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Norway Supreme Court rules for Sámi reindeer herders in wind power case

JURIST

The Supreme Court of Norway unanimously ruled Monday that the license for a Storheia and Roan wind power plant is invalid. The court determined that S á mi reindeer herders on the Fosen peninsula have a right to enjoy their own culture under Article 27 of the United Nations’ International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and that construction of the Storheia and Roan’s plant would violate that right.

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50 Tips for New Paralegals

Paralegal Brief Submitted Articles

We asked paralegals across the country, and here's their tips for new paralegals. Things they wish someone told them early in their career.

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Tech group launches new effort to fight online misinformation in Australia

JURIST

A tech group backed by the Australian units of Facebook, Google, and Twitter on Monday announced the creation of a special committee to resolve complaints about misinformation posted on their websites. The Digital Industry Group Inc (DIGI) said that the new committee would oversee the group members’ adherence to the Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation.

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The Mobile Paralegal: Tips for Working Remotely

Paralegal Brief Submitted Articles

Tips for successfully turning your traditional office position into a mobile paralegal position so that you can work remotely.

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Recipe for a Failed CLM Implementation

Selecting and implementing CLM technology can be daunting, leading to underutilization or abandonment. Factors like provider differentiation, inadequate planning, and lack of user training contribute to these failures. Recognizing these pitfalls is crucial for successful adoption, ensuring organizations harness the full potential of CLM for streamlined contract management.

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Ain’t No Valley Low Enough: You Almost Can’t Niche Down Enough

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

Niche businesses, including niche law practices, are so effective , in large part because those business types reduce competition. That logic is probably obvious: any time you sell to a smaller interest group, you sell to fewer people – but, it’s really powerful in application. To new business owners, or general practitioners, that can sound dangerous = it places too significant a limitation o n accessing potential clients.

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Lawyer sues Amazon for false imprisonment after delivery van blocks his car

ABA Journal

A Massachusetts lawyer is suing Amazon for $150,000 because its delivery drivers allegedly blocked his car, causing “loss of freedom of mobility, anxiety, humiliation.

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10 Tips for Summarizing Medical Records

Paralegal Brief Submitted Articles

Summarizing medical records can be a major part of a paralegal’s job, yet it is one that gets little attention in the curriculum of many paralegal certificate programs. As one who has had to learn it the hard way, I’d like to offer my top 10 tips for summarizing medical records. Know Your Purpose.

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Lawyer accused of feeding answers to his client in Zoom deposition faces possible sanction

ABA Journal

A Boston lawyer has been ordered to show cause why he shouldn’t face further sanctions for allegedly taking advantage of a Zoom deposition to secretly…

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Egypt detains three in connection to missing COVID-19 vaccines

JURIST

Egypt’s public prosecution office announced Sunday that it had arrested three people in connection with the dumping of thousands of COVID-19 vaccines along a water channel. More than 18,000 vaccine packages, originally bound for the city of Minya, south of Cairo, went missing. An additional 5,000 packages were lost because they had been stored at the incorrect temperature, the report said.

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Contract Lifecycle Management: A Business Enabler Exploring On-Ground Challenges

CLM tools have always strived to push contract management into the digital age for almost 30 years. But the complexities of digitising a legal document are numerous. The current scenarios in business development have shown that having a fully automated CLM has become a mandate for every law firm and in-house legal department. To determine if you need a CLM system, it's essential to clearly identify the on-ground business challenges you aim to solve.

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H&M Prevails in Almost 25-Year-Long Fight With Adidas Over its Striped Workout Wear

The Fashion Law

Following a nearly 25-year-long fight, H&M has landed the final win in the trademark lawsuit that adidas filed against it in the Netherlands back in 1997 in connection with its sale of blue, marigold, and rust-hued athletic wares emblazoned with two parallel vertical stripes on the sleeves of t-shirts and the sides of shorts and pants legs. On the heels of a win in January when the Hague Court of Appeal pointed to the differences between the two parties’ usages of stripes, and held that H

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Burkina Faso begins trial of former president’s assassins

JURIST

A military court in Burkina Faso began Monday the trial of 14 people, including prior president Blaise Compaore, accused of plotting the assassination of the country’s former president Thomas Sankara. The trial takes place 34 years after a hit squad gunned down Sankara is one of the most infamous killings in modern African history. On October 15, 1987, after only four years in power, commando troops stormed the headquarters of Sankara’s National Revolutionary Council in the capital

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“Social Media Regulation, The Limits of Originalism, and the Supreme Court’s Obsession with Free Speech”

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“Social Media Regulation, The Limits of Originalism, and the Supreme Court’s Obsession with Free Speech”: Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.

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Transgender lawyer sues for declaration that bias based on gender identity violates attorney ethics rules

ABA Journal

Transgender lawyer Sheryl Ring has filed a lawsuit seeking a declaration that attorney ethics rules in Illinois do not allow discrimination based on gender identity.

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California Civil Discovery Act Undergoes Significant Overhaul

Short article looking at the new CCP 2016.

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“He was high on magic mushrooms when he killed his father. Can he use ‘extreme intoxication’ as a defense?”

HowAppealing

“He was high on magic mushrooms when he killed his father. Can he use ‘extreme intoxication’ as a defense?” Amanda Coletta of The Washington Post has this report. Earlier, Leah McLaren had an article in Maclean’s headlined “ Does Thomas Chan belong in prison? At 19, he killed his father while high on drugs; His case is headed to the Supreme Court in one of the most polarizing legal challenges in a generation.” This case will be orally argued tomorrow bef

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The Collaborative Courtroom: A Proposal

The Crime Report

Down deep at the taproot of the Anglo-American tradition lies the idea that the state’s monopoly on violence—its power to incarcerate citizens by force—can only be exercised after approval by a diverse jury of ordinary citizens, with each juror convinced beyond a reasonable doubt of a set of facts that justifies the action. Jury trials were a foundational concept for the Founders of the Republic.

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“John Roberts is no longer the leader of his own court. Who, then, controls it? Chief justice no longer sits in supreme court’s ideological center and has lost the power to cast the deciding vote in any ruling.”

HowAppealing

“John Roberts is no longer the leader of his own court. Who, then, controls it? Chief justice no longer sits in supreme court’s ideological center and has lost the power to cast the deciding vote in any ruling.” Stephanie Kirchgaessner of The Guardian (UK) has this report.

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Crews Race, but It’s Always Too Late

LegalReader

As crews race to save oily beaches or prevent spills from happening at all, remember that violence against people, wildlife and natural systems is, for many, an acceptable evil, and the cost of modern convenience.

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Dangers of Digital "Reporting": Legal Risks and Unreliable Transcripts

In the world of legal proceedings, the choice between a certified stenographer and digital "reporting" holds significant implications. Certified stenographers go through rigorous training and testing and stand as the gold standard for accuracy in capturing every word. Their expertise ensures a reliable record, a crucial foundation for legal cases.

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“What the Front Line of the U.S. Abortion Fight in Kentucky Looks Like Now: From a new Texas law to the gantlet outside a Kentucky clinic, abortion rights are under attack in the U.S.; The Supreme Court may have the final word.”

HowAppealing

“What the Front Line of the U.S. Abortion Fight in Kentucky Looks Like Now: From a new Texas law to the gantlet outside a Kentucky clinic, abortion rights are under attack in the U.S.; The Supreme Court may have the final word.” Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

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Navy Nuclear Engineer and Wife Charged in Espionage Plot 

The Crime Report

Jonathan Toebbe, a Navy nuclear engineer with top-secret clearance, and his wife have been charged with repeatedly trying to pass secrets about U.S. nuclear submarines to a foreign country, in an alleged espionage plot discovered by the FBI, reports the Washington Post. In December 2020, an FBI official received a package that had been sent to the foreign country containing U.S.

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“Eleventh Circuit Chief Judge Isn’t Talking About New Clerk Mired in Controversy Over Racist Rant; The controversy brings up questions about the court’s vetting process for judicial clerks; But Chief Judge William Pryor is not answering them”

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“Eleventh Circuit Chief Judge Isn’t Talking About New Clerk Mired in Controversy Over Racist Rant; The controversy brings up questions about the court’s vetting process for judicial clerks; But Chief Judge William Pryor is not answering them”: Katheryn Hayes Tucker of The Fulton County (Ga.) Daily Report has this coverage.

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Defunding Movement Sputters as Police Budgets Increase

The Crime Report

From New York to Los Angeles, police departments that saw their funding targeted amid nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd last year are getting that money back in response to rising levels of crime in major cities last year, the exodus of officers from departments large and small and political pressures, reports the New York Times. Local leaders in New York and California have voted for increases in police spending, with an additional $200 million allocated to the New York Polic

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Optimizing Contract Management and Enhancing Team Collaboration: Insights from a Legal Operations Perspective

Speaker: Adina Marta Newman

Learn about a world of effective contract management and seamless teamwork across departments in this upcoming webinar from Cobblestone Software. You'll discover practical strategies and tips that legal professionals can use to streamline contract processes and enhance collaboration, making significant impact across legal and corporate departments. Join us as we show how you can supercharge contract processes, improve team communication, and take your contributions to the next level.

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“Don’t Know Much About History; New York’s Supreme Court brief on the Second Amendment is flawed”

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“Don’t Know Much About History; New York’s Supreme Court brief on the Second Amendment is flawed”: Stephen Halbrook has this guest post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.

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How have paralegals faired during the pandemic

SimplyLawJobs

Our partners NALP, the longest running professional membership body for paralegals in England, have gained an insight into the lives of their members and how they have been affected by the pandemic and lockdown generally. . The role of a paralegal within the firm . Within the legal profession it has long been regarded that paralegals are the support staff to solicitors, since many are graduates who are seeking to become solicitors at the end of day.

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“Stash-House Stings Carry Real Penalties for Fake Crimes; The undercover operations seem like entrapment, but their targets can receive long sentences — sometimes even harsher than those for genuine crimes”

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“Stash-House Stings Carry Real Penalties for Fake Crimes; The undercover operations seem like entrapment, but their targets can receive long sentences — sometimes even harsher than those for genuine crimes”: Rachel Poser has this American Chronicles article in the October 18, 2021 issue of The New Yorker.

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Rikers Spirals into Crisis as Detainees Take Control

The Crime Report

Lawlessness has become the norm inside Rikers Island as detainees in some buildings have seized near total control over entire units, deciding who can enter and leave them, while others wander from building to building unrestricted, freeing others in custody, and correction officers participate in beatings or fail to intervene in hangings and other urgent situations, reports the New York Times.

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.