Diane Drain

MARCH 1, 2021

A powerful story from one man who refused to be bullied to one of the devious debt collectors: Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back, With a Vengeance. Article by Zeke Faux, Bloomberg Business week. Andrew Therrien wanted payback. He got it—and uncovered a conspiracy. “It begins when someone scoops up troves of personal information that are available cheaply online—old loan applications, long-expired obligations, data from hacked accounts—and reformats it to

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CourtTechBulletin

MARCH 4, 2021

The Freakonomics website has a page that discusses the quote in the title of this post. It is obviously appropriate for the courts in this time of the Covid-19 pandemic, but I have used it in another context, when a new case, document, or e-filing systems are being introduced into a court. I explain below… Read more ».

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MARCH 4, 2021

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this situation that is rampant in the industry. [link]. This video might be a good starting point for a course on intellectual property law. — Dennis Crouch (@patentlyo) March 3, 2021.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

In Ramos v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court held that "if the Sixth Amendment’s right to a jury trial requires a unanimous verdict to support a conviction in federal court, it requires no less in state court." Before, this opinion, a.

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JURIST

MARCH 3, 2021

The Cuban government has passed a long-awaited animal welfare law after decades of ignoring citizens’ demands for animal rights legislation. The Animal Welfare Bill requires state agencies and animal welfare organizations to uphold duties concerning animal physical and mental health while prohibiting all forms of animal abuse, which carries fines up to 7,000 pesos.

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LDA PRO

MARCH 2, 2021

Parents who are new in California or have been residents for years, will eventually discover that jurisdiction is a vital issue in their child custody case. Residency requirements are also applicable. A child custody determination revolves around the judgement or order of a court that provides legal custody, physical custody, or visitation with respect to the child.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

Similar to its federal counterpart, Indiana Rule of Evidence 804(b)(2) provides an exception to the rule against hearsay for A statement that the declarant, while believing the declarant's death to be imminent, made about its cause or circumstances. Under this.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – More than 24 people were killed in Myanmar Sunday when police cracked down on large demonstrations in multiple cities against the Myanmar military junta that seized power in the country on February 1. Multiple individuals died by live-fire rounds, according to local reports. Police and protesters engaged in a violent standoff in Yangon before being dispersed with flash-bangs and tear gas.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

More than 60% of law firm do not return voicemails. It takes an average of 8 emails to schedule an appointment with an attorney. Legal consumers , like all consumers, prize convenience, speed and responsiveness. Law firms often strike out in trying to meet that three-part requirement. In fact, most law firms don’t have an intake system at all. And, it’s costing them money.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 4, 2021

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued its opinion in Pereida v. Wilkinson, a case about whether an immigrant living in the country without authorization can seek relief from deportation for a minor crime. The court ruled 5-3 that because the noncitizen bears the burden to. The post Justices reject immigrant’s bid to seek relief from deportation appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MARCH 5, 2021

Similar to its federal counterpart, Iowa Rule of Evidence 5-607 states that The credibility of a witness may be attacked by any party, including the party calling the witness. Rule 607 gets rid of the common law voucher rule, pursuant.

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JURIST

MARCH 5, 2021

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Thursday stressed the need for an independent and objective assessment of reports of serious human rights violations in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. The UN Human Rights Office received reports of the killing of eight protesters by security forces in Adigrat, Mekelle, Shire and Wukro, in the east of the northern region, between February 9 and 10.

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MyCase

MARCH 3, 2021

It’s been nearly a year since the start of the pandemic. Shortly after its arrival, quarantines and shutdowns followed in many areas of the country, causing many law firms to shift to a remote workforce. With that sudden and unexpected transition to remote work, lawyers began to increasingly rely on cloud-based technologies in order to ensure that they could continue to represent their clients no matter where they happened to be working on any given day.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 1, 2021

The Legal Technology Resource Center ’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. This initiative launched in 2015 with a list of innovators and leaders in legal technology and with this year’s additions, that list now includes 132 talented and influential women leaders. Every Monday and Wednesday, we will be featuring a woman from our class of 2021.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

Federal Rule of Evidence 803(18) provides an exception to the rule against hearsay for A statement contained in a treatise, periodical, or pamphlet if: (A) the statement is called to the attention of an expert witness on cross-examination or relied.

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JURIST

MARCH 2, 2021

Protesters filled the streets of Algiers on Friday as the pro-democracy Hirak movement regained momentum after a year-long break due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hirak, meaning “movement” in Arabic, was formed in 2019 to oppose former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s run for a fifth term. The non-partisan movement aims for systemic change that includes judicial independence and the rule of law as well as the complete end of the old regime and of military interference in pol

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MARCH 5, 2021

Build stronger arguments, anticipate strategies and neutralize opposing counsel’s arguments with legal language analytics that focus on attorney arguments linked to written judicial opinions.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 3, 2021

Over the last year, companies and industries were forced to adapt and adjust to a global pandemic that has shifted the way business is done. Companies looking to stay ahead of the challenges had to quickly incorporate or implement technology in order to operate — like adding new technologies that enhanced customer or employee interaction. The pandemic has been a catalyst that has accelerated the adoption of many different technologies.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

Similar to its federal counterpart, Iowa Rule of Evidence 5.403 states that Although relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or.

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JURIST

MARCH 4, 2021

The US House of Representatives approved the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 Wednesday, a bill intended to institute police reform in a wide variety of categories. The 220 to 212 vote was almost entirely along partisan lines. A previous version of the bill passed the House last year but failed in the Senate. Like the previous version , the 2021 bill alters the qualified immunity available to law enforcement officers.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

The court on Monday morning issued orders from the justices’ private conference on Friday, Feb. 26. The justices added two cases, both involving benefits through the Social Security Administration, to their merits docket for next term. The first case, United States v. Vaello-Madero, is a. The post Court will review Puerto Rico’s eligibility for federal benefits program appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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The Process Street

MARCH 5, 2021

Welcome emails are the one email you should be sending. Why? Because they have a 91.43% open rate, can create an 86% lift in unique open rate , and have on average 5x the click-through rate of a standard email marketing campaign. I’ve uncovered heaps more stats that I’ll share with you later in the post. For this article I took the time to subscribe to 40 top tech blogs and applied quantitative research to categorize and break down their welcome emails.

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MARCH 4, 2021

Litigation trends typically start to move legislation at the state and federal level, and this is what’s starting to be seen in terms of legal protection for victims of online harassment.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

TikTok Inc. on Thursday settled a series of $92 million class-action privacy lawsuits affecting 89 million users in the US. The popular video-sharing app allegedly illegally recorded users’ facial scans, compiled private user data, disclosed it to third parties, and later sold it to advertisers, some of whom were based in China. The settlement is the result of 21 federal lawsuits—most of which were filed on behalf of minors, including children as young as six years old—that accuse TikTok

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Wednesday’s argument in Carr v. Saul involves a surprisingly basic question of administrative law: when claimants in an administrative process (Social Security in this case) must raise a particular issue before the agency if they wish to preserve their right to raise that issue on. The post Justices to weigh issue exhaustion for Social Security claimants appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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