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Legal industry analyst Ari Kaplan hosted his inaugural Ari Kaplan Advisors Legal Tech GC/CLO Roundtable to reflect on the legal industry in 2025 and discuss key challenges, trends and opportunities likely to affect strategic priorities in 2026. Ari Kaplan: Welcome to the inaugural legal tech general counsel roundtable. For many years, I have focused on developments in legal technology and provided research for the annual general counsel report produced by Relativity and FTI. I thought convening a discussion among leading GCs and CLOs at legal technology companies could yield insights that benefit our entire community. Beth Kallet-Neuman: I am Beth…

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Dr. Thomas C. Weiner, the oncologist who was the subject of a 2024 ProPublica investigation, will never again practice medicine in the state of Montana. Last week, medical board members revoked Weiner’s license, citing seven cases of malpractice. The board concluded that he had violated rules of professional conduct and provided substandard care. By law, it must report Weiner to a federal database that tracks doctors who’ve been disciplined — which will make it extremely difficult for him to practice medicine. That decision comes more than a year after ProPublica exposed how, for years, Weiner had been suspected of hurting…

PA MediaAn email sent from an individual named “A”, saying they are at Balmoral and asking Ghislaine Maxwell for “inappropriate friends”, is among the latest tranche of Epstein files released on Tuesday.The message, sent to Maxwell on 16 August 2001, begins: “I am up here at Balmoral Summer Camp for the Royal Family.” Later in the email, the sender asks: “How’s LA? Have you found me some new inappropriate friends?” before signing off “see ya A xxx”.Balmoral Castle is a royal residence.The emails do not indicate any wrongdoing. The BBC has contacted Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s team for a response. The former…

Listen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.British police said on Tuesday they would take no further action over comments made about the Israeli military during a performance by punk duo Bob Vylan at the Glastonbury music festival in June.”We have concluded, after reviewing all the evidence, that it does not meet the criminal threshold outlined by the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] for any person to be prosecuted,” Avon and Somerset Police said. The performance by…

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. The Supreme Court continues to churn through relisted cases at a brisk clip as it works to fill out the rest of this term’s argument calendar ahead of its mid-January deadline. That churn has already produced both winners and losers. The biggest winner was Terry Pitchford, who has been sitting on death row for years for his role as an accessory to a killing during a botched robbery; after seven relists, the court granted review to…

Many law firms have to plan for the eventual departure of increasingly large numbers of aging partners. Half of all the lawyers in the United States are over age 46, and more than 13% are age 65 or older, according to recent data from the ABA. As a result, lawyers are among the oldest in average age in U.S. occupations. Having a strong financial plan for these departures will help smooth the transition of leadership roles and operational responsibilities; help retain client relationships and staff members; and preserve the firm’s reputation, institutional knowledge and overall goodwill for the next generation…

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In August, I traveled to Kakuma, Kenya, to try to understand what happened when the U.S. cut off food to the world’s third-largest refugee camp. Soon after President Donald Trump froze foreign aid on his first day in office, my colleague Brett Murphy and I began hearing from government experts. We learned that despite explicit promises from Secretary of State Marco Rubio that food and other life-saving care would continue during the administration’s review of foreign aid, programs were shutting down, putting millions of lives at risk. I’ve covered health in the U.S. and abroad for 15 years, and Brett…

Vince Zampella, who co-created the popular video game series Call of Duty, has died in a car crash in California, aged 55. Zampella’s death was confirmed by Electronic Arts, which owns Respawn Entertainment, a game studio he co-founded.The influential video game developer was travelling in a Ferrari with another person, when it crashed and caught fire on a highway in Los Angeles on Sunday. “This is an unimaginable loss, and our hearts are with Vince’s family, his loved ones, and all those touched by his work,” a spokesperson for Electronic Arts told the BBC.Officials said the person on the vehicle’s…