by HolAdmin | Jan 6, 2026 | American Legal News
What happens when a judge relies on a GenAI tool in formulating their decision on a key issue, particularly one that could impact the GenAI providers? It’s not only law firms and legal departments that are adopting GenAI systems without fully understanding what they...
by HolAdmin | Jan 6, 2026 | American Legal News
For all our talk about modernizing legal operations, we still treat some of the most essential systems in our profession as afterthoughts. Take depositions. Most in-house lawyers will tell you they are critical in litigation. Yet we accept inefficiency, latency, and...
by HolAdmin | Jan 6, 2026 | American Legal News
Getting a summer associate gig is probably a far cry from what you remember. There used to be some decorum. You’d make it to campus, try to make some friends, and form your study cohort, knowing that you’d have at least a couple of months before you had to worry about...
by HolAdmin | Jan 6, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I suspect that we have already seen most of the direct effects that we are going to see in terms of departures and client responses. I don’t think the deals will have a big impact on recruiting in 2026. The...
by HolAdmin | Jan 6, 2026 | American Legal News
New York City’s Law Department is about to get a serious (and overdue) reboot. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced last week that Steven Banks will take the helm as Corporation Counsel, pairing the appointment with an ambitious plan to expand the department...
by HolAdmin | Jan 6, 2026 | American Legal News
(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) If there’s one figure in American history who would not stand for any of the present nonsense, it’d be Thomas Paine. The revolutionary pamphleteer hated the idea of monarchs trampling on people behind the veil of absolute immunity so...
