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  L. Lin Wood Jr. in March 2020. Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian via Wikimedia Commons. A defamation defendant is pointing to a “barrage of false and violent tweets” by pro-Trump lawyer L. Lin Wood Jr. in a bid to oust him from a case in New York federal court. The defendant, MSNBC anchor Joy Reid, contends that the court should revoke Wood’s pro hac vice status, which allows him to represent the defamation plaintiff as an out-of-state lawyer. But Wood is standing by his online claims, Politico reports. Wood’s suit accuses Reid of defaming his client, Roslyn La Liberte, in social media p...

California gets demand letter to stop using facial recognition technology with remote bar exam   Photo by Ian Waldie/Getty Images. The use of facial recognition technology with the remote bar exam could have an unlawful disparate impact on test-takers who are women or people of color, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law wrote in a Feb. 10 demand letter, which was sent to the State Bar of California. If the bar does not immediately take steps to remove the technology from the February 2021 exam, which is scheduled to start in about two weeks, the civil rights group will take l...

Alternative legal service providers continue to make significant inroads in the legal industry, growing their global market share to $13.9 billion by the end of 2019, according to a new study released Wednesday.

Afternoon Briefs: Ex-lawyer sentenced for show-pony secrecy; DOJ drops suit over Melania Trump book   Ex-lawyer sentenced for failure to disclose ponies A former Virginia lawyer has been sentenced to six months in prison for failing to disclose in a bankruptcy proceeding her family’s ownership of several show ponies. Laura Wright, 53, was a lawyer with prior bankruptcy experience at the time of the bankruptcy filing, prosecutors said. Wright’s lawyer, Anthony Anderson, told Law360 that Wright “is committed to working diligently to right her wrong in ways that will allow her to regain t...

Conflicts of interest remain a paramount ethical concern, as lawyers owe a duty of loyalty to clients. Rule 1.7 of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct prohibits lawyers from having conflicts of interest between existing clients, but lawyers also often owe a duty of loyalty to former clients under Rule 1.9 and prospective clients under Rule 1.18.