NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

APRIL 24, 2022

Many attorneys will try to rush through the drafting and explanation of a fee agreement. The job, as they see it, is to get the fee out there, and to define the scope of legal services, as quickly as possible – so that the client will sign off, and so that the lawyer can go back to what they really want to do, which is to practice substantive law. But, there’s so much more that you can do with your engagement agreements, to make them truly engaging (see what I did there), and to set the tone for

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APRIL 24, 2022

Russia state-owned media RIA Novosti Saturday released a report alleging the United Kingdom deployed sabotage experts to western Ukraine, triggering an investigation by Russia’s top state investigative body. According to the report, the UK deployed 20 members of the Special Air Service (SAS), a special forces unit of the British Army which specializes in counterterrorism and special operations.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 24, 2022

Share Joseph Kennedy had never coached football when Bremerton High School, a public school near Seattle, Washington, hired him in 2008. He was too small to play in high school, and his football experience was limited to playing for two years while he was in Hawaii serving in the Marines. Kennedy describes the school district’s decision to hire him to coach the school’s junior varsity team and to serve as an assistant for the varsity team as a “fluke”: His wife worked for the school district, an

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APRIL 24, 2022

15 years ago, several studies announced the “death of the doctrine of equivalents” post Festo. The chart below shows that courts have continued to write opinions about the DOE, and there have been several major cases where the doctrine was an important element of the patentee’s win.

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APRIL 24, 2022

“Judicial Notice (04.23.22): No Joke; A significant free-speech ruling, a massive malpractice lawsuit, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

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APRIL 24, 2022

“Clarence Thomas’ Jurisprudence Is Only Getting More Chaotic; The justice’s attack on a landmark school desegregation case is the latest illustration of his erratic extremism”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

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Strictly Business

APRIL 24, 2022

Passed by Congress on Jan. 1, 2021, as part of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021, the Corporate Transparency Act (the CTA; codified in 31 U.S.C. § 5336) requires certain businesses formed in or registered to do business in the United States to report beneficial ownership information to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The CTA’s primary policy objective is to stem the use of shell companies to facilitate the movement and sheltering of illicit funds in the United Sta

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APRIL 24, 2022

“The Unrecognized Vitality of State Constitutionalism: How do the state constitutions differ from one another and from the U.S. Constitution?” At the “Law & Liberty” blog, James R. Rogers has this review of Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton ‘s newest book, “ Who Decides? States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation.

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Mondaq

APRIL 24, 2022

Part 3 covers upcoming changes to the Regional Migration Program and the latest updates to COVID-19 travel restrictions.

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APRIL 24, 2022

“Argument By Slogan”: Online at the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, law professors Conor Casey and Adrian Vermeule have this essay responding to Eleventh Circuit Chief Judge William H. Pryor Jr. ‘s recent critique of common good constitutionalism.

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Mondaq

APRIL 24, 2022

Up till a few years back, trademark registries around the world had been reluctant to register names as trademarks, due to the fact that the person trying to register his/her name wasn't the exclusive owner of the name.

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APRIL 24, 2022

“Coach’s Prayers Prompt Supreme Court Test of Religious Freedom; Joseph Kennedy, a football coach at a public high school in Washington State, lost his job after praying on the 50-yard line after games”: Adam Liptak has this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 24, 2022

Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the last week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC this week released a Public Notice announcing that it is soliciting public comment on the recent tests of GeoBroadcast Solution’s zonecasting system, which proposes to allow FM boosters to originate some local programming so an FM broadcaster can provide different commercials or news in

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APRIL 24, 2022

“High-School Football Coach Takes Case for Prayer to Supreme Court; If successful, the case could help reset the line between church and state”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

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Mondaq

APRIL 24, 2022

Personal Information, as per Section 3 (29) of the proposed Data Privacy Bill is defined in a manner similar to the global data protection laws.

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APRIL 24, 2022

“The Hazard-Filled Ruling on the Transportation Mask Mandate; The judicial order, which inspired social-media videos of people gleefully unmasking on airplanes, was sudden and startlingly broad”: Amy Davidson Sorkin has this Daily Comment online at The New Yorker.

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APRIL 24, 2022

Spireon v. Procon Analytics (Supreme Court 2022). Another new petition for certiorari has re-asked the American Axle questions: What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is “directed to” a patent-ineligible concept…? Is patent eligibility (at each step of the Court’s two-step framework) a question of law for the court based on the scope of the claims or a question of fact for the jury based on the state of the art at the time of the patent?

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APRIL 24, 2022

“Metropolitan Police: Boulder man dies after setting himself on fire in Washington, D.C.” Kelsey Hammon of The Longmont (Colo.) Times-Call has this report.

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Mondaq

APRIL 24, 2022

After being sidelined for the last few years by circumstances culminating with the pandemic and the lapse of the Regional Center Program in June of 2021, the EB-5 foreign investment.

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APRIL 24, 2022

“Ten Questions for Adrian Vermeule or How Scary is Common Good Constitutionalism?” Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 24, 2022

Justice Goodwin Liu gave the combined Provost’s Lecture on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Owen J. Roberts Lecture in Constitutional Law at the University of Pennsylvania earlier this month. Justice Liu’s topic was “Implicit Bias, Structural Bias, and Implications for Law and Policy.” Video of the in-person event is here. Related: Justice Liu on the speaker’s circuit.

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Mondaq

APRIL 24, 2022

On 18 January 2022, Austria deposited its ratification of the Protocol on Provisional Application of the Unified Patents Court (UPC). The official period of practical preparation.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 24, 2022

As previously announced , the Journal of Private International Law-Singapore Management University Virtual Conference on Conflicts of Jurisdiction will be held online on 23 to 24 June 2022 (6.00 pm to 10.20 pm Singapore time, 11.00 am to 3.20 pm British Summer Time on each day). The event is supported by the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH).

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Mondaq

APRIL 24, 2022

In a somewhat unexpected judgment that widens the scope of the duty of care banks owe to their customers, the English Court of Appeal has held that the duty of care established.

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APRIL 24, 2022

“The mask mandate decision shows how Trump reshaped the judiciary; A 35-year-old judge takes anti-regulatory logic to a new level”: Law professor Leah Litman — whose own age, according to online sources, might not be all that far from 35 — has this essay online at The Washington Post.

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