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How Paralegals Can Avoid UPL

Paralegal Bootcamp

Paralegals can avoid the unauthorized practice of law (UPL) by becoming familiar with their state’s rules. Rules against UPL specify that paralegals (or anyone who is not licensed to practice law) cannot provide attorney-client services to people, among other prohibitions. Unfortunately, the rules regulating UPL can often be confusing, sometimes resulting in unknowing breaches that can prove costly to a paralegal’s career.

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6 Client Experience Mistakes to Avoid as a Law Firm

LegalReader

What’s worse than not asking for feedback? Not addressing it once you get some. .

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Eighth Circuit Grants Qualified Immunity to Officer Who Handcuffed, Frisked & Pointed His Gun at Innocent 12 & 14 Year-Old Boys Walking From Grandparents' House

EvidenceProf Blog

The qualified immunity doctrine insulates governmental agents from liability for unconstitutional acts as long “as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.” The primary purpose of the doctrine.

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Myanmar dispatches: an open letter to our Afghanistan sisters-in-law

JURIST

Women law students reporting for JURIST in Myanmar have written this open letter to women law students in Afghanistan, including those also reporting for JURIST, who face an uncertain and potentially grim future under the new Taliban regime. Given the military coup that suddenly upended human rights and the rule of law in the Southeast Asian nation in February, our Myanmar correspondents are not unfamiliar with some of the challenges their Afghan sisters-in-law are now facing.

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Recipe for a Failed CLM Implementation

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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Tax Cheats Cost U.S. At Least Four Times As Much As Welfare Fraud, And Biden Wants That Revenue

Above The Law

By investing about $80 billion in the IRS over the next 10 years, the Biden administration calculates that it can recover an additional $700 billion in taxes owed by the wealthy and corporations.

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The Potential Downside of Design Competitions? The Risk of Rip-Offs  

The Fashion Law

Chinese fast fashion giant Shein is making headlines this week after revealing that it is debuting a design contest of its own, one that will see emerging designers compete before a panel of judges, including Khloé Kardashian, designer Christian Siriano, former J. Crew creative director Jenna Lyons, stylist Law Roach and InStyle director Laurel Pantin, in order for a chance to win $100,000.

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Afghanistan dispatches: Afghan law student on the fall of Kabul and Taliban victory

JURIST

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – The author is a law student in Kabul who also works in a local law office; he wrote this for JURIST late Sunday AFT. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding his name. The text has been only lightly edited to respect the author’s voice. Today Kabul was taken. During the afternoon I went to office and heard of the rumors that the Taliban has entered the city from west of the city.

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White-Collar Workers Clandestinely Working Two Remote Jobs At Once Reveal A Lot

Above The Law

If workers can do what is required of them in less than 40 hours per week, then they shouldn’t have to pretend that it’s taking them 40 hours per week just to keep their health insurance.

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Is There a Data Collection Problem in the Justice System?

The Crime Report

The current state of criminal justice data collection and availability across the country is in a “dismal state” and lacks overall transparency , according to a new revealing report from Measures for Justice. . In most cases across the country, certain data regarding the justice system — like demographic data of arrests and incarceration, pre-trial and bail information, as well as release data — simply isn’t collected, or isn’t available to researchers because of law or administrative protection

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Contract Lifecycle Management: A Business Enabler Exploring On-Ground Challenges

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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Why I’m Pulling My Chips Out Of Attending ILTACON In Las Vegas

LawSites

It is fitting that Las Vegas is a major mecca of gambling, given that, next week, several hundred people will take a gamble on their safety to attend the physical portion of the first-ever hybrid ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. While I’d planned to be among them, I have decided to hedge my bets and attend virtually.

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Poland appeals court overturns libel conviction of Holocaust historians

JURIST

The Warsaw Court of Appeal on Monday overturned the conviction of two noted historians, Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking, for libel. Grabowski and Engelking co-edited a two-volume 1,600-page study published in 2018 titled “Night Without End: The Fate of Jews in Selected Counties of Occupied Poland [“ Dalej jest noc: losy ?ydów w wybranych powiatach okupowanej Polski” in Polish].” In addition to documenting cases of Polish assistance to Jews who escaped before they co

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Police training programs fostering ‘warrior mindset’ face increasing scrutiny

ABA Journal

A lawsuit filed last month over the fatal shooting of a homeless man with mental health issues alleges police participation in “warrior mindset” and “killology”…

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Rising Crime Rates Tied to Evictions: Philadelphia Study

The Crime Report

Higher eviction rates in Philadelphia neighborhoods are linked to higher crime, homicide and burglary rates, demonstrating the neighborhood-wide implications of eviction, according to a report published in the journal Crime & Delinquency (CAD). . While authors have previously documented the financial, physical and educational consequences eviction carries for individual families, the authors of the CAD study — Rutgers University–Camden criminal justice professors Dan Semenza , Richard Stans

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California Civil Discovery Act Undergoes Significant Overhaul

Short article looking at the new CCP 2016.

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Justice Thomas has made the new oral argument format a winner

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court has not yet announced whether it will return to normal operations when the 2021-22 term begins in October. This article is the final entry in a symposium about how the coronavirus pandemic changed the court — and which of those changes are worth keeping. Carrie Severino is the president of the Judicial Crisis Network and was a law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas.

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Afghanistan dispatches: ‘I personally think Law major is no more a field of study for students, particularly women’

JURIST

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on Sunday. Here, a female law student in Kabul offers her observations and perspective. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding her name and institutional affiliation. The text has been only lightly edited to respect the author’s voice.

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Alexander Wang Named in $75 Million-Plus Copyright Suit for Allegedly Infringing Contest Entrant’s Designs

The Fashion Law

Alexander Wang is being sued for allegedly co-opting the designs of one of its job applicant-slash-contest entrant for a multi-platform ad campaign. In a newly-filed complaint, Jangle Vision, LLC claims that the defendants, including Alexander Wang – the man and the New York-based brand – are on the hook for copyright infringement and unfair competition over their advertising for a collection of rhinestone-adorned accessories, the concept and images for which they allegedly hijacked from those c

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Zoom Backgrounds: Looking Good in a Tiny Square!

Attorney at Work

Zoom backgrounds are either your favorite thing about online meetings or your glitchy internet nightmare. Since many have discovered Zoom’s cool trick of adding a virtual background, we’ve all been in meetings with colleagues dialing in from aquariums, the ranch in “Tiger King” or the Vatican. But here’s the thing — not all meetings are low-key and pantsless.

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Dangers of Digital "Reporting": Legal Risks and Unreliable Transcripts

In the world of legal proceedings, the choice between a certified stenographer and digital "reporting" holds significant implications. Certified stenographers go through rigorous training and testing and stand as the gold standard for accuracy in capturing every word. Their expertise ensures a reliable record, a crucial foundation for legal cases.

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ABA Survey: Lawyer Demographics and Wage Data in 2021

MyCase

If nothing else, 2020 and 2021 have been years to remember. In a very short timeframe, the world has been through unprecedented change on so many fronts, and more is yet to come. Not surprisingly, the legal profession has not been immune, and lawyers and their firms have been impacted in many different ways. Work-from-home has become par for the course, and firms have incorporated remote working, cloud-based technologies into their law firms at rates never before seen, including e-signature tool

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Shell to pay $111M in damages for 1970s oil spill in Nigeria

JURIST

Royal Dutch Shell (Shell), one of the world’s six “supermajor” oil companies , on Wednesday announced it will pay N 45.9 billion (naira) (US $111.6 million) in settling a decades-long legal dispute concerning an oil spill that occurred during the Biafran-Nigerian civil war. A coalition of ten Ogoni community members led by Chief Isaac Agbara in Eleme, Rivers State brought the suit in 1991 seeking damages against the Nigerian branch of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SP

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Utility Patents Granted per Calendar Year, 1840-2020

Patently O

By Jason Rantanen. I’m getting ready to teach my Fall 2021 Patent Law class, and that means doing an updated patent grant graph. This year’s version shows U.S. utility patents granted per year from 1840-2020: Data for 2021 isn’t included in the table, but as of July 31, 2021, the authority file contains 195,480 patents. If the pace remains the same, that would predict about 335,000 patents granted this calendar year–around 10% lower than 2020 (356,640 granted patents).

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Forensic Linguistics: The Oft-Overlooked Relationship Between Language and Courtroom

LegalReader

The winds of change are blowing and the growing demand for forensic linguists is a harbinger of fundamental alterations in the world of law.

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Optimizing Contract Management and Enhancing Team Collaboration: Insights from a Legal Operations Perspective

Speaker: Adina Marta Newman

Learn about a world of effective contract management and seamless teamwork across departments in this upcoming webinar from Cobblestone Software. You'll discover practical strategies and tips that legal professionals can use to streamline contract processes and enhance collaboration, making significant impact across legal and corporate departments. Join us as we show how you can supercharge contract processes, improve team communication, and take your contributions to the next level.

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Escaping the Overworked and Overwhelmed Cycle

Attorney at Work

We’ve all been there: Working long hours on numerous matters, we feel we can never catch up, much less get ahead. In the legal industry, this is often the norm. But is the norm actually a “normal” amount of work? In this COVID-19 environment, and amid the “ Great Resignation ,” lawyers and staff who remain in the firm often have more responsibilities and work than before the pandemic.

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Federal judge strikes down law banning re-entry of deported migrants

JURIST

Chief Judge Miranda Du of the District of Nevada on Wednesday struck down 8 USC § 1326 (a) &(b) , which criminalizes the re-entry of migrants who have previously been deported from the US, as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Section 1326 was struck down because the court found that the law was enacted with a discriminatory purpose and had a disparate impact on Latinx persons, and the government failed to establish that the law would have been enacted but fo

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Authenticating Prior Art

Patently O

by Dennis Crouch. Valve Corp. v. Ironburg Inventions ( Fed. Cir. 2021 ). Duncan Iron monger and Simon Burg ess founded the UK companies Scuf Gaming and also Ironburg with the goal of reengineering the gaming console. Corsair purchased the companies in 2019, but by that time the litigation with Valve was well underway. Ironburg won a $4 million judgment regarding two patents (now on appeal) and the district court stayed the litigation regarding U.S.

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Law Firm Ownership and Diversity in the Legal Profession

My Shingle

Via Bob Ambrogi’s Law Sites Blog, I learned of yet another Captain Obvious study on diversity at biglaw. Spoiler alert (NOT): there’s been little progress or improvement over the past seven years. Though the percentage of minority associates at large firms hovers around 26.

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.