Attorney at Work
JUNE 1, 2022
What can law firms do to solve the associate retention quandary and make their culture “stickier?” Four employee retention strategies to try. A few years ago, when I spoke with law firms about the importance of investing in the professional development and satisfaction of their associates, my comments were often met with eye rolls and jokes about work-life balance.
JURIST
JUNE 1, 2022
Amnesty International released a report Tuesday documenting atrocities committed by the the Myanmar military including the burning of villages, destruction of civilian infrastructure and extrajudicial execution of civilians. After seizing power in a coup d’état on 1 February 2021, the military committed “gross human rights violations” in Myanmar’s Kayin and the Kayah States from December 2021 to March 2022.
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The Estrin Report
JUNE 1, 2022
Get noticed and move your career upward! By Chere Estrin and Nora Boghossian. Creating your LinkedIn profile. How your LinkedIn profile is written, what it says about you, how it distinguishes your personality, are all critical factors employers want to know to choose you as a candidate. In this overwhelming and competitive market, your LinkedIn profile is as important as your resume.
JURIST
JUNE 1, 2022
A California appeals court Tuesday held that four species of bumblebees can be added to the state’s endangered species list under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA). The court found that bees were included under the legal definition of “fish” in the act since both are a type of ??invertebrate animal species. CESA is an environmental law responsible for conserving and protecting plants and animal species at risk of extinction in California.
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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
JUNE 1, 2022
Lawyers make ad hoc decisions about business management , all the time. But, those decisions are often wrong – because they’re built on false assumptions about how the business works. Attorneys often overestimate how much money they make, and underestimate how much money they pay out, in terms of case expenses and overhead. That leads to a lot of disappointment, as you might imagine.
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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JUNE 1, 2022
By Yumeno Grace Nishikawa, LLM*. The Supreme Court of Japan may soon weigh in on a growing field of climate litigation in Japan against coal-fired power plants. On May 6, 2022, the Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant filed an appeal to Japan’s Supreme Court in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. Japan , their case challenging the legality of a governmental approval that allows for the construction and operation of new coal-fired power plants.
JURIST
JUNE 1, 2022
A woman injured in April’s Brooklyn subway mass shooting Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Glock Inc. (Glock), a gun manufacturer. On April 12 2022, a gunman opened fire on a Brooklyn subway. The shooter “put on a mask, threw two smoke grenades, and opened fire with a Glock 17 9mm[.]” The mass shooting resulted in twenty-nine people being injured, “ten of them from direct gunfire, including Plaintiff; the remaining injuries were from smoke inhalation.” The complaint a
The Crime Report
JUNE 1, 2022
Despite an increase in overdose deaths, the number of individuals who said drug addiction is a major problem in their community fell by from 45 percent to 37 percent between 2018 and 2021, r eports the Pew Research Center. Additionally, some 44 percent of Americans living in areas where drug overdose death rates climbed by more than the median increase between 2017 and 2020 said drug addiction was a major problem in their community in 2018.
JURIST
JUNE 1, 2022
New York Governor Kathy Hochul , State Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins and House Speaker Carl Heastie Tuesday confirmed that ten bills have been introduced in the State Assembly and Senate to strengthen New York’s gun regulations following the horrific mass shootings in Buffalo , New York and Uvalde , Texas. The bills propose to require the exchange of information between state, local and federal authorities whenever a gun is used in a crime.
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ABA Journal
JUNE 1, 2022
Police in Uvalde, Texas, are unlikely to face civil liability for failing to rush in to confront shooter Salvador Ramos, 18, at Robb Elementary School…
JURIST
JUNE 1, 2022
US District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman Wednesday granted John Hinckley, the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, freedom from all his remaining restrictions. This unconditional release occurs 41 years after Hinckley’s assassination attempt on President Reagan. In September Judge Friedman stated his intent to release Hinckley from his remaining release restrictions on June 15 as long as Hinckley behaved well.
Above The Law
JUNE 1, 2022
I'd honestly be less salty if their justification was 'Me have gun because pew pew sound cool,' but that's a lot harder to balance out with the whole people-being-murdered-as-a-regular-occurrence thing. The post Hey, Tyranny People, You Do Realize SCOTUS Just Said It’s Okay For The State To Kill Innocent People, Right? appeared first on Above the Law.
JURIST
JUNE 1, 2022
A federal judge Tuesday increased the prison sentence of a man convicted of planning to join ISIS and to attack an FBI agent. US District Judge Margo Brodie had originally sentenced Fareed Mumuni to 17 years in prison. Following a decision from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit which called the sentence “shockingly low,” Judge Brodie increased the sentence to 25 years.
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The Crime Report
JUNE 1, 2022
Memorial in Boston’s Copley Square for the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Tx. Photo by (Jesse Costa/WBUR. Last week we experienced yet another senseless school shooting. Nineteen elementary school children and two teachers in the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tx., lost their lives. Three weeks earlier, a racially motivated mass shooting in Buffalo, NY claimed the lives of 10 African Americans shopping at a supermarket.
JURIST
JUNE 1, 2022
Florida healthcare providers Wednesday filed a lawsuit in an attempt to block Florida’s new abortion law, which bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, set to take effect July 1. The complaint argues that Florida’s new abortion law, HB 5 , “radically curtails the ability of Floridians to make decisions about whether or not to continue a pregnancy and have a child, in violation of their rights under the Florida Constitution.” Additionally, the complaint specifically sta
Above The Law
JUNE 1, 2022
Don't worry, there's a catch. The post Free PACER Searches Coming! Federal Judiciary Boldly Steps Into Early 2000s! appeared first on Above the Law.
JURIST
JUNE 1, 2022
The European Commission Wednesday approved Poland’s recovery and resistance plan, an important step toward the release of billions of euros in grants and loans, but the money will not be paid until Warsaw reforms its judiciary. Under the plan Poland will receive 23.9 billion euros in grants and 11.5 billion euros in cheap loans over several years to support the implementation of measures outlined in the country’s plan.
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HowAppealing
JUNE 1, 2022
“The Supreme Court Leakers Can Be Prosecuted; If it turns out to be a law clerk, there are federal statutes under which criminal charges can be brought”: Markus Funk and U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Kendall ( N.D. Ill. ) have this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.
JURIST
JUNE 1, 2022
A New York grand jury indicted Wednesday the man accused of carrying out a racist shooting at Tops Market in Buffalo on May 14. Payton Gendron shot 13 people, killing of 10 of them. All the victims who died were black. Buffalo police arrested Gendron after the shooting ceased, and he surrendered to the police. The indictment includes 25 charges. The first charge is first-degree domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate.
HowAppealing
JUNE 1, 2022
“Harvard Needs Merit-Based Admissions; A Supreme Court decision could force colleges to move away from affirmative action and create true diversity on campus”: Law professor Alan M. Dershowitz will have this op-ed in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
JURIST
JUNE 1, 2022
Two lawsuits were filed by Black Minneapolis residents on Tuesday against Derek Chauvin, several other officers and the City of Minneapolis alleging that Chauvin used excessive force during their encounters with him. Zoya Code and John Pope both allege that Chauvin used tactics similar to those that got him convicted for killing George Floyd. In both complaints Code and Pope describe that Chauvin handcuffed the plaintiffs and place his knee on their necks.
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JUNE 1, 2022
“DOJ appeals mask mandate order for public transportation”: Alex Swoyer and Tom Howell Jr. of The Washington Times have this report. Tierney Sneed of CNN reports that “ CDC defends its authority to issue transportation mask mandate in brief arguing for reversal of ruling that blocked it.” And David Shepardson of Reuters reports that “ U.S. asks court to reverse order lifting airplane mask mandate.” You can access at this link the Brief for Appellant that the f
JURIST
JUNE 1, 2022
Canada’s Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Carolyn Bennett Tuesday announced that her office is temporarily decriminalizing some drug possession crimes in British Columbia to address the province’s overdose crisis. The minister’s goal is to “ decrease substance use harms, prevent overdose, reduce stigma and end this [overdose] crisis” in order to save lives.
HowAppealing
JUNE 1, 2022
“AZ Supreme Court Justice faces criticism for ‘Rasta Clint’ video”: Dave Biscobing of ABC15 in Phoenix has this report. The article includes this link to the video on YouTube.
JURIST
JUNE 1, 2022
An Australian judge Tuesday referred an Indigenous Australian man’s request to receive his social security age pension three years early to a full panel of the Federal Court of Australia. Justice Debra Mortimer ordered the full federal court to consider the case in an 87-page decision. Dennis James Fisher, a 64-year-old Indigenous Australian man, seeks early access to the age pension on account of his lower life expectancy.
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