Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Many paralegals work in practice areas where cases have deep personal importance to their clients. It is only fair that clients are emotional about their cases. However, emotional clients can complicate cases. Without regulation, a client’s turmoil can lead to more work and increase the perceived difficulty for everyone, including the client. If you are not careful, clients’ stress and anxiety can also start to affect you.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Cedric Lofton, still photo courtesy KSN News 3. Cedric “CJ” Lofton was murdered last September while in custody at the Juvenile Intake and Assessment Center (JIAC) in Wichita, Kansas. CJ, a 17-year-old Black high school student, was experiencing a mental health crisis when he was restrained in the prone position for more than 30 minutes, with the weight of grown adults pressing upon his body, causing cardiopulmonary stress that resulted in his death two days later.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

When you’re overwhelmed with work and stress, triage — assigning priorities to your tasks so you can figure out how to allocate your time — is how you dig out. If your January was anything like mine, you spent most of the month clawing your way out of a profound funk. Maybe it’s because you spent your holiday downtime playing “is it Covid or ‘just’ the flu?

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Following a three-year investigation, California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) sued Tesla Motors and fifty representatives Thursday, alleging its work environment violated the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) and other laws with regard to Black employees. In a complaint filed at the Alameda County Superior Court, the DFEH alleged “unchecked racism” in Tesla’s Fremont factory.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Better make this criticism quick, its only about 2 days before he apologizes and we have to all magically forget it happened. The post Georgetown Law Really Has A Knack For Casual Racism appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Kashawna Harris and her children. Photo courtesy Kashawna Harris. Kashawna Harris, 30, has been in and out of the criminal legal system since she was 12 years old for drug offenses and theft charges. Like so many people who have been justice-involved, she’s cycled through the system—experiencing homelessness and struggling with sobriety over the years.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for over a week. Here, 3L Andrew Warkintin reports. In a press conference in downtown Ottawa Wednesday afternoon, “Freedom Convoy” organizers and supporters doubled-down, saying they’re still dug in and intend to remain in Ottawa’s core for the long-haul.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Everyone should have access to this book. FOR A PRICE! The post Penguin Random House Demands Removal Of Maus From Digital Library Because The Book Is Popular Again appeared first on Above the Law.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2022

by Dennis Crouch. Patent attorneys expect an initial office rejection, but clients often want to know: how long must this go on before we get our patent? The chart below provides some data on how many office-action rejections you might expect before a patent issues. To collect the data, I wrote a short bit of code to parse through the file histories of all the issued patents from the past several years and count the number of non-final and final rejections.

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A town justice should be removed from office for Facebook posts that “objectified and denigrated women,” according to the New York State Commission on Judicial…

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The Italian Parliament voted Tuesday to include the protection of animals and the environment in the nation’s constitution. Prior to the amendment, Article Nine protected the “natural landscape and the historical and artistic heritage of the Nation.” Now, the Article includes a mandate to protect the environment, biodiversity, ecosystems, and animals “in the interest of future generations.” Article 41 previously stated that economic enterprise could “not be ca

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Andrew Cuomo accusing someone else of "playing politics" is. something. The post Andrew Cuomo Threatens Bar Complaint Against Tish James For Making Him Look Like A Gropey A-Hole appeared first on Above the Law.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

by Dennis Crouch. The recent Federal Circuit decision in Caltech v. Broadcom includes an important discussion of extraterritorial damages further extending Carnegie Mellon (Fed. Cir. 2015) in finding that manufacture and delivery of a product in a foreign country can infringe a US patent if sufficient sales-activity occurred within the US. California Institute of Technology v.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Depending on your point of view, there’s either lots new or “not so much” new with law firm ownership. Most lawyers are familiar with Rule 5.4 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. In a nutshell, it says that lawyers must own law firms. Virtually every state adopted the rule. The purpose is supposedly to prevent nonlawyers from interfering with a lawyer’s independent and professional judgment.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a statement Tuesday expressing concern for the safety of four women who disappeared after participating in a women’s rights protests in Afghanistan. The Taliban returned to power in 2021 after being ousted by the US-led invasion in 2001. Since their return, they have imposed numerous limitations on women’s rights, as was widely feared.

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The Fashion Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Mason Rothschild has lodged his response to the lawsuit filed against him by Hermès , arguing that the French luxury goods brand’s claims centering on his sale of non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) called “MetaBirkins” should be tossed out in their entirety. In a motion to dismiss and corresponding memo filed on Wednesday, counsel for Rothschild doubled down on the First Amendment arguments that he previously cited in open letters to Hermès, claiming that the rendering of Hermès’ most famous offering

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

If you want to rank higher in search results, you need a keyword optimized LinkedIn summary. The post How To Write A LinkedIn Summary That Lands You A Job Interview appeared first on Above the Law.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

When building a law practice, don’t try to serve everyone. Establish a niche practice and focus on serving someone. . I started a small law firm in Detroit in 2009 with a friend of mine. I had six years of legal experience at that point, and no clients to speak of. I was betting there would be so much corporate restructuring work (my practice specialty) that business would simply arrive once I hung a shingle.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Ian Profiri is JURIST’s Chief Correspondent for Canada. He files this dispatch from Calgary. . The Coutts Blockade remains, despite the government of Alberta loosening restrictions related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, blockade protestors are saying they will remain until all restrictions are gone, and Justin Trudeau is no longer Prime Minister of Canada.

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

A federal appeals court has affirmed a federal judge’s nonmonetary sanction against Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, imposed for its incomplete description of a fee…

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Legal practice is a small community, and acting like a jerk can have far-reaching consequences. The post Being A Jerk Can Permanently Affect A Lawyer’s Reputation appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Dame Cressida Dick. Photo courtesy BBC. In a story that will resonate with many former female police chiefs in the U.S., the London Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick, resigned Thursday. Just two days after she had announced publicly that she was not going to resign in the face of the many controversies that have mired her tenure , the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced he no longer had confidence in her leadership.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled Thursday that an Austrian court was not required to hear the divorce proceedings of an Italian man and German woman who had been living in Austria for a little over six months. The couple’s divorce application was initially dismissed due to lack of jurisdiction. The couple then appealed, and the appeals court also found a lack of jurisdiction for Austrian courts.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

When a truck tire breaks apart, tire debris can become a deadly projectile thrown through the air landing on vehicles, or causing dangerous conditions once it lands on the highway itself.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Not The Preferred Nomenclature: Law professors tend to concentrate on using one racial slur in class, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t others. Firm Announcements: Choate Hall issues raises. Weil does not… yet. We Don’t Talk About Cuomo: For some reason Andrew Cuomo is still around. New Feature: We’re testing out a new feature here […].

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