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  Better, Faster, Stranger: What Attys Think Of Our AI Future

  By Chris Villani

  Law firms are increasingly embracing the use of artificial intelligence, wary of its limitations but enchanted b...(read more)

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  Trump Nominees Receive Bomb Threats, Feds Say

  By Frank G. Runyeon

  Some of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet appointees and administration nominees were targeted with "numero...(read more)

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• Full Fed. Circ. Urged To Set Tighter Rules On Patent Damages

  By Ryan Davis

  Numerous major companies and industry groups have asked the full Federal Circuit to rule that district judges must carefully scrutinize expert testimony seeking large damages in patent cases and exclude unreliable opinions, rather than allowing juries to decide how much weight to give them.

• Combs Remains Jailed As 4th Judge Declines To Free Mogul

  By Pete Brush

  A Manhattan federal judge declined Wednesday to sign off on a restrictive, $50 million bail package for Sean "Diddy" Combs, following three other judges who refused to order the mogul accused of violent sex-trafficking set free pending trial.

• Weinstein Accuses NYC Of Medical Neglect At Rikers

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A lawyer representing disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein said Wednesday that his client is suing New York City and its agencies for allegedly failing to provide adequate medical care at its Rikers Island jail complex and subjecting him to "cruel and unusual punishment" while he awaits a new trial on sexual assault charges.

• GOP-Led States Accuse BlackRock Of Driving Up Coal Prices

  By Jessica Corso

  Texas is leading a coalition of nearly a dozen Republican-led states suing BlackRock Inc. and two other large asset managers for allegedly running an "investment cartel" that takes advantage of their large holdings in publicly traded energy companies to drive up coal prices, a claim that BlackRock has said is "baseless and defies common sense."

• AI Co. Seeks To Dismiss Actors' Class Action Over Voice Use

  By Ivan Moreno

  A startup that makes software to create voice-over narrations has asked a Manhattan federal judge to dismiss an amended class action that accuses the company of using actors' voices without permission, saying the updated complaint takes a "kitchen-sink approach" by adding several claims but "very few new relevant facts."

• Mayer Brown, Gibson Dunn Match Milbank Bonuses

  By Anna Sanders

  Mayer Brown LLP and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP joined a chorus of other BigLaw firms in doling out extra cash for associates, matching the year-end and special bonuses set by Milbank LLP, according to media reports.

• Menendez Says Evidence Error Means Automatic New Trial

  By Cara Salvatore

  Former Sen. Bob Menendez told a federal judge Wednesday that it's "unavoidable" that he is owed a new trial after prosecutors' recent admission that they gave jurors evidence that had been excluded.

• North Carolina Federal Judge Whitney To Take Senior Status

  By Jared Foretek

  U.S. District Judge Frank DeArmon Whitney will take senior status in the Western District of North Carolina on Sunday.

• SEC Exempts More Debt Securities From New Trading Rules

  By Tom Zanki

  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is relieving broker-dealers who quote unlisted stocks from increased information-gathering requirements that would have also applied to many fixed-income securities, a development attorneys say will prove welcome for debt issuers.

• How Trump's Ga. Allies Could Walk Back Their Guilty Pleas

  By Phillip Bantz

  If any of President-elect Donald Trump's four co-defendants who secured early plea deals in the Georgia election meddling prosecution regret their decisions now that scandal has engulfed the case and Trump is returning to the White House, they might have some long shot options left on the table.

• Rikers Faces Federal Takeover As NYC Held In Contempt

  By Frank G. Runyeon

  A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday found New York City and its corrections department in civil contempt for failing to fix the "unconstitutional danger" for inmates at Rikers Island, indicating a receivership is the solution.

• Trump Taps Bhattacharya For National Institutes Of Health

  By Lauren Berg

  President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has selected Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a physician who opposed the use of lockdowns and mask mandates to contain the spread of COVID-19, to lead the National Institutes of Health.