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Artificial Intelligence or innocent ignorance? Hard lessons yield best practices

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Artificial intelligence is a controversial but increasingly valuable arrow in the quiver of any litigator. While AI can provide great assistance to litigators in improving their efficiency, AI also raises ethical and...more

Carlton Fields

Eighth Circuit Reverses Sanctions on Lawyers that Settled Federal Court Class Action in State Court

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Last year at this time, we posted about two recent orders from a federal judge in Arkansas that found Rule 11 violations and abuses of the judicial process by attorneys for both the plaintiffs and the defense. Specifically,...more

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Lawyers Sanctioned for Seeking to Settle Federal Court Class Action in State Court

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Lawyers seeking to settle class actions pending in federal court by dismissing and refiling in state court beware! In two recent orders, a federal judge in the Western District of Arkansas ruled that the attorneys...more

Burr & Forman

Federal Court Awards Sanctions Against the Filer of Improper Rule 11 Motion

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Be careful what you wish for. That was the message Middle District of Florida Judge Carlos Mendoza delivered in Claudet v. First Federal Credit Control, Inc., 14-CV-2068  (M.D. Fla. Nov. 17, 2015) to the filer of an improper...more

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

The Big Three: The 9th Circuit Joins The 6th Circuit and 7th Circuit in Holding That Sanctions For Bad-Faith Litigation Tactics...

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In Law v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (2015 S.O.S. 13–56099 – filed August 27, 2015), the Ninth Circuit joined the shortlist of Circuit Courts to hold that sanctions for bad-faith litigation tactics under 28 U.S.C. section 1927...more

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