You can't make this stuff up!
"Yes, you can."
-- ChatGPT
https://fortune.com/2023/11/17/lawyer-fired-after-chatgpt-use-is-sticking-with-ai-tools/
November 21, 2023
"Ungovernable" BC lawyer is disbarred
The interesting thing about this disciplinary case isn't the weird nomenclature of BC bar matters but the underlying facts of David Lat lookalike Hong Guo Esq.'s prior disciplinary record, which includes leaving signed trust account checks with her secretary leading to the theft of $7.5M in client funds -- a near Avenatti level of defalcation.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/richmond-bc-lawyer-hong-guo-1.7034605
Appeals court signals it will cut back on Trump’s federal gag order
The three-judge D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel raised concerns that the order — which bars Trump from targeting witnesses, prosecutors and courthouse staff in the criminal case related to his effort to subvert the 2020 election — created murky restrictions that stifled the former president’s right to push back against his detractors, particularly in the heat of a presidential campaign.
Judge Patricia Millett, an appointee of President Barack Obama, suggested the gag order could amount to a straitjacket for Trump if his prosecution became the focus of attacks during a presidential debate.
“He has to speak ‘Miss Manners’ while everyone else is throwing targets at him?” Millett said skeptically during a two-hour oral argument.
Another appeals judge, Nina Pillard, suggested on at least five occasions that the trial judge’s order goes too far by appearing to bar Trump from making hostile comments about individuals in the public eye who could be witnesses in the case.
“We have to use a careful scalpel here,” Millett said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/20/trump-gag-order-appeal-argument-00128093
Musk sues Media Matters
Elon Musk on Monday made good on his promise to sue Media Matters, filing a federal lawsuit that accuses the left-leaning watchdog group and one of its reporters of doctoring images in an article that showed ads for major corporations next to posts depicting hate speech on X, Musk’s social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
In a complaint filed in a Texas federal court, lawyers for X argued that Media Matters “knowingly and maliciously manufactured side-by-side images depicting advertisers’ posts” on X. The lawsuit alleges that the images and the media promotion of that research were done with the intention “to drive advertisers from the platform and destroy” X, citing “a blatant smear campaign” against the company over the last year.
The reason for the exodus of advertisers from X remains to be seen, or more accurately, proven -- given alleged antisemitic tweets on the platform by Musk himself.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/20/musk-sues-media-matters-advertising-exodus-00128206
Related:
Far-right conspiracy theorists accused a 22-year-old Jewish man of being a neo-Nazi. Then Elon Musk got involved https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/20/business/brody-musk-lawsuit-invs?cid=ios_app
November 19, 2023
Biden campaign facing donor heat over plans to deal with his age
Is there a double standard, given that Trump is 77? No, I think not, Biden does the old lady shuffle when he walks. Trump strides. Biden has a halting, elderly way of speaking with a weak voice, Trump doesn't. Besides, Trump's #2 is not Kamala.
But what do you think? The Indicted One or Senior Grandpa?
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/19/biden-biggest-vulnerability-00127937
Boise stepping down
David Boies is stepping down as leader of his law firm after losing nearly half of its staff over the last 3 years.
Theranos and Harvey Weinstein cases were an issue with some of the firm's lawyers.
November 17, 2023
When the lead plaintiff in that class action you have been litigating for five years has been dead the whole time
For five years his lawyers litigated as if he was alive. He wasn’t.
November 16, 2023
Texas' Jackson Walker LLP denies knowing its partner was cohabiting with BK judge in trustee's fee disgorgment actions filed in multiple matters
(Reuters) - Texas law firm Jackson Walker was deceived by a former partner who never disclosed she was living with a U.S. bankruptcy judge in Houston who was handling its cases, the firm said in a court filing on Monday.
Jackson Walker was told by former partner Elizabeth Freeman in 2021 that she had ended her relationship with then-U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones "well in the past" and it was unlikely to rekindle, according to a filing that appeared in multiple bankruptcy cases the firm had worked on, including that of J.C. Penney.
The 500-lawyer firm was responding to an effort by the U.S. Trustee, the U.S. Justice Department's bankruptcy watchdog, to force the firm to return millions of dollars earned in cases presided over by Jones, who resigned in October after his relationship with Freeman became public.
[Insert snarky and politically incorrect quip.]
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