Audit trails have an interesting reputation problem.
When everything works as expected, nobody talks about them. They’re buried in admin panels, exported into reports, and rarely discussed outside compliance reviews.
Yet the moment a decision is questioned, an approval is disputed, or a record’s integrity comes under scrutiny, the audit trail suddenly becomes one of the most important assets an…
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The Long Island serial-killer prosecution is expected to reach a major procedural milestone Wednesday, when the defendant is sentenced in New York state court. Under the reported plea arrangement, a life sentence is anticipated, bringing one of the region’s most closely watched homicide cases to its formal punishment phase.

For criminal practitioners, the sentencing marks more than the end of…
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Legora today (29 July) announced that it is acquiring London-based startup Wexler, which uses large language models to help lawyers extract and organise key data from documents relevant to their […]
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Skechers U.S.A., Inc. has filed a new inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, opening IPR2026-00444 on July 24, 2026. As of the initial filing, the PTAB docket reflects the petitioner as Skechers, but practitioners will want to watch the case closely for the full petition, the identification of the challenged patent, the patent owner’s response,…
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For the first time, AI research agents can access the nation’s largest state trial court dataset across Claude, ChatGPT, and Trellis Chat. Trellis announced the launch of the Trellis plugin for ChatGPT and Trellis Chat. These additions follow the recent release of the Trellis MCP Connector for Claude, which enables users to use Trellis directly […]
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Meta Platforms has filed an emergency motion in the Ninth Circuit, accompanied by a Circuit Rule 27-3 certificate, signaling that the company is asking the court for expedited intervention rather than waiting for the ordinary appellate schedule. In appellate practice, that is always worth watching: Rule 27-3 motions are reserved for matters requiring prompt action, and they often arise when…
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From : Blog Entry >> Adam’s Blog EntryEvery IT director who has lived through a practice management migration knows the shape of the story before it starts. The kickoff meeting is optimistic. The vendor’s timeline slide says four months. By month six, the finance team is still running two systems in parallel, half the attorneys have quietly gone back…
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In April, I reported here on a dramatic first-quarter 2026 increase in the numbers of legal tech demos law firms were scheduling, with the numbers going up across nearly every major practice area by as much as 40% to 50%.Now, it appears that trend has reversed, according to a newly released report on legal technology buying behavior during the second…
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As AI shifts from automation to orchestration, in-house legal teams are redesigning workflows, cutting external spend, and redefining their role, moving from advisors to builders of the systems that now […]
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In this latest episode of Charting Change in Legal, hosts Caroline Hill and Ari Kaplan explore one of the biggest challenges facing the legal industry today: how to navigate constant […]
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Is language a uniquely biological superpower, or is it just a massive math problem we’ve finally solved? Welcome back to the show. Today, we’re tearing down the curtain on the AI revolution with renowned neurolinguist Prof. Grodzinsky, author of How Deeply Human Is Language?. As generative AI takes over our workflows, a fierce philosophical and scientific war is raging.
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Federal authorities have announced a $24 million civil fraud settlement involving a Dallas laboratory and certain owners and investors over alleged misconduct tied to COVID-19 testing. The resolution is a notable reminder that pandemic-era billing practices remain a live enforcement priority, especially where the government believes testing claims were inflated, medically unnecessary, or otherwise noncompliant.

Although the matter was resolved…
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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s Final Written Decision in IPR2025-00565 offers another useful look at how the Board is evaluating invalidity challenges at the merits stage—and what practitioners must do to carry their burdens through trial. Although the case turns on the particular patent claims and prior-art record presented, the decision underscores several recurring themes in PTAB practice: precise…
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