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New Jersey Law Journal

New ABA Rules on AI and Ethics Shows the Technology Is 'New Wine in Old Bottles'

Not addressed in the American Bar Association's opinion on generative AI is whether the technology is considered to be engaging in the practice of law.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Forged Checks, Letters to Joe Biden: Tom Girardi's Lawyers Go on the Offense

On Thursday, Tom Girardi's public defender, cross-examining an IRS special agent, brought up missing pieces of the government's criminal investigation against his client.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-218

(1) A judge who presides in estate proceedings may continue to serve on the board of directors of a not-for-profit hospice organization, even after the judge becomes aware that a testator named the hospice as a beneficiary in their will. (2) The judge may preside over the probate of a will that contains a bequest to the hospice, absent a challenge to the bequest. If a challenge occurs, the judge must disqualify.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Federal Judge Sanctions Pittsburgh Firm for 'Campaign of Deception' in Debt Collection Disputes

"Counsel are well advised to heed one lesson from this experience in particular, among the many," Bissoon wrote. "This court is immune from gaslighting. It will not work, and attempts will be met with great disfavor."
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

OAE Random Audit Reveals Recordkeeping Issues, But Finds Attorney 'Cannot Be Held Wholly Responsible'

"Respondent claimed that he attempted to work with the attorneys whose clients were connected with the inactive balances, but that was 'a strategy that was, for the most part, unproductive due to respondent's lack of authority within the firm's management hierarchy,'" the letter said.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Client Fought for Son's Settlement as Girardi Keese Paid for Private Jets, Luxury Cars

In one of the more dramatic moments of the Tom Girardi criminal trial, ex-client Erika Saldana broke down in tears recalling her fight to get $1 million in settlement funds less than a year before her ill son died.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-217

A judge (1) may not speak about the judge's "philosophy" on pistol permits to gun advocacy groups or sportsmen/sportswomen; (2) may make non-political charitable contributions and/or be a regular member of the ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, Sierra Club, and Planned Parenthood, but may not donate to their political arms or assume any leadership position within them; (3) may make contributions to and/or be a member of not-for-profit educational, religious, charitable, cultural, fraternal, or civic organizations such as a public radio station, Salvation Army, a Rotary Club, and Operation Unite; and (4) may serve on a library board organized as a not-for-profit charitable, educational, or civic entity, but may not be involved in lobbying efforts or in seeking to influence legislation affecting the library.
11 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

What You Might Have Forgotten About Deposition Objections in New Jersey

"There is no situation in which an attorney's deep understanding of the rules of procedure will harm them or their client's position," writes Lombardi & Lombardi's Scott A. Telson.
7 minute read

Law.com

Chicago-Area Attorney Hit With $112K Sanction for Role in Spoliation of Signal Application Messages, Discovery Misconduct

"We are very pleased with this result," Elizabeth Babbitt, a partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister, said on behalf of the Chicago Transit Authority. "This case serves as a reminder that the rules of preservation in litigation remain in effect, despite the ever-changing landscape of technology."
5 minute read

The Recorder

'I Didn't See Anything Wrong With It': Ex-Accountant Gives Glimpse of Girardi Keese's Finances

On the fifth day of a criminal trial against Tom Girardi, ex-Girardi Keese accounting employee Norina Rouillard was asked on cross-examination about a "secret" bank account in San Bernardino, California.
5 minute read

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