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A Path from Paralegal to Lawyer

Paralegal Bootcamp

She started her legal career as a legal assistant and then worked for several years as a paralegal at Georgia Pacific. While working there, she chose to take the path from paralegal to lawyer and attended the part-time law school program at Georgia State University. This is what you’ve been looking for! LEARN MORE Q.

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Shooting of Johnny Lorenzo Bolton Mirrors Killing of Breonna Taylor

The Crime Report

A Black man in Georgia was lying on his couch when police officers serving a narcotics search warrant burst through his front door without warning and with guns drawn before shooting him twice in the chest in an incident that has drawn comparison to the killing of Breonna Taylor but little of the attention, reports the Associated Press.

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HCCH Monthly Update: January/February 2022

Conflict of Laws

On 1 January 2022, the HCCH 1965 Service Convention entered into force for Georgia. From 14 to 18 February 2022, the second meeting of the Working Group on Matters Related to Jurisdiction in Transnational Civil or Commercial Litigation was held via videoconference. More information on these developments is available here.

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AI’s Future of Legal Productivity and Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of It

LegalTalkNetwork

This would be a great time to have AI scanning datasets like that for where leads came from and what clients and potential clients are asking for, and then turn it into improved collections: Legal Toolkit The Perfect Intake Form; Turning Data Collection on Leads into Profits; and “What Would Georgia Man Do?” Some tools share information.

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No, Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not dissent in Obergefell — and other things ChatGPT gets wrong about the Supreme Court

SCOTUSBlog

One CEO offered $1 million to any Supreme Court litigator willing to let ChatGPT argue their case (a prospect both ethically dubious and physically impossible ). It butchered the results of the court’s 2020 copyright decision in Georgia v. Some lawyers already use it to help draft contracts or patent applications. displacement.

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Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: Bruen’s originalist distortions

SCOTUSBlog

Bruen invokes the authority of history but presents a version of the past that is little more than an ideological fantasy, much of it invented by gun-rights advocates and their libertarian allies in the legal academy with the express purpose of bolstering litigation such as Bruen. Justice Samuel Alito recognized this fact in McDonald v.

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CLASSICS Act Introduced to Provide Pre-1972 Sound Recording Public Performance Clarity – What Issues Does It Leave Unresolved?

Broadcast Law Blog

Through litigation, certain copyright holders (including, most notably, Flo and Eddie of the 1960’s band The Turtles) have been seeking compensation from digital and analog music services for the public performance of pre-1972 sound recordings. But that law stops short of full Federalization of pre-1972 sound recordings.