InHouseBlog
MAY 11, 2022
A responsive lawyer is someone all clients want, and whether you are in-house or still toiling in the law firm world, it’s time to revisit your responsiveness game. While some in the legal profession may have seen lost time during pandemic lockdowns, the giant push towards remote legal work (a trend affecting other industries as well) has actually increased the need for responsiveness for many.
JURIST
MAY 11, 2022
Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a former Afghan law teacher now outside of Afghanistan shares her views on a strict new Taliban decree issued Saturday requiring Afghan women to wear full hijabs under threat of sanction against themselves or their male “guardians”.
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SCOTUSBlog
MAY 11, 2022
Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Arizona to execute a man who suffered from severe mental illness and, according to his lawyers, did not understand why the state wanted to put him to death. No justices indicated dissent from the court’s brief order declining to postpone the execution of Clarence Wayne Dixon, who was sentenced to death for the 1978 killing of Deana Bowdoin, a 21-year-old student at Arizona State University.
JURIST
MAY 11, 2022
A former Facebook moderator filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Kenya’s Employment and Labor Court against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, over poor working conditions. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a group of contracted moderators working for Sama, a multinational company that provides outsourcing services to numerous websites, which is also named in the suit.
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The Crime Report
MAY 11, 2022
A new University of Michigan study has found that increases in public school funding early in children’s lives can reduce adult crime, reports Phys.org. The study authors tracked two groups of students from kindergarten to adulthood and concluded that students who attended better-funded schools were 15 percent less likely to be arrested through age 30. “While many policies focus on the crime-deterring effects of additional policing or tougher criminal justice sanctions, our findings
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Above The Law
MAY 11, 2022
The Court's legitimacy is 'clearly in question.'. The post Harvard Law’s Laurence Tribe Says What We’re All Thinking About The Supreme Court appeared first on Above the Law.
JURIST
MAY 11, 2022
The Court of Appeal of Alberta Tuesday ruled that Canada’s environmental Impact Assessment Act is unconstitutional. The act required some entities pursuing projects which may cause environmental harm, or harm to indigenous communities, to seek an impact assessment from Canada’s Impact Assessment agency in advance. The court reviewed the act at the request of Alberta’s provincial government.
HowAppealing
MAY 11, 2022
“Supreme-Court Sources Can’t Stop Leaking About the Abortion Case”: Margaret Hartmann has this post at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine.
The Crime Report
MAY 11, 2022
Mississippi State Penitentiary, Photo courtesy Mississippi Health Department. Around the globe, countries are expanding their prison capacity at “an alarming expansive rate” — despite widespread calls to reduce prison populations around the world, according to a Penal Reform International (PRI) report released Wednesday. The eighth annual report of Global Prison Trends , co-sponsored by the Thailand Institute of Justice , says the incarcerated population is “at an all-time high,” with 11.5 milli
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HowAppealing
MAY 11, 2022
“The Supreme Court clerk who leaked a ruling to Wall Street traders”: James D. Robenalt has this report at the “Retropolis” page of The Washington Post.
The Crime Report
MAY 11, 2022
Camden County in New Jersey has agreed to a $10 million settlement in a federal excessive force lawsuit filed by Xavier Ingram, who was paralyzed following a 2014 police encounter, reports New Jersey.com. It is allegedly the largest settlement of any police brutality case in the state’s history. Ingram was fleeing from police on June 12, 2014 because he had an outstanding warrant when he was caught and beaten by three officers, one of whom stepped on his neck, damaging his spinal cord and displa
HowAppealing
MAY 11, 2022
“Man whose conviction was one of first overturned on tribal jurisdiction grounds receives life in federal prison”: Jacob Factor of The Tulsa World has this report.
The Crime Report
MAY 11, 2022
A number of bots being rolled out by U.S. justice systems have advocates saying they improve access to services while critics warn automation opens the door for errors, bias, and privacy violations, reports Reuters. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a rights group, submitted a cautionary comment to the DOJ urging the government to study the “very limited utility of chatbots, the potential dangers of over-reliance, and collateral consequences of widespread adoption.” E
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HowAppealing
MAY 11, 2022
“Ninth Circuit overturns California ban on selling semiautomatic rifles to people under 21”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report. Andrew Sheeler of The Sacramento Bee reports that “ California violated the Second Amendment with semiautomatic rifle age restriction, court finds.” Glenn Thrush of The New York Times reports that “ California Can’t Keep Semiautomatic Guns From Young Adults, Court Rules; A panel from the U.S.
ABA Journal
MAY 11, 2022
On the cover of Brian Hochman's book The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States is a martini cocktail complete with a skewered…
HowAppealing
MAY 11, 2022
“Why the Justice Department Is Unlikely to Investigate the Supreme Court Leak; The internal inquiry led by the court’s marshal has limited tools, but there are challenges to opening a criminal investigation”: Charlie Savage of The New York Times has this report.
ABA Journal
MAY 11, 2022
The public defender system in Oregon is so overburdened that several hundred defendants don’t have legal representation at any given time.
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HowAppealing
MAY 11, 2022
“A Leaky Supreme Court Starts to Resemble the Other Branches; The disclosure of a draft opinion that would overrule Roe v. Wade, legal experts said, was evidence that the court is not much different from other Washington institutions”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this “Supreme Court Memo.
Above The Law
MAY 11, 2022
Some firms are asking summers to work from the office three or four days each week. The post Biglaw Firms Want Summer Associates Working In Person — Which Means Lawyers Need To Show Up, Too appeared first on Above the Law.
HowAppealing
MAY 11, 2022
“To fix the Supreme Court, randomly choose new justices for every case; Special interests are gaming the high court to ensure outcomes they like; So let’s stop having the same set of judges decide everything”: Brendan Schneiderman has this essay online at The Boston Globe.
Above The Law
MAY 11, 2022
The Real Reason Behind The SCOTUS Leak: Conservatives don't want the John Roberts treatment. Legitimacy Crisis Rocks The Supreme Court: Because *gestures broadly at everything.*. Everything Old Is New Again: That goes for legal tech AND reproductive rights. Law Schools Rolling Out The Red Carpet: For graduation. Majorie Taylor Greene Will Be On The Ballot: This is why we can't have nice things.
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HowAppealing
MAY 11, 2022
“Ninth Circuit Strikes Down Restriction on Gun Purchase by 18-to-20-Year-Olds”: Eugene Volokh has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy” about a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today. In a notable oversight, the author of this majority opinion did not append a handy-dandy sample opinion for the en banc Ninth Circuit to use in reversing his decision.
Attorney at Work
MAY 11, 2022
Marketing firms, like law firms, vary widely in expertise, capabilities and strategic vision. Ask these questions before hiring a digital marketing agency. Elevating your firm’s reputation requires a compelling online presence, but it also requires the ability to keep a step ahead of ever-changing social platforms and search engine optimization requirements.
HowAppealing
MAY 11, 2022
“Betraying the Bench: Could the SCOTUS Leaker Face Criminal Charges?” T. Markus Funk , Andrew S. Boutros , and U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Kendall ( N.D. Ill. ) have this essay online at Bloomberg Law.
The Crime Report
MAY 11, 2022
While several cities have set their sights on violence interruption to solve the problems of gun violence and over-policing in communities of color, those who work with such organizations say there is still a lack of the infrastructure workers need to succeed, reports NBC News. As a result of inconsistent or disparate funding and high rates of burnouts, many leave the profession after about five years.
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HowAppealing
MAY 11, 2022
“Is marriage equality next if Roe falls? What the lawyers behind key LGBTQ Supreme Court victories say; Mary Bonauto of Obergefell v. Hodges, Roberta Kaplan of United States v. Windsor and Paul Smith of Lawrence v. Texas all told Grid that Alito’s draft opinion is a warning sign.” Chris Geidner of Grid has this report.
The Process Street
MAY 11, 2022
Perhaps you’ve heard about The Great Resignation, the record number of employees quitting their jobs. In September of 2021, 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs. Each industry has experienced a varying level of employees leaving their positions, though certain ones, like the foodservice industry, were particularly hard hit. In this post for Process Street , We’ll explore this phenomenon affecting the working world and look at some ways your business can continue to onboard top talent despite th
HowAppealing
MAY 11, 2022
“What Samuel Alito Gets Wrong About English Common Law: A tour through the justice’s draft decision overturning Roe suggests he either doesn’t know — or doesn’t care — about centuries of progress.” Matt Ford of The New Republic has this report.
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