JURIST

JULY 12, 2021

Human rights activist and lawyer Semyon Simonov was convicted under Russia’s foreign agents law in a controversial criminal trial on Sunday. Given this status, Russian law required the SHRC to register as a foreign agent. ” Similarly, the country’s foreign agents law itself has faced calls for repeal.

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MARCH 1, 2023

“Washington lawyer Tom Goldstein leaves Supreme Court practice, law firm”: David Thomas of Reuters has this report. Today, the law firm of Goldstein, Russell & Woofter LLC issued a news release titled “ Kevin Russell and Daniel Woofter Announce New Firm.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 23, 2024

United Nations human rights experts Monday hailed lawyers in Iran for their unwavering and courageous commitment to the rule of law ahead of the International Day of the Endangered Lawyer , which is observed January 24. Furthermore, the Ministry of Economy was granted the power to issue, renew and revoke attorney licenses.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In what it described as a case pitting “real lawyers against a robot lawyer,” a federal court in Illinois has dismissed a law firm’s suit against the self-help legal service DoNotPay. ” Another lawsuit alleging unauthorized practice of law by DoNotPay, Faridian v.

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APRIL 13, 2024

“Supreme Court to weigh if Jan. 6 rioters can be charged with obstruction; Defense lawyers say prosecutors improperly stretched the law by charging hundreds with obstruction of an official proceeding”: Ann E. The post “Supreme Court to weigh if Jan. The post “Supreme Court to weigh if Jan.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

“Supreme Court Bar’s Breakout Lawyer This Term Started Out in Journalism; Easha Anand, now co-director of Stanford Law School’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, is scheduled to argue three cases this term”: Jimmy Hoover of The National Law Journal has this report.

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JURIST

JANUARY 20, 2023

India’s Supreme Court Collegium Wednesday reconsidered the proposal to appoint openly gay lawyer Saurabh Kirpal as a Delhi High Court judge, and observed that every individual is “entitled to maintain their own dignity and individuality based on sexual orientation.” First, Kirpal’s partner is a Swiss National.

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MAY 26, 2024

“Coinbase’s Supreme Court Loss Is Its Own Fault; The cryptocurrency platform’s lawyers made a mistake — or perhaps executives failed to heed their counsel”: Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

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Above The Law

JUNE 12, 2024

The post Elon Musk Drops OpenAI Lawsuit Right Before Forcing Lawyers To Make Bad Arguments In Court appeared first on Above the Law. Artificial intelligence is a lot like the rainforest except in the way that it's not at all.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Lawyer Theerayut Suwankesorn filed a petition with Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) Friday against multiple members of parliament (MPs) of the progressive Move Forward Party ( MFP ) as reported by the Thai state news agency, National News Bureau of Thailand (NNT).

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Russia’s Federal Service for Financial Monitoring added on Thursday three lawyers representing jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny to its list of “terrorists and extremists.” ” Under Russian law , individuals on the “terrorist and extremist” list face frozen bank accounts and suspended services.

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JURIST

JANUARY 28, 2024

An appellate court in Bangladesh granted bail to Nobel laureate Muhammed Yunus on Sunday, as reported by a local media. Yunus was previously sentenced to six month imprisonment for labour law violations in his company Garameen Telecom. Yunus’s lawyer Abdullah-Al-Mamun, also commented on the case.

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JURIST

AUGUST 7, 2023

A UK Association of Prison Lawyers (APL) survey published Monday reveals that prison lawyers are at risk of quitting if legal fees are not raised. The report asserts that prison law legal aid work is ‘no longer sustainable’ due to the ‘exhausting and poorly paid work’ undertaken by lawyers.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

“Trump’s Lawyers Made Some Very Odd Strategic Choices in the Supreme Court Ballot Case”: Law professor Richard L. Hasen — founder of the “ Election Law Blog ” — has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Three lawyers representing Russian dissident and critic Alexei Navalny were detained Friday following raids of their residences. Following searches of their homes and subsequent arrests, the men were brought to Basmanny Court in Moscow. All three later appeared in court.

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JURIST

MAY 23, 2023

A Hong Kong court has dismissed an attempt by jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai to overturn a decision barring his British lawyer from representing him in an upcoming trial under the national security law. In Hong Kong, the use of foreign lawyers has long been permitted.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The post Georgia Prosecutors Ask Court To Probe Trumpland Lawyers’ Many, Many Conflicts appeared first on Above the Law. You get a conflict! And you get a conflict!

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The Estrin Report

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Lawyers are often smart, ambitious, and highly educated. That being said, what does it take to stand out and become a “Top Lawyer” in your specific field of law? What is the “backstory” that brought you to this particular career path in Law? When Shakespeare said “first kill all the lawyers,” it was meant as a compliment.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The Supreme Court of India ordered the Tripura police Wednesday to refrain from taking any coercive measures, including arrest, against two lawyers and one journalist booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act of 1967 (UAPA) for their social media posts and reports on the recent communal violence in Tripura.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday became the first US appeals court to propose a new rule requiring lawyers to certify that they either did not use generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs, like Chat GPT, to draft filings or that humans reviewed AI-generated material.

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JURIST

JANUARY 27, 2022

A lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court for the Southern District of New York argues that New York’s law prohibiting individuals who are not lawyers from providing legal advice interferes with New Yorkers First Amendment rights. The program is called the American Justice Movement.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“Louisiana State Bar violated lawyers’ free speech rights, appeals court rules”: Daniel Wiessner of Reuters has this report. Bernie Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law reports that “ Louisiana Lawyer’s Rights Violated by Wellness, LGBTQ+ Posts.” Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

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Above The Law

MARCH 19, 2024

The post Showing Up To Another Court While There’s A Warrant For Your Arrest Proves A Bad Idea For MAGA Lawyer appeared first on Above the Law. Though, honestly, probably not the worst idea she's had over the past four years.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

High Court Cleared Up a Big Strict Products Liability Law Question in ‘Sullivan’”: Jeffrey F. Laffey has this essay online at The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers. The post “Pa.

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MAY 7, 2024

“US Supreme Court Argument Order Gives Unlucky Lawyers Less Time; More questions asked by justices in first case of the day; Short break between cases would help, advocate says”: Lydia Wheeler of Bloomberg Law has this report.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on Monday that the Louisiana State Bar Association (LSBA) violated the US Constitution’s First Amendment when it tweeted several posts that were not “germane” to the legal profession. Smith noted that the First Amendment protects the individual right of free association.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A group of activists, journalists and lawyers in Uganda Monday petitioned the Constitutional Court of Uganda to overturn the Computer Misuse (Amendment) Act, 2022 which criminalise specific uses of the internet in the country. The Act was signed into law last week by President Yoweri Museveni.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Over the course of their careers, lawyers will face health challenges. The post Lawyers And Courts Should Be More Empathetic When Attorneys Have Health Issues appeared first on Above the Law. Be understanding and offer every courtesy you can.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2023

“When Supreme Court Pros Came Calling, Client Stuck With Local Lawyer; ‘I think there’s something romantic about the idea that a small-town lawyer could argue their way all the way up to the Supreme Court,’ James Freed said of his attorney, Victoria Ferres”: Jimmy Hoover of The National Law Journal has this report.

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JURIST

MARCH 5, 2021

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – International concern grew Friday for Myanmar lawyers and law students arbitrarily detained in the wake of the February 1 military coup that deposed the civilian government and prompted mass pro-democracy street demonstrations that continue despite the killing of over 50 protestors by security forces in the last two weeks.

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Above The Law

MAY 8, 2024

The benefits that can be realized by having a solid connection with other lawyers to a matter are priceless. The post Clients Shouldn’t Mind If Lawyers Get Along With Adversaries appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above The Law

MAY 22, 2024

The post Tesla’s Lawyers Prepare For Class Action Racial Discrimination Suit appeared first on Above the Law. I wonder how many Musk tweets will be used as evidence?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 8, 2024

Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Climate Change as an Increasingly Common Feature of Law Practice Climate change is no longer an issue of concern only to environmental and energy lawyers.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Law students and young lawyers in Iran are reporting for JURIST on protests and related developments in Iran since the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. A serious threat for any organ in Iran (media, bar associations, medical examiners, even courts, etc) is that they cannot be or are not totally independent.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Vedika Chawla, a second-year student at the National Law University, Delhi. Kariel from the Gujarat High Court to the Patna High Court, the top court in the far eastern Indian state of Bihar.

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2021

The California Supreme Court held Monday that prisoners are entitled to a lawyer before a trial court can consider their record of conviction in determining whether the prisoners may challenge their murder convictions for killings committed by others. The new law in question was California Senate Bill No.

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2021

The Hong Kong High Court on Tuesday convicted Tong Ying-kit under the National Security Law (NSL) for inciting secessionism and terrorism. During the trial, Tong was denied the right to trial by jury, a common law system followed in Hong Kong courts for 176 years.

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