Paralegal Bootcamp
MAY 4, 2023
It’s 2023 and everyone in the legal world is inundated with emails. Much like a congested roadway, your inbox can quickly become backed up with electronic correspondence, also known as, email jam. Microsoft Office is a widely used program among law firms in the United States, and if used to its full potential, Outlook can be an extremely useful tool in your paralegal career.
LLRX
APRIL 30, 2023
Why is poor legal writing so prevalent? Jerry Lawson identifies three key reasons: fear, time, and lack of skills, and addresses directly a course to solve the lack of skills issue.
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Above The Law
MAY 2, 2023
The judge is unimpressed with the bad behavior from the Biglaw firm. The post Federal Judge Disappointed Biglaw Attorneys Can’t Display Basic Compassion appeared first on Above the Law.
Law 360
MAY 1, 2023
A recent Law360 guest article rightly questions the pretextual pseudo-originalism that permits ideology to masquerade as judicial philosophy, but the cure would kill the patient because directness, simplicity and humanness are achievable without renouncing form or sacrificing stare decisis, says Vanessa Kubota at the Arizona Court of Appeals.
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Above The Law
MAY 1, 2023
Let’s look at the critical role lawyers play in advising clients on the legal and regulatory issues they will face. The post Navigating The Legal Complexities Of Nascent Technologies appeared first on Above the Law.
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The IP Law Blog
MAY 4, 2023
On April 24, 2023, the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in Epic Games, Inc. v. Apple, Inc. , and affirmed the trial court’s ruling in Apple’s favor as to Epic’s Sherman Act claim for restraint of trade relating to Apple’s distribution of apps in its App Store. (This article does not address the other antitrust and state law claims also at issue in the 91-page opinion.)The legal battle involved “a multi-trillion dollar technology company” (Apple) versus “a multi-billion dollar video game company”
LawSites
MAY 1, 2023
There were two notable moves in the legal tech world announced today, both to newly created positions, as the law f irm Crowell & Moring announced that it has named Alma Asay as its first chief innovation and value officer, and Relativity said that it has named Laurie Usewicz as its first chief partner officer. Alma Asay Asay, a former litigator who founded the litigation management platform Allegory Law, first joined Crowell & Moring two years ago as senior director of practice innova
JURIST
MAY 4, 2023
Libyan activists told The Guardian Wednesday that six Libyan Christians are at risk of being executed for converting from Islam and spreading their religious beliefs. After being arrested in March by the Libyan Internal Security Agency (ISA), the six were accused of “making people leave Islam” in violation of the Libyan Penal Code. Article 207 of the code prohibits the advocacy of ideas that would “[change] the fundamental principles of the constitution or the fundamental rules
NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
MAY 5, 2023
For referral-heavy businesses like law firms, there needs to be a focus on a very narrow version of a web presence. Since most potential referrals will trust but verify the recommendations of their referrers (your referral sources), it’s imperative that when a potential referral Googles you, that they like what they see. What shows up in Google search, when a legal consumer searches your name or your business name, is usually three main things: your website + website pages, your social media pro
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LDA PRO
MAY 5, 2023
Estate planning can be daunting, but a living trust is a valuable tool to help you protect your assets and ensure they get distributed according to your wishes. Whether looking to avoid probate, reduce taxes, or provide for your loved ones, a living trust can provide many benefits. That is why we’ll explore what is needed for a living trust , from identifying assets to choosing a trustee and successor trustee to fund the trust and reviewing it regularly.
Above The Law
MAY 4, 2023
This is not the defense of Clarence Thomas that these folks think it is. The post Sonia Sotomayor Ruled On Copyright Cases While Disclosing Book Fees Which Is Sort Of Like Years Of Covering Up Yacht Trips And Private School Tuition appeared first on Above the Law.
JURIST
MAY 2, 2023
The Supreme Court of Nepal Tuesday instructed the government to legally recognize same-sex marriage. They further recommended a five-step plan in order to allow same-sex couples and non-cisgender individuals to get married in line with a 2015 court-ordered report , which has not yet been acted upon by the government. In the latest of many recent pro-LGBTI (the term most commonly used for the LGBTQ+ community in Nepal) rulings, the court found that failure to recognize same-sex marriage violates
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 1, 2023
Share Nearly 40 years ago, in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council , the Supreme Court ruled that courts should defer to a federal agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous statute as long as that interpretation is reasonable. On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to reconsider its ruling in Chevron. The question comes to the court in a case brought by a group of commercial fishing companies.
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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MAY 4, 2023
Credit: Ilmi Granoff In September 2015, then Bank of England Governor Mark Carney gave a landmark speech on the “ Tragedy of the Horizon.” The concept was simple: climate change creates tremendous risk for financial markets, but these mounting risks are ignored by investors due to the market’s tendency towards myopia. The speech marked a significant turning point in finance: the starting gun in the race to internalize climate-related financial risks.
Above The Law
MAY 1, 2023
Samuel Alito has a theory about who leaked the Dobbs decision; also, has mirror. The post Samuel Alito’s Self-Serving <em>Dobbs</em> Leak Theory Is Back In The News appeared first on Above the Law.
JURIST
APRIL 29, 2023
Afghan women Saturday marched in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul to urge the UN not to formally recognize the Taliban government at a UN summit scheduled for next week. Approximately two dozen women took to the streets despite the Taliban government’s increasingly strict crackdowns on women. During the march, protesters chanted that they would fight and die for their rights and condemned the UN, stating that the recognition of the Taliban would be a violation of women’s rights.
The Crime Report
MAY 3, 2023
Do we want a safe criminal justice system? That question is so fundamental that even when—or maybe especially when—there is a life in the balance our courts try to duck it. Any system that cares about safety recognizes that error is part of the human condition. A safe system seeks resiliency: the ability to recover from the inevitable slips, violations, and surprises, and so to avoid catastrophe.
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SCOTUSBlog
MAY 4, 2023
Share The Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon asked lawyers involved in a major election law case to weigh in on whether the court can still hear the case in the wake of a recent ruling by the North Carolina Supreme Court, which reversed its earlier decision in the underlying redistricting dispute that sparked the case. In a brief unsigned order, the justices instructed the lawyers involved in the case to file new briefs, addressing the effect of the North Carolina Supreme Court’s ruling, by 2 p
Above The Law
MAY 3, 2023
The Drug Enforcement Administration received 38,000 comments on its proposed rule that would roll back Covid-19 flexibilities for the prescribing of controlled substances via telemedicine. In response, the DEA chose to temporarily extend the flexibilities, a decision telehealth companies like Bicycle Health and Mindbloom are in support of.
JURIST
MAY 5, 2023
Mykyta Vorobiov is a student at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. He is currently in Zagreb, Croatia, He recently spent a few days in the city of Sarajevo, in neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina. The infamous Siege of Sarajevo started in April 1992, more than 31 years ago. The city experienced bombardments on a daily basis, and snipers killed civilians who did not have a place to hide.
LawSites
MAY 4, 2023
With legal technology companies of all ilks rapidly moving to develop products that incorporate the new generation of generative AI typified by ChatGPT, it was only a matter of time before one of the legal research giants would enter the fray. Today, LexisNexis is announcing the launch of Lexis+ AI , a new product that uses large language models (LLMs), including GPT-4, to answer legal research questions, summarize legal issues, and generate drafts of documents such as demand letters or client e
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My Shingle
MAY 3, 2023
Earlier this week, stock prices for Chegg, which provides study materials and outlines for high school and college students, plunged by almost 48 percent reports CNBC. The culprit? ChatGPT which has cut into much of Chegg’s business in just five months. Chegg’s recent losses are yet another reminder of just how quickly ChatGPT can… The post How Soon Before AI Kills the Billable Hour?
Above The Law
MAY 3, 2023
Kansas fires the firm for cause. oh wait. not for cause. for spite? Maybe? The post Kris Kobach Fires Law Firm That Donated To Democrats… Clumsily Backpedals After Realizing Legal Ramifications Of ‘Retaliation’ appeared first on Above the Law.
JURIST
APRIL 30, 2023
A UN committee found Friday that Mexico failed to ensure inclusive education for a woman with an intellectual disability. Selene Militza García Vara brought a claim before the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the grounds that the Morelense Centre for Art had not appropriately secured inclusive access to tertiary education. The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is responsible for monitoring States parties’ compliance with the Convention on the Righ
LawSites
MAY 3, 2023
Whether they work in law firms or corporate legal, academia or government, law librarians play a central role in testing, recommending and deploying legal technology, according to the American Association of Law Libraries’ 2023 State of the Profession report, an exhaustive 252-page survey of the legal information landscape. This is the third time AALL has conducted this survey, which is actually three separate surveys of U.S. law librarians based on the type of organization for which they
Speaker: Jacqueline R. Jackson, J.D. - Litigation Paralegal at Morgan & Morgan
As a career paralegal, it is your responsibility to take the lead in ensuring that your attorney has what they need procedurally and substantively to practice law while also setting yourself apart as a professional. But with limited resources and without any direction or guidance, where do you begin? Paralegals play an essential role in the client’s outcome, ensuring that the firm’s pipeline of cases is managed from beginning to end in order to produce a quality product.
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