David Gialanella

A pre-suit letter to a client demanding unpaid legal fees creates a conflict of interest just as filing the suit itself would, New Jersey ethics authorities have said in extending a 2011 ruling by the state Supreme Court—and issuing a reprimand to a lawyer who sent such a letter in what was deemed an ongoing representation.

The government's broadside has been characterized in retrospective terms since the EO fury subsided. For Diversity Lab, the impact is neither distant nor muted.

"I welcome it," said one tech leader, about the run of Big Law AI news, "because I think it will give every other firm a reference point."

A New Jersey appeals court has put some gloss on a rule that lets judges dun parties who fail to appear, calling a $25,318 sanction for missing a day in court ?a mistaken exercise of discretion.?

"The operational side is far ahead of the strategic side,” outgoing COLPM president Chris Boyd told me, after Professor Richard Susskind's keynote remarks dazzled, challenged, amused—and occasionally scared the daylights out of us.

The group lateral might be a comparatively blunt instrument, but it offers advantages—and can spell disruption for firms on either end of a talent transfer

As law firms count up year-end receipts and face down 2016, the outlook surely will vary case by case. But surveys, interviews and other barometer readings along the way would seem to indicate that market uncertainty will persist—and any optimism will likely remain of the cautious variety.

The group lateral might be a comparatively blunt instrument, but it offers advantages—and can spell disruption for firms on either end of a talent transfer

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