Attorney at Work
JUNE 18, 2025
Ivy Grey | A negative draft helps clarify your thinking before the real writing begins. Use GenAI to figure out what you don't want. The post What Comes Before the Zero Draft? Exploring the Negative Draft appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 18, 2025
When shooting, especially at indoor ranges, one of the bigger concerns is hearing protection. Most firearms are loud, and shooting without some means of moderating the noise—ear plugs or muffs—is a sure path to tinnitus and hearing loss. Also helpful are sound suppressors, which reduce the decibel level of firearms' discharges (they remain loud, but less so).
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ABA Journal
JUNE 18, 2025
A federal judge held Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier in civil contempt of court Tuesday for disobeying an order temporarily blocking a state immigration law.
Above The Law
JUNE 18, 2025
We are pleased to announce the release of the 13th annual Above the Law Top 50 Law School Rankings. Above the Law’s rankings are premised on the belief that most people who go to law school want to be lawyers. That’s why it is the outcomes for graduates (e.g., bar passage, job placement) rather than the inputs from entrants (e.g., LSAT score, undergraduate GPA) that matter most in our ranking methodology.
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JURIST
JUNE 18, 2025
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Monday condemned Philippine authorities for refusing to allow its representatives and other press freedom groups to visit jailed journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio during a collaborative effort to advocate for her swift release after more than five years in detention. The press groups had initially submitted a formal request via the Media Freedom Coalition (MFC) to visit Cumpio, who was being held behind bars at the Tacloban City jail in eastern Philippi
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SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 18, 2025
On Wednesday, June 18, the Supreme Court also released the following opinions: — In Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas , the court considered who has a right to challenge the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing decisions. Texas and a private company were seeking legal review of one of the commission’s licensing decisions from 2021 regarding the storage of spent nuclear fuel.
Above The Law
JUNE 18, 2025
How well are law departments and law firms working together? What are the biggest challenges to collaboration? What emerging skills are becoming must-haves in the era of generative AI? Above the Law and iManage surveyed over 200 lawyers — at law firms and working in-house — to find out where they see eye to eye and where they may differ. Join us on July 24th at 1 p.m.
JURIST
JUNE 18, 2025
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed into law an amendment that will allow civilians to be tried in military courts. The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) Amendment Bill 2025 was approved by parliament last month and has now become law following President Museveni’s signing. The new law establishes specific situations in which military courts can assert jurisdiction over civilians.
Intelligize Blog
JUNE 18, 2025
As outlined in a new Intelligize report, The New Disclosure Challenge: Income Taxes, ASU 2023-09 and Investor Expectations , the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s issuance of ASU 2023-09 is recalibrating how public companies report rate reconciliation and income taxes paid in response to investor scrutiny. For SEC registrants, the update may signal the end of an era of minimal disclosure.
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JURIST
JUNE 18, 2025
New York City Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested Tuesday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at a federal immigration court in Manhattan as he accompanied an individual exiting a hearing. Lander has been attending hearings to accompany immigrants facing deportation, amidst reports of officers detaining immigrants leaving court proceedings.
Above The Law
JUNE 18, 2025
Cases of online scams have been rising in recent years. While existing laws and IRS guidance suggest that victims can take a theft loss deduction on their income tax returns, it can get murky when investments and cryptocurrencies are involved. In the case of the latter, the IRS generally stuck with their position on Notice 2014-12 which states that any cryptocurrency related losses can only be eligible for a capital loss.
JURIST
JUNE 18, 2025
Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized a recent decline in the rule of law and independence of the judiciary in Türkiye on Monday. HRW expressed concerns that the effectiveness of Türkiye’s Constitutional Court (TCC) could deprive human rights defenders and dissenters of domestic remedies for violations stemming from government repression. HRW cited the increasing politicization of the judicial system and its role in enabling a cycle of political influence by the government.
HowAppealing
JUNE 18, 2025
“Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Ban on Transgender Care for Minors; The justices ruled that the state’s law, which prohibited some medical treatments for transgender youths, did not violate equal protection principles”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times reports that “ Sotomayor Writes the Court ‘Abandons’ Transgender Children to ‘Political Whims’; Justice Sotomayor also read her dissent from the bench, a move typically res
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JURIST
JUNE 18, 2025
Former French Prime Minister François Fillon received a suspended sentence of four years in prison on Tuesday for the embezzlement of public funds, according to local media. The appeals court further ordered him to pay a fine of 375,000 euros and ruled him ineligible to run for public office for the next five years. Fillon was found guilty in 2020 of having created a fictitious parliamentary assistant position for his wife, Penelope Fillon.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 18, 2025
On Monday, the President's Religious Liberty Commission held its first public meeting. I was honored to testify on the third panel. Panel 1 Mark Rienzi, President and CEO of the Becket Fund Gerard Bradley, Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School Panel 2 Mark David Hall, Professor in Robertson School of Government at Regent University Remarks by Attorney General Bondi Panel 3 Barbara Elliott, Fellow of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology and Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at Ho
HowAppealing
JUNE 18, 2025
“Good Supreme Court Sense on Trans Hormones; The Justices uphold a Tennessee law barring adolescent treatments”: The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial. Online at The Los Angeles Times, law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has an essay titled “ The Supreme Court failed when it decided against gender-affirming care.” Online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a Jurisprudence essay titled “ John Roberts’ Anti-Trans Opinion Is a Garbled Mess.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 18, 2025
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued two rulings on where certain challenges to actions taken by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act must be filed. In the first decision by Justice Clarence Thomas, EPA v. Calumet , the court ruled that one set of challenges, brought by a group of small refineries in Louisiana, should have been filed in a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C.
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The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 18, 2025
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LawSites
JUNE 18, 2025
The generative AI legal startup Harvey has entered into a strategic alliance with LexisNexis Legal & Professional by which it will integrate LexisNexis’ gen AI technology, primary law content, and Shepard’s Citations within the Harvey platform and jointly develop advanced legal workflows.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 18, 2025
Today the Court decided five new cases, including the blockbuster Skrmetti decision. I will have much more to say about that case in due course. For now, I will note that last night I concluded my post on Justice Barrett with this line: There is always hope for tomorrow. Indeed, tomorrow--that is today--brought hope! I try to be open-minded, and will treat each decision on its own terms.
CARET Legal
JUNE 18, 2025
With built-in reminders, rules-based calendaring, and centralized access to case information, attorneys can maintain better control over their caseloads and concentrate on delivering results for their clients. In litigation, a missed filing date, forgotten hearing, or overlooked meeting can jeopardize a case and diminish client confidence. Effective litigation software can address this head-on, helping legal teams stay organized, meet every deadline , and reduce stress.
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The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 18, 2025
A Brazilian court has sentenced comedian Leo Lins to more than eight years in prison for making what it called racist, discriminatory, and hateful jokes during a 2022 stand-up routine. Lins' jokes made fun of black, indigenous, gay, Jewish, and disabled people. It has over 3 million views online. The court said freedom of speech does not override human dignity and equality.
LawSites
JUNE 18, 2025
Ever since 2012, when the American Bar Association first adopted a duty of technology competence for lawyers as part of its Model Rules of Professional Conduct, its approach has been the template for state adoption of the duty. That approach was to incorporate the duty in a comment (Comment 8) to Model Rule 1.
LegalReader
JUNE 18, 2025
Through this class action, plaintiffs are seeking swift and comprehensive injunctive relief on behalf of themselves and all blind pedestrians who have been discriminatorily denied the benefits of the District’s pedestrian signals program.
Above The Law
JUNE 18, 2025
What did you do during the data wars, kid? That’s more or less how someone in the far-flung future will talk about legal technology in 2025. Or we’ll all be driven extinct by SkyNet. One or the other. As generative AI continues its march into the legal workflow, the flurry of press releases increasingly focus on data access. At the risk of oversimplifying the market, advancements in the underlying algorithms are going to stagnate and providers have already announced their investment
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