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JANUARY 7, 2022

Where will you focus your technology spending in the next months? Our experts have advice. During the past two years, the pace of tech adoption quickened as firms moved to automate their practices for remote work and virtual practice. We wondered what tools or initiatives small firms might open their wallets for this coming year. So we asked our experts: What do you think small law firms should (or should not) be spending their technology dollars on in 2022?

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JURIST

JANUARY 7, 2022

The California legislature proposed Assembly Bill 1594 (AB1594) Monday authorizing private citizens harmed by illegal gun use to sue manufacturers, distributors and sellers of firearms. The bill has been proposed under the direction and vision of California Governor Gavin Newsom who vowed to push this bill through the legislature in response to the Supreme Court decision “endorsing Texas’s scheme to insulate” its abortion ban through a law authorizing private citizen suits against es

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EvidenceProf Blog

JANUARY 7, 2022

Last year, I wrote cert stage and merits stage amici curiae briefs in Torres v. Madrid, which dealt with the question of what constitutes a "seizure" under the Fourth Amendment. The Supreme Court ultimately held that there is a Fourth.

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JURIST

JANUARY 7, 2022

The Mexican Ministry of the Interior Thursday announced new rules requiring all Venezuelan nationals to secure a visa before entering Mexico as temporary visitors. This replaces older rules that allowed certain Venezuelan visitors to enter Mexico without a visa. The announcement, published in the Mexican Official Gazette of the Federation, cited legal authorities, including the Migration Law , the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration, and the various Internal Regulations of the Mini

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JANUARY 7, 2022

A new Utah-based report from the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation espouses reforms to expand family visitation and bolster social connections between those convicted of crimes and their respective communities as a necessary means to reduce recidivism and stave off intergenerational imprisonment, reports the Deseret News. The report argues that the primary narrative around criminal justice is overly concerned with the punitive elements of justice at the expense of meaningful correction, calling for the

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Patently O

JANUARY 7, 2022

Total utility patent grants are down about 7% for calendar year 2021. Still the total ranks as the third highest of all time. The Office has almost eliminated unwanted delay in examination. Right now the delay is about 17 months from filing to first office-action. They really don’t want that to go below 14 months in order to capture 102(a)(2) prior art (former 102(e)).

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JURIST

JANUARY 7, 2022

A Ukrainian court ordered Thursday the seizure of former President Petro Poroshenko’s assets. The seizure follows ongoing accusations of high treason against Poroshenko for facilitating the financing of Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine. The Ukraine State Bureau of Investigation (SB) unveiled the investigation into Poroshenko in late December 2021.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 7, 2022

Enjoy that Michigan winter! The post Chief Federal Judge In DC Cancels Jan. 6 Defendant’s Vacation Plans In Epic Benchslap appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

JANUARY 7, 2022

The US International Trade Commission (USITC) Thursday determined that Google infringed on audio patents held by Sonos, a domestic developer of audio products. The ruling could impact Google’s device imports, but the company has also already submitted redesigns of the controversial technology. The patents in question cover technology enabling features such as synchronous volume adjustment across multiple devices.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

“The Vaccine Mandate ‘Work-Around’ May Run Aground; Chief Justice Roberts asks a telling question on the OSHA mandate”: This editorial will appear in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 7, 2022

That's starting to become the focus of some questions surrounding recent public offers made to current and prospective college athletes. The post Will The NCAA Intervene On NIL Deals Tied To Enrollment? appeared first on Above the Law.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

“The Conservative Justices Are Ready to Bring Government to a Grinding Halt; The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented crisis that only bold, innovative action can address; For John Roberts and company, that’s a problem”: Hannah Mullen has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 7, 2022

Someone has to teach them how to craft a sneering dissent. The post Heritage Foundation Holds Originalism Fantasy Camp For Judicial Clerks appeared first on Above the Law.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

“During arguments over COVID-19 policy, two absent lawyers and more masks on the bench”: Mark Walsh has this “A View from the Courtroom” post at “SCOTUSblog.

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The Process Street

JANUARY 7, 2022

No process is perfect; there’s always room to improve. Unfortunately, many teams have no way to identify, test, and deploy the changes they make, meaning each tweak is a roll of the dice. The savings can be massive, but you need a continuous improvement program to make sure that the changes you make won’t make your operations a whole lot harder. “ 1 in 10 improvements save money… [each saving, on average,] $31,043 in its first year of implementation. 1 in 4 improvements s

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JANUARY 7, 2022

“Texas abortion law likely to head to state supreme court, could delay decision by months; Lawyers for abortion providers argue the case should go to federal district court rather than the Texas Supreme Court, which could take months to issue a ruling”: Eleanor Klibanoff of The Texas Tribune has this report. And Avalon Zoppo of The National Law Journal has a report headlined “ In Setback for Abortion Clinics, 5th Circuit Hints It Will Punt SB8 Case; The panel seemed poised to c

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Rocket Matter

JANUARY 7, 2022

We get it. It is extremely difficult to stay focused at work, especially if you have awesome co-workers you actually like and want to socialize with. You’ve got to catch up on gossip, discuss the latest episode of whatever you’re binge-watching these days, talk about the headlines of the day, and go over a play-by-play of the weekend’s sports… Read More » How to Stay Focused at Work: 8 Productivity Tips for Lawyers.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

“The Supreme Court could hand down another major attack on Roe v. Wade any day now; Brnovich v. Isaacson could trigger a flood of decisions reinstating long-dead anti-abortion laws”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 7, 2022

Now is not the time to put the health and safety of law firm employees at risk in favor of some of the benefits of keeping an office open. The post Law Firms Should Close Offices Due To Omicron appeared first on Above the Law.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

“Kirkland’s Paul Clement messes with Texas judge in antitrust appeal”: Mike Scarcella of Reuters has this report. You can access the audio of Wednesday’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit via this link.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 7, 2022

Regulatory capture is usually more subtle. The post Top Disney Lawyer To Become Top Copyright Office Lawyer, Because Who Cares About The Public Interest? appeared first on Above the Law.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

“Judge allows feds to seize Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s prison canteen account”: Joe Dwinell of The Boston Herald has this report. And Omar Abdel-Baqui of The Wall Street Journal reports that “ Boston Marathon Bomber’s Prison Funds Are Seized; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev spent thousands while not paying restitution owed to victims; a judge rules prosecutors can claim those funds.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 7, 2022

A new Texas campaign called Eliminate the Wait aims to protect the rights of people who struggle with mental illnesses by providing resources for judges, attorneys, jailers, and law enforcement officers to better address mental illness, divert people away from the criminal justice system when possible, and provide treatment for people already in jail which shortens the amount of time they have to spend in the inpatient competency restoration system, reports KETK.com.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

“Vaccine mandate regulations are under the Supreme Court’s microscope”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 7, 2022

Cristina Nichole Iglesias, a prisoner at Federal Medical Center Carswell serving 20 years for sending death threats to the British government when she was 19, may be the first inmate to receive gender-affirming surgery in federal prison after unsuccessfully petitioning the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to approve the procedure in 2016, reports Insider by way of the Dallas Morning News.

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