Lawyers need to put actual client information into artificial intelligence tools to get their full value, but they cannot confidently do so until state bars offer clear, formal authority on which plan tiers of the three most popular generative AI tools are safe to use when sharing specific client details, says attorney Nick Berk.
Employers are staring down bigger fines for I-9 violations after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly redefined substantive violations to include common administrative errors that were previously correctable without penalty.
An Ecuadorian facing felony criminal charges for reentering the United States after being deported following a conviction for reckless assault cannot challenge his original deportation order because he didn't originally appeal it, the Second Circuit said Thursday.
Legal services groups challenging changes that would speed up deportation order appeals have agreed with the Trump administration to stay upcoming deadlines in the litigation and allow for a revised rulemaking process after a D.C. federal judge vacated the changes last month.
The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday said it will move forward with a $68 million settlement reached with land developer Colony Ridge Development LLC without seeking court oversight after a Texas federal judge raised concerns about the deal.
A D.C. federal judge declined to halt what Minnesota immigrant advocates have called a "rocket docket" for deportations of Somalians there, ruling Friday that the plaintiffs — an immigration attorney and human rights group — likely lacked standing to bring the challenge because their proposed remedy may not be available.
A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday said she was "concerned" by a published report suggesting that immigration judges are being instructed to deny all bond requests regardless of merit, after she and other judges ordered that detainees be given hearings.
A Chinese postdoctoral research associate at Indiana University was sentenced to time served on Wednesday by an Indiana federal judge, spending more than four months in custody on smuggling charges for shipping an E. coli sample from China into the U.S. and lying about it when questioned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.
The Department of Justice has sued Michigan's Washtenaw County in federal court, alleging that county officials are obstructing federal immigration enforcement in violation of the U.S. Constitution's supremacy clause.
A Massachusetts federal judge denied the Trump administration a stay as it appeals her decision postponing its revocation of deportation protections for South Sudanese nationals, saying a database it now invokes doesn't alter her conclusion of a likely pretextual revocation.
