LawSites

JULY 6, 2023

The jobs of law firm partners are safest, the survey concludes, but certain practice areas are more likely to be impacted by generative AI, respondents believe. Practice areas most likely to be impacted include corporate, trust and estates, litigation, intellectual property, and tax.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Cunha, who now teaches at Boston College, declined to comment, stating in an email: “I cannot comment on pending litigation as the rules of professional responsibility prohibit me from doing so.” there has been a violation of state criminal law by Ms. That citation refers to the state’s obstruction of justice law.

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JURIST

APRIL 4, 2023

The Swiss Federal Prosecutor said on Sunday that they are investigating potential breaches of Swiss criminal law by government officials, regulators and executives at the two banks, which agreed on an emergency merger. The prosecutor, Stefan Blättler, has issued a number of “investigatory orders” to government bodies.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 16, 2023

If hate speech is constitutionally protected, pronoun use or misuse is also protected as a criminal matter. There is ongoing litigation of the protection in an employment setting for civil liability or disciplinary action). It reflects the erosion of free speech principles with younger generations.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The investigation spoke to the difficulty of re-litigating the men’s convictions; the lead prosecutor and all of the witnesses at the original 1966 trial are now dead. The Manhattan District Attorney’s office opened an investigation into the integrity of Aziz and Islam’s convictions in January 2020.

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CARET Legal

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Ongoing Legal Services Example: A corporation requiring ongoing legal services for contract reviews, compliance issues, and potential litigation would find a general retainer agreement beneficial. With an LPMS, law firms can efficiently manage these ongoing tasks, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 5, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on a series of cases that appear propelled by political rather than legal considerations. The costs to the legal system, the public, or victims in such cases are often overlooked but they are considerable. Here is the column: “It’s not about politics.”

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

To the extent a corporate actor violates either civil or criminal law in a manner that implicates environmental justice or the climate crisis, corporations should be aware that my division is paying particular attention to these issues.”.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The High Court for the state of Madhya Pradesh has issued a notice to the state government on the public interest litigation (PIL) petition challenging the constitutional validity of the newly promulgated Dharma Swatantrya (Religious Freedom) Ordinance, 2020.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 27, 2022

Since becoming the Litigator-in-Chief, he added another 500 lawsuits, bringing his total to more than 4,000 civil lawsuits since 1973. The former president has been a consummate escape artist when it comes to his alleged violations of the law. The Houdini of White-Collar Crime. Don’t Mess with The Donald’.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 24, 2024

They litigated the question and insisted that that is precisely what it was. Yet, quashing the story and avoiding any litigation was a legal matter with the eventual crafting of the NDA. Romney is precisely what Bragg is looking for in these jurors. If so, it was not a legal expense.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the ongoing opioid litigation and an important ruling out of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. The company and the Oklahoma justices are right on the law. Public nuisance was originally addressed in England by criminal laws against such offenses as obstructing “the King’s highways.”

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Blackstone Career Institute

MARCH 28, 2024

Programs include Criminal Law , Civil Litigation , Interviewing & Investigating , Real Estate Law , Business & Corporate Law , Family Law , Personal Injury & Torts , Immigration Law , Wills, Trusts, & Estates , and Practical Bankruptcy.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2024

During more than two-and-a-half hours of oral argument, some of the court’s conservative justices expressed concern about the prospect that, if former presidents do not have immunity, federal criminal laws could be used to target political opponents. However, the justices left open the prospect that Trump’s trial in Washington, D.C.,

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In torts, we often discuss strike suits and slip-and-fall actions designed to force settlements from litigation-wary companies. In Louisiana, police arrested a man, Arthur Bates Jr., 47, who they allege staged such an accident. The problem is that it was caught on videotape by the Tesla driver.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 21, 2017

The Georgia Supreme Court this week issued a decision holding that the streaming of pre-1972 sound recordings by iHeart Media does not violate the state’s criminal statutes against the “transfer” of recorded sounds without the permission of the owner of the master recording.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2024

Moreover, we now have a judge who feels the same license to make such criticisms in the media despite the ongoing litigation of these matters. That alleged transgression, however, pales in comparison to a failure to protect the rights of this defendant from the abusive or unsupported surveillance of the government.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

It seems likely that the case will move into a new stage of litigation, particularly civil litigation. That includes wrongful death actions much like the litigation against O.J. Finally, there is likely to be litigation over who receives the $2 million bond posted in the Kyle Rittenhouse case. Bond claims.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

criminal law as “an extreme abuse,” China applies its criminal law extraterritorially on all the bases that the United States employs. Each of these bases for jurisdiction to prescribe is consistent with customary international law , and China has the right to extend its criminal law extraterritorially like this.

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LawSites

APRIL 7, 2022

Founded in 2015, Centerbase’s primary customers are mid-sized law firms practicing in the areas of civil litigation, insurance defense, family law, and criminal law, but the firms also span such practice areas as business, employment, immigration, intellectual property, real estate, and others.

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SimplyLawJobs

JULY 5, 2021

As a legal advisor at Irwin Mitchell, you are given the opportunity to learn about different areas of law very quickly. As a law graduate, whilst I knew I had an interest in criminal law, I wanted to be sure! The legal advisor role certainly helped with that. There is still a lot for me to learn. That it is not a race.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Ashley’s a member and mentor, as you heard, of the Alberta Association of Professional Paralegals and an associate member of the Edmonton Law Office Managers Association. My background is primarily working in criminal law, and I typically work in a very small firm, and your lawyer is always off at court.

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The Crime Report

MAY 19, 2022

My recent research suggests that prosecutors and defense attorneys who are not professional exonerators are more likely to engage in post-conviction bargaining such as agreeing to forego litigation around negligence or misconduct. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Loyola University in Chicago.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The government also focuses on, among other things, the rule’s use of the word “usual” in the phrase “usual course of his professional practice,” arguing that “usual” connotes the ordinary, objective, everyday norms of medical practice, not doctors effectively deciding for themselves the scope of their own criminal liability.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We note our prior writings on the subject, which extend to five pages of posts , We note further that the JAMA editorial cites our own John Fleder , which makes sense since John is one of the foremost experts on Park liability from his time at the Department of Justice’s Office of Consumer Litigation as well as private practice with our firm.

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Fordham Law News

APRIL 21, 2021

1] In the absence of an international authority with universal jurisdiction over the resolution of international commercial disputes, the only recourse is reliance upon state-based jurisdiction, i.e., litigation, or arbitration. [2] As a method of civil dispute resolution, arbitration may seem worlds apart from the sphere of criminal law.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The case highlights the problem with criminalized negligence standards, particularly in these weapon confusion cases. The question is whether justice is truly served by applying criminal laws to acts of negligence by officers in these cases. There is a tendency to treat criminal law as the only way to address fatal tragedies.

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LawSites

AUGUST 23, 2021

Its primary customers are mid-sized law firms practicing in the areas of civil litigation, insurance defense, family law, and criminal law, but the firms also span such practice areas as business, employment, immigration, intellectual property, real estate, and others.

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Paralegal Mentor

MAY 15, 2014

In 2006, Professor Mitchell received the Justice For All award from the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan for her Innocence Project work. Professor Mitchell’s litigation experience includes practicing before the U.S. Professor Mitchell’s publications are in the areas of criminal law, elder law, ethics, and clinical teaching.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 16, 2022

But Cochran urged the justices to grant review now, arguing that doing so is the only way to eliminate both the conflict among the lower courts on this question and “the otherwise inevitable and unnecessary spin-off litigation that would accompany an FTC-specific decision in Axon.”. The justices also granted review in Jones v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2022

Thomas spent the first 11 pages of his 22-page opinion recounting the grisly facts of the murders the defendants were convicted of, extolling the states’ authority to enforce criminal laws, and emphasizing the importance of the finality of convictions.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2022

Instead, he filed a lawsuit in federal district court, arguing that the school district had violated his First Amendment rights and federal civil rights laws. Kennedy came to the Supreme Court in 2018 seeking to get his job back while litigation continued.

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SquirePattonBoggs

MARCH 11, 2024

See In re Nat’l Prescription Opiate Litig. , That case arose in the crosshairs of a complex and changing area of criminal law. . § 1254(2), the lesser-known companion to the provision that gives the Supreme Court certiorari jurisdiction (§1254(1)). 4th 455 (6th Cir. Laufer case free from mootness.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Abbott involves a long-running series of multi-district litigation cases arising from du Pont’s government-permitted releases of chemicals from one of its plants; because the claims of harm from exposure were varied, the cases proceeded through multidistrict litigation rather than as part of a class action. relisted after the Sept.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

Now Bragg is bringing a case that has taken years to develop and millions of dollars in litigation costs for all parties. That is all over a crime from before the 2016 election that is a misdemeanor under state law that had already expired under the statute of limitations.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Much of the litigation, however, has come from civil litigation. Being a repeated guest with an infamous child molester raises obvious concerns. It is certainly enough to warrant questioning by the FBI. Then there is Prince Andrew who has been pursued for questioning. Prince Andrew recently put forward a novel defense in one such case.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 3, 2021

The contested legality of a statute making a significant change to the state’s criminal law, that’s certainly “an important question of law.” Some superior court judges even agreed with those district attorneys, ruling SB 1437 to be in violation of the state constitution. Apparently not.

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