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Judges in Trump-related cases face unprecedented wave of threats

New York Justice Arthur Engoron and Donald Trump in a courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg

Judges and prosecutors are facing repeated threats of violence as they handle cases related to former President Donald Trump, interviews and documents reveal. Since late 2020 serious threats against federal judges alone have more than doubled.

The wave of intimidation follows the ex-president’s attacks on judges as corrupt and biased – and some worry it threatens America’s long tradition of judicial independence. Read the investigation by Joseph Tanfani, Ned Parker and Peter Eisler.

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New legal AI venture promises to show how judges think

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Bench IQ, a new venture by a legal technology entrepreneur and a former Kirkland & Ellis partner, says it can use AI to help lawyers understand how individual judges think, allowing them to tailor their arguments and improve their courtroom results. Bench IQ said it raised $2.1 million in a pre-seed funding round co-led by venture capital firms Maple and Haystack. Law firms Cooley, Fenwick & West and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati were among the investors, which also included Kirkland partners and other individuals and funds, the company said.

Bench IQ was founded by Jimoh Ovbiagele, the co-founder of now-shuttered legal research company ROSS Intelligence, alongside former ROSS senior software engineer Maxim Isakov and former Kirkland bankruptcy partner Jeffrey Gettleman.

Amid misconduct charges, a California judicial race heats up

Judicial elections are usually staid affairs, but not in a rural Northern California county best known for coastal redwoods and cannabis. On March 5, voters in Humboldt County will decide whether to allow Superior Court presiding judge Gregory Kreis to stay on the bench amid allegations of raucous misconduct. Among the charges: throwing a fully-clothed public defender into a lake. Jenna Greene in her latest column looks at the race and the tricky issues that surround electing judges. Read more.

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