Attorney at Work
JUNE 17, 2025
Doug Walker | A guide to using Profit First in your law firm to create stability, reduce stress and build a business that pays you first. The post Profit-First Accounting for Law Firms appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
The Estrin Report
JUNE 17, 2025
Strategies to Move Your Career Forward Video Presentation by Chere Estrin, CEO of Estrin Legal Staffing Presented to the Orange County Paralegal Association If you’re ready to do more than just keep your head above water in a demanding legal environment—and instead carve a real path toward career advancement, this webinar is for you. The legal world won’t hand you a roadmap.
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JURIST
JUNE 17, 2025
The author of this dispatch is a law graduate and JURIST correspondent in Tehran who must remain anonymous. They are warning us to leave Tehran since they are going to attack the city. Tehran is our homeland and many of us have nowhere else to go. The exit routes of the city are heavily jammed and the gas stations are too crowded so people cannot leave the city even if they want.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 17, 2025
Out-of-state drivers have one less thing to worry about when passing through Spartanburg County, South Carolina: For the first time in nearly 20 years, they can travel without fear of Operation Rolling Thunder , an annual law enforcement blitz along Interstate 85. Former Sheriff Chuck Wright initiated the multiday crackdowns in 2006 and expanded them over the years to involve 11 law enforcement agencies.
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SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 17, 2025
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received more than $2 million in book advances from Penguin Random House in 2024. The news came as part of the justices’ annual financial disclosures , which are filed each year in mid-May and then released in June. The forms, published online on Tuesday by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, chronicled the payments that some justices – including Jackson, whose memoir, Lovely One , was a New York Times bestseller – received from publishing houses, as well
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ABA Journal
JUNE 17, 2025
Most Americans don’t see the U.S. Supreme Court as politically neutral, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Conflict of Laws
JUNE 17, 2025
It is a real pleasure to share a new essay by Professor Symeon C. Symeonides , written on the occasion of his retirement after fifty remarkable years in the field of conflict of laws. The essay, eloquently titled Reflections from Fifty Years in the Conflicts Vineyard , was presented as part of a symposium held in his honor in May 2024 at Willamette University College of Law, and sponsored by the AALS Section on Conflict of Laws.
EvidenceProf Blog
JUNE 17, 2025
In the Adnan Syed case, we've spent years trying to track down who received the CrimeStoppers reward in the Hae Min Lee case and whether that person was a witness for the prosecution. At this point, we have an email.
HowAppealing
JUNE 17, 2025
“Press not exempt from law limiting publication of officials’ addresses, court rules; Journalist accused New Brunswick of unconstitutional effort to chill protected speech”: Nikita Biryukov of New Jersey Monitor has this report on a unanimous decision that the Supreme Court of New Jersey issued today.
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The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 17, 2025
Houston Chronicle (R.A. Schuetz) reported yesterday: In a lawsuit over whether a woman should have lost her housing subsidy, the Houston Housing Authority's lawyer asked a judge not to force the agency to prevent the woman's eviction while the case was being decided. The brief, submitted by a law firm that frequently represents cities and agencies in the Houston area, cited over a dozen cases in support of its argument.
JURIST
JUNE 17, 2025
Amnesty International called on world leaders Monday to adopt a comprehensive plan for transitioning away from fossil fuels and to take urgent measures to address climate change and its devastating impacts on human rights ahead of the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference (COP 30). Amnesty stressed that human activity and the continued use of fossil fuels continue to deepen the climate crisis, leading to increasing threats to livelihoods and a decline in human rights for many communities experie
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 17, 2025
On Wednesday, June 18, we will be live blogging as the court releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here for a list of FAQs about opinion announcements. The post Announcement of opinions for Wednesday, June 18 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
HowAppealing
JUNE 17, 2025
“Supreme Court Justices Disclose International Travel and Book Deals; Annual financial disclosures revealed some of the perks of being on the Supreme Court, including international teaching and book sales”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report. And Ann E. Marimow, Justin Jouvenal, and Aaron Schaffer of The Washington Post report that “ Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reports $2 million payment for memoir; Financial disclosure forms for Supreme Court justices rele
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Above The Law
JUNE 17, 2025
Getty Images “Future-proofing” is a phrase that gets tossed around a lot in boardrooms, planning decks, and LinkedIn rants, but let’s be honest, most of us are still catching up to present-proofing. The truth is, modern legal departments are navigating a perfect storm: rising expectations, constrained resources, tech disruption, and a business demanding more for less.
ABA Journal
JUNE 17, 2025
A retired state appellate justice in California has been accused of delaying hundreds of case decisions for years.
HowAppealing
JUNE 17, 2025
“What Have We Learned about Justice Barrett? Perceptions of Amy Coney Barrett may have changed more than her jurisprudence or voting record.” Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.” And earlier at that blog, Josh Blackman had a post titled “ See, I Told You So About Justice Barrett. Justice Barrett compares the Constitution to Odysseus.
ABA Journal
JUNE 17, 2025
The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.
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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.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 17, 2025
While a handful of states have banned the sale or production of lab-grown meat within their borders, the infant industry is still innovating. Cultivated salmon company Wildtype received approval from the Food and Drug Administration in late May, and the company announced it would soon be served at a restaurant in Portland, Oregon, with additional restaurants set to serve the fish in the coming months.
TypeLaw Briefing Insights
JUNE 17, 2025
A dedicated advocate for justice For decades, Steven Schorr has stood as a dedicated advocate for justice in California’s criminal appellate courts. A sole practitioner at the Law Office of Steven Schorr, Attorney and Counselor since 1986, Schorr has specialized in criminal appeals since 1989, managing a demanding caseload of court-appointed appeals for indigent clients—all without administrative support.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 17, 2025
The twentieth anniversary of Kelo v. City of New London is coming up on June 23. Kelo is the controversial Supreme Court decision which held that privately owned "economic development" was enough to satisfy the Fifth Amendment requirement that the government can only condemn property for a "public use." The Yale Journal on Regulation has a symposium forthcoming on the anniversary.
Patently O
JUNE 17, 2025
In a significant decision with implications for patent litigation practice, the Federal Circuit has vacated both infringement and damages judgments totaling $300 million in Optis Cellular Technology v. Apple Inc. , finding multiple errors by the Eastern District of Texas that undermined the validity of the jury's verdict. Judge Prost's opinion identified four distinct areas of reversible error: Improper verdict form construction that violated Apple's Seventh Amendment right to jury unanimity, In
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The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 17, 2025
Co-Blogger Jon Adler flashes back to two posts I wrote during and after Barrett's confirmation process in 2020. He suggests that I singing a different tune today than I did five years ago. I think if you read between the lines, you'll see a different message. To state the obvious, Justice Barrett's performance at her hearing was masterful. Her performance was at the level of Chief Justice Roberts's.
HowAppealing
JUNE 17, 2025
“Justice Jackson Reports Earning Over $2 Million for Memoir”: Lydia Wheeler and Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law have this report.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 17, 2025
Early on a Wednesday morning in October 2017, FBI agents terrorized three innocent people, including a 7-year-old boy, by breaking into their home in Atlanta. The agents tossed a flash-bang grenade, rousted the two adults from the closet where they were hiding, manhandled and handcuffed one of them, and threatened them with guns before discovering that the SWAT team had raided the wrong house.
Law 360
JUNE 17, 2025
Former enforcers from the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice launched a new law firm on Tuesday, Simonsen Sussman LLP, to bring cases on behalf of entrepreneurs, small businesses, workers and other victims of anticompetitive practices.
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