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JUNE 1, 2023

This one’s for you, Paralegal Mom! Ever since I was a little girl, I remember having a mind of my own. I was a leader, an outspoken smart mouth with a vigilante-style, ‘protect the underdog’ attitude. I wanted to be perfect at everything I did. I loved school all through twelfth grade. I remember wanting to be very successful. And then I found out I was pregnant at eighteen, right after I received my college acceptance letter.

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Above The Law

MAY 30, 2023

Generative AI isn't the one who filed that affirmation with the court, so stop bagging on it. The post Don’t Blame ChatGPT For Bad Lawyering appeared first on Above the Law.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

If you’ve been following the legaltech news, even tangentially, you’ll likely have heard of the term ‘law practice management software’ – which is effectively a relational database for case management -- that can also include almost of the related data for your cases, in its cloud iteration, via integrations. And, if you’ve heard of case management software, you’ve probably also heard of ‘client portals ’, which is a way for law firms to share information hosted or available through the case man

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MAY 30, 2023

It was bound to happen sooner or later: Two lawyers face sanctions for filing a brief laden with bogus cases hallucinated by ChatGPT. But is this a story about the failings of AI or is it about the failings of the lawyers? We may know more after June 8, the date on which the judge in the case, Mata v. Avianca , has scheduled a hearing to allow the lawyers to show cause for why they should not be sanctioned for what the judge called “an unprecedented circumstance” of a brief “r

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Attorney at Work

MAY 31, 2023

Kevin Gallagher | Embedded payments offer much more than automatic payments. The post Getting Paid Faster: Embedded Payments appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Even at this late stage, with all of the technology available to lawyers and law firms, one of the major complaints of clients is that law firms don’t communicate with them, or keep them abreast of what’s happening with their cases. So, if you’re hearing that your clients aren’t hearing from you, here are some strategies to employ, to better develop those relationships , and to keep your clients happy: Communication Tasks Related to Workflows.

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Above The Law

MAY 30, 2023

Wait till you see their hourly rates. The post The Practice Area Where Biglaw Partner Billing Rates Climbed Highest appeared first on Above the Law.

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ALPS

MAY 31, 2023

Every day, we work together to advance the communities we care about. At ALPS, that means we’re thoughtful in our charitable giving of elevating children in our local communities. We’re thoughtful in providing resources to lawyers beginning their journey as solo practitioners or in need of law practice management resources, thus making them better practitioners.

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JURIST

JUNE 2, 2023

Iran Human Rights released data on Thursday which shows Iran executed 142 people in May, making it the highest number of Iranian executions in one month since 2015. Some of the charges used to justify executions this year include blasphemy and adultery. Iran executed Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare after finding them guilty of blasphemy and “insulting the prophet,” along with other actions including burning the Quran and insulting Islamic sanctities.

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EvidenceProf Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Yesterday, prosecutors dropped murder charges against Jeff Titus in connection with the deaths of Doug Estes and Jim Bennett. Now, Titus has been completely cleared of any wrongdoing in the case after 22 years of wrongful conviction. Given this terrific.

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Above The Law

JUNE 2, 2023

It's almost as if their commitment to free speech was entirely one-sided. The post Weird How Quiet The ‘Campus Free Speech Crisis’ Crowd Has Been About CUNY Law School appeared first on Above the Law.

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ABA Journal

MAY 30, 2023

Family courts in Colorado custody cases can’t cut off a child’s contact with a protective parent to whom they are bonded just to improve a relationship with a rejected parent accused of abuse or domestic violence, according to a bill signed into law last week.

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JURIST

JUNE 1, 2023

A majority for the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Virginia Tech’s bias reporting policies do not violate free speech principles protected by the First Amendment, upholding a lower court’s decision to deny a preliminary injunction. Speech First, an organization aimed at protecting students’ rights to free speech on college campuses, first brought the suit in federal district court under 42 USC § 1983 for alleged violations of the First and Fourte

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 2, 2023

Share In an 8-1 opinion on Thursday, the justices provided a new definition to the limits on the right to strike under federal labor law. At issue in Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local Union 174 was whether an employer could sue its employees’ union under state law for damage the employer incurred as a result of the union’s strike.

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Above The Law

JUNE 2, 2023

In case you were curious, the trucks ended up being fine. The post The Court’s Decision To Fill In The Facts On Employer’s Behalf Will Further Weaken Unions And Strikes appeared first on Above the Law.

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ABA Journal

MAY 30, 2023

A federal judge in New York City has ordered two lawyers and their law firm to show cause why they shouldn’t be sanctioned for submitting a brief with citations to fake cases, thanks to research by ChatGPT.

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JURIST

MAY 28, 2023

The International Bar Association (IBA) adopted a resolution for the creation of a Special Tribunal on Saturday for Russia to try crimes of aggression in Ukraine. The IBA resolutions condemns Russia’s war of aggression, affirms the IBA’s support for Ukrainian sovereignty and urges UN member states to establish and international criminal tribunal for Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

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Patently O

MAY 30, 2023

by Dennis Crouch In CareDx v. Natera , an intriguing amicus brief was recently filed by the Honorable Paul Michel (Ret.) and Professor John Duffy in support of the patentee petitioners Stanford and CareDx. The brief advocates for the clarification of patent-eligibility law, and criticizes the Federal Circuit’s handling of the case. The filing of the brief has seemingly prompted the Supreme Court to request a response from the accused infringers, after they initially waived their right to d

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Above The Law

JUNE 2, 2023

Duh, you smelled something legal. The post Maryland Cops Can’t Seem To Understand Why Marijuana Legalization Means They Can’t Search Cars Just Because They Smell Marijuana appeared first on Above the Law.

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ABA Journal

MAY 31, 2023

A lawyer in Camden, South Carolina, plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to rename Brown v. Board of Education for the first case taken to federal court in a quest to eliminate the separate-but-equal doctrine.

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JURIST

JUNE 1, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found Thursday in Slack Technologies v. Pirani that federal securities law requires plaintiffs to prove their shares are directly traceable to misleading information in a registration statement in order to sue. Fiyyaz Pirani, an individual investor, sued Slack Technologies, an instant messaging app, after the stock price dropped.

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MAY 31, 2023

(Editor’s note: (This post is part of a series by the Diversity Pilots Initiative , which advances inclusive innovation through rigorous research. The first blog in the series is here , and resources from the first conference of the initiative are available here. -Jason) By: Jillian Grennan , Associate Professor of Finance and Principal, Diversity Pilots Initiative Recently, I had the privilege of being part of the Junior Innovation Economics Conference at Harvard Business School.

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Above The Law

JUNE 2, 2023

Genetic genealogy was used to identify him as a suspect in the unsolved cases. The post Young Lawyer Arrested In String Of Decade-Old Rapes, Kidnappings appeared first on Above the Law.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2023

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: US Supreme Court spurns ex-Shkreli lawyer Greebel’s challenge to prosecutors (Mike Scarcella, Reuters) What the Supreme Court’s ruling means for the future of wetlands (Lyric Aquino, Grist) Elite High School’s Admissions Plan May Face Supreme Court Test (Adam Liptak, The New York Times) The Urgent Warning That Got Cut From a Su

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JURIST

MAY 31, 2023

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. Don’t say it. Don’t do it. Don’t show it. Don’t post it. Don’t speak about it. Don’t show any expressions. Don’t take a picture. Don’t go there. Don’t share it.

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