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New AI platform aims to help eliminate bias in law firm recruiting practices   Image from Shutterstock.com. Several BigLaw firms are testing a new AI-powered recruiting platform to combat unconscious bias in law firm hiring practices. Suited, which says on its website that it “enables law firms to fairly and accurately assess an applicant’s professional potential,” will soon start a pilot program that includes Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft; Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton; Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders; Willkie Farr & Gallagher; and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. The platform...

State supreme court calls prosecutor’s courthouse campaigning an ‘exploitation of the judicial system’   Image from Shutterstock.com. The Arkansas Supreme Court overturned a man's murder conviction Thursday after finding that the prosecutor improperly campaigned in the courthouse during the trial. In the Dec. 17 ruling, Associate Justice Shawn Womack wrote that conduct by Stephanie Potter Barrett, the Miller County prosecuting attorney who won an open seat in March on the Arkansas Court of Appeals, “has no place in the administration of justice and should not have been permitted.” ...

Afternoon Briefs: 2 death-row inmates test positive for COVID-19; US attorney in Missouri will resign   2 federal inmates test positive for COVID-19 ahead of January executions Cory Johnson and Dustin John Higgs, two federal prisoners who are scheduled to be executed on Jan. 14 and Jan. 15, respectively, have tested positive for COVID-19. In their announcement Friday, Johnson’s lawyers asked federal authorities to strike their client’s execution date. Higgs’ lawyer shared the news about his client a day earlier, after previously raising concerns that Higgs could contract the virus as c...

Obituaries ABA Board of Governors member who died suddenly was a good lawyer but 'a better person,' friends say   Photo of Kevin Curtin by Danny Duran. Kevin Curtin, senior appellate counsel in the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts and the District 2 representative to the ABA Board of Governors, died suddenly Thursday. “Kevin was a great lawyer,” Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan says. “He was somebody who really valued the profession and contributed to the profession. “But as good a lawyer as he was, he was a better person. If you look at s...