Professor Claims Age Is Not Just a Number in Discrimination Case

There are advantages to getting older. Sure, your body starts to slow down a little bit, but there are a lot of perks to being in your golden years. Early bird specials. Government-funded healthcare. Social Security payments. Heck, you could run for president, win, and then run for reelection at 81 years old. Then, after you retire from politics, you might […]

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Harvard Law Review Nixes Publication of Article Alleging Gaza Genocide at Eleventh Hour

Attempts to address the horrendous situation in Gaza, which appears to be spreading to other Palestinian areas, such as the West Bank, have proved a minefield for anyone brave enough to tackle the subject. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who has known the wrath of his critics, referred to Gaza as a “graveyard for children” in early

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American Nightmare: Harvard Lawyer Turns to Life of Crime

File this one under “lawyers behaving really, really badly.” In one of the strangest cases in recent memory, a disbarred San Francisco lawyer and Harvard Law grad named Matthew Muller was arrested for robbing a Bay Area home, kidnapping one of its residents, and attempting to hold her for ransom to the tune of $15,000 in cash. That

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Pro Se Litigant Fined 10k for Filing AI-Generated Reply Brief

In yet another warning to those relying solely on ChatGPT and other generative AI programs to complete highly skilled written tasks, the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District recently fined a pro se litigant for citing fake and irrelevant case names in a reply brief generated by artificial intelligence. Judge Rebecca M. Navarro-McKelvey issued a

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Judges Seek Home Security Services Amid Increasing Threats

Threats against judges have doubled since 2021, according to Reuters. It is an alarming trend that has concerned U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, who mentioned it in his 2022 year-end report, and Congress, which heard testimony about judicial safety on February 14, 2024, from the U.S. Marshals Service. The threats range from anonymous hate mail and

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Is Grammarly Generative AI? If So, Do Lawyers Need to Disclose Its Use?

By now, you may have several AI tools in your toolkit. You probably have already taken advantage of AI-assisted research. Then there’s ChatGPT and Google Bard. But as most lawyers know, relying wholly on generative AI is risky, at best. One of the most popular AI tools is Grammarly, the ubiquitous spelling and grammar-checker that

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