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Lori Loughlin, Mossimo Giannulli - Urged to Get Separate Legal Counsel

In AdmissionsGate, Lori  Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli could have taken a guilty plea, throwing themselves on the mercy of the court.

That's the usual way legal messes are managed. As the world knows, that's exactly what Felicity Huffman did and soon enough the saga will be ancient history and she can return to her career.

Instead, the two are going to trial. They are being accused of mail fraud and money laundering. Meanwhile, Loughlin and Giannulli face serious prison time.

Recently, in  a pre-trial hearing, reports Daily Mail, they were urged to present themselves separately and to not have the same legal representation. For them, that's currently law firm Latham & Watkins, which incidentally is also representing the University Southern California. 

To begin with, federal prosecutors are trying them separately. So, it is puzzling why they have had the same law firm representing them up to now.

In addition, there is the issue of the conflict of interest since Latham & Wakins is also the law firm in AdmissionsGate for the University of California.

Also, during the trial it could come up that one but not both is accused of X. Sharing a legal team makes that a legal problem that should never have existed.

If they don't make a decision now about legal representation they are unlikely to be able to change horses later. The judge warned that could be perceived as a delaying tactics. Delay usually works nicely for defendants. 

The couple's children - Olivia Jade and Bella Rose - have their own legal defense. 

Question: Had did it happen Latham & Watkins is representing all three parties in the loop?

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AI and Corporate Responsibility - "Child's Play"

Horror movie "Child's Play" captures the dangers of artificial intelligence.

Parents should wonder: Should we trust our children with apps? And those concerned about law and ethics should be outraged that the corporation - Kaslan - takes no responsibility for the technology gone very wrong. 

Buddi, the toddler-size robot programmed to be children's best friend, becomes a murderer. He got that way as a result of industrial sabotage.

The worker in a factory in Viet Nam is being fired for day dreaming.

Instead of security immediately escorting him out, he screws up the software in the last doll he's working on. That is even though it's documented that most cybersecurity foul-ups begin internally. On the basis of just that, Kaslan should have been sued. It also should have been mandated to review how software could become "self aware," that is, develop its own consciousness. 

Instead, the Kaslan brass gets by with just a product recall.

Defective Buddi finds its way into the home of a lonely pre-teen boy - Andy - and his single mother. Initially, Buddi becomes not only a best friend. He attracts others into the boy's circle. All seems great.

But then Buddi becomes over-protective. He offs the mother's boyfriend who doesn't get along with the son.

Then Buddi gets jealous of a grandmother type the boy befriends down the hall. He does her in through reprogramming a driverless car.

Eventually Buddi, now a creature of total darkness, raises havoc and triggers another death in a store event for introducing Buddi 2. 

For a while now critics of AI have been warning that robots can develop beyond the original programming. What they come up with could be how to eliminate their human creators. "Child's Play" provides one scenario how that can happen. 

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Post-Gender Era - But, Sanford Heisler Sharp Won't Be Out of Business

In some circles, the law firm Sanford Heisler Sharp's signature is the class action gender lawsuit against BigLaw.

A recent high-profile one has been "Tolton, et al. v. Jones Day." Here is a copy of the complaint.

However, if the post-gender era does come, Sanford has nothing to fear. A group or individual with power likely will always be treating unfairly those with less or no power. Lawsuits are in the cards.

Signs of a world without gender classifications seem to be taking shape. That includes language.

Berkeley, California has passed an ordinance banning all gender terms from the city code. Those terms range from "policewoman" to "manhole."

The popular book "Gender Outlaw" by Kate Bornstein envisions social norms which don't differentiate human beings according to the sex organs they were born with. There will be no male. There will be no female.

Increasingly the conventional notion of gender as male or female has broadened into a continuum understanding. On that continuum some human beings are at the points of being more or less male or female in attitudes and behavior.

So, there is no longer such a set notion of what's "female" or "male." On the popular network television series "Good Girls," Beth thinks strategically about criminal activity, like a man is expected to do. However, her deep love of her children would be considered a female trait. 

Also, and most importantly, with fertility rates plunging in developed economies, the female's reproductive role becomes less central to how the world operates. In The Atlantic, Derek Thompson chronicles how the future of cities - the main engine of economic growth - is childless. It might be conjected that the need for offspring could have resulted in a conspiracy to temper female career ambition. 

The time when human beings don't sort out anything based on the perception of gender could arrive sooner than traditionalists anticipate.

An unexpected consequence could be fewer serial killers. Many of those have been locked into sexual-identity distress. With that distress not taking hold any more, there would be no compulsion to kill and keep killing. If "Law & Order SVU" keeps being renewed for another season, it might feature a post-gender plot line. 

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Support for Billable Hour Comes From - SHOCKER - Clients

To businesspeople, the concept of the billable hour in the legal sector makes no good financial sense. Long story short, it is seen to reward inefficiency.

But to clients, reports Dan Packel in Law.com, the billable hour equates with creating value. For that reason, the billable hour probably is not going away any time soon. The push for its end will have to come from clients. And, right not, that's not coming.

Clients, one has to understand, usually hire law firms for high-stakes situations. It could be a merger & acquisition, a bet the ranch civil trial, or, as in the food industry, a criminal trial related to contamination. They are afraid. They want the best. As non-lawyers they can envision the best in terms of hours put in. 

This isn't just a phenomenon in the legal sector.

Some public relations firms, when farming out a project such as a keynote speech, will instruct the consultant to not hand over the deliverable to the client for X number of days. To do so sooner could send a signal to the client that not much work had been put in or that the assignment was an easy one. Therefore, the client could balk when the invoice arrives.

And, who hasn't groused that the medical doctor "only spent 2 minutes with us," even though that 2 minutes solved the medical problem?

The interpretation of time spent tilts towards perceiving more as good - and less as bad. 

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Paul, Weiss - Big Contributor to Bill de Blasio's Presidential Campaign

Based on his performance in the televised Democrat debate, current New York City mayor Bill de Blasio is not likely to win the nomination to run for U.S. president against GOP's Donald Trump.

But those in the know know that's not the objective of the game.

Being in the race confers power. That ranges from increased name recognition to the ability to trade potential votes for present and future favors. Networking is based on trades.

My hunch is that was the strategy of Jones Day partner Laura Ellsworth in being a candidate in the Pennsylvania governor's race. Of course, she came in last. However, like Connecticut's twice-failed GOP nominee for U.S. Senator Linda McMahon, Ellsworth could wind up in an appointed government position. McMahon heads the U.S. Small Business Administration.

So, BigLaw firm Paul, Weiss probably has lots to gain by financially supporting de Blasio's campaign.

According to the New York Post, 52 employees at that law firm contributed $46,250. Although the chairperson Bard Karp didn't personally contribute, some assume he influenced the internal generosity. His wife Roberta did chip in $1,000.

Law firms operate along many points of intersection of government, business, non-profit foundations, and academia.

On Abovethelaw.com, Joe Patrice reported on how Jones Day was promoting its web of associations embedded in the Trump Administration. That, of course, was a very different time. Since then many of those relationships have soured. To borrow a line from the "John Wick" film series, Jones Day has been declared by the High Table "excommunicado."

The raw reality is that to get, hold, and move on to better professional opportunities, it's very useful to become involved in politics. When doing that, money could be the loudest voice in the room signalling exuberant support.

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