Above The Law

MAY 5, 2025

When you talk to Cat Casey, you quickly realize shes not just an expert in AI and legal technology — shes a force of nature. As the chief growth officer at Reveal and a globally recognized voice in legal AI, Cat brings a unique blend of humor, insight, and pop culture references to a field that desperately needs all three. In our recent conversation, Cat unpacked the transformative potential of AI in the legal world, her favorite metaphors (spoiler: “ Game of Thrones” plays a s

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MAY 5, 2025

Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report on Sunday urging Malaysia’s Sarawak state to protect Indigenous rights after a company logged timber without the free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) of an Indigenous Iban community. HRW asked Sarawak to “enforce their laws that regulate the trade of wood products” and for “international buyers of Malaysian wood products including the European Union, the United States, and Japan to enforce sustainability laws for timber impor

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 5, 2025

Have you ever wondered why your supervisor makes such a big deal about your billable time entries? It’s not just about keeping you busy. It’s about keeping the law firms doors open. That’s not me being overdramatic! Please stick with me. In most law firms, unless you work for a plaintiff firm, billable hours are the lifeblood that keeps the doors open, pays your salaries, and pays the bills.

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JURIST

MAY 5, 2025

A group of independent human rights experts urged on Monday the release of political detainees with disabilities and serious health conditions in Belarus, the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) reports. The group of experts claimed the Belarusian government should consider the immediate release or non-custodial sanctions for persons with disabilities detained in the context of the 2020 presidential elections for charges of civil disobedience.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MAY 5, 2025

How should a court handle a State's request to shave the head of a non-consenting inmate with lice? That was the question of first impression addressed by the Supreme Court of Alaska in its recent opinion in Matter of Lila.

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JURIST

MAY 5, 2025

The UK Court of Appeal upheld a ruling Friday that found 2023 protest regulations unlawful , marking a critical blow to legislation that civil liberties groups said undermined the right to protest and bypassed the will of Parliament. The case, brought by the National Council for Civil Liberties (Liberty), argued that then Home Secretary Suella Braverman had exceeded her legal authority, acted against Parliament’s express decisions, introduced unjustified curbs on fundamental freedoms, and

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HowAppealing

MAY 5, 2025

“Federal judge orders NC to certify Riggs as winner in Supreme Court election”: Kyle Ingram of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has this report. Jack Hagel and Brian Murphy of WRAL News report that “ Federal judge tells state board to certify Riggs’ victory in disputed NC Supreme Court race; A federal judge ordered North Carolina elections officials to certify Democrat Allison Riggs’ narrow victory in the November election for a seat on the state S

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Above The Law

MAY 5, 2025

Well, that didnt take long. After spending years trying to claw its way out from under the bankrupting burden placed on the state’s bar examiners by the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE), California will now go running right back into its arms. Or financially bloody maw, as the case may be. In a decision announced late last week , the California Supreme Court ordered the state to ditch its newly independent exam and return to the NCBEs Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) for at leas

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MAY 5, 2025

“Is This the End of the Separation of Church and State? The Justices, who have steadily eroded prohibitions on government sponsorship of religious schools, now seem ready to end them entirely.” Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The New Yorker.

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Above The Law

MAY 5, 2025

Ed. note : Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The conservative legal movement has been extremely effective at identifying people who are ideological true believers and getting them credentialed, getting them the attention of the White House, and getting them onto the bench. I dont think theres anything comparable to that sort of coordination on the other side. — Carolyn Shapiro , former Illinois solicitor general and founder and co-director of Chicago-Kents Institute on the Su

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HowAppealing

MAY 5, 2025

“Will SCOTUS Sign Off on Religious Charter Schools?” You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

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Above The Law

MAY 5, 2025

The legal industry is rooted in precision, privacy, and risk mitigation, naturally making legal professionals more cautious about adopting rapidly evolving technologies and creating adoption barriers that other industries dont face. This whitepaper from our friends at LegalOn Technologies details the roadmap for in-house legal departments to adopt AI that transforms how they work.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 5, 2025

Registration has now opened to participate in the XVIII ASADIP Conference – Regional Imaginaries, Global Resonance: Inter-American Private International Law and the World Stage , to be held in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 7 to 9 August 2025. This year, ASADIP is organising the Conference in collaboration with the Organisation of American States, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Inter-American Conference on Private International Law and the OAS Course on Internation

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Above The Law

MAY 5, 2025

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to data collected by ALM as part of their Am Law 100 ranking, how many lawyers were employed by Am Law 100 firms in 2024? Hint: Headcount was up 7.7% in the Am Law 100 last year. See the answer on the next page. The post Just How Big Is Biglaw? appeared first on Above the Law.

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Law 360

MAY 5, 2025

Four former Twitter executives claiming they are owed $200 million in severance will be able to conduct a search of Elon Musk's text messages, but only when it comes to iMessage and not other messaging platforms like Signal, a California federal judge ruled.

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SCOCAblog

MAY 5, 2025

Overview This article unpacks the relationship California courts have with federal constitutional law via the Aranda/Bruton doctrine, which protects criminal defendants in joint trials against inculpative hearsay statements admitted against their codefendant under the Sixth Amendments confrontation clause.[1] The 2023 Supreme Court case Samia v. United States appears to constrict the federal Bruton doctrine significantly.

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Law 360

MAY 5, 2025

The founder of defunct cryptocurrency platform Celsius told a Manhattan federal judge that a sentencing memorandum in which prosecutors asked for a 20-year prison sentence was a "venom-laced" attempt to paint him as a "fiend" and ignore his prior law-abiding business ventures and status as a Soviet Jewish refugee.

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Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?

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MAY 5, 2025

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Law 360

MAY 5, 2025

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' civil money penalty against Warby Parker highlights the emerging challenges that consumer-facing brands encounter when expanding into healthcare-adjacent sectors, with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act compliance being a potential focus of regulatory attention, say attorneys at Saul Ewing.

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MAY 5, 2025

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit's 1993 decision in In re Rijckaert , 9 F.3d 1531 (Fed. Cir. 1993), set an important boundary on the use of inherency in obviousness determinations. I recently reread the case and wanted to reintroduce the case that continues to be regularly cited in both patent prosecution and litigation. Rijckaert involved a patent application for a magnetic recording apparatus that established a precise mathematical relationship between time expansion/compression and three

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Law 360

MAY 5, 2025

Clifford Chance LLP has added a Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP transactional attorney in New York as co-chair of its U.S. executive compensation practice, the firm announced Monday.

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LawSites

MAY 5, 2025

PERSUIT, a technology company that specializes in outside counsel management for corporate legal departments, has acquired Apperio, a spend-management platform for corporate legal. The news comes as the CLOC Global Legal Institute, a conference devoted to legal operations professionals in corporate legal, kicks off today in Las Vegas.

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Law 360

MAY 5, 2025

American Airlines said in a lawsuit filed Friday in Illinois federal court that the city of Chicago breached its contract with the airline in reassigning gate space at O'Hare International Airport in a way that favors competitor United Airlines

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Above The Law

MAY 5, 2025

Between 4.6 million and 5.2 million adults would lose Medicaid coverage in 2026 due to proposed work requirements, according to a new report. The post What Is the Economic Impact of Medicaid Work Requirements? appeared first on MedCity News.

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Law 360

MAY 5, 2025

Private equity firm 3G Capital will take footwear giant Skechers private for $9.4 billion in a deal guided by three law firms amid an ongoing trade war that has rattled retailers, the parties announced Monday.

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