LawSites

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Among the most divisive issues facing the legal profession today is that of revising the rules that regulate law practice – and more specifically the questions of whether to liberalize the rules to allow those who are not licensed lawyers to own law practices or to engage in the practice of law. Now, Stanford Law School’s Deborah L.

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JULY 27, 2022

During a question-and-answer session following her speech, I asked her about the stalled efforts to bring about reform in California and what the Supreme Court could do to move the issue forward, particularly in light of the leading roles taken by the supreme courts of Arizona and Utah to bring about reforms in those states.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 21, 2020

New ACLU lawyer is accused of firing gun at ex-wife’s car A newly hired lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah was arrested…

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MARCH 18, 2022

Will your case turn into a lawsuit? Probably not. Trucking companies tend to avoid bad publicity and they won’t want to be dragged into a long legal battle.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Former President Trump’s lawyers wrapped up their defense in three hours on Friday, marking the fourth day of the impeachment trial in the Senate. Another of Trump’s lawyers, Michael T. A stark example of this difference came Thursday after the day’s hearing, when three Republican senators, Mike Lee (R-Utah.),

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A Stanford Law School study published today of regulatory reforms in Utah and Arizona finds that they are “spurring substantial innovation,” that they are critical to serving lower-income populations, and that they do not pose any substantial risk of consumer harm.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2021

Today, I will be speaking to lawyers and law students in Utah on the history of impeachment. The event is organized by the Utah State Bar litigation section in conjunction with the University of Utah and Brigham Young University law schools.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Patrick Marley, The Washington Post) How lawyers in the Trump ballot case are training for the Supreme Court arguments (Joan Biskupic, CNN) Visa, Mastercard ask U.S. The Supreme Court could decide.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Constandinos (Deno) Himonas, the Utah Supreme Court justice who spearheaded the state’s first-of-its-kind regulatory sandbox to license new forms of legal services and providers, is retiring from the court. 29 letter to Utah Gov. 29 letter to Utah Gov. Lund, past-president of the Utah State Bar, for my LawNext podcast.

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LawSites

JUNE 6, 2023

Noella Sudbury became interested in the issue of criminal records expungement soon after law school, while working as a criminal defense lawyer. Also last year, the Utah State Bar honored Sudbury with its 2022 Distinguished Service Award and, in 2019, Utah Business Magazine named her its 2019 Woman of the Year.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Pretrial conferences are required for divorcing parties before they can schedule a trial date.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Politico ] * 49 percent of lawyers are satisfied with work-life balance meaning 51 percent of lawyers are deluded liars. [ National Review ] * Meanwhile, diplomats are pointing to Israel's response as already in breach of international law. LegalCheek ] * Opioid special master protected by judicial "what are you, on crack?"

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Patently O

MAY 25, 2021

In other contexts, courts have found this can create a conflict between the targeted lawyer and client. 3d 1063 (2014), after a bitter and long custody dispute in which both the husband and his lawyer took ridiculous positions, the trial court imposed $55,000 in sanctions jointly against husband and his lawyer. 881, 332 P.3d

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Arizona has recently stricken the rule barring non-lawyer ownership in law firms from its professional ethics code. Utah is creating a sandbox environment to explore the same option. It’s only a matter of time before the traditional lawyer monopoly is broken. But, the chance to continue in that mode of operation has passed.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

(Chad Flanders, Baltimore Sun) Resolving Carpenter ‘s third-party paradox (Michael Dreeben, Elizabeth Hadley, Conor O’Shea, & Johanna Seale, Just Security) Oklahoma man executed after Supreme Court denies new lawyer more time (Kelsey Reichmann, Courthouse News Service) Utah woman hopes to challenge firearms restrictions for felons at (..)

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Arizona and Utah recently began allowing nonlawyers to establish or become part owners of law firms, raising the question of whether lawyers admitted in jurisdictions.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 24, 2022

Lawyers have always been protected against other business owners infiltrating their territory by the existence of ethics rules ba nn ing lawyers from sharing fees with non-lawyers, effectively barring business partnerships between lawyers and non-lawyers.

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JULY 7, 2022

If you apply for a job and you are rejected although you meet all the criteria, you may ask yourself whether it was an act of discrimination.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

Utah is one of a small number of states that use the no-fault insurance scheme.

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Above The Law

MARCH 27, 2023

Courthouse News Service ] * "Utah governor: Social media law limiting minors' access not 'foolproof.'" Because rather than regulate legal education to graduate lawyers who can practice immediately or require a comprehensive exam for any interested potential practitioner, we have BOTH. Maybe we were all onto something.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Mechanical failure is also a reason to hold the trucking company liable for damages.

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Above The Law

MAY 28, 2021

CBS News ] * A court has reportedly dismissed a lawsuit filed by spectators who were allegedly banned from Utah Jazz games after a verbal altercation with a professional basketball player. * A paralegal who was fired from her law firm job for feeding zoo animals in a viral video has found a new job. Business Insider ].

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Constandinos (Deno) Himonas, the Utah Supreme Court justice who spearheaded the state’s first-of-its-kind regulatory sandbox to license new forms of legal services and providers, is retiring from the court. 29 letter to Utah Gov. 29 letter to Utah Gov. Lund, past-president of the Utah State Bar, for my LawNext podcast.

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LawSites

AUGUST 12, 2021

Rogers College of Law in 2018, has expanded its operations to form a collaboration with the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business, making it the first cross-discipline, cross-institution, cross-jurisdiction legal innovation lab in the United States. Teaching Business Skills ‘A No-Brainer’.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Current restrictions on how lawyers structure their businesses stand in the way of meaningful access to justice for many Americans, so states should follow the lead of Utah and Florida and test out innovative law firm business models through regulatory sandboxes, says Zachariah DeMeola at the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System. (..)

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Above The Law

JUNE 17, 2021

Yahoo News ] * Prosecutors say Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels's former lawyer, deserves "very substantial" prison time for crimes he purportedly committed. [ Hill ] * A Utah prosecutor has apologized for telling a lawmaker to "die and go to hell" for interrupting his afternoon nap. Guess the judge put "ice" on that litigation.

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ALPS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

MAPP is the Executive Director of the Utah State Bar’s Well-Being Committee for the Legal Profession working with Utah’s judges, lawyers, and law students to enhance engagement, performance, resilience, and overall well-being. One of them is the state of Utah. Martha Knudson, J.D., So welcome, Martha.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

Many semi-truck accidents are caused by fatigue or distraction, and both of these threats become more common the longer a trucker stays behind the wheel.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

On October 25th, 2021 it was reported that extremely strong winds had wrought havoc on semi-trucks driving along Interstate 80 in Tooele County.

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Diane Drain

JANUARY 22, 2023

September 1, 2023: TILA Disclosures re Index Rates; California Garnishment ; Minnesota Debt Collection December 1, 2023: Bankruptcy December 31, 2023: Utah Data Privacy Musings by Diane Consumer legal protections are rare. Arizona Bankruptcy Lawyer. Drain, P.A.,

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JURIST

MARCH 21, 2022

Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal said that her experience as a public defender allows her to “understand our justice system uniquely, through the eyes of people who couldn’t afford a lawyer.” ” Blumenthal stated that Jackson had “ appeared three previous times and [been] confirmed with bipartisan support.”

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Most lawyers are familiar with Rule 5.4 In a nutshell, it says that lawyers must own law firms. The purpose is supposedly to prevent nonlawyers from interfering with a lawyer’s independent and professional judgment. Remember, lawyers couldn’t advertise until 1977, and that reform was forced on the profession by the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Mechanical defects are one of the most common causes of truck accidents. In most cases it’s about tires, brakes or wheel issues.

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ALPS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In terms of being the original co-chair on the national task force on lawyer well-being, Bree has just invested countless hours to give back to the profession through this work and Bree, we’re just so fortunate to have you and to continue to have your leadership of this movement. And I know a bunch of lawyers. MATT: Sure.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

If we let a single judge in the middle of nowhere issue injunctions binding the whole country, we may as well let the lawyers practice across the country. National Law Journal ] * Reddit stories are always a little suspect, but could this law student have lost a job over "bofadeez nutz" greeting?

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

Parents of both parties are entitled to due process and legal protection.

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LawSites

AUGUST 9, 2022

As states seek to find innovative ways to address the access-to-justice crisis, a key component has been eliminating or loosening the prohibition on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. Just two weeks earlier, Utah had approved sweeping changes in legal services regulation that that allowed non-traditional legal services providers.

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