Attorney at Work
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Danielle DavisRoe | Learn to use Word's built-in compare feature to redline legal documents and you'll know exactly what changes are made by reviewers. The post How to Quickly Redline Legal Documents With Word’s Built-In Compare Feature appeared first on Attorney at Work.
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
The UK announced Friday that it had officially proscribed the Wagner Group as a terrorist organization, making it an offense to “ belong, or profess to belong, to a proscribed organisation in the UK or overseas.” The move comes several weeks after the government presented a bill containing the proscription to Parliament on September 6. Despite the Friday announcement, the order officially came into force on Wednesday, September 13.
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Above The Law
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
[The Masses] are neither good conductors of the political, nor good conductors of the social, nor good conductors of meaning in general. - Jean Baudrillard The post Survey Says At Least 22% Of Public’s Constitutional Knowledge Is Just Vibes appeared first on Above the Law.
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a $93 million settlement with Google, Inc. on Thursday in a lawsuit over the company’s location tracking practices. The lawsuit initially arose when Bonta accused Google of violating that several California Business and Professions Code (BPC) provisions regarding the company’s statements about their use and collection of users’ location data.
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ABA Journal
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Seventy-seven percent of surveyed Americans were able to recall that the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but less than half were able to name…
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Above The Law
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Mind Your 1s And 2s: 22% of people think the 1st Amendment protects guns. Who’s Afraid Of Diversity?: Biglaw is shaking in its boots. Summering Don’t Mean What It Used To: Rough times for job security. Move Over, Esquire!: New job title just dropped. A Shortened Forever: Who gets the ring after a proposal gone wrong ? The post This Is Why You Don’t Take Law Advice From Twitter — See Also appeared first on Above the Law.
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
The Argentine Federal Police announced on Wednesday that they have destroyed a printing press in San Isidro, a city in the greater Buenos Aires area, which produces and offers for sale publications with pro-Nazi and antisemitic content. T he Delegation of Argentine Israelite Associations (DAIA), the main organization for Argentina’s Jewish community, first undertook the case in 2021 when they spotted the books with Nazi propaganda offered for sale online.
ABA Journal
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday temporarily blocked an injunction that curbed the Biden administration’s communications with social media.
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
A Polish government official Friday wrote on X that seven people have been arrested and charged by Poland’s Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) as part of an investigation into a scandal involving irregularities in the issuance of Polish visas. The scandal was reported by Polish news outlet Onet , who claims to have a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official and a high-ranking ruling party official as sources.
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ABA Journal
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
A prosecutor in Los Angeles claimed that an outburst by ex-lawyer Tom Girardi during a competency hearing Wednesday shows that the disbarred lawyer understands…
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
The Election Commission of Pakistan questioned on Thursday the neutrality of Pakistan’s caretaker government in holding national elections. The Election Commission alleged that the government compromises impartiality in the election process by unfairly favoring opponents of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan. In a letter the commission wrote to incumbent Prime Minister Anwar ul Haq Kakar on Wednesday, the Election Commission called upon the government to set a date for the delayed ele
Above The Law
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Counterfeit hippie sandals don’t seem as serious as a $30 billion valuation haircut, but every listing has its own cross to bear. The post Fake Birkenstocks Very Real Threat To IPO appeared first on Above the Law.
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
US Department of Justice (DOJ) Special Counsel David Weiss revealed on Thursday that a federal grand jury indicted President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden on three firearms charges. The charges come almost two months after a federal district judge rejected a plea deal in which Hunter Biden would have avoided federal gun charges in exchange for a guilty plea to two misdemeanor tax charges.
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Above The Law
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
More than a dozen civil rights organizations alleged in a new complaint that Florida uses administrative practices that are preventing underserved communities from renewing their Medicaid coverage.
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
The Supreme Court of India held Wednesday that courts cannot reach different verdicts for two or more criminal defendants if the evidence against them is nearly identical. A bench comprised of Justices Abhay S. Oka and Sanjay Karol made this observation in the case of Javed Shaukat Ali Qureshi vs State of Gujrat. The court held: When there is similar or identical evidence of eyewitnesses against two accused by ascribing them the same or similar role, the Court cannot convict one accused and acqu
Above The Law
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
You won’t be able to unhear it. The post This Is Absolutely What You Need To Start Calling The Lawyer In Your Life appeared first on Above the Law.
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
The US Supreme Court temporarily stayed on Thursday a lower court ruling which would have restricted the Biden administration’s ability to encourage social media platforms to remove content it considers misleading. The decision temporarily halts a July preliminary injunction imposed upon the Biden administration by a federal court in Louisiana.
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Above The Law
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Do these lawsuits have Biglaw firms running scared when it comes to diversity? The post Have Biglaw Firms Pressed ‘Pause’ On Diversity Initiatives Thanks To Anti-DEI Lawsuits? appeared first on Above the Law.
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Minister of Communication and Media Patrick Muyaya told reporters on Thursday that the government was closely watching the case of Stanis Bujakera, a Congolese journalist who was arrested earlier this week. Actualite.cd, where Bujakera serves as Deputy Publication Director, published Mayaya’s comments and also reported that authorities moved Bujakera to a new prison.
Law 360
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
More Fox Corp. institutional stockholders piled onto a pair of derivative lawsuits in Delaware's Court of Chancery Friday seeking damages from the media giant for airing a long and costly typhoon of false and defamatory 2020 election fraud stories and commentary to bolster the network's ratings.
InHouseBlog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Succeeding in-house can involve different factors than those critical for succeeding in private practice, but there are commonalities and there is no rest for the weary. Those who think that the in-house world is full of sunshine, rainbows and unicorns are often in for a surprise. The physical separation that Biglaw brings may breed more time for pontification and rumination, but in the in-house world, the client is often right down the hall and answers are needed immediately to keep the busines
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Above The Law
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
It's all part of the eternal dance between courtesy and tactics. The post It Sometimes Stinks When Adversaries File Documents At The Last Minute appeared first on Above the Law.
SCOTUSBlog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Biden Asks Supreme Court to Lift Limits on Contacts With Social Media Sites (Adam Liptak, The New York Times) Supreme Court freezes ruling that would curb government contact with social media companies (Rebecca Shabad & Lawrence Hurley, NBC News) Supreme Court affirmative action ban should be enforced, GOP senators warn Cardona (Zac
Above The Law
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
This week in AI news. The post AI Update: DLA Piper & Sam Altman, Data Issues For Training Legal AI, Another AI Forum In D.C. appeared first on Above the Law.
OneLegal
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Learn about what you need to have in your marketing strategy to keep people interested through traditional methods and online. The post The ultimate law firm marketing strategy guide appeared first on One Legal.
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