JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced Monday that it recovered over $56 million and that over 6,000 workers were offered reinstatement during the 2021 fiscal year, which was a dramatic increase from the previous fiscal year. The NLRB Office of Public Affairs confirmed that it recuperated $56,801,407 between October 2020 and September 2021.
The Estrin Report
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
An Interview With Chere Estrin. Be amazingly responsive: This involves having the technology to be able to receive, identify and respond to calls, emails and, nowadays most importantly, text messages incredibly fast. So often, clients and referral partners comment on how quickly I respond to their questions or concerns. People aren’t used to this — especially from lawyers.
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JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Pakistani journalists’ freedom of expression is under threat as criminal defamation charges are being brought against journalists, according to a report published by media rights watchdog Freedom Network on Tuesday. The report, entitled “Criminalizing Online Dissent through Legal Victimization,” analyzed case law and other legal actions taken against journalists between 2019 and 2021, focusing on the country’s authorities’ use of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes
NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Arizona has recently stricken the rule barring non-lawyer ownership in law firms from its professional ethics code. Utah is creating a sandbox environment to explore the same option. Mixed ownership law firms are called ‘ alternative business structures ’ , and they already exist in other parts of the world, most notably the United Kingdom. It’s only a matter of time before the traditional lawyer monopoly is broken.
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JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
A report published by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday found that there are reasonable grounds to support a finding that the parties to the Tigray conflict committed crimes against humanity and war crimes. The report identified that the conduct giving rise to the potential crimes against humanity and war crimes includes attacks against civilians, both directly and as a result of indiscriminate armed conflict; illegal a
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JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in the Philippines found in a report released Tuesday that the killings in the “war on drugs” constituted an intent to kill. President Rodrigo Duterte instituted an anti-drug campaign upon election in 2016, known as Project Double Barrel. The investigation found there was an increase in drug-related killings being reported as a result of the anti-drug campaign.
HowAppealing
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
“In Mike Ward’s case, the SCC was one vote away from setting a disturbing new free speech precedent”: Columnist Robyn Urback has this essay online at The Toronto Globe and Mail.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
The Delhi High Court Tuesday issued an injunction against various generic pharmaceutical companies, preventing them from manufacturing or selling Valsartan and Sacubitril tablets used to treat cardiovascular diseases. The court said that the generic companies’ manufacturing or selling of these tablets may amount to infringement of a patent owned by major pharmaceutical company Novartis AG.
HowAppealing
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
“The Supreme Court Wants More Guns on the New York Subway; In a major Second Amendment case, the conservative justices empathized with ‘law-abiding citizens’ who want to take guns everywhere”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
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JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
An unprecedented crisis has recently beset Nepal’s top court with some in the country’s legal fraternity calling for the Chief Justice to step down in the face of a series of controversies. Nepalese law student Smriti Pantha of Kathmandu University School of Law reports files this exclusive report for JURIST from Kathmandu. The Chief Justice of Nepal, Cholendra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana has recently been entangled in multiple controversies.
HowAppealing
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
“Justices’ Questions Suggest New York Gun Control Law Is Unlikely to Survive; The law, which imposes strict limits on carrying guns in public, faced a skeptical reception from the Supreme Court on Wednesday”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “ Majority of Supreme Court appears to think N.Y. gun law is too restrictive.” David G.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
An Australian regulator Wednesday ordered US software company Clearview AI to stop collecting person’s facial images from the internet and destroy the data collected. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk found that Clearview AI breached Australia’s privacy laws through the covert collection of biometric information form the internet and then incorporating it into a facial recognition tool.
HowAppealing
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
“This Is the Shadiest Part of the Supreme Court”: Law professor Barry P. McDonald has this guest essay online at The New York Times. McDonald has posted at SSRN his forthcoming law review article titled “ SCOTUS’s Shadiest Shadow Docket.
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ABA Journal
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Utah Supreme Court Justice Constandinos “Deno” Himonas, one of the major driving forces behind his state’s groundbreaking reforms opening up the legal marketplace to…
HowAppealing
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
“Indiana Supreme Court justice retiring next year”: Dan Carden of The Times of Munster, Indiana has this report. And Olivia Covington of The Indiana Lawyer reports that “ Indiana Supreme Court Justice David announces 2022 retirement.
ABA Journal
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Law firms should promote lawyer well-being by capping billable hours, encouraging full vacations and managing client expectations, according to a report released Monday by the…
HowAppealing
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
“The New 6–3 Majority: Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and John Roberts agree with the liberals about one thing.” Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
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The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Concealed carry holster. photo by 22860 via Flickr. The Supreme Court will soon hear arguments on a New York law that imposes strict limits on carrying guns outside the home, marking the first time the nation’s highest court has considered a major Second Amendment decision in more than a decade, reports the New York Times. The court agreed to hear the New York case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v.
HowAppealing
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
“Originalism Tested: The term’s central question is whether the Court majority can interpret the law as written even as others press for the law’s distortion.” John O. McGinnis has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.
Attorney at Work
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
The benefits of living your life and building your practice in the service of others. Being of service is at the heart of a business trend known as servant leadership. It’s a phrase we’re hearing a lot about these days, yet the principles are as old as the ages. The term, however, was first coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in a 1970 essay, “ The Servant as Leader.
HowAppealing
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
“A Concurring Opinion on Justice Thomas: To understand Justice Thomas’s ‘liberal originalism,’ one must look to the Declaration of Independence.” Scott Gerber has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.
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ABA Journal
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
The University of California's Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco will press California lawmakers to change the school’s name because of its founder’s…
HowAppealing
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
“We Can Now See the Playbook for Overturning Roe v. Wade”: Law professor Mary Ziegler has this guest essay online at The New York Times.
ALPS
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
What is shadow IT? Let me start with a story I heard recently. A law firm had in place a written policy that set forth a list of approved services, software and tech devices that could be used by staff and attorneys. During a network security assessment conducted by an outside vendor, the question “Does anyone at the firm use Dropbox” was asked. The answer was “Absolutely not.
ABA Journal
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Texas voters on Tuesday passed a state constitutional amendment that allows the State Commission on Judicial Conduct to investigate and take disciplinary action against judicial…
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