Author Archives: Frank Rizzo

Both billing for hours saved using artificial intelligence and preserving billable time by not adopting AI may violate rules of professional conduct, but until bar associations' ethics rules catch up to this emerging economic dilemma, firms must decide how to adjust fee structures themselves, says Ines Lassalle at Peyrot & Associates.

The Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice (DOJ), will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

Attorneys for two women convicted of stalking after they livestreamed their pursuit of an off-duty U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officer to his home urged a California federal judge to overturn their convictions, arguing at a hearing Monday that the First Amendment protected their clients' actions.

A New York law firm facing an insurance company's racketeering and fraud allegations took aim at the insurer's counsel, telling a federal court that the Texas law firm behind the allegations is abusing judicial resources with multiple identical lawsuits.

A Kentucky tobacco farm must attend a U.S. Department of Labor hearing in September on whether it violated farmworker visa regulations, a federal judge ruled, tossing the farm's request for an injunction blocking the hearing.

A New Mexico federal judge on Monday approved the federal government's bid to deposit funds as part of its action to take land owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces to construct border barriers and other security measures.

Private prison operator The GEO Group Inc. has told a New Jersey federal court it was wrongly sued over state health inspectors allegedly being blocked from fully accessing an immigration detention facility, arguing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement exclusively controls access.

Haitian meatpacking workers who say they were lured to Colorado with false promises and subjected to race-based discrimination can proceed with their proposed class action, after a federal magistrate judge recommended keeping the suit alive and denied a bid to strike class allegations.