Above The Law
OCTOBER 24, 2022
And yet, in-house lawyers don't seem in a rush to invest in tech solutions. The post Technology Emerges As Top Concern For In-House Counsel appeared first on Above the Law.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Would you like the good news or the bad news about practicing law during a recession? Financial strategist Brooke Lively has advice for weathering the coming storm. A client emailed me this week asking, “I am thinking about opening another office, but with the recession coming, I’m not sure what I should do. Any advice?”. Unless you were admitted before about 2005, you haven’t practiced law going into a recession.
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Rocket Matter
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Efficiency isn’t just about hopping onto a buzzword bandwagon. It’s about helping your employees focus on the tasks at hand to make the most of their time. This is a serious issue: on average, employees are interrupted every three minutes and five seconds. Once interrupted, it can take as long as 23 minutes to get back to the task at hand. . When you have a workday full of interruptions, it has an impact on profitability, but that’s not all.
The Hollywood Lawyer
OCTOBER 24, 2022
SoundExchange’s lawsuit against Slacker has secured $9.7M back in unpaid royalties. In breach of contract, the digital media company, Slacker claims SoundExchange after it stopped paying statutory royalties to creators whose recordings were used in 2017. In addition, the court permanently barred Slacker and LiveOne from using the statutory license.
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Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Let’s say you’ve been invited to speak — in person — at the annual meeting of a group of not-for-profits. Specifically, your audience want to know what, if anything, they should be worrying about relative to your specialty — say trademarks and brands. Easy-peasy. Table of contents Multiply Your Speaking Engagement’s Marketing Impact 1. Write and publish the article. 2.
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JURIST
OCTOBER 25, 2022
The World Justice Project (WJP) Wednesday released its 2022 Rule of Law Index. For the fifth year in a row, the majority of countries experienced a decline in the rule of law. 85 out of 140 countries, accounting 61 percent and 4.4 billion people, saw a decline in rule of law. 52 countries, or 39 percent, saw overall improvement. The index measures eight areas of society: constraints on government power, absence of corruption, open government, fundamental rights, order and security, regulatory en
ALPS
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Introduction to an Ethical Problem Most Attorneys Don’t Know About. In April of 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 co
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 27, 2022
A new study contradicts popular claims that policies pursued by progressive prosecutors have caused crime in cities to rise, finding no evidence that their policies are responsible for the change in homicide rates, and even weak evidence linking prosecutors of any type to the spike, report Rachel Eisenberg and Allie Preston for the Center for American Progress.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. This week’s installment will be brief, because there’s only one newly relisted case: Dubin v. United States. In recent years, the Supreme Court has expressed misgivings about white-collar prosecutions under broadly worded statutes.
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JURIST
OCTOBER 28, 2022
The Supreme Court of Canada Friday declared the country’s national sex offender registry unconstitutional. Section 490.012 of Canada’s Criminal Code requires mandatory registration on a national sex offender registry, and section 490.013 requires lifetime registration for offenders convicted of two or more sexual offenses. The court found the criminal statutes violate Section 7 of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which provides “[e]veryone has the right to life,
Above The Law
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Taking the fair out of fair use. The post Justice Thomas Still Likes Prince On Thursdays, And What That Means For The Future Of Fair Use appeared first on Above the Law.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
OCTOBER 25, 2022
By Matthew Eisenson. On September 21, 2022, the New York Times published an essay by Gabriel Popkin titled “Are There Better Places to Put Large Solar Farms Than These Forests?” Popkin describes a recently approved 4,500-acre solar project in Virginia that will remove approximately 3,500 acres of forest and asks whether such projects could be sited instead on rooftops, parking lots, and other degraded land.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Share In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger that universities may consider race in their admissions processes as part of their efforts to achieve diversity on campus. On Oct. 31, the justices will hear oral arguments in a pair of cases asking them to overturn Grutter and outlaw race-based affirmative action in higher education altogether.
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JURIST
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Spanish anitrust agency Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Compentencia (CNMC) Tuesday fined US pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD) 39 million euros for abuse of the market. The agency claims that MSD took unjustified legal action against its Spanish competitor Insud Phrama under the false pretense of protecting its patent. According to the CNMC, MSD wanted to unjustly delay the market entry of its Spanish competitor’s product.
Above The Law
OCTOBER 28, 2022
The gig economy has seen an influx of growth in the past few years, and the legal profession is not immune to this shift. The post Burned Out By Law Firm Life? How To Tap Into The Gig Economy For Lawyers. appeared first on Above the Law.
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Black women are leading the fight to secure and safeguard voting rights in the U.S. Yet criminal law has historically excluded Black women from voting by regulating when a person convicted of a crime may be eligible to vote, argues Washington and Lee University School of Law professor Carla Laroche. In a Boston University Law Review article, Laroche argues that such felony disenfranchisement is tantamount to voter suppression — and, as Black women continue to face more barriers to electoral part
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Share This article is part of a symposium on the upcoming arguments in Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. President & Fellows of Harvard College. A preview of the case is here. David E. Bernstein holds a university professorship chair at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.
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JURIST
OCTOBER 27, 2022
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Wednesday adopted compensation recovery listing standards and disclosure rules which will “ require issuers to develop and implement a policy providing for the recovery of erroneously awarded incentive-based compensation received by current or former executive officers.” The SEC stated that the rule applies even if the public company executive is not responsible for the error.
Above The Law
OCTOBER 24, 2022
She wants to be an optimist, but this Court might not let her. The post Justice Elena Kagan Tells It Like It Is When It Comes To Stare Decisis And The Politicization Of The Supreme Court appeared first on Above the Law.
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 26, 2022
OJJDP Administrator Liz Ryan. . The federal government will accelerate a shift in focus from punishment to community-based programs aimed at helping young people “make good choices for the future,” says Liz Ryan, the new administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). “Our children deserve better,” Ryan told a webinar Wednesday.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Share This article is part of a symposium on the upcoming arguments in Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. President & Fellows of Harvard College. A preview of the case is here. Devon Westhill is president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity. He submitted an amicus brief supporting Students for Fair Admissions.
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JURIST
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske ordered Nye County’s hand count of ballots to cease immediately late Thursday night just hours after the Nevada Supreme Court ruled the county’s process violated state law. Cegavske’s order also prohibits any alternative hand counting process from beginning until the county and the Secretary can agree on its feasibility under state law.
Above The Law
OCTOBER 24, 2022
She said her workload was 'intense,' but she loved the job. We extend our condolences to her family, friends, and colleagues. The post Promising Young Biglaw Associate Dies After Using Cocaine Laced With Fentanyl appeared first on Above the Law.
LegalReader
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Transforming one of your conference rooms into a designated wellness area can be an option to encourage well-being for attorneys. ~ Deepa Tailor, Owner and Founder, Tailor Law.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Share You know all about Roe. But have you heard about Ruan ? Just three days after the thunderous ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the Supreme Court issued another important decision on a pressing health care issue. It’s a seemingly technical opinion interpreting a single phrase of a federal law on the prescription of controlled substances, and it garnered little attention amid the court’s end-of-term sturm und drang.
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