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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Lawmatics , a company whose platform provides client relationship management (CRM), client intake and marketing automation for attorneys, has closed a $10 million Series A financing round, it is announcing today. The financing follows the San Diego-based company’s raise of a $2.5 million seed round in October 2020. Matt Spiegel , cofounder and CEO, said Lawmatics aims to change the way lawyers drive business. “Today’s consumer expects a seamless user experience with instant gratifica

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JURIST

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Danish Court of Impeachment, or Rigsretten, Monday sentenced former Danish immigration minister Inger Støjberg to 60 days in prison. The decision follows a rare impeachment trial in February where she was found to have ordered the illegal separation of married asylum-seeking partners while in office. The Rigsretten found Støjberg to be guilty of violating Section 5 (1) of the Danish Ministerial Accountability Act, which holds that a minister will be punished if they, intentionally or throug

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Paralegal Brief Submitted Articles

DECEMBER 14, 2021

One might think after the turbulence of the past two years it would be naive to make predictions about the year ahead. As the saying goes ‘forecasting is difficult; particularly when forecasting the future’.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 16, 2021

She 'engaged in a pattern of abuse of staff, attorneys and litigants.'. The post Judge Removed From Bench After Calling A Judge ‘Fat B*tch’ And Another Judge ‘Uncle Tom’ appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The rise in violent crime across the U.S. has been concentrated in “low-income communities of color” which have disproportionately experienced the impact of school closures and reductions in basic services during the pandemic, according to a study by the University of California-Davis Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP). The first-of-its-kind study adds a different perspective to the narrative suggesting America is confronting a new crime wave as a result of liberal, “soft-on-crime

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Although artificial intelligence has been the subject of academic research since the 1950s and has been used commercially in some industries for decades, it is…

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Now if Jane Krakowski sued because the news linked her to a pillow puffing crackpot. The post Court Rules No Defamation In Claim That Mike Lindell Would Date A Normal Human Non-Pillow Woman appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Five years ago, in the wake of then- President Barack Obama’s Task Force on 21 st Century Policing , the Ronald W. Walters Leadership and Public Policy Center at Howard University conducted focus groups with Black college students to assess their attitudes towards law enforcement. We found signs of optimism about change, despite the highly publicized killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown in the two years preceding our study—even a willingness to consider law enforcement careers.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan Monday requested information about Border Patrol’s use of Clearview AI facial recognition technology in Vermont. Clearview AI aims to support law enforcement and government agencies solve crimes “by revealing leads, insights, and relationships.” According to Clearview AI, its web-based intelligence platform “includes the largest known database of 10+ billion facial images sourced from public-only web sources, including news media, mug

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Most lawyers I know have at least one thing in common. No matter their practice areas, or the size of their firm, or their work setting, they all wish they had more time. More time to live, to work, to spend with family, to exercise and on and on. Think of all the things you’d like to do if you just had more time. So, give yourself the gift of more time this holiday season.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The bare minimum of social responsibility is too much for some people. The post Partner Quits Law Firm Over Vaccine Requirement — His Farewell Email Is Something To Behold appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Over 40 states have not provided COVID booster shots to incarcerees, says the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI). As the country confronts a new variant in the COVID pandemic, PPI said a nationwide survey uncovered flaws in reporting and data collection in state facilities that rival mistakes seen when the infection first took hold in prisons last year.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A federal judge Thursday sentenced Eduard Florea , a New York man who applied to join a far-right group known as the Proud Boys, to 33 months in prison after he threatened the life of US Senator-elect Raphael Warnock ahead of the January 6 Capitol Riot. Florea was arrested on January 12 by FBI Special Agents and Task Force Officers with the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This year, Bryan Garner gave us tips for using legal dictionaries; a three-part series on how to manage a day's worth of legal writing; and…

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Glenn Greenwald and Jimmy Dore are not antivaxxers. They're worse. The post The People Monetizing Vaccine Hesitancy appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Nationwide, police pull over more than 50,000 drivers on average each day, amounting to more than 20 million motorists annually, according to the Stanford Open Policing Project. Now, with the trial of former Minnesota officer Kim Porter on charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Duante Wright , many are turning the spotlight on police traffic stops for their unique potential to escalate into violence. .

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul comments on Tuesday’s report on the human rights situation in Afghanistan by the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaking to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has passed the “baby bar” exam required for would-be California lawyers who opt to learn the law through apprenticeship instead…

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Learn the lingo behind the act of repeating a business owner’s best ideas back to them in a slightly altered way. The post The Legal Tech-To-English Dictionary: Law Practice Management Consulting appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In 2020, the number of persons held in state or federal prisons in the United States declined 15 percent, from 1,430,200 at year-end 2019 to 1,215,800 at year-end 2020, according to statistics released Tuesday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). . The 2020 imprisonment rate of 358 per 100,000 U.S. residents is the lowest seen since 1992, BJS said.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The Hungarian Constitutional Court ruled against a petition from Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government Friday, seeking to challenge a ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union that held Hungary’s asylum policies broke European law. The Constitutional Court held that while Hungary was able to exercise authority over its territorial integrity and population as a matter of sovereignty, Hungary was only able to exercise its interpretations of asylum law when such interpretations were

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

An auction of construction permits for 27 new TV stations is scheduled to occur in June 2022, as we noted in one of our weekly updates on regulatory activities for broadcasters. This auction will be the first auction of new TV channels in over a decade – and the first in over a decade and a half that includes UHF channels that are considered better suited for digital transmissions.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The Kraken is dead, long live the Kraken. The post Kraken Queen Says Dominion Voting Is The REAL Defamation In $10M Countersuit appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

James and Jennifer Crumbley, via CNN. After reviewing the timeline of events in the days before Ethan Crumbley, a 15-year-old sophomore, allegedly opened fire on his classmates at Oxford High School, 45 miles northwest of Detroit, prosecutors said that they had to send a message. Three days after the Nov. 30 shooting, which left four students dead and seven others injured, the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office filed criminal charges against Crumbley’s parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, who p

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JURIST

DECEMBER 11, 2021

The city of Columbus, Ohio, Thursday reported that it had struck an agreement to pay $5.75 million to 32 plaintiffs who claimed that members of the city’s police division injured them and violated their constitutional rights during social justice protests in the summer of 2020. Following the killing of George Floyd last year, the plaintiffs were among many in Columbus who took part in nationwide protests.

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