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Musk, Tesla board to return $735M after being sued for overpaying themselves

Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and other current and former Tesla board members agreed to return over $735 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit that alleged Tesla directors "grossly" overpaid themselves...

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Jul 2023

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DOJ Says NFW To Trump Demand That Documents Case Be Scheduled For NEVER

(Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images)On Monday, Donald Trump's lawyers moved for an indefinite continuance of the documents prosecution in Florida."This extraordinary case presents a s...

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Jul 2023

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Ethics Panel Decides It's No Big Deal If Judge Uses Racial Slur About Defendants Appearing In His Courtroom

(Image via Shutterstock)You'd think a judge calling defendants a racial slur would be cause for action by an ethics panel. But, well, Texas.According to reporting by the Houston Chronicle, Judge Allen...

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Jul 2023

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Robot Lawyers Are About to Flood the Courts

[photo1]Keith PorcaroThe hype cycle for chatbots--software that can generate convincing strings of words from a simple prompt--is in full swing. Few industries are more panicked than lawyers, who have...

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Apr 2023

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Is Anyone Home?

(Image via Getty)Back in the halcyon pre-COVID days of 2019, I predicted on these pages that "venue issues will continue as a source of conflict in patent cases." Slam dunk of a prediction, if I may s...

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Mar 2023

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Tesla shareholder suit says Musk and co. lied about Full Self-Driving safety

A class-action complaint alleges that Tesla and CEO Elon Musk repeatedly made false statements about the capabilities and safety of the electric carmaker's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) techno...

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Feb 2023

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SEC charges Terraform Labs and founder Do Kwon with defrauding investors

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged the collapsed blockchain firm and stablecoin operator Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon with defrauding U.S. investors who purchased the digi...

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Feb 2023

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Have You Considered Not Lying Under Oath?

[photo1]How much continuing power should a judge have over the lives of defendants who plead guilty? A judge recently forced a woman to withdraw and apologize for statements diverting blame for an inc...

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Feb 2023

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Fun Fact: You Can't Just Name Yourself After A National Law Firm And Start Doing Business

[photo1]THE ONE LEGAL MARKETING HACK THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW!
Because it's probably trademark infringement.
Back in September, Lewis Brisbois filed a trademark infringement suit against a bu...

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Feb 2023

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Donald Trump's Lawyers Argued There Is No Such Thing As 'The Trump Org.' The Court Was Not Amused.

[photo1]BREAKING: The Trump Organization does not exist! Nothing for the New York Attorney General to dissolve, no one to fine. Pack it in kids, we can all go home.
Or perhaps not.
Last week, th...

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Feb 2023