The Estrin Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

by Cher Estrin. In today’s market, good candidates are severely hard to find. Attorneys, paralegals, legal assistants, managers, marketing, IT, accounting – all legal professionals actually have the upper hand in this market. . I have never seen quite a market as this one. For the first time ever, employers are giving high hiring bonuses to paralegals and other legal professionals – previously unheard of.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The Austrian federal chancellery on Saturday sent a draft law to parliament to legalize assisted death for seriously ill adults. The draft law follows the decision last December by the Constitutional Court of Austria that found the ban on assisted death to be unconstitutional. The court found that the ban violated the right to self-determination, which includes the right to a dignified death.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

A large part of practicing law is persuading someone to believe, act or agree with your client’s position, whether in a courtroom or boardroom or at a negotiation or dinner table. We seek to persuade juries, judges, colleagues, friends, family or the media that we are right, and others are not. Following these six principles will help you be a more persuasive lawyer.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2021

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a law student in Kabul offers his perspective on the recently-reported deaths from starvation of 8 children in Kabul. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding his name and institutional affiliation.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

The use of paraprofessionals to provide individualized information about defendants that could guide judges’ decisions about granting bail could reduce racial disparities in pretrial detention, argues Paul Heaton , the director of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. In a paper published in the Indiana Law Journal , Heaton said the results of a Philadelphia pilot study that assigned “bail advocates” to w

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Share Mary Ziegler is a law professor at Florida State University and the author of Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present. The litigation surrounding S.B. 8, the Texas law that bans abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy, has been many things, but never ordinary. The law itself, which outsources enforcement to literally any private citizen, is unique.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The State Council of the People’s Republic of China announced it will expand property taxation to unnamed regions around the nation. Currently, only residential property in Shanghai and Chongqing is subject to a property tax, since 2011. Historically, China has eschewed the property tax to raise funds. However, President Xi Jinping has sought to implement a property tax under his “common prosperity” reforms.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

“Remembering the Great Dissenter; John Marshall Harlan became the nation’s prime defender of the rights of African Americans in the nineteenth century”: At the “Law & Liberty” blog, Glenn Reynolds has this review of Peter S. Canellos’s new book, “ The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Lufthansa and easyJet have gained backing from the EU General Court for their acquisitions of insolvent German carrier Air Berlin’s assets four years ago. In 2016, Air Berlin implemented a restructuring plan that included entering an agreement with Lufthansa in order to sublet aircraft and crew. However, the loss of financial support loans granted to Air Berlin by one of its main shareholders forced it to file for insolvency in 2017.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

“Federal Judges Would Face Tougher Stock-Trading Rules Under Bipartisan Bill; House hearings set; planned actions follow Wall Street Journal reports on financial conflicts in the judiciary”: James V. Grimaldi, Coulter Jones, and Joe Palazzolo of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

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LawTechnologyToday

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This month, we asked our panel to tell us about technology training and support. Our Panelists: William Goren ( WG ), Dennis Kennedy ( DK ), Allison Shields Johs ( ASJ ), and John Loughnane (JL). How do you keep abreast of the changes in the law and its practice, specifically with regard to the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology?

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

“Convicted W.Va. Justice Loughry asks U.S. Supreme Court about social media and juror bias”: Brad McElhinny of West Virginia’s MetroNews has this report. You can access the petition for writ of certiorari filed last week in the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In response to concerns that increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals could take advantage of natural disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires and tornadoes to wreak havoc on critical infrastructure, including transportation, emergency response, water and sewer systems and hospitals, state and local governments are trying to prepare by holding drills or creating preparedness plans, reports Pew Stateline.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

“When a Witness Recants: At fourteen, Ron Bishop helped convict three innocent boys of murder; They’ve all lived with the consequences.” Jennifer Gonnerman has this Annals of Justice article in the November 1, 2021 issue of The New Yorker.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

In New York City, more than 20 children have become victims of gun violence in just 10 months — doubling New York City Police Department data from the same time period just two years ago, Meghan Gallagher writes for The 74 Million. Many of the violent incidents became heart-wrenching headlines, stories like that of a 14-year-old boy who was shot in the head by a grazed bullet while boarding an MTA bus in Harlem earlier this month. .

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

“Supreme Myths: Episode 42 (feat. Dahlia Lithwick).” Georgia State University — College of Law has posted on YouTube via this link the video of the new installment of law professor Eric J. Segall ‘s “Supreme Myths” podcast.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This guest post was authored by Joel Smith, a 3L at the University of Missouri School of Law, with support from the team at the Mizzou Law Veterans Clinic. Why is there a post about a veterans law case on a patent law blog? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the “Federal Circuit”), of course! Like patent office cases, when decisions of the Veterans Administration (“VA”) are appealed to the federal court system, the cases are not heard in your everyday district courts, but instead

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

“Why SCOTUS Didn’t Treat SB8 Like a Capital Case”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Plaintiffs in the long-delayed lawsuit in federal court against two dozen organizers of the August, 2017 far-right march in Charlottesville, N.C., are accusing the collection of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Klan sympathizers and other adherents of extremist ideology of plotting to foment the violence that left at least 19 people injured and an innocent woman dead, reports the New York Times.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

“We’re not supposed to like the Supreme Court”: Abigail Rabieh has this essay online at The Daily Princetonian.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

While California’s cannabis market is booming nearly five years after voters legalized recreational weed, the vast majority of pot sales are still underground, with the state’s illegal market approaching $8 billion annually, twice the volume of legal sales, reports Politico. Local government opposition, high taxes and competition from unlicensed businesses are complicating California’s push to build a thriving legal market.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

“Supreme speed: The court puts abortion on the rocket docket.” Mary Ziegler has this post at “SCOTUSblog.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A recent law grad clerking at Lowenstein Sandler in New York is set to marry Japan’s Princess Mako on Tuesday.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

“Supreme Court Vow Not to Be ‘Hacks’ Tested by Tribal Case Appeal”: Jordan S. Rubin of Bloomberg Law has this report.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Despite repeated requests from Ms. Fowler and the fact that California’s disability access laws require them to do so, CDI and PSI refused to affirmatively make the exam accessible.

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