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Here’s a quick look at today’s top legal news.
Additional reporting by R. Rohit, Kuheli Biswas, Maya Nandhini and Tanvi Shenoy.
Afternoon Docket writer Caitlin Tremblay is on a Reuters assignment this spring and will return to the newsletter soon.
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The U.S. legal services sector continued to add jobs in May, despite scattered layoffs at some of the highest-grossing law firms in the country in recent months.
Legal sector jobs totaled 1,180,400 last month, up 700 from April, according to preliminary seasonally adjusted data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday. The count includes lawyers, paralegals and other legal workers. According to BLS’s preliminary numbers, the sector has added 3,000 jobs since March.
At least 10 large U.S. law firms have publicly confirmed laying off lawyers, staff or both since November, including Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Cooley, Dechert, Goodwin Procter, Shearman & Sterling, and Stroock & Stroock & Lavan.
John Cashman, president of legal recruiting firm Major, Lindsey & Africa, said the sector is “not booming, but stable.”
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Artificial intelligence …
U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr of the Northern District of Texas is now requiring lawyers to certify that they did not use artificial intelligence to draft their filings without a human checking for accuracy. The rule comes after a New York lawyer submitted a brief citing six non-existent judicial decisions produced by ChatGPT in another court, raising the question of which ethics rules apply to AI in the legal space, especially as more lawyers and firms are using AI technology. Also, a new company aims to help law firms safely experiment with generative artificial intelligence. However, the jury is still out on how AI fares on the bar exam. While a previous study found that the performance of the latest version of ChatGPT put it in the 90th percentile of test-takers, a Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology now says that the results have likely been overstated.
U.S. Supreme Court …
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered the latest in a series of rulings undercutting organized labor. Salesforce’s Slack Technologies got another chance to avoid a lawsuit over its 2019 direct listing. The high court gave a boost to whistleblowers in their bid to revive lawsuits accusing pharmacy operators of price fixing, and turned away a patent dispute between labeling company Avery Dennison and ADASA. And, in recent months, the Supreme Court has delivered a one-two punch against the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to combat air and water pollution. Here’s an overview of the court’s important rulings this term as it heads into its final stretch.
Legal ethics …
Texas Governor Greg Abbott appointed an interim attorney general to fill in for Ken Paxton, who was impeached on allegations of corruption and other irregularities. Lawyers for Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers told the 7th Circuit that conservative lawyer Sidney Powell should have been sanctioned for her failed lawsuit alleging fraud in the 2020 presidential election. DLA Piper defeated a $180 million malpractice lawsuit. Two Dechert partners who were accused of flouting a court order during 3M’s civil trial won their sanctions appeal. And the California Supreme Court disbarred a San Diego lawyer who is wanted for arrest on charges that she stole from her clients.
Banks tangled in Epstein ties …
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon in a deposition denied having met or communicated with late sex offender and former bank client Jeffrey Epstein. Transcripts from deposition also revealed a 2011 email written by a former JPMorgan executive stating Epstein should not be a client of the bank. Meanwhile, a U.S. judge stopped short of approving Deutsche Bank’s $75 million settlement with Epstein accusers and said he needed more specifics about who qualified as members of the proposed class of victims.
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Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry filed a sprawling lawsuit against the Biden administration last week that challenges the authority of the EPA to investigate and enforce federal laws based on complaints against the state’s environmental health agencies. Columnist Hassan Kanu writes that the case also seeks to revive a conservative-led effort to reverse federal protections against “disparate impact” discrimination that have been in place for decades. Kanu writes that the complaint includes several serious defects but notes that its outcome nonetheless will be instructive about the future of disparate impact theory.
Check out other recent pieces from all our columnists: Alison Frankel, Jenna Greene and Hassan Kanu
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And Finally: Orca-strated?
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A group of orcas broke the rudder and pierced the hull of a sailing boat off the Spanish coast last week — the latest in a string of killer whale attacks on vessels recorded this year on Spanish and Portuguese coasts.
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