Rhode Island’s highest court on Wednesday amended its professional conduct rules and issued guidance on the use of generative AI, ​joining a growing number of states adopting AI guardrails for lawyers ‌as the technology spreads in the legal industry.

(Subscription required) State bar prosecutors say Robert Finnerty knew, or should have known, Tom Girardi was concealing a multimillion-dollar payout due to a San Bruno pipeline explosion victim. Finnerty's lawyer told a court Tuesday that Girardi deserves all the blame.

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has rejected a water agency’s challenge to endangered species protections for the Southern California steelhead trout.

Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has held that the conversion of biological materials recovered from a crime scene, which did not return any DNA matches when run through the FBI’s national DNA database, into a different type of profile useful for genetic genealogical testing via private ancestry-services websites does not violate the constitutional prohibitions on unreasonable searches and seizures.