The Estrin Report
JUNE 17, 2025
Strategies to Move Your Career Forward Video Presentation by Chere Estrin, CEO of Estrin Legal Staffing Presented to the Orange County Paralegal Association If you’re ready to do more than just keep your head above water in a demanding legal environment—and instead carve a real path toward career advancement, this webinar is for you. The legal world won’t hand you a roadmap.
Attorney at Work
JUNE 17, 2025
Doug Walker | A guide to using Profit First in your law firm to create stability, reduce stress and build a business that pays you first. The post Profit-First Accounting for Law Firms appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
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CARET Legal
JUNE 16, 2025
By reducing administrative friction and improving internal coordination, litigation firms can move cases forward with fewer delays and better outcomes. Managing litigation requires more than tracking documents and deadlines. It depends on consistent workflows , organized communication, and full visibility across teams. Legal case management software brings these functions together, allowing law firms to reduce friction and spend more time focusing on strategy and client results.
Above The Law
JUNE 17, 2025
Getty Images “Future-proofing” is a phrase that gets tossed around a lot in boardrooms, planning decks, and LinkedIn rants, but let’s be honest, most of us are still catching up to present-proofing. The truth is, modern legal departments are navigating a perfect storm: rising expectations, constrained resources, tech disruption, and a business demanding more for less.
Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor
Join this session to get a fresh look at how AI tools can help you work smarter, faster, and more effectively! Attorney and law professor Joe Stephens, J.D., will walk you through the complete journey of a legal case—from the first client meeting through the final outcome—while showing you how artificial intelligence can transform your daily work at each important step.
CARET Legal
JUNE 18, 2025
With built-in reminders, rules-based calendaring, and centralized access to case information, attorneys can maintain better control over their caseloads and concentrate on delivering results for their clients. In litigation, a missed filing date, forgotten hearing, or overlooked meeting can jeopardize a case and diminish client confidence. Effective litigation software can address this head-on, helping legal teams stay organized, meet every deadline , and reduce stress.
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Law 360
JUNE 17, 2025
Kaplan Martin LLP, a civil and commercial litigation firm launched last year by Roberta Kaplan, announced on Tuesday the hiring of a former partner at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP.
Above The Law
JUNE 17, 2025
Back in June 2021, President Joe Biden signed a bill to make Juneteenth an official federal holiday, memorializing the end of slavery in the United States. Before that momentous occasion, in the wake of protests that swept the nation following the George Floyd murder, Biglaw firms raced to meet the moment, stepping up one by one to announce that Juneteenth would be recognized as a holiday , giving employees the time to reflect on issues of racial injustice in America.
Above The Law
JUNE 17, 2025
Your Firm Needs To Step Up Their Pitches : Less time assembling proposals, more time improving how you propose. Bribery?! In This Economy?! : American bribery gets a blessing. Bribing to another nation’s benefit? Not so much. NYC Comptroller Gets Arrested For Asking ICE Agent For Judicial Warrant : Since when is asking procedural questions a criminal offense ?
Above The Law
JUNE 17, 2025
I laughed, I cried, it was considerably worse than Cats. That pretty much sums up client reactions to the pitch decks law firms slap together manually. A grand farce draped in the delusion of strategy, built on systems that make even the DMV look like an agile startup. The State of Proposal Generation and Business Development in Law Firms for 2025, put together by Ikaun , examined the RFP process and discovered a slow-moving pageant of legacy tools, tribal fiefdoms, and task duplication.
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Finally, AI advice that understands your job. This isn't just another generic "guide", it's a practical roadmap built specifically for paralegals. What you'll learn: Ethics Without the Panic ⚖️ Decode ABA Model Rules and examples of state guidance so you can leverage AI confidently. Security That Makes Sense 🛡️️ Real-world protocols beyond buzzwords, SOC2 and HIPAA compliance, and data protection strategies that actually work.
JURIST
JUNE 19, 2025
At the 59th session of the Human Rights Council Thursday, the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights stated that the procurement and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) systems by states and businesses must comply with international human rights standards, warning that failure could lead to serious rights violations. UN experts noted a significant increase in the procurement and deployment of AI systems across the public and private sectors globally.
HarrisBricken
JUNE 19, 2025
You may have seen this article or some other article yesterday or today, covering the Ontario Supreme Court’s recent certification of a national class action lawsuit against Aurora Cannabis. The defendant entities are all part of the same conglomerate, with Aurora Cannabis Inc. being the parent. You can view their vast array of cannabis products here.
Attorney at Work
JUNE 18, 2025
Ivy Grey | A negative draft helps clarify your thinking before the real writing begins. Use GenAI to figure out what you don't want. The post What Comes Before the Zero Draft? Exploring the Negative Draft appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 19, 2025
This week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released new guidance on "facility visit and engagement protocol for Members of Congress and staff." "ICE detention locations and Field Offices are secure facilities. As such, all visitors are required to comply with [identity] verification and security screening requirements prior to entry," it specified.
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Why does it take 20-40 hrs. to create a compliant legal brief? TypeLaw analyzed 10,000+ briefs to determine the anatomy of the average brief—how many words, paragraphs, citations to the record, and more. See the research results in this infographic.
JURIST
JUNE 14, 2025
The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Thursday that public-school students with disabilities may pursue discrimination lawsuits under the same standard of proof that applies when people sue other institutions for discrimination based on disability claims, sweeping aside a higher legal standard used by some lower courts. Writing for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts rejected the heightened test as textually unsupported.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JUNE 19, 2025
A plaintiff from the Global South. A carbon giant from the Global North. And a courtroom in a mid-sized German city. On May 28, 2025, the Higher Regional Court of Hamm issued its ruling in what has become Germany’s most high-profile climate lawsuit — Lliuya v. RWE. While the court dismissed the claim brought by Peruvian farmer Saúl Luciano Lliuya against RWE, the country’s largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter, it nonetheless delivered groundbreaking findings on civil liability for major GH
EvidenceProf Blog
JUNE 16, 2025
Today, the Undisclosed Podcast returned with the first of six new episode on the Adnan Syed case. This one covers the legal bombshell I've previewed for years. So, what is it? Here's a quick summary of what we covered in.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 19, 2025
Reckless spending has been driving Social Security toward a fiscal cliff. Scheduled benefits will have to be cut by 23 percent in 2033 to keep the program solvent. This is the grim conclusion drawn by the trustees of Social Security's Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance (OASDI) trust funds, who published their annual report this week.
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Analyzing contract trends with manual contract management is like sifting through a pile of papers in a dimly lit room, trying to find clues manually. Advanced CLM software’s contract data analytics, on the other hand, is like having an AI-based, intelligent magnifying glass that not only highlights key clues but also connects the dots for you. With innovative, AI-powered contract data analytics, you can solve the mystery of trends faster and with greater accuracy, making informed decisions base
JURIST
JUNE 17, 2025
The author of this dispatch is a law graduate and JURIST correspondent in Tehran who must remain anonymous. They are warning us to leave Tehran since they are going to attack the city. Tehran is our homeland and many of us have nowhere else to go. The exit routes of the city are heavily jammed and the gas stations are too crowded so people cannot leave the city even if they want.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 20, 2025
The Supreme Court on Friday shut down efforts by a retired Florida firefighter to sue her former employer under the Americans with Disabilities Act. By a vote of 8-1, the justices ruled that Karyn Stanley, who was forced to retire in 2018 because of Parkinson’s disease, cannot challenge the termination of her health insurance after she retired. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter, writing that the court’s decision “renders meaningless” the protections provided in the ADA “for di
EvidenceProf Blog
JUNE 19, 2025
When a judge declares a mistrial, there must be "manifest necessity" for declaring a mistrial or else a criminal defendant cannot be prosecuted again for the same crime under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Usually, that "manifest.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 19, 2025
The state of Florida, which leads the country in partnerships with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is using a nationwide surveillance network of over 40,000 automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras present in over 5,000 communities across the United States to aid in immigration-related arrests. Public records obtained by the Orlando Sentinel reveal that the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) utilized Flock Safety ALPR camera data over 250 times between March 13 and May 5 (averaging a
Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor
Get ready to master the art and science of trial preparation organization that top attorneys rely on in this exclusive webinar! Attorney and law professor, Joe Stephens, J.D., will walk through proven systems for creating comprehensive trial notebooks and binders that transform scattered case materials into a powerful command center. Learning Objectives: Strategic Organization 📊 Learn the essential sections every trial notebook needs and how to structure them for maximum clarity and acce
JURIST
JUNE 15, 2025
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights Council (UNHRC) warned on Friday that the current regional instability in South Sudan could result in a “collapse” of the 2018 Revitalized Peace Agreement , which ended the second South Sudan Civil War. UNHRC said that the current coalescence of military and political unrest requires an urgent coordination of international intervention, while warning against any unilateral intervention.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 17, 2025
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received more than $2 million in book advances from Penguin Random House in 2024. The news came as part of the justices’ annual financial disclosures , which are filed each year in mid-May and then released in June. The forms, published online on Tuesday by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, chronicled the payments that some justices – including Jackson, whose memoir, Lovely One , was a New York Times bestseller – received from publishing houses, as well
ABA Journal
JUNE 18, 2025
A federal judge held Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier in civil contempt of court Tuesday for disobeying an order temporarily blocking a state immigration law.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 17, 2025
Out-of-state drivers have one less thing to worry about when passing through Spartanburg County, South Carolina: For the first time in nearly 20 years, they can travel without fear of Operation Rolling Thunder , an annual law enforcement blitz along Interstate 85. Former Sheriff Chuck Wright initiated the multiday crackdowns in 2006 and expanded them over the years to involve 11 law enforcement agencies.
Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?
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