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Can I Adopt My Relative in California?

A People's Choice

"Can I adopt my relative in California?" Perhaps you want to serve as an adoptive parent to a niece, nephew, grandchild, or cousin whose birth parents can't do the job for whatever reason. People ask this question more than you might expect.

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Justices rule Russian citizen alleged domestic injury in international racketeering dispute

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Smagin adopts a “context-specific inquiry” to determine whether a plaintiff in a private lawsuit brought under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act has alleged “a domestic injury to its business or property” sufficient to state a civil claim for damages under Section 1964(c) of the federal RICO statute.

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My Most-Read Posts of 2021

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Perhaps that explains why my most-read post of the year was one I wrote in August, just a week before ILTACON, explaining why I had decided to reverse course and not attend in person. This was the International Legal Technology Association’s return to a live event, and I had fully intended to be there in the flesh.

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What’s New in Law Firm Ownership?

Attorney at Work

Virtually every state adopted the rule. California, Michigan, North Carolina and Washington, D.C., Getting out my crystal ball, I’d say we’re years away from any fundamental nationwide reform. The ABA and states have been exploring it since I started practicing law in the early ’80s. Arizona is leading the way.

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New Termi Chatbot May Just Be the Missing Link in Driving Tech Adoption at Law Firms

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It is a problem that hinders technology adoption in law firms and creates platform fatigue – or platform confusion – among lawyers and staff, not to mention the waste of time. Termi’s no-code backend system features a drag-and-drop interface that firms can use to map out how the software responds to requests.

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Greening HR: The Impact of GHRM on Employee Retention and Well-Being

The Process Street

While the term “greenwashing” didn’t come into use until the ’80s, and “business sustainability” until John Elkington’s 1994 paper for California Management Review , the concept behind both dates all the way back to the ’60s and Westinghouse’s “clean and safe” nuclear power plants.

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My Most-Read Posts of 2021

LawSites

Perhaps that explains why my most-read post of the year was one I wrote in August, just a week before ILTACON, explaining why I had decided to reverse course and not attend in person. This was the International Legal Technology Association’s return to a live event, and I had fully intended to be there in the flesh.