At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

’ ” Olga Murray, who, after a 37-year career as a Supreme Court staff attorney, founded a non-profit organization to aid the children of Nepal, died yesterday. Murray (standing, second from left); Justice Mosk (seated, middle) Murray claimed being a court attorney was “the best job in the law.” She was 98.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

AUGUST 27, 2023

Lawyer bios are similar , as well : went to awesome law school, won big awards, had great achievements – without a word to say about how the attorney actually helps clients. So, it’s easy to say that law firms all act alike and look alike, but it’s difficult to really bring home that point, lacking a graphical interpretation.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2022

jurisprudence , says a New York Law School Legal Studies Research Paper. . But FAS is rarely taken into consideration by courts during sentencing decisions, write New York Law School professors Michael L. According to the New York Law School study, racial minorities are more likely to have FAS.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 18, 2023

* SBF attorneys pursue theory that "cooperating witnesses. Reuters ] * Law school ranking haphazardly melds a bunch of other rankings into a ranking mullet: USNWR up front, wild party in back. New York Law Journal ] * Report surveys nearly 900 chief legal officers about cybersecurity and data privacy.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The New York State court system has routinely failed to demand personal accountability for prosecutorial misconduct, argues attorney and journalist Rory Fleming in New York Focus. The group plans to expand to other New York City boroughs soon. Although former Gov.

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The Estrin Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Marina Shepelsky Founder, CEO Shepelsky Law Brooklyn, NY Fordham Law School, 2002. Now as founder and CEO of three-lawyer Shepelsky Law, she practices immigration law along with family and divorce law. I applied to medical school, which didn’t work out,” Shepesky recalls. Supreme Court.

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Above The Law

MAY 12, 2021

* A judge has dismissed the NRA bankruptcy leaving the group open to litigation by the New York Attorney General. CNBC ] * Check out this feature on a law student who was a judge before he entered law school. [ CNBC ] * Check out this feature on a law student who was a judge before he entered law school. [

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 29, 2023

At the same time, Judge Arthur Engoron has repeatedly fined Trump for his public statements about the New York fraud case. The lack of restraint shown by Smith only magnifies the lack of leadership from Attorney General Merrick Garland. Engoron declared this week “Anybody can run for president.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the confiscatory fines imposed on former president Donald Trump and his family and corporation. Much of the criticism of the decision focused on the unprecedented use of the law and the excessive size of the fine. New York Gov.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Below is my column in The Hill on the $355 million verdict against Trump and his corporation in New York. New York Gov. The assumption seems to be that you have nothing to fear from confiscatory actions unless you are Trump in New York. The impact on New York business is likely to be dire.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 8, 2024

Below is my New York Post column on the unseemly scene in the courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan as prosecutors used porn star Stormy Daniels to present lurid details on her alleged tryst with former president Donald Trump. In New York, the relevance or credibility of witnesses like Daniels is largely immaterial.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 7, 2022

Among the city’s five district attorneys, this rate ranged from a high of 23 percent in Manhattan to just 1 percent in the Bronx, where just a single hate crime arrest out of a total of 92 resulted in a hate crime conviction since District Attorney Darcel Clark took control of the office in 2016.

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InHouseBlog

JUNE 26, 2023

So, you’re one of those attorneys who has had little-to-no work for the last few months. It’s a lot easier to get a new job when you currently have one, so don’t wait until the axe has fallen to reach out to those who can help you. Prior to entering attorney placement in 1999, Jon was assistant trademark counsel at Joseph E.

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ALPS

APRIL 22, 2021

In March of 2020, just as Katie Peterson’s first year of law school was nearing its close, everything changed. As Katie rounds out a full year of remote law school, she and ALPS Claims Attorney Martha Amrine reflect on how 2020 upended long-held law school traditions and created new ones.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 14, 2024

C-Span/YouTube Screenshot Below is my column in the New York Post on the first day of the examination of Michael Cohen. Thus far, however, Cohen has offered nothing new and, more importantly, nothing to make the case for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. He is expected to start his cross examination today.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Alternate headline: "New York Times Readers Learning What Savvy, Smart, And Undeniably More Attractive Above The Law Readers Have Known For Years. [ ABA finds 4 law schools out of compliance. What will in-house counsel do when law firms raise rates? Bloomberg Law ]. NY Times ]. * Washington Post ].

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JonathanTurley

MAY 21, 2024

C-Span/YouTube Screenshot Below is my column in the New York Post on the meltdown of Michael Cohen on the stand in the Manhattan trial of former President Donald Trump. Indeed, with any other defendant, a New York jury would be giving a Bronx cheer in derision. In fact, it was hard not to stare.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

The announcement fulfilled a campaign promise by the president, who last fall proposed the idea of a commission after he declined to endorse efforts by liberals to expand the Supreme Court – efforts that Justice Stephen Breyer criticized in a speech on Tuesday at Harvard Law School. Elise Boddie, professor of law and Judge Robert L.

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The Legal Ease

JULY 23, 2020

In this week that NY law grads were originally scheduled to be taking the bar exam, the New York State Court of Appeals (the highest court in the state) has announced a revision of its rules to temporarily authorize qualifying graduates of ABA-accredited law schools to practice law in New York under supervision pending their admission to the bar.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Prior to joining the Sabin Center, Carolina was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma, College of Law, where she has taught several courses on international law, including International Commercial and Investment Arbitration, International Business Transactions, Comparative Law, European Union Law, and International Energy Law.

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JURIST

APRIL 25, 2024

This time, I could actually see Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and the attorneys presenting arguments to the court, but I still had an obstructed view behind one of the acorn-laden gates. For example, a president can ask the attorney general any legal questions, such as whether a potential action is lawful.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 23, 2022

Before joining the Sabin Center, Matthew served for four years as an Assistant Attorney General in the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s Office. He also previously worked as a litigation associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and as a law clerk for Senior U.S.

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Patently O

JANUARY 4, 2024

I believe that Winston & Strawn will eventually prevail based upon a fair use defense, but it is still an embarrassing situation for the firm and attorneys involved. The role of attribution is also receiving increasing focus as attorneys begin to rely more heavily on AI outputs for their legal documents.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Marina Shepelsky Founder, CEO Shepelsky Law Brooklyn, NY Fordham Law School, 2002. Now as founder and CEO of three-lawyer Shepelsky Law, she practices immigration law along with family and divorce law. . I applied to medical school, which didn’t work out,” Shepesky recalls. Supreme Court.

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Above The Law

MAY 15, 2023

Law.com ] * The absurdist YSL case continues with an attorney curing a contempt rap with an order of wings. [ Deadline ] * Former attorney who fled the country after killing his girlfriend in "self-defense" convicted of murder. [ New York Times ] * Actress Fran Drescher writes about tax law for Bloomberg.

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LawSites

MARCH 25, 2024

I chose Cornell Tech’s LLM program because, even before law school, I always itched to build a tech startup,” DeFelice said. “As Cornell Tech was the clear choice to fuse startup-focused legal and venture training. The Cornell Tech LLM is open to top practicing attorneys and recent law graduates from the U.S.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2023

Nebraska has a small state loan repayment program to help a few attorneys who agree to practice rurally; in a decade, the program has placed 39 lawyers in rural parts of the state. The situation is far worse in rural states such as South Dakota, with few attorneys outside of urban centers such as Rapid City and Sioux Falls.

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ALPS

JUNE 8, 2023

In February of 2023, the front page of the New York Times reported on a bizarre exchange between technology writer, Kevin Roose, and a chatbot he was working with, named Sydney. Many are by now aware of the fact that AI tools such as ChatGPT have been able to pass exams from prestigious law schools and business schools.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 27, 2024

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears to be launching his own school of abstract legal work in the Trump indictment. For many of us, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has created a new school of abstract law where there is no need for objective meaning. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The testimony put the controversial demands of New York Attorney General James into sharp relief. Those words from Alice in Wonderland seem the only apt description of the case unfolding in the New York courtroom of Justice Arthur F. They did not. It all reminds one of another great work.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. Dellinger was a longtime faculty member at Duke Law School, and he founded the appellate practice at O’Melveny & Myers. Among her victories was New York Telephone Company v. 1, 1952 – Aug.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Guardian ] * New York public interest attorneys plan strike after failing to get a favorable contract. appeared first on Above the Law. Access to justice is only as good as the legal team it can recruit and sustain. [ The City ] The post Morning Docket: 02.21.23

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InHouseBlog

AUGUST 31, 2023

Jessica is a former BigLaw associate turned financial counselor who paid off over $200,000 of law school debt while raising twins as a single mom. a New York based executive legal search and career consulting firm. Need help with other aspects of your in-house search? Reach out for a complimentary consultation.

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2023

Court officers doing so was unusual, unethical and possibly even illegal, according to a law school professor and a defense attorney who learned about these allegations from THE CITY. Only prosecutors and the judges who oversee them are supposed to give legal guidance to grand jurors.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 6, 2024

But Bragg is betting on a New York jury looking no further than the identity of the defendant to convict. When Keith Davidson took the stand — the attorney who represented both Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal — he recounted how Cohen was furious about not being offered a job in the White House.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Linda Greenhouse’s comprehensive obituary in the New York Times is here.) In 1981, in my first year of law school, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was appointed to the U.S. Special Rapporteur Gabriela Knaul, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, and moderator Beth Jay, the Chief Justice’s principal attorney.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 15, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the ruling in the Willis/Wade controversy. Here is the column: Many commentators reviewing the decision of Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee to disqualify lead Special Counsel Nathan Wade but not Fulton County District Attorney Fani T.

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