An expert witness charged 3M $90,000 to run ChatGPT prompts explicitly asking the tool to “show how 3M is 0% at fault” in litigation against the company.
The resulting 350-page prompt log was obtained by plaintiffs’ counsel and transformed into what observers are calling the deposition of a lifetime for the compromised expert.
The episode has reignited serious questions about the use of generative AI tools by expert witnesses in high-stakes litigation, where objectivity and methodology are central to credibility.
On the private equity front, Wood Smith Henning and Berman has reportedly signed a letter of intent to sell a stake to Charlesbank Capital Partners at a valuation of roughly $700 million.
If completed, the deal would represent the largest private equity investment in an American law firm to date, marking a significant escalation in the trend of outside capital entering the legal sector.
A Pittsburgh product liability lawyer of prominent standing has been charged alongside his son in an alleged cocaine trafficking operation reportedly run out of Penn State fraternity houses.
The son has since lost his $188,000 law school scholarship following the charges, adding a significant personal consequence to what is shaping up as a high-profile criminal case.
A whistleblower disclosure sent to Congress alleges that Department of Justice civil rights attorneys have been leaving an antisemitism task force because remaining on it could jeopardise their law licences.
The DOJ separately told a court there is “no serious dispute” that the phrase “86 47” constitutes a threat, a position that has drawn sharp disagreement from legal commentators well outside the White House’s sphere of influence.
A UK barrister has been disbarred following the emergence of WhatsApp messages in which he described a former employee as someone who belonged in a “mental asylum” with “restraints lol.”
An employment tribunal had already found that conduct amounted to harassment before the Bar disciplinary process concluded with the barrister’s removal from the profession entirely.
Greenberg Traurig’s Mathew Rosengart has added Selena Gomez to a client roster that already includes Britney Spears and FKA twigs, with Gomez tapping him to defend a fraud suit over her mental-health startup Wondermind.
Legal commentators remain divided over whether the prosecutor in the Lindsay Clancy trial is making a courtroom optics error with daily hair bows that some view as a tribute to one of the young victims.
Critics have suggested the practice could find its way into an appellate brief, while others argue it represents a legitimate and human expression of remembrance during an emotionally charged trial.