Paralegal Bootcamp

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Is a paralegal internship worth the time? Yes! Put yourself in this situation: you have recently finished your academic studies and are set up at a local law firm to intern as a paralegal for the next few weeks. You have all the knowledge you could hope to have, but no experience- or at least a minimal amount. The National Association of Colleges and Employers estimates that you have approximately a 44% chance of getting a full-time offer – if this is your first internship at that firm (Intern t

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called Wednesday for a moratorium on artificial intelligence (AI) systems that threaten human rights until enough safeguards are in place. Bachelet said in a press release: “Given the rapid and continuous growth of AI, filling the immense accountability gap in how data is collected, stored, shared and used is one of the most urgent human rights questions we face.” As a part of its work on technology and human rights, the UN Huma

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Criminal jury trials, as part of everyone’s Sixth Amendment right, have been declining for decades, down from approximately 20 percent of all federal cases to two percent between 1988 to 2018. The pandemic has exacerbated the decline, making the prospect of fair and impartial justice by a “jury of your peers,” increasingly elusive, according to a forthcoming paper in the Marquette Law Review.

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Paralegal Brief Submitted Articles

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

There are unquestionably different skills that successful in-house counsel have that those working at a firm have likely never even considered.

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A Synergistic Approach to eDiscovery In the space of eDiscovery, the convergence of document summarization, sentiment analysis, and chatbots represents a significant change in how legal professionals navigate and manage electronic information. These technologies not only expedite the review process but also empower legal teams with deeper insights into the emotional context and key information within electronic documents.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

President Joe Biden’s plan to require businesses with more than 100 workers to require vaccinations or testing relies on a little-used provision of a 1970…

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Over the course of two months this summer, New Jersey courts have successfully expunged 362,000 low-level marijuana cases from individual’s records, giving many citizens a chance at starting a new life without a harmful criminal record, NJ.com reports. . When marijuana was recently decriminalized in New Jersey, the state did away with fines and penalties for possessing — and selling — small amounts of marijuana.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Using legal data for strategic law firm planning is no longer reserved for BigLaw. With the improved access to litigation data from numerous vendors in the exploding legal tech ecosystem, solo practitioners, small law firms, and regional and midsize firms can take advantage of insights from data to position themselves as leaders and market movers in their respective practice areas and jurisdictions.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Delaware Supreme Court has ruled that marijuana and cocaine seized after police arrested a juvenile should be suppressed because the pot smell emanating from…

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an emergency motion Tuesday seeking to immediately block Texas’ controversial abortion restriction pending further proceedings. The DOJ filed suit against Texas earlier this month, challenging the constitutionality of Senate Bill 8 (SB 8). The law bans all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, with no exceptions for cases of rape or incest.

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Selecting and implementing CLM technology can be daunting, leading to underutilization or abandonment. Factors like provider differentiation, inadequate planning, and lack of user training contribute to these failures. Recognizing these pitfalls is crucial for successful adoption, ensuring organizations harness the full potential of CLM for streamlined contract management.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Photo by inmate_stripes via Flickr. Congress should ban the use of restraints on pregnant women in all corrections institutions, barring “substantial security or safety concern[s],” argue Sierra Wollen and Angelique Day of the University of Washington School of Social Work. In an online paper posted in Academia Letters , Wollen and Day maintain that shackles and other restraints on pregnant women in custody pose health and development risks to both mothers and babies.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

by Dennis Crouch. US provisional patent applications continue to be popular, with about 170,000 filed each year since 2013. After filing a provisional, the applicant then has one-year to move the case to a non-provisional or PCT application, and eventually toward patent issuance. If the applicant does not follow-up with these next steps, the provisional application is abandoned, and the file kept secret.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A Maryland judge facing a federal charge of child exploitation apparently killed himself before FBI agents entered his home to arrest him Friday.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The Court of Justice of the European Union clarified Thursday that the protected designation of origin (PDO) “champagne” and similar designations are protected “vis-à-vis prohibited conduct in respect of both products and services.” The Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC), an organisation that protects the interests of champagne producers, brought an action in Spanish courts against tapas bars in Spain for using the the sign “CHAMPANILLO” to d

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CLM tools have always strived to push contract management into the digital age for almost 30 years. But the complexities of digitising a legal document are numerous. The current scenarios in business development have shown that having a fully automated CLM has become a mandate for every law firm and in-house legal department. To determine if you need a CLM system, it's essential to clearly identify the on-ground business challenges you aim to solve.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The Justice Department has moved to block a bankruptcy plan that grants broad legal immunity to the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, creator of the drug OxyContin, filing a motion in federal court to halt confirmation of the settlement while the department appeals the judge’s decision to approve the deal, reports the New York Times. William K. Harrington, the U.S. trustee for the Justice Department, said that the court should grant his request for a stay because the federal government “has

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Oh Yeah, The Gender Gap Is Still A Thing: At law firms. That's. An Interesting Google Footprint: The attorney definitely has experience. Eating The Evidence Is The Least Disturbing Thing In These Allegations: It's a real trip, y'all. Imaging An Interview With The Justice Of The Hour: Why Stephen Breyer really won't retire.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A Galveston, Texas, attorney was charged with disorderly conduct Monday for walking the beach while dressed as movie serial killer Michael Myers from the Halloween …

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

LGBTQIA+ youth in South Korea are threatened by the country’s failure to enact non-discrimination provisions, according to a report published by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday. The report, entitled “I Thought of Myself as Defective”: Neglecting the Rights of LGBT Youth in South Korean Schools , interviewed students in the country who identify as LGBTQIA+ as well as prominent figures in students’ lives such as teachers and parents.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The first challenge that faces people entering the “Criminal Justice Reform Space” is deciding how to bring their skills to bear quickly—learning where the “value-added” they contribute can be greatest, finding out how to make a difference. It isn’t surprising that many reformers focus on the yawning gaps in criminal justice data. It is a glaring problem, and it is a problem everywhere.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Share Tired of reading jargon-filled law review articles with hundreds of footnotes? The perfect antidote is Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights , edited by Professors M.C. Mirow and Howard Wasserman. The book combines art and academic analysis into a refreshing and creative take on major Supreme Court cases — with an added dash of “Florida weirdness” to keep things interesting.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Account, commonly called IOLTA, is one of the most valuable tools for expanding legal representation to appear in recent decades. Unlike traditional attorney trust accounts, IOLTA programs , available in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, allow lawyers to hold client retainers, settlements and other money in interest-bearing accounts.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Texas judge Karin Crump of the Travis County District Court issued a temporary injunction on Monday that preventing Texas Right to Life from enforcing the new six-week abortion ban against Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas. The injunction prevents any action from being taken against Planned Parenthood pursuant to Senate Bill 8 (SB8) until a final judgment on the merits has been entered.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan put a harsh spotlight on the dangerous uncertainties that linger in the aftermath of a defeat. Similarly, a defendant who elects to go to trial often rolls the dice on possibly receiving a far more severe sentence than a plea deal would provide. Like negotiations with an enemy in war, negotiations in a criminal case seek to avoid unpredictable outcomes.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It is hard to believe that there’s still an American state where people could go to jail for this widely accepted family-building option.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

I was in Manhattan on 9/11, where I worked as editor-in-chief of The National Law Journal. In a post here 15 years ago, I wrote about my memories of that day. In that post, I focused on the end of the day. Throughout the day, the editors and reporters at the NLJ and throughout ALM were consumed with covering the story. As shocked as we all were, we also were journalists, scrambling to find out everything we could about the lawyers and law firms who might be among the victims.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held Wednesday that workers in California will not be forced into arbitration as a condition of employment. In 2019, California passed Assembly Bill 51 (AB51), to limit workplace arbitration agreements. It prohibits employers from requiring employees to sign arbitration agreements as a condition of employment.

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