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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

For law firms, streamlined, effective legal billing software is incredibly important, since the more efficient your firm’s billing processes are, the more quickly your firm will get paid. When legal billing processes run smoothly, invoicing legal clients can be a painless – and fruitful – endeavor. But if your firm is relying on clunky, antiquated software and paper systems to send out invoices and collect overdue legal bills, it can be a time-consuming waste of precious resources.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) filed a criminal complaint in Germany on Monday accusing five retailers of using forced labor in Xinjing in their production line. In a press statement by the ECCHR, information has found that companies including Lidl, Aldi, Hugo Boss, and others have “allegedly directly or indirectly abetted and profited from the forced labor of the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang.” There have been mounting concerns over concentration camp

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EvidenceProf Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In August, three proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence were released for public comment. The public comment period closes on February 16, 2022. This is the second in a series of three posts about these amendments. The second.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala appointed a three-person panel Monday to address Australia and China’s dispute over Chinese barley subsidies. This is not the first anti-dumping dispute between Australia and China. Australia imposed remedial duties on Chinese wind towers, train wheels, and stainless steel sinks.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

With both Arizona and Utah now allowing nonlawyers to deliver legal services through alternative business structures, the American Bar Association today issued a formal ethics opinion that addresses the question of whether lawyers outside those states may passively invest in an ABS. The issue hinges on ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 5.4 , which prohibits lawyers from sharing fees with nonlawyers or practicing in an entity in which a nonlawyer has an ownership interest.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Photo by janinsanfran via Flickr Photo by PROjaninsanfran via Flickr. Far from an objective and equalizing tool, forensic testimony perpetuates the “presumption of guilt” for people of color involved in the criminal legal system, argue the authors of a forthcoming Criminal Law Bulletin article. In “Perpetuating the Presumption of Guilt: The Role of Implicit Racial Bias in Forensic Testimony,” Forensic Justice Project Executive Director Janis C.

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Diane Drain

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that child endangerment convictions are deportable offenses and apply retroactively. Jose Esteban Marquez, the man in question, is now subject to removal proceedings to the Dominican Republic. The issue arises out of an incident in 2006 where Marquez was “accused of engaging in sexual misconduct with a girl under the age of seventeen … charged with two counts of rape in the third degree, one count of sexual misconduct, and

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

“The Texas abortion law provides a blueprint for bans on speech, guns; As Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his dissent to the court’s conservative 5-4 majority, it could be a ‘model for action in other areas'”: David Mastio has this essay online at USA Today.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation ruled Tuesday that total criminalization of abortion is unconstitutional. The unanimous decision from a bench of 10 judges invalidated Article 196 of the Penal Code of Coahuila. Article 196 provided that pregnant people who underwent elective pregnancy termination, or people that caused a pregnant person to have an abortion without the pregnant person’s consent, could face up to three years’ imprisonment.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

“US Supreme Court Justice’s Visit to UW Canceled”: Yesterday, the University of Wyoming issued a news release that begins, “United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch’s scheduled visit to the University of Wyoming College of Law and campus Sept. 16 has been canceled.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A suburban Chicago lawyer has admitted that he called a judge a clown and an opposing lawyer a “lowlife bottom-feeder,” but he said his comments…

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

“Four Cert Petitions Filed in Texas v. Haaland [Brackeen ICWA Case]”: Kate Fort recently had this post at the “Turtle Talk” blog linking to the four petitions for writ of certiorari. The Associated Press reports that “ Tribes, states seek review of Native child adoptions case.” This week’s new installment of season two of the “This Land” podcast, focusing on the efforts to invalidate the Indian Child Welfare Act, is titled “ Supply And

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Share A Texas inmate asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to block his execution, arguing that the state’s refusal to allow his spiritual adviser to lay his hands on him and pray out loud in the execution chamber violates both the Constitution and a federal law protecting the religious freedom of people in prison. The request by John Ramirez, who is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, once again brought the issue of religious rights during the administration of the death penalty back to the jus

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

“Supreme Court ends subpoena fight, denying AG’s request for rehearing; Unanimous order says the Legislature raised no new points in its filing”: Darrell Ehrlick of The Daily Montanan has a report that begins, “In a shorter, but no less strident order, the Montana Supreme Court denied a petition by the state’s attorney general and legislature to rehear the case concerning subpoenas lawmakers issued to the Courts Administrator Beth McLaughlin requiring thousands of h

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A district attorney in Georgia was indicted Tuesday based on accusations that he offered $1,000 bribes to two prosecutors and tried to influence a police…

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

“Supreme Court Stays Execution in Dispute Over Pastor’s Role in Death Chamber; The ruling was the latest in a string of decisions on the role that spiritual advisers may play in death row inmates’ final moments”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report on an order that the U.S. Supreme Court issued tonight.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The legal industry continues to make strides in the advancement and retention of women – but the pandemic has highlighted the fact that there’s still much work to be done, particularly for women of color.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

“Justice Gorsuch Tears Up Oklahoma; His 5-4 McGirt opinion is causing havoc in the Sooner State”: This editorial will appear in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Share The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that the justices will return to the courtroom for oral arguments this fall. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, the arguments will not be open to the public. Instead, the court will provide live audio of the arguments, as it has done since May 2020. The announcement about the fall oral arguments had been widely anticipated for several months.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

“Fighting Texas abortion law could be tough for federal gov’t”: Lindsay Whitehurst and Michael Balsamo of The Associated Press have this report.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Are police shortages making it more difficult to comply with federal civil rights efforts to eliminate racial profiling and the use of excessive force? The question has taken on new weight in Baltimore, where officials say a Justice Department report detailing longstanding racial profiling and excessive force has complicated efforts to retain and recruit officers, reports the Associated Press.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The law would prohibit dangerous productivity-measuring algorithms, and entitle workers to see what quotas they are being stacked up against.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Exactly 50 years ago, 1,300 men imprisoned in the Attica Correctional Facility came together to demand better conditions in the nation’s most famous prison uprising. Now, as COVID-19 continues to ravage prisons and jails where social distancing is impossible and safety protocols are limited, a spate of recent uprisings seems to demonstrate how little has changed since Attica captivated the nation, Time Magazine reports.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Law firms should check their state tax laws and consult with their tax professionals to see if the IRS’s Notice 2020-75 allows them a workaround for the unpopular state and local tax deduction limitation.

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