Attorney at Work
AUGUST 7, 2022
Some lawyers always seem fearful of increasing legal fees — recession or no recession, crisis or no crisis. If you are wondering whether to raise your hourly rates or fixed fees, my advice — with very limited exceptions — is to go for it. Clients are never as price-sensitive as you think. The Two Biggest Reasons Lawyers Are Afraid to Raise Legal Fees.
LegalReader
AUGUST 26, 2022
If a legal practice can highlight how it's making a difference in society, that can help with brand recognition. ~ Jibran Qazi, MCPD.
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Attorney at Work
AUGUST 31, 2022
Attorney Noble McIntyre shares best practices for rolling out the welcome mat for new clients. First, tips for law firm telephone etiquette. Once someone contacts your law firm, everything — from the receptionist’s demeanor to the conference room decor — can affect whether that person will sign on as a client. So does your practice project a welcoming image or are you sending a different message to prospective clients?
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 19, 2022
Reconnecting with yourself is a critical course correction for a frenzied lawyer; the job can get ahead of you. Here’s how to come back. Sometimes we get busy in life — with work, family, building our business, taking care of others, and on and on. When this happens, we can start going through the motions without even realizing it. Until we wake up one day and think: Who am I?
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.
JURIST
AUGUST 4, 2022
The Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) released its long-awaited report Thursday on the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar. CIJA began its investigation in 2018, looking for evidence to clear a path toward international criminal prosecutions. CIJA has previously worked in Syria, gathering evidence on Bashar Al-Assad and IS. According to the UN fact-finding mission in 2018, crackdowns on the Rohingya ethnic minority began in the Rakhine region of Myanmar in 2017.
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Above The Law
AUGUST 5, 2022
But Jones offered to let the plaintiffs come on his show, so, yay! The post Texas Damages Cap Looms Over Alex Jones Sandy Hook Defamation Case appeared first on Above the Law.
SCOTUSBlog
AUGUST 29, 2022
Share An eight-foot-tall fence erected around the Supreme Court in the spring has come down, replaced by a network of much smaller barriers. The court put up the taller fence, described at the time by police officers as “nonscalable,” in early May, in response to protests that followed the leak of a draft opinion indicating that the justices were poised to overturn their landmark rulings recognizing a constitutional right to an abortion.
ABA Journal
AUGUST 24, 2022
Immigrants who are in the country illegally won’t be barred from law practice in New Mexico, according to a rule change approved by the New…
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 15, 2022
Sam Walton turned a five-and-dime into the Walmart empire using little more than business savvy and a legal pad. His reliance on yellow legal pads is well-documented. His desk at the Walmart Museum has a stack of the ubiquitous pads still covered in Walton’s exhaustive notes. If Walton used those cheap yellow pads to become a billionaire, you might find them useful in running a law firm.
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JURIST
AUGUST 16, 2022
A Catholic pastor in Nicaragua’s Mulukuku has been detained for undisclosed reasons amid a growing crackdown on the Catholic Church by the government of President Daniel Ortega. Óscar Benavidez, a parish priest at the Espíritu Santo Parish of Mulukuku was, according to the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights’s (CENIDH) sources, “taken from his vehicle and taken on a patrol to an unknown destination” after Mass on Sunday.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 19, 2022
Earlier this year, New York City Mayor Eric Adams proposed rolling back his state’s raise the age law that, in 2017, had moved 16- and 17-year-olds out of New York’s violent Rikers Island jails and into its more rehabilitative family court. Connecticut’s House of Representatives passed legislation in April cracking down on youth accused of car theft.
Above The Law
AUGUST 1, 2022
He can't pay the plaintiffs, he owes the money to. himself! The post Alex Jones Races Back To Bankruptcy Court As Sandy Hook Defamation Case Goes Disastrously Sideways appeared first on Above the Law.
SCOTUSBlog
AUGUST 3, 2022
Share The Supreme Court will kick off its November argument session with the highest-profile cases of that session: challenges to the consideration of race in the admissions process at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. That news came with the release of the November argument calendar (as well as an updated October argument calendar) on Wednesday.
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The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.
LegalReader
AUGUST 10, 2022
Making preparations for transferring your property and other belongings after your death may be made easier with the help of an estate-planning attorney.
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 11, 2022
Eloquent speakers understand that in every setting, every minute should be informing, perhaps delighting, your audience. Every lawyer needs to speak with colleagues, clients and prospects. Litigators need to address the court and sometimes jurors. Some lawyers give formal presentations. To develop eloquence for these situations, understand what eloquence is.
JURIST
AUGUST 15, 2022
A Myanmar court Monday sentenced former State Counsellor and democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi to an additional six years in prison after she was found guilty of corruption charges, according to state media. Suu Kyi was arrested in February 2021 after a military coup and has been subsequently convicted of various offenses on three occasions. This most recent conviction increased her total prison sentence to 17 years.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 31, 2022
Strings of fairy lights adorning fenced-in exercise yards. Bright new paint obscuring cinder block walls. “Cozy reading nooks” and starry night ceiling panels. Across California, officials are doing their best to soften the bleak interiors of county juvenile detention centers with such features and more: comfortable sofas, new gaming consoles, and scent-infused “de-escalation rooms.
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Above The Law
AUGUST 2, 2022
Our broken immigration law for skilled professionals must be reformed. The post Recapturing Of Unused Visas Is An Economic Necessity For America appeared first on Above the Law.
Intelligize Blog
AUGUST 16, 2022
Audiences were packing multiplexes across the country to see “Spider-Man” – the Tobey Maguire one, not Tom Holland’s subsequent version. Temperatures were rising outside and in the dance clubs, courtesy of rapper Nelly and his chart-topping single, “Hot in Herre.” Major League Baseball’s Anaheim Angels were on their way to winning their first-ever World Series […].
LegalReader
AUGUST 19, 2022
You can look for symptoms of elderly neglect to understand the situation. Some common ones include bed sores, weight loss, dehydration, sleep issues, and changes in mood or behavior.
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 16, 2022
You can prepare a dynamite brief or brilliant estate plan, but if the client journey is difficult, your client still may not be happy. After 15 months in progress, our new custom home was completed recently. As one might expect, between COVID-19, supply chain issues and labor shortages, all did not go smoothly. I’m no house-building novice — this is the eighth home we’ve built — so I understand that things don’t always go as planned and I know it’s not always the contractor’s fault.
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JURIST
AUGUST 3, 2022
US President Joe Biden Wednesday signed an executive order protecting the right of American women to travel across state lines for abortion care and directing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to protect abortion and reproductive healthcare access. Biden signed the order in a video call to the first meeting of the Interagency Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access , established after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 30, 2022
In order to reduce racial and ethnic disparities and enhance outcomes for young people in our country’s juvenile justice systems, those systems need to focus on diversion, a new report from the Sentencing Project argues. There is overwhelming evidence that youth arrests and delinquency cases brought before juvenile courts have a negative impact on young people’s futures and increase their involvement with the legal system.
Above The Law
AUGUST 18, 2022
Imagine school being held up because some smart aleck submitted a copy of ‘A Portrait Of Dorian Gray.’. The post Law Makes It Harder To Get Books In The Hands Of Kids Living In America’s Third Most Illiterate State appeared first on Above the Law.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
AUGUST 22, 2022
By Amy Turner. On August 16, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (or “IRA”), widely hailed as the most ambitious piece of climate legislation in U.S. history. The bill is sprawling, covering climate and energy topics as diverse as electric vehicles, building decarbonization, clean energy manufacturing and supply chains, agriculture, and greening the electricity system, all through a range of tax incentives and direct grants.
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