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Process Server Near Me: Checklists To Mark While Hiring

LDA PRO

One of the most crucial parts of a litigation process is serving legal documents. But what if you are unable to locate the defendants or witnesses? That is where hiring a professional process server is required. However, appointing the wrong person can cost you even more! Firstly, your money and effort will go in vain. And secondly, yet most importantly, there will be unnecessary delays in the litigation process.

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Clarence Thomas Snapchatting ‘F The First Amendment’ To All His Friends

Above The Law

Cheerleader wins case against school for off-campus speech. Thomas files lonely dissent.

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Can Police Cope With the Surge in Violent Crime?

The Crime Report

The surge in violent crime has thrust the nation’s police chiefs into the middle of an uncomfortable debate between those demanding a radical overhaul of policing and those calling for a return to stricter, hardline law enforcement. And the debate threatens to undermine efforts to address the reasons for the surge, police chiefs of four major cities reeling from the violent crime increase warned Tuesday.

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Hundreds of bodies discovered at former Canada residential school for Indigenous children

JURIST

The Cowessess First Nation announced the discovery of 751 unmarked graves near the site of the Marieval Indian Residential School, approximately 160km east of Regina, Saskatchewan, on Thursday. The bodies were found using ground-penetrating sonar across an area of 44 square kilometers. The site is believed to have been a cemetery for victims of the residential school, which operated from 1899 to 1996.

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Recipe for a Failed CLM Implementation

Selecting and implementing CLM technology can be daunting, leading to underutilization or abandonment. Factors like provider differentiation, inadequate planning, and lack of user training contribute to these failures. Recognizing these pitfalls is crucial for successful adoption, ensuring organizations harness the full potential of CLM for streamlined contract management.

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Court Circumscribes Firearm Toolmark Testimony in Murder Trial

EvidenceProf Blog

With firemark toolmark testimony, a ballistics expert testifies that a particular shell casing came from a particular gun. Here is how we described it in our recent Undisclosed series about the Darrell Ewing trial: When Derrico Searcy was arrested for.

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Bribes to Doctors Drove Addiction to Fentanyl-Based Painkillers: Court

The Crime Report

The case of Dr. Jeffrey Goldstein, an Upper East Side doctor who was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison last week in connection with a kickback scheme involving fentanyl, draws back the curtain on a different form of fentanyl abuse. Goldstein was prescribing Subsys, a potent fentanyl-based spray, in exchange for bribes and kickbacks from Subsys’s manufacturer, according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

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UN rights chief condemns Ethiopia for ‘dire’ humanitarian situation

JURIST

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet condemned the humanitarian crisis in Tigray, Ethiopia, in a statement delivered Monday at the forty-seventh session of the Human Rights Council. Bachelet said that Eritrean soldiers in Tigray “perpetrate violations of human rights and humanitarian law.” The UN estimates that more than 350,000 persons in Tigray are living in a famine.

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NFTs And The Law: What Do I Actually Own?

LawTechnologyToday

On March 11, 2021, the esteemed Christie’s auction house sold a digital artwork (titled Everydays ) by an artist named Beeple for $69,346,250 USD. Beeple (real name, Mike Winkelmann) is a well-known and prolific online digital author. But he’s not exactly Vincent Van Gogh and prior to October 2020, had never sold a piece for more than $100. Strange, to say the least.

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Court rules for high school cheerleader in First Amendment dispute over Snapchat profanity

SCOTUSBlog

Share A Pennsylvania school district on Wednesday may have won the war over regulating off-campus student speech, but it lost the battle over a cheerleader’s profanity-laden complaint on Snapchat. The justices ruled that the First Amendment allows schools to regulate at least some student speech that occurs off campus. But, by a vote of 8-1, the justices agreed with the cheerleader that her one-year suspension from the cheerleading team nonetheless violated the First Amendment.

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Contract Lifecycle Management: A Business Enabler Exploring On-Ground Challenges

CLM tools have always strived to push contract management into the digital age for almost 30 years. But the complexities of digitising a legal document are numerous. The current scenarios in business development have shown that having a fully automated CLM has become a mandate for every law firm and in-house legal department. To determine if you need a CLM system, it's essential to clearly identify the on-ground business challenges you aim to solve.

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Restorative Justice More Effective than Incarceration in Hate Crimes: Report

The Crime Report

To address hate crimes, restorative justice approaches may offer a more effective solution than carceral ones, according to a joint report by Stanford Law School (SLS) and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School. Titled “Exploring Alternative Approaches to Hate Crimes,” the report evaluated programs in New York City and Oakland, Ca., conclued that “alternative” approaches “may offer a way to identify and mend the unique individual and community harms caused by hate crime

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US Supreme Court blocks child slavery lawsuit against Nestlé, Cargill

JURIST

The US Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a ruling that allowed several individuals to sue food corporations Nestlé USA and Cargill over child slavery claims, limiting corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute. The case which the Supreme Court decided was Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe I, consolidated with Cargill, Inc. v. Doe I. In these cases, the unnamed plaintiffs alleged that Nestlé and Cargill were complicit in the use of child slave labor on cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast.

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Lawyer Tech Tips: Ways to (Really) Get Away This Summer

Attorney at Work

Whether you travel near or far, physically or virtually, here are some tips from our tech experts on getting away from it all. Summer’s here and the country’s reopening around us. A time like this will inspire many lawyers and staff members to take a family road trip, spend time off at a nearby beach town, or hop a plane to a farther-away dream spot.

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Report: Law Librarians Play Key Role In Innovation and Legal Tech

LawSites

A report out yesterday provides further evidence of a trend I have written about several times in recent years — the increasingly instrumental role law librarians play in innovation and technology adoption. The 2021 AALL State of the Profession Report , the second such report published by the American Association of Law Libraries, compiles data from three surveys to provide quantitative insights on such issues as the impact of COVID-19 in law libraries, diversity, budgets, user services, operat

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California Civil Discovery Act Undergoes Significant Overhaul

Short article looking at the new CCP 2016.

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Women Lead Toll of U.S. Jail Deaths: Study

The Crime Report

Photo by Caitlin Regan via Flickr. Women account for a disproportionate number of jail deaths, many of them as a result of complications from alcohol or drug intoxication that occur within days of being admitted to custody, says the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI). The median time served by jail detainees before a death caused by drug or alcohol intoxication was just one day, said the PPI in an analysis of the most recent figures compiled by the Bureau of Justice Statistics on jail mortality.

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Legal experts present definition of ecocide for adoption by ICC

JURIST

After six months of deliberation, a panel of 12 independent legal experts from across the globe on Tuesday unveiled a working definition of “ecocide” that they hope will be adopted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The panel was amazed by the Stop Ecocide Foundation , an NGO whose stated focus is facilitating the adoption of ecocide by the ICC in order to “protect future life on Earth.” The panel recommends adding “(e) the crime of Ecocide” to Article

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Enforcing IP without IP

Patently O

by Dennis Crouch. Kanye West and Yeezy v. Walmart (California State Court 2021). West helped to design the YZY Runners — a shoe that I would never have imagined possible. Walmart’s version are clearly knock-offs and West has sued. [ WestvsWalmartYeezyComplaint ]. The problem for West is that there is no underlying design patent, utility patent, or copyright registration.

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Secondhand Fashion Market is Expected to Be More Than Double the Size of Fast Fashion by 2030

The Fashion Law

The $36 billion secondhand market is projected to double in the next 5 years, reaching $77 billion, ThredUp states in its 2021 Resale Report. The Oakland, California-based resale company asserts in its newly-released annual study – which surveyed 3,500 American adults between March and April 2021 – that “as it becomes easier to sell clothes online, more consumers are purging their closets.” 36.2 million customers sold pre-owned apparel online for the first time in 2020, joining a larger po

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Dangers of Digital "Reporting": Legal Risks and Unreliable Transcripts

In the world of legal proceedings, the choice between a certified stenographer and digital "reporting" holds significant implications. Certified stenographers go through rigorous training and testing and stand as the gold standard for accuracy in capturing every word. Their expertise ensures a reliable record, a crucial foundation for legal cases.

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Can Your Birth Year Predict Future Arrest Rates?

The Crime Report

Sociologists and criminologists have spent decades studying theories of what impacts crime — whether it’s an individual’s moral character, socioeconomic status, or even the age-old debate of nature versus nurture. . Now, a group of Harvard University researchers say in an unprecedented longitudinal study that they’ve identified another societal marker that can be used to predict the trajectory of criminal behavior: the changing social and historical context of when someone comes of age based on

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Connecticut legalizes adult recreational marijuana use

JURIST

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed legislation Tuesday legalizing cannabis for adult-use, in an effort to uplift those hardest hit by the failed “War on Drugs.” Senate Bill 1201 aimed to promote “responsible and equitable” regulation of cannabis use by making Connecticut the eighteenth US state to legalize recreational adult use of marijuana.

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Court declines to endorse warrantless entries in all “hot pursuits” for misdemeanors

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that when police are pursuing someone for a misdemeanor, that pursuit does not automatically create the kind of emergency that allows the officer to follow the suspect into a home without a warrant. The court acknowledged that many cases will involve such emergencies – but that determination, Justice Elena Kagan stressed in her opinion for the court , will depend on the facts of each case.

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Simple Practices Can Make or Break a Law Firm’s Reputation

LegalReader

Awareness of the client’s perspective will go a long way in improving a law practice and also improving the profession’s reputation. Though I don’t think lawyer jokes are going away anytime soon.

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Optimizing Contract Management and Enhancing Team Collaboration: Insights from a Legal Operations Perspective

Speaker: Adina Marta Newman

Learn about a world of effective contract management and seamless teamwork across departments in this upcoming webinar from Cobblestone Software. You'll discover practical strategies and tips that legal professionals can use to streamline contract processes and enhance collaboration, making significant impact across legal and corporate departments. Join us as we show how you can supercharge contract processes, improve team communication, and take your contributions to the next level.

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America Needs a ‘Lawyers Justice Corps’: Paper

The Crime Report

A Lawyers Justice Corps should replace the bar exam as a certification of competence for new attorneys, argues Touro College Law Prof. Eileen Kaufman in a forthcoming paper in the University of St. Thomas Law Journal. Calling the proposal a partial response to the pandemic — COVID-19 has expanded the need for new lawyers while modifying in-person bar exams — Kaufman said that a Lawyers Justice Corps (LJC) would create an “equitable” licensing method while enhancing “access to justice.”.

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Belgium court rules Belgium’s failure to meet climate obligations amounts to human rights violation

JURIST

Brussel’s first court of instance ruled on Friday that Belgium has failed to meet its climate obligations, and that its failure amounts to a violation of human rights under the Belgian Civil Code and article 2 and 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The suit was initiated by NGO Klimaatzaak against the Belgian state, the Wallonne Region, the Flemish Region, and the Brussels-Capital Region.

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In unanimous ruling, Court agrees with athletes that NCAA violated antitrust laws

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a major shift in the relationship between universities and the athletes who play sports for those schools. In an opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch , the justices unanimously affirmed a lower-court decision holding that the NCAA, the umbrella group that regulates college sports, cannot restrict benefits related to education, such as free laptops or paid post-graduate internships.

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Billy Walters Pushes for Justice in Illegal Leaking Case

LegalReader

Federal agents also targeted PGA winner Phil Mickelson; DOJ officials never held to account for wrongdoing, coverup.

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.