Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Would you like the good news or the bad news about practicing law during a recession? Financial strategist Brooke Lively has advice for weathering the coming storm. A client emailed me this week asking, “I am thinking about opening another office, but with the recession coming, I’m not sure what I should do. Any advice?”. Unless you were admitted before about 2005, you haven’t practiced law going into a recession.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Spanish anitrust agency Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Compentencia (CNMC) Tuesday fined US pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD) 39 million euros for abuse of the market. The agency claims that MSD took unjustified legal action against its Spanish competitor Insud Phrama under the false pretense of protecting its patent. According to the CNMC, MSD wanted to unjustly delay the market entry of its Spanish competitor’s product.

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 25, 2022

“LIVE Q&A with Justice Alito at The Heritage Foundation”: The Heritage Foundation has posted this video on YouTube. In news coverage, Andrew Chung of Reuters reports that “ Supreme Court’s Alito says abortion draft leak made justices ‘targets.’ ” And Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “ Supreme Court’s Alito Says Abortion Opinion Leak Made Justices Murder Targets; He gives no indication court has discovered leaker’s identity; Unpre

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The World Justice Project (WJP) Wednesday released its 2022 Rule of Law Index. For the fifth year in a row, the majority of countries experienced a decline in the rule of law. 85 out of 140 countries, accounting 61 percent and 4.4 billion people, saw a decline in rule of law. 52 countries, or 39 percent, saw overall improvement. The index measures eight areas of society: constraints on government power, absence of corruption, open government, fundamental rights, order and security, regulatory en

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

“Justice Ginsburg to Be Honored on Stamp as Cultural ‘Icon'”: Jordan S. Rubin of Bloomberg Law has this report. The post “Justice Ginsburg to Be Honored on Stamp as Cultural ‘Icon'” appeared first on How Appealing.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

“The Absurd, Enduring Myth of the ‘One-Man’ Campaign to Abolish Affirmative Action”: Jeannie Park and Kristin Penner have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate. The post “The Absurd, Enduring Myth of the ‘One-Man’ Campaign to Abolish Affirmative Action” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2022

France’s national financial crime agency Parquet National Financier (PNF) Monday reached a settlement with Credit Suisse to resolve an ongoing probe into accusations of money laundering. PNF began the investigation in 2016 when it suspected Credit Suisse of helping account holders avoid taxes and allowing clients to harbor undeclared, untaxed foreign bank accounts.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

“Thomas? Kavanaugh? Roberts? Conservatives dominate Supreme Court but lack clear leader.” John Kruzel of The Hill has this report. The post “Thomas? Kavanaugh? Roberts? Conservatives dominate Supreme Court but lack clear leader.” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy activist and media entrepreneur, Tuesday was found guilty of fraud charges in a Hong Kong district court. Lai also faces charges of collusion under Hong Kong’s National Security Law and sedition. Lai is already serving a prison sentence in Hong Kong for his participation in a vigil commemorating the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

“The Supreme Court’s New Era of Limitless Gun Rights Is Going As Disastrously As You’d Expect; The opinion in Bruen has left more than a few lower court judges scratching their heads”: Lisa Needham has this post at Balls and Strikes. The post “The Supreme Court’s New Era of Limitless Gun Rights Is Going As Disastrously As You’d Expect; The opinion in Bruen has left more than a few lower court judges scratching their heads” appeared first on How App

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Rabia Shuja holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from Griffith College, Dublin and is Chief Correspondent for JURIST in Pakistan. She reports from Islamabad. Two weeks ago, on October 10th, a day after the 10th anniversary of the shooting of Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), unidentified armed men opened fire on a school bus

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 25, 2022

By Matthew Eisenson. On September 21, 2022, the New York Times published an essay by Gabriel Popkin titled “Are There Better Places to Put Large Solar Farms Than These Forests?” Popkin describes a recently approved 4,500-acre solar project in Virginia that will remove approximately 3,500 acres of forest and asks whether such projects could be sited instead on rooftops, parking lots, and other degraded land.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) Sunday announced that the group has suspended its review of prison in Australia because delegates were unable to adequately visit facilities. The visit was conducted under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture & other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT), ratified by Australia in 2017.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 25, 2022

FAFO. The post It’s All Fun And Games For MAGA Trolls Jacob Wohl And Jack Burkman, But Sooner Or Later, Someone’s Gotta Go To Jail appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Monday upheld a district court order reducing an award for an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) violation pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, calling the lawsuit “abusive ADA litigation.” James Shayler filed suit against PCH, LLC (PCH) in 2020, alleging a violation of the ADA and California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Don't worry -- absolutely nothing will be done about it. The post Samuel Alito Cared A Lot More About The Precedent Of <em>Roe</em> *Before* He Had A Lifetime Appointment To The Most Powerful Court In America appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

According to new research from The Sentencing Project, roughly 2 percent of the voting age population in the United States, 4.6 million people, will be barred from voting in 2022 due to state laws banning people with felony convictions from doing so, reports NPR. State-level bans, which exist in 48 states, with 11 states denying voting rights to people even after they finish their full sentences, including parole and probation, have a disproportionate impact on Black and Latino voters, according

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I pray that counsel referred to relaxers as ‘creamy crack’ at least once in the brief. The post I Did Not Expect Perms To Be Legally Relevant, Yet Here We Are appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Orlando Harris, a 19-year-old graduate of the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis, opened fire on the campus with a long gun on Oct 24, killing a teenage girl and an adult woman before police shot and killed him, r eport Kathy Gilsinan, Moriah Balingit, Brittany Shammas, Ben Brasch and Praveena Somasundaram f or the Washington Post.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 25, 2022

* Having it your way: Californian law aims to protect fast food workers. [ The Reg Review ]. * The future of what social media giants can do is unclear. Tech bros just want an answer at this point. [ The Hill ]. * Been itching to dean for a law school? If you aren't opposed to living in Arkansas, you're in luck. [ AR Money And Politics ]. * In memoriam: "Paper Chase" author John Jay Osborne Jr. recently passed away.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Starbucks asked a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge on Tuesday to dismiss a case accusing interim CEO Howard Schultz of illegally promising benefits to nonunion stores, arguing that the NLRB and the union that has organized hundreds of stores are seeking to set an "inescapable unfair labor practice trap" for the Seattle-based coffee giant.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The arrests of more than 55,000 people due to El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s war against gangs and ongoing suspension of constitutional rights have led to at least 80 people caught up in the dragnet dying in prison, reports NBC News and the Associated Press. Defendants disappear into the system, leaving families to track them down. Police and soldiers who fanned out across El Salvador to make their arrests for the thinnest of suspicions had lists of names of people with prior records or b

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ALPS

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Introduction to an Ethical Problem Most Attorneys Don’t Know About. In April of 2022, a headline caught our attention. It referenced a new legal ethics opinion issued by the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics. Opinion 1240 has this digest statement: “If ‘contacts’ on a lawyer’s smartphone include any client whose identity or other information is confidential under Rule 1.6, then the lawyer may not consent to share contacts with a smartphone app unless the lawyer co

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Say Less: The burn hurts more that way. Attorney Arrested: On charges related to the January 6th riot. Raises Ahead! For Edelson associates. Sam Alito Said What He Needed To Get His Job On The Supreme Court: He didn't actually believe it. The post We’ll Never Tire Of Jonathan Turley Digs — See Also appeared first on Above the Law.

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Intelligize Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

You’ve probably heard of greenwashing – token environmental sustainability programs that help corporations launder their reputations. Now there’s “green hushing.” Green hushing isn’t quite the inverse of greenwashing, but it’s close. Essentially, it refers to companies’ strategy of keeping their climate-related goals and pledges out of the spotlight.

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