Above The Law
JULY 6, 2022
Napping is a great way to give yourself a boost of energy and stay refreshed to better complete tasks during the day. The post Napping Can Make Lawyers More Productive appeared first on Above the Law.
JURIST
JULY 6, 2022
US Senate Intelligence Committee members Tuesday called for the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate social media platform TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance for invading the privacy of its users. The members accuse the companies of repeatedly allowing company engineers and executives located in China access to private US users’ data, despite repeated representations from the company that the information was protected.
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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
JULY 6, 2022
Law firms have traditionally extended credit to clients by billing in arrears. This is, in fact, the most common way for law firms using an hourly billing model to invoice their clients. That’s why you hear advice like: Make sure to get the most you possibly can upfront/Charge the most significant retainer you can. But, let’s be honest. That’s not a client-facing model.
JURIST
JULY 6, 2022
Law students and lawyers in Belarus are filing reports with JURIST on the situation in their country Here, a law student reports on the complications posed by the authoritarian government’s recent expansion of the list of crimes for which one can be executed. 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.
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The Crime Report
JULY 6, 2022
A study by researchers from the University of Michigan found that at least four in 10 children in the U.S. born between 1999 and 2005 were raised in a home where a parent or co-residing adult faced at least one criminal charge, reports The Hill. Some 9 percent of children have had an intergenerational exposure to prison, 18 percent have been exposed to felony conviction and 39 percent in total have been exposed to any criminal charge over the course of childhood.
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HowAppealing
JULY 6, 2022
“Highland Park and an Illegitimate Supreme Court; Recent rulings on gun and abortion rights have revealed a conservative majority executing a long-standing agenda of radical right-wing ideas”: Adam Gopnik has this Daily Comment online at The New Yorker.
JURIST
JULY 6, 2022
Former Chief Prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone David Crane Wednesday proposed a path to prosecute Russia for crimes of aggression committed during its invasion of Ukraine. Crane provided a list of courts that may have jurisdiction to prosecute Russian soldiers for war crimes, including the International Criminal Court (ICC), the EU Regional Courts, and domestic courts in EU member countries.
HowAppealing
JULY 6, 2022
“Spurred by the Supreme Court, a Nation Divides Along a Red-Blue Axis; On abortion, climate change, guns and much more, two Americas — one liberal, one conservative — are moving in opposite directions”: Jonathan Weisman had this front page article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.
JURIST
JULY 6, 2022
The United Kingdom Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that diplomats who force staff to work in conditions of modern slavery cannot invoke diplomatic immunity to fend off compensatory claims. The suit was brought by Josephine Wong, a Philippines national, against Saudi diplomat Khalid Basfar for forcing her to work for him and his family in abusive conditions.
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HowAppealing
JULY 6, 2022
“The Supreme Court Saves Politics; The West Virginia and Dobbs decisions free Americans from rule by experts and judges”: Columnist Daniel Henninger will have this op-ed in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
JURIST
JULY 6, 2022
Ukrainian law students and young lawyers are reporting for JURIST on national and international developments in and affecting Ukraine. This dispatch is from Kateryna Prychta, a law student at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. . On June 23, the European Court of Human Rights received a completed application from Ukraine in its dispute with Russia, accepted it, reassigned it to the Fourth Section, and notified the respondent state (Russia) of the application.
HowAppealing
JULY 6, 2022
“Majority of Public Disapproves of Supreme Court’s Decision To Overturn Roe v. Wade; 62% of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, little changed since before the court’s decision”: Pew Research Center has this report.
JURIST
JULY 6, 2022
Twitter, Inc. Tuesday sought judicial review from the High Court of the Indian State of Karnataka of the federal government’s online information blocking orders. In its petition filed before the Karnataka High Court, Twitter contended that the online information blocking orders issued by the federal Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) under § 69A of the Information Technology Act are “procedurally and substantially deficient of the provision” and “
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HowAppealing
JULY 6, 2022
“‘A scary time’: Fear of prosecution forces doctors to choose between protecting themselves or their patients.” Olivia Goldhill of STAT has this report. And Annalisa Merelli of Quartz reports that “ Rheumatology patients are already having trouble accessing essential drugs because of abortion bans.
ABA Journal
JULY 6, 2022
Lawyers for a Denver teenager charged in an arson fire that killed five people contend that police unconstitutionally used Google’s database of keyword searches to…
HowAppealing
JULY 6, 2022
“Why Marc Elrich Won’t Protect Supreme Court Justices; A Maryland official compares his county’s law to Putin’s Russia”: This editorial will appear in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
The Crime Report
JULY 6, 2022
Applying the regulatory approach used in the “free-world” has significant advantages over constitutional law in mitigating abusive conditions in prisons and jails, according to a paper published in the Yale Law Journal. For instance, court rulings have barely provided the minimum in protecting incarcerated individuals in areas like fire safety, assurance of food quality, and access to communications—protections that they would be entitled to on the outside under regulatory law, writes Aaron Litt
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HowAppealing
JULY 6, 2022
“Non-Party Discovery Appeals & the Collateral-Order Doctrine in the Fifth Circuit; A split Fifth Circuit held that non-party discovery orders rejecting undue-burden claims are not immediately appealable under the collateral-order doctrine; It was a step in the right direction for a circuit that has some questionable caselaw on discovery appeals”: Bryan Lammon has this post at his “final decisions” blog about a decision that the U.S.
Attorney at Work
JULY 6, 2022
In April 2022, a headline caught our attention. It referenced a new legal ethics opinion issued by the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics. Opinion 1240 has this digest statement: “If ‘contacts’ on a lawyer’s smartphone include any client whose identity or other information is confidential under Rule 1.6, then the lawyer may not consent to share contacts with a smartphone app unless the lawyer concludes that no human being will view that confidential information, an
HowAppealing
JULY 6, 2022
“Still No Peace at the Justices’ Houses; The Supreme Court asks for action under laws against picketing homes”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
ABA Journal
JULY 6, 2022
Two groups are asking the Virginia State Bar to consider filing ethics charges against the Loudoun County commonwealth attorney after a judge removed her entire…
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HowAppealing
JULY 6, 2022
“What Majority Should Rule? On abortion, why should the preference of a majority of Americans prevail over a majority of a state’s voters?” Donald J. Boudreaux has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.
Above The Law
JULY 6, 2022
He gave 'new meaning to the term ‘jailhouse lawyer.’'. The post Attorney Runs Law Practice While Locked Up In Jail, Gets Disbarred For His Efforts appeared first on Above the Law.
HowAppealing
JULY 6, 2022
“Establishing Religious Freedom: The Establishment Clause has long been used to systematically secularize American society; Those days appear to be over.” Patrick M. Garry has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.
Above The Law
JULY 6, 2022
You get a subpoena! And you get a subpoena! The post Rudy, Jenna, Cleta, And Lindsey Join The Georgia Subpoena Club appeared first on Above the Law.
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