Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Many paralegals work in practice areas where cases have deep personal importance to their clients. It is only fair that clients are emotional about their cases. However, emotional clients can complicate cases. Without regulation, a client’s turmoil can lead to more work and increase the perceived difficulty for everyone, including the client. If you are not careful, clients’ stress and anxiety can also start to affect you.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for over a week. Here, 3L Amanda Werger reports. In the wake of the rampant hate symbols seen at the “Freedom Convoy”, both the Liberal and NDP parties have plans to introduce new federal legislation on hate symbols.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

by Dennis Crouch. The recent Federal Circuit decision in Caltech v. Broadcom includes an important discussion of extraterritorial damages further extending Carnegie Mellon (Fed. Cir. 2015) in finding that manufacture and delivery of a product in a foreign country can infringe a US patent if sufficient sales-activity occurred within the US. California Institute of Technology v.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a FinTech Note on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) this Wednesday. Analogous to a digital form of paper money, a CBDC is a digital liability of a central bank that is available to the general public. The IMF paper details the experiences of the six central banks at the frontier of CBDCs: Central Bank of The Bahamas , People’s Bank of China , Eastern Caribbean Central Bank , Banco Central del Uruguay , Sveriges Riksbank and Bank of Canada.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“The 5th Circuit Just Rewarded a Brazen Heist of President Power”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate. My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Fifth Circuit ruling can be accessed here.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“Court strikes down federal law making it a crime to encourage undocumented immigrants to stay in the U.S.” Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The Beijing Olympics figure skating team competition medal ceremony was delayed due to “legal issues,” according to International Olympic Committee (IOC) spokesperson Mark Adams during a press conference Wednesday. The ceremony was planned to take place Tuesday but was postponed with no new date announced. On Thursday, Adams refused to comment on the matter, calling overnight reporting on anti-doping issues “all sorts of speculation.”.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“Tennessee lawmakers confirm AG’s office lawyer to high court”: Jonathan Mattise of The Associated Press has this report. And the Administrative Office of the Tennessee Courts issued a news release titled “ Campbell Confirmed As Tennessee Supreme Court Justice.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The Department of Justice Tuesday announced that two individuals in Manhattan were arrested for an alleged conspiracy to launder $4.5 billion in stolen cryptocurrency. The cryptocurrency was stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange. Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife, Heather Morgan, allegedly conspired to launder the proceeds of 119,754 bitcoin that were stolen from Bitfinex after a hacker breached the platform’s systems and initiated more than 2,000 unauthorized

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“Georgetown lecturer Ilya Shapiro hopes Supreme Court tweet controversy helps ‘broken’ political discourse; Public debate is clearly broken in the United States, Shapiro says”: David Rutz of Fox News has this report.

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The Fashion Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Mason Rothschild has lodged his response to the lawsuit filed against him by Hermès , arguing that the French luxury goods brand’s claims centering on his sale of non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) called “MetaBirkins” should be tossed out in their entirety. In a motion to dismiss and corresponding memo filed on Wednesday, counsel for Rothschild doubled down on the First Amendment arguments that he previously cited in open letters to Hermès, claiming that the rendering of Hermès’ most famous offering

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“The Times is allowed to publish Project Veritas documents until a full appeal; A state appeals court said that a judge’s order preventing publication of the documents would not be enforced until a formal appeal could be heard”: Michael M. Grynbaum of The New York Times has this report. You can access yesterday’s order of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department , at this link.

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As the United States was completing the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan in August, the American Bar Association began working to address the needs…

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“Reversal Rates Imperfect Tool for Judging Supreme Court Nominees”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson and Jordan S. Rubin of Bloomberg Law have this report.

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Critics are denouncing a six-years-and-a-day sentence for a Black Lives Matter activist who said she didn’t know that her voter registration was illegal because she…

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“Taylor Swift, BBQ and Wordle: 10 questions for Paul Weiss’ Kannon Shanmugam.” Caitlin Tremblay of Reuters has this.

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NCBA

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

By the Communications Committee This month’s Paralegal Spotlight is on Ileigh Kuga. Before I started my career as a paralegal, my intentions were to go to law school. I planned my undergraduate career with that intention in mind; however, my undergraduate advisor threw me a curveball. He suggested that I go and work for an […].

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“Ketanji Brown Jackson’s background is unusual for a Supreme Court nominee. It involves Miami.” Jay Weaver of The Miami Herald has this report.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Please encourage your ABA Delegates to vote in approval of this vital resolution to help bar exam test takers who need to pump. The post Law Moms And The Modern Family: Oh! The Places I’ve Pumped appeared first on Above the Law.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“Georgia Senate votes to put statue of Clarence Thomas on Capitol grounds”: Maya T. Prabhu of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Larry Fordham Jr. (behind the camera) in his film class. Photo courtesy Miami Dade College. When Larry Fordham Jr learned about the Second Chance Pell program in 2020, he only wanted one thing: to walk out of a Florida prison with a college degree. “I was preparing for my release, and I knew the odds were stacked against me,” Fordham said, “So I wanted an education to level the playing field.”.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“Biden seeking professional diversity in his judicial picks”: Colleen Long of The Associated Press has this report.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

But do lawyers really want to be in the office that much? The post Associates Can Expect To Be In The Office 3 Days Each Week If The ‘Kirkland Model’ Catches On appeared first on Above the Law.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“U.S. Sens. Ossoff, Warnock embrace opportunity to diversify Supreme Court”: Tia Mitchell of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report.

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The IP Law Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The Second Circuit recently reversed an injunction stripping designer and Instagram influencer Hayley Paige Gutman of her Instagram accounts in a dispute with her former business partners. Ms. Gutman is a wedding dress designer and used the Instagram account @misshayleypaige to promote her designs and as a personal account. She entered into agreement with the brand JLM Couture Inc. in 2011, where she agreed not to compete with JLM and granted JLM permission to use her name.

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