Wake Up Call: Alabama Judges Probe Lawyers for Judge Shopping

Welcome to Bloomberg Law’s Wake Up Call, a daily rundown of the top news for lawyers, law firms, and in-house counsel.

• Federal judges in Alabama have initiated a controversial investigation and criminal proceedings against Carl Charles, a transgender civil rights attorney, and other lawyers fighting LGBTQ rights cases in the South. Judge Liles Burke, a Trump appointee, suspected that the lawyers were trying to avoid his courtroom, which led to a secret investigation of the lawyers by a panel of judges. (Mother Jones)
  
• Law firms are recruiting data scientists and a few are even acquiring AI companies to ...