Above The Law
JULY 1, 2025
While innovation has revolutionized many aspects of legal practice, intake has largely eluded the attention of developers. Instead, many law firms rely on disparate processes like email, forms, tasks, checklists, and phone calls, all handled by different departments or individuals. The result is an inefficient process that wastes valuable time and is prone to errors.
HarrisBricken
JULY 1, 2025
Cannabis intellectual property (IP) licensing deals can be complicated, presenting unique issues. Many companies expect the biggest hurdle to be state cannabis law compliance. Although this is certainly a major concern, it’s important to start with the brand licensing fundamentals by analyzing the validity and strength of the IP itself. With any licensing deal, the first step should be determining who actually owns what IP.
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JURIST
JULY 1, 2025
The Constitutional Court of Thailand suspended the nation’s prime minster (PM) Tuesday, ordering her to stop performing her duties following allegations of misconduct and serious ethical violations tied to a leaked phone conversation with a senior Cambodian leader. Thirty-six senators filed a petition with the court alleging that PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra failed to fulfill her constitutional duties, withheld appropriate responses, and acted in alignment with Cambodian interests due to pers
The Volokh Conspiracy
JULY 1, 2025
Imagine that you're renting an apartment and the terms of the lease require paying your landlord $2,000 every month. Now, imagine that the lease expires at the end of this month. Here you sit, on July 1, with no lease signed for the month of August. Congratulations, you've now got $2,000 extra dollars that you can spend on anything else. Take a vacation!
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HowAppealing
JULY 1, 2025
“Interview with Associate Justice Goodwin H. Liu of The Supreme Court of California, US”: Law Times Korea has published this interview (via “ Southern California Appellate News “).
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JURIST
JULY 1, 2025
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday demanded that Malawian authorities investigate and prosecute armed men who attacked peaceful election protesters last week while police on scene declined to step in. The international rights organization stressed that immediate action is crucial to send a strong message that human rights violations will not be tolerated ahead of the crucial September general election.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JULY 1, 2025
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to the latest edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter includes stories on: The triumphant, albeit technical, return of missing middle housing in Arlington, Virginia New York's Rent Guidelines Board allows a 3 percent rent increase. It's not just Zohran Mamdani. In New York, everyone's a socialist on housing. But first, this week's lead story is on California's latest effort to reform its development-killing environmental review law.
HowAppealing
JULY 1, 2025
“‘A Culture of Disdain’: The Supreme Court’s Actions Speak Louder Than Its Words.” Law professor Kate Shaw has this guest essay online at The New York Times.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JULY 1, 2025
Funding for Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare accounted for 41 percent of federal spending in FY 2024. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is expected to add $3.9 trillion to the federal deficit over the next 10 years, aims to rein in some entitlement spending by implementing work requirements for Medicaid recipients. However, these provisions could backfire by increasing administrative burdens and making the program less efficient.
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HowAppealing
JULY 1, 2025
“Ex-public defender cries foul over long sexual harassment probe by Fourth Circuit; Caryn Strickland challenged the Fourth Circuit’s employment dispute resolution process which she claims violates anti-discrimination standards established by the Civil Rights Act”: Sydney Haulenbeek of Courthouse News Service has this report. You can access the audio of yesterday’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JULY 1, 2025
Earlier this month, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Robert Lougy rejected a lawsuit filed by Local Leaders for Responsible Planning (LLRP)—a coalition of 29 New Jersey townships—alleging that the state's affordable housing law violates the General Welfare Clause of the New Jersey Constitution. The housing law, signed by Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy in March 2024, codified the process for determining each town's affordable housing quota and aimed to expedite the construction of housing units by di
HowAppealing
JULY 1, 2025
“Why Now? The Timing of the Universal Injunction Ruling.” William Baude has this post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site. And at Balls and Strikes, Madiba K. Dennie has an essay titled “ Amy Coney Barrett is Trying to Bait and Switch Americans Out of Their Citizenship; The Court’s opinion in CASA presents class actions as a workable alternative to nationwide injunctions, which will be surprising to anyone with a passing familiarity with the Court’s hostility to
The Volokh Conspiracy
JULY 1, 2025
In April, the Supreme Court of Texas invited comments on whether Texas should "reduce or end" reliance on the American Bar Association's Section on Legal Education. A few weeks ago, the Civitas Institute organized a symposium on this important topic. I have now submitted a comment to the Court. In short, whether the Court keeps or abandons the ABA, there should be a recognition that the interests of law deans are not always consonant with the interests of the general public.
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Above The Law
JULY 1, 2025
It’s no secret that lawyers who juggle too many documents face problems with inefficiency and increased risk of making mistakes. So why are so many lawyers still bogged down in documents when handling matters for clients? And why is anyone still using the find and replace function? We brought on Samuel Smolkin, the founder of Offices & Dragons (now a Litera company), who joins host Jared Correia to explore all things document automation and assembly.
EvidenceProf Blog
JULY 1, 2025
Prior inconsistent statements made subject to the penalty of perjury are nonhearsay and admissible both to impeach and prove the truth of the matter asserted under Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(A). Imagine that Erica testifies at a preliminary hearing that.
Above The Law
JULY 1, 2025
California has a certain kind of easy-going vibe that’ll make you appreciate that business casual lifestyle. Depending on where your office is located, you may even be able to see the beach from your window. In fact, we wouldn’t be surprised if your firm handed out flip-flops emblazoned with their logo (we see you, Quinn Emanuel). Whether you’re into tech, litigation, or representing celebrities, there really is something for everyone.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JULY 1, 2025
In yesterday's Landau v. Corp. of Haverford College , Judge Gerard McHugh (E.D. Pa.) rejected plaintiffs' Title VI claims (see here for more), but allowed the breach of contract claim to go forward, albeit only for nominal damages: Plaintiffs allege that although they filed complaints to Haverford about many of the instances [of alleged anti-Semitic behavior], they did not receive any response, violating the policies that Haverford represents as active on their website.
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Why does it take 20-40 hrs. to create a compliant legal brief? TypeLaw analyzed 10,000+ briefs to determine the anatomy of the average brief—how many words, paragraphs, citations to the record, and more. See the research results in this infographic.
Above The Law
JULY 1, 2025
Trial Court Judge Ruled On AI-Hallucinated Law : Was only a matter of time. He Doesn’t Know When To Quit : The DOJ appeals order that went in Perkin Coie’s favor. Iowa, The Civil Procedure State : See if you can count all of the errors ! UMG Wants To Dismiss Drake’s Cry For Help Lawsuit : Drake takes rap lyrics seriously, but will the judge ?
The Volokh Conspiracy
JULY 1, 2025
From City of Arcata v. Citizens in Support of Measure M , decided Friday by the California Court of Appeal (Justice Charles Smiley, joined by Justices Jim Humes and Monique Langhorne Wilson); seems quite right to me: In November 2022, the City's voters passed Measure M, an initiative to enact an ordinance requiring the City to "fly the Earth Flag at the top of all city-owned flagpoles, above the flag of the United States of America and the California flag, and any other flags that the city may c
Above The Law
JULY 1, 2025
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to a new report from Fairfax Associates, compared to the first half of 2024, how much are law firm mergers up in 2025? Hint: The largest completed law firm merger of the year so far was the Herbert Smith Freehills acquisition of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel. See the answer on the next page.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JULY 1, 2025
From Doe v. Hill , decided today by D.C. Circuit Judge Patricia Millett, joined by Judges Neomi Rao and Judith Rogers: Dr. Doe challenges the constitutionality of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's [statutory] ban on hiring those who have been convicted of a felony. {Dr. Doe was convicted of two Ohio felonies when he was a young man in the early 1990s.
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Above The Law
JULY 1, 2025
I’m sitting in a Zoom room with a group of lawyers. We’re going around sharing our infomercials, or as some still call them, “elevator pitches.” This is your moment to talk about who you are, what you do, and why you’re different from every other lawyer in your space. After a few rounds, we get to John, an attorney in the intellectual property space.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JULY 1, 2025
Self-proclaimed democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani just won New York City's mayoral primary, and, in a city crawling with Democrats who like free stuff, he's the favorite to win November's general election, replacing Eric Adams. Mamdani—a 33-year-old Bowdoin graduate , with a multimillionaire filmmaker mother and a Columbia-professor father—styles himself a champion for the working class, someone who really understands what they need.
JURIST
JULY 1, 2025
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday ruled that Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractors who designed enhanced interrogation techniques do not fall under the jurisdiction of US federal courts in civil claims. The three-judge panel unanimously affirmed the dismissal of Abu Zubaydah’s claims against two psychologists who designed enhanced interrogation techniques based on the military’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape ( SERE ) training program.
HowAppealing
JULY 1, 2025
“Ford Foundation’s New Leader Says She’ll Work to Protect Democracy; Heather K. Gerken, the dean of the law school, will run the powerful philanthropy, known for pushing for social justice”: Alan Blinder of The New York Times has this report.
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