Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.13.24

* Trump's appeals immunity ruling citing such unassailable precedent as... a dissent in another Trump case that does not itself cite relevant caselaw. Stellar work all around. [Bloomberg Law News] * Latham shuts its Hong Kong lawyers off from the rest of the firm's data. [Financial Times] * Squishmallows launches suit against Build-a-Bear. [BBC] * More firms trumpet robust 2023 profits implicitly dunking on the firms still laying people off. [American Lawyer] * Harvard not liable for morgue manager selling spare parts. [Law360] * Ohio law attempting to ban children from using social media without parental permission blocked based on pesky "basic Constitutional rights" thing. [Reuters] * Pauline Newman loses another challenge as DC judge jettisons suit while shrugging at the idea that appellate judges have an unenumerated "pocket impeachment" power to terminate a lifetime appointment on their own. [ABA Journal]

By Above the Law on February 13, 2024 8:54 am

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* Trump’s appeals immunity ruling citing such unassailable precedent as… a dissent in another Trump case that does not itself cite relevant caselaw. Stellar work all around. [Bloomberg Law News]

Opus 2 Steps Up Its AI Game With Acquisition Of A Legal Tech Startup

With the addition of Uncover’s technology, the litigation software is delivering rapid innovation.

By Opus 2

* Latham shuts its Hong Kong lawyers off from the rest of the firm’s data. [Financial Times]

* Squishmallows launches suit against Build-a-Bear. [BBC]

* More firms trumpet robust 2023 profits implicitly dunking on the firms still laying people off. [American Lawyer]

* Harvard not liable for morgue manager selling spare parts. [Law360]

Filevine’s New Legal AI Platform LOIS Turns AI Into A True Legal Coworker

Legal work isn’t slowing down, and the firms that win won’t be the ones working harder — they’ll be the ones working smarter.

By Above The Law

* Ohio law attempting to ban children from using social media without parental permission blocked based on pesky “basic Constitutional rights” thing. [Reuters]

* Pauline Newman loses another challenge as DC judge jettisons suit while shrugging at the idea that appellate judges have an unenumerated “pocket impeachment” power to terminate a lifetime appointment on their own. [ABA Journal]