative activist who led the campaign against affirmative action in college admissions. The Keith Wetmore 1L Fellowship for Excellence, Diversity and Inclusion was initially…
