Attorney at Work
MAY 12, 2022
Young lawyers often reach out to me as a mentor when they’re thinking of changing jobs, whether that is to another firm, toward being in-house counsel, or away from the practice of law altogether. Contrary to what most of them expect to hear, I can’t answer that question for anyone. The answer reveals itself after we talk through some considerations.
Paralegal Bootcamp
MAY 12, 2022
Bookmark? Must be a boomer who wrote this, you are thinking–now we have Google, and we don’t need long nested lists of bookmarks. Just tell Google what you want and it will take you there, at least most of the time, right? While that is often true, as paralegals we are in the information business. If attorneys need non-legal information about anything, I’m sure to find an email asking me to find it, and yes, they’ve usually already tried a Google search.
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JURIST
MAY 12, 2022
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Thursday passed a resolution to initiate an investigation into possible war crimes committed by Russian troops in Ukraine. The investigation will be conducted by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry, an independent commission under the UNHRC responsible for coordinating and reporting upon national and international investigations.
The Crime Report
MAY 12, 2022
A 36-year-old man walked out of an Illinois prison last May in a pair of joggers and a T-shirt. Coming off a 10-year prison sentence, he had no money. He had nothing but the joggers and a T-shirt. But the man, who asked only to be identified as Richard, heard about the Jobs Partnership Program at the Joy Care Center in Bloomington, Ill., a program that assists mostly ex-incarcerees with finding jobs , housing and essential items like clothing and food.
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JURIST
MAY 12, 2022
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Thursday agreed to pay a $56 million settlement to the families of veterans who contracted COVID-19 during an outbreak at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home in 2020. The families filed the class-action lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Holyoke is a state-run long term health care facility which provides care to Massachusetts veterans.
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JURIST
MAY 12, 2022
The United Kingdom announced Wednesday that it had implemented a visa requirement for Salvadorans seeking to enter the country due to a spike in asylum applications from Salvadoran citizens. Over the past five years an increasing number of Salvadorans have been driven to emigrate due to gang violence and poverty in their home country. Salvadorian nationals currently make up the highest number of asylum claims in the UK out of countries whose citizens could visit without a visa.
HowAppealing
MAY 12, 2022
“What’s the Point of Going to Brett Kavanaugh’s House? Demonstrators have largely given up on changing the Supreme Court justices’ minds. But they’re still showing up.” Elaine Godfrey of The Atlantic has this report.
JURIST
MAY 12, 2022
The Supreme Court of India (SC) Wednesday passed an order to discontinue all pending and future cases in relation to the offence of sedition under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The order provides that all pending trials and proceedings with respect to charges under Section 124A are to be kept in abeyance. It directs the central government to refrain from investigating or taking coercive steps in cases involving the offence.
HowAppealing
MAY 12, 2022
“Just How Incredibly F ed Up Is Texas’ Social Media Content Moderation Law?” Mike Masnick has this post (whose title I have slightly cleaned up) at Techdirt.
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JURIST
MAY 12, 2022
The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) Wednesday reported that is uncovered 53 marked or unmarked burial sites at federal Native American boarding schools. The investigation is a part of the ongoing Federal Indian Boarding School initiative , a government effort to address the dark history of federal Native American boarding schools. From 1819 to 1969, the US operated Native American boarding schools across 37 states.
HowAppealing
MAY 12, 2022
“The Supreme Court’s Death Penalty Jurisprudence Is a Cruel Joke. The entire legal system failed Clarence Dixon. It still put him to death.” Yvette Borja has this post at Balls and Strikes.
JURIST
MAY 12, 2022
Sri Lankan security officials were given orders Wednesday to use live ammunition against protesters to prevent “anarchy” amid anti-government protests and an economic crisis in the island nation. Sri Lanka, which is facing its worst economic crisis since the country declared independence from Britain in 1948, has been “rocked” with violence amid supply shortages, a currency devaluation, and mass government resignations.
HowAppealing
MAY 12, 2022
“‘Be very afraid’: Mayor Adams predicts peril in NYC if Supreme Court strikes down gun license law.” Chris Sommerfeldt of The New York Daily News has this report.
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JURIST
MAY 12, 2022
Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a law student in Kabul reports on continuing challenges to Taliban rule and prospects for further conflict in Afghanistan. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our correspondent’s name. The text has only been lightly edited to respect the author’s voice.
HowAppealing
MAY 12, 2022
“Appeals Court Revives Texas Law Targeting Social Media Companies; The law, prompted by complaints from conservatives, allows people to sue large online platforms that remove posts expressing a particular viewpoint”: David McCabe of The New York Times has this report. My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Fifth Circuit order can be accessed here and here.
JURIST
MAY 12, 2022
Law students and young lawyers in Ukraine are filing for JURIST on developments and issues arising as the country defends itself against Russian invasion. Here, JURIST Ukraine Chief Correspondent Anna Tymoshenko, a law student at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, talks about work that volunteers in Poltava, including herself, have been doing to provide camouflage netting for Ukrainian troops in the field.
HowAppealing
MAY 12, 2022
“Don’t Hold Your Breath for a Supreme Court Leak Investigation; Chief Justice Roberts has called for a probe that the high court seemingly lacks the tools to conduct; Meanwhile, the guessing game over Politico’s bombshell consumes Washington”: Charlotte Klein has this post online at Vanity Fair.
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Above The Law
MAY 12, 2022
The law will not be televised but it will be tweeted. The post The Future Of In-House Legal Practice Is On Twitter’s Schedule appeared first on Above the Law.
HowAppealing
MAY 12, 2022
“Happy the Elephant Has Lawyers Arguing to Free Her From the Zoo; Lawsuits also argue that lakes and wild rice have legal rights, too”: Corinne Ramey and Deanna Paul will have this front page article in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
The Crime Report
MAY 12, 2022
A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that nearly 108,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021, a record level that is up 15 percent from those counted in 2020, which was already 30 percent higher than pre-pandemic estimates in 2019, reports the Courthouse News Service. Roughly 71,000 Americans overdosed on fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, while overdose deaths for cocaine and meth, respectively, went up by 23 percent and 34 percent from the previ
HowAppealing
MAY 12, 2022
“US Justices Are Looking More Like Politicians; Supreme Court leaks and abortion protests outside homes are signs of an institution that is losing its distinctive place in the American political ecology”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
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Above The Law
MAY 12, 2022
Rich white women finally have some skin in the game. The post In A World Without <em>Roe</em>, Time May Be Running Out For IVF Too appeared first on Above the Law.
HowAppealing
MAY 12, 2022
“ACA payments get priority in bankruptcy, appeals court rules”: Maria Chutchian of Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued yesterday, addressing a question that has divided other courts.
Above The Law
MAY 12, 2022
Is the Supreme Court really the 'most transparent branch in government'? The post Calling The Supreme Court’s Bluff On Judicial Transparency appeared first on Above the Law.
HowAppealing
MAY 12, 2022
Agreeing with the Ninth Circuit , the Seventh Circuit holds that pro hac vice fees are not taxable as costs: You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at this link.
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