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In Moving Its E-Discovery Matters to Casepoint, ICE Gives Another E-Discovery Vendor the Cold Shoulder

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The cloud e-discovery company Casepoint said today that it has signed a multi-year contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA), in a move that includes large-scale migration of ICE’s data from its current e-discovery provider Relativity.

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Immigration Activists Launch Lawsuit to Learn Future of Berks County Detention Center

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Activists allege that Berks County's commissioners have refused to inform of the public of their plans to use the facility as part of a mysterious federal contract.

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Asylum seeker sues UK Home Office after having stillborn baby

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Currently, it enters into a contract with a third party who provides the services. The contract is awarded to the third party with the lowest bid for the contract. The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants wrote in a tweet “The level of inhumanity here is unspeakable.

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Building a Better Law Practice: 7 Reasons to Specialize

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The paper trail revealed scores of cases involving debt collection, business partnerships, estate settlements, divorce and real estate litigation. Similarly, law firms are finding success by focusing on a particular industry or area of law, such as real estate, environmental law, immigration, civil litigation or a host of other specialties.

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Writing as a Side Hustle: 3 Lawyers Who Have Made Publishing a Secondary Income

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Siskind’s publishing house, Alan House Publishing, now has three immigration law books to its name, all co-authored by Siskind with colleagues in his firm. “A Visalaw.ai, which has received the College of Law Practice Management’s InnovAction Award, is also developing VisaForms, a new immigration case management system.

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Fake German Heiress Anna Sorokin Files COVID Vaccine Lawsuit Against I.C.E.

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Sorokin, along with three co-plaintiffs, claims she contracted COVID-19 because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement refused her multiple requests for a vaccine booster shot.

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A Path from Paralegal to Lawyer

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I’m going to say, and this is advice that was given to me when I was a paralegal and had just started law school and was reviewing the contract and went to the attorney who assigned it to me and said, “Hey, I have a ll these questions.” I prepare my own executable contracts. This is what you’ve been looking for!

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