Above The Law
APRIL 4, 2024
She used the money to pay her credit card, mortgage, and student loan bills. The post Ex-Biglaw Paralegal Who Embezzled More Than $600K From Firm Gets Prison Time appeared first on Above the Law.
JURIST
APRIL 4, 2024
UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) revealed Wednesday the use of indiscriminate landmines in Myanmar has caused an increase in civilian casualties, with over 20 percent of them being children. Civilians in Myanmar have suffered from a total of 1,052 casualties from landmine and explosive ordnances in 2023, alone. According to UNICEF, amidst the recent escalation of the conflict in Myanmar, landmine contamination has spread across nearly every state and region—excluding the
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HowAppealing
APRIL 4, 2024
“Supreme Court Justice Kennedy discusses guiding principles”: KCRA 3 has posted this video on YouTube. The post “Supreme Court Justice Kennedy discusses guiding principles” appeared first on How Appealing.
JURIST
APRIL 4, 2024
The Idaho Senate approved House Bill No. 710 Wednesday, which declares that a school or public library shall not promote or make available any conduct that is deemed harmful to minors. The bill, which is known as the Children’s School and Library Protection Act, could make libraries and schools subject to possible lawsuits based upon challenges to allegedly harmful books and other available media.
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Above The Law
APRIL 4, 2024
Seems like a fair complaint. The post Federal Judge Wrote World’s Best Product Complaint After Portable Toilet Collapsed appeared first on Above the Law.
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ABA Journal
APRIL 4, 2024
The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.
Above The Law
APRIL 4, 2024
Law firms should partner with responsible tech companies that consider real-world implications and avoid bias, according to experts. When evaluating legal AI partners, consider these key indicators of professional responsibility. The post How To Select A Responsible AI Business Partner appeared first on Above the Law.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
APRIL 4, 2024
Youth4ClimateAction in Republic of Korea We are in a critical decade for action on climate change. The world is on track to experience 3°C of warming and the “ window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all ” is rapidly closing. National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures.
Law 360
APRIL 4, 2024
If approved, a joint settlement agreement between the National Association of Realtors and a class of home sellers will likely take the onus off home sellers to compensate buyers' agents, affecting considerations for all parties to real estate transactions, say attorneys at Jones Foster.
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ABA Journal
APRIL 4, 2024
Winston & Strawn is offering its clients a lower-cost alternative to outsourced legal services that uses attorneys trained by the law firm for more routine…
Law 360
APRIL 4, 2024
Hytera Communications' daily $1 million fine and other sanctions for violating an Illinois federal judge's anti-suit injunction stayed in place Thursday as she ordered the company to submit a fourth, more "meaningful" request in China to halt a lawsuit it lodged against Motorola Solutions.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 4, 2024
Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: States seek Supreme Court intervention on smog plan split (Sean Reilly, E&E News) Supreme Court’s approval rating ticks up, poll shows (Olivia Alafriz, Politico) Texas immigration controversy rekindles fight over Arizona’s ‘show me your papers’ law (Devan Cole, CNN) Florida man sentenced to prison for threatening to kill Supreme C
ABA Journal
APRIL 4, 2024
The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.
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CLM tools have always strived to push contract management into the digital age for almost 30 years. But the complexities of digitising a legal document are numerous. The current scenarios in business development have shown that having a fully automated CLM has become a mandate for every law firm and in-house legal department. To determine if you need a CLM system, it's essential to clearly identify the on-ground business challenges you aim to solve.
JURIST
APRIL 4, 2024
South African authorities arrested National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula on Thursday based on multiple corruption charges. The arrest comes the day after Mapise-Nqakula resigned from her position in the country’s Parliament amid an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption and misconduct during her tenure as South Africa’s defense minister.
LawSites
APRIL 4, 2024
With the goal of making legal scholarship freely available outside of “proprietary and predatory frameworks,” Yale Law School has launched Law Archive , a free and open archive for publishing legal scholarship. Developed by Yale’s Lillian Goldman Law Library and the Center for Open Science (COS), which provides the OSF Preprints platform that hosts the site, the archive enables researchers and scholars to upload research plans, preprints (articles yet to be peer reviewed), fu
ABA Journal
APRIL 4, 2024
Paul Campos, a professor at the University of Colorado Law School, is among the commentators who are calling for 69-year-old Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire…
Above The Law
APRIL 4, 2024
The strategy notes that contracts with commercial space providers could, if deemed necessary, 'enable prioritization of Department requirements and capability needs over other commercial clients in specific situations.' The post New DoD Commercial Space Strategy Opens Door To Military, Financial Protection For Contractors appeared first on Above the Law.
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ABA Journal
APRIL 4, 2024
Judges in South Florida are approving “unorthodox foreclosure auction rules” proposed by a lawyer that help ensure that his client will own the property for…
Above The Law
APRIL 4, 2024
‘Biglaw’ and ‘low cost’ aren't usually in the same sentence. The post Biglaw Firm Launches Low-Cost Option For Legal Services appeared first on Above the Law.
LawSites
APRIL 4, 2024
I realized today that my LawNext podcast recently hit a milestone — its 25oth episode. In fact, with the latest episode posted this week, we are up to 254 episodes. All 254 are shown in the image above or on this live-with-links episode gallery. When I started LawNext in 2018, I was no stranger to podcasting. Since 2005, I had cohosted Lawyer 2 Lawyer, along with Newport Beach, Calif., lawyer J.
Above The Law
APRIL 4, 2024
Lateral associate candidates can find a potential home at this top firm. The post Unlike Most Biglaw Firms, This Top Contender Has Steadily Increased Associate Hiring appeared first on Above the Law.
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Conflict of Laws
APRIL 4, 2024
Since the beginning of this year, Rabels Zeitschrift is available in open access. For a long time, the journal has published articles in other languages than German in particular English. The new open access model should make even more attractive for authors wishing to reach an international audience. What follows is a translation of the Editorial in Rabels Zeitschrift, Volume 88 (2024) / Issue 1 , pp. 1-4: Open Access – was sich mit diesem Heft ändert by Holger Fleischer , Ralf Michaels , Anne
Above The Law
APRIL 4, 2024
Leave it to the originalists to make AI truly dystopian. The post Originalist Judge Hails Future Where Time-Consuming Task Of Compiling Fake History Is Replaced By AI Hallucinations appeared first on Above the Law.
Law 360
APRIL 4, 2024
Delaware's Supreme Court on Thursday undid a Chancery Court dismissal of a challenge to Match.com's 2019 reverse-spinoff from Barry Diller-controlled IAC Interactive, in a closely watched case rejecting the lower court's finding that Match had justified the use of a less onerous fairness test.
Above The Law
APRIL 4, 2024
Today’s topics range from tactical execution to the global legal context. The post Today At LMA: AI Deep Dive, ‘Fishbowl’ Sessions, Keynote & Kickoff appeared first on Above the Law.
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