LawSites

JANUARY 4, 2023

We are small but we do vital work with big governments, modernizing how bills are drafted and how laws are kept up to date and visualized, with our LegisPro ™ platform and other software applications that we have developed and marketed over the past 20 years. LegisPro is currently used by the California Legislature, the U.S.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 12, 2022

Instead of dwelling on the negative, let’s discuss how to avoid these mistakes and apply a few best practices to improve your video marketing. From lighting and location to how content is positioned on the page, your videos influence client decision-making and will determine how they perceive your firm.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

We have found no jurisdiction in the United States that regularly assembles and publishes information about how frequently allegations of prosecutorial misconduct are made, how often they are upheld, and what actions are taken when misconduct has been identified,” the report said. “We Courts failed to address 1,774 of those claims.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

ruling about abortion restrictions “illustrates just how far the Court’s ‘shadow-docket’ decisions may depart from the usual principles of appellate process”].) See, e.g., California ex rel. While not attracting as much attention, the California Supreme Court has made shadow docket rulings, too.

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LawSites

APRIL 19, 2022

This is the story of how I accidentally came to dominate the search results for an incredibly competitive legal keyword in New York City, of all places. This is the story of how I accidentally came to dominate the search results for an incredibly competitive legal keyword in New York City, of all places. And now I’ll share it with you.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Those benefits stopped when Buffington returned to active duty twice; when Buffington sought to restart them four years after his final tour of duty, the Department of Veterans Affairs would only provide him with benefits beginning one year before he filed. Buffington v. Echoing his opinion earlier this year in Kennedy v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Earlier this month, groups supporting the City of Berkeley, California filed six amicus briefs in the appellate proceeding California Restaurant Association v. A refresher on the case , and on the District Court ruling from which the California Restaurant Association appealed are both linked here.).

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The ProPublica-Tribune investigation — built on hundreds of school reports and police records, as well as dozens of interviews with employees, students and parents — reveals how a public school intended to be a therapeutic option for students with severe emotional disabilities has instead subjected many of them to the justice system.

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Cenza

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is hitting the health, financial welfare, political stability of countries across the globe. The decisions our governments take in the next few weeks and months will shape our future to a large extent. The entire legal ecosystem will likely undergo a seismic shift in the way it operates.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com. FEATURED CASE. WildEarth Guardians v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com. Here are the additions to the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit further concluded that Section 307(d)(7)(B) expressly linked EPA’s power to stay to regulatory provisions meeting the requirements for “mandatory reconsideration”—that it was “impracticable to raise” an objection during the public comment period and that the objection was “of central relevance to the outcome of the rule.”

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LawSites

JUNE 22, 2023

Between skewering the poor lawyer who filed bogus cases in court that he found on ChatGPT and pondering the grizzly question of whether a camera mounted on a bear constituted an unlawful search and seizure, it may have been the funniest episode ever of Legaltech Week. “This episode is one for the record books.”

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For more than a decade, the families of those killed by police in Vallejo, California, have pleaded for oversight of their city’s exceptionally lethal police force. The newsrooms reported in July how Vallejo police consistently failed to properly investigate killings by officers. Lack of Concrete Follow-Through”.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Whereas 2020 ended with hope for a return to some sense of normalcy – even if it was to be the much-vaunted “new normal” – 2021 ends with us still wondering about what the future holds and how to plan for it. Coming off the accelerated innovation of 2020, 2021 seemed to leave us wondering how best to build on those changes over the long haul.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

That is, until 1924, when the City of Manhattan Beach seized the property and closed the resort, utilizing the power of eminent domain with plans to redevelop the land into a public park. But how have the judges at the state trial court level defined a gift? How has this definition actually been worked out in practice?

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. California allows consumers, or state regulators on behalf of consumers, to sue businesses for failing to warn of a product’s risks. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. In Johnson & Johnson v.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The path of every single lawsuit is filled with multiple inflection points, moments where attorneys have to make decisions about how the future is likely to unfold. In the past, attorneys navigated these twists and turns by relying on intuition, experience and anecdotal evidence. The pace of litigation is dizzying. The result?

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ALPS

APRIL 28, 2021

For example, California, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Texas, and Wyoming have enforced arbitration provisions for lawyers. Grimmer , 2021 WY 55 (2021) (attorney engagement letter with an arbitration clause is enforceable and does not violate public policy); Geveran Invs., States Enforcing Arbitration Provisions.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 15, 2022

Catherine Tang (@attorneycat) is a business and trademark lawyer licensed in California and Wisconsin. Which apps and connectivity tools do you use to stay productive and focused — and are they working? Having entered the second quarter of 2022, more than a few of us are wondering whether to upgrade our productivity toolbox.

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The Crime Report

MAY 17, 2022

This week, Patricia Cummings, a national leader in the innocence movement and the former supervisor of the Conviction Integrity and Special Investigations Unit at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, takes the helm of the National Registry of Exonerations. How did you come to study law and how did that lead to becoming a prosecutor?

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MyCase

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In our live interactive Q&A session, industry experts Carolyn Elefant, Jared Correia, and Benson Varghese reflected on and provided answers around overdue foundational shifts in the legal industry and ways in which attorneys are adapting their business operations for a competitive, resilient law practice in 2021. Jump to a Topic.

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MARCH 19, 2021

in Economic Analysis and Policy from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. As noted in the letter from Professor Chao that Dennis posted earlier, key filings in this case are not publicly accessible (nor are the transcripts). He holds a Ph.D. – Jason. Introduction.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Whereas 2020 ended with hope for a return to some sense of normalcy – even if it was to be the much-vaunted “new normal” – 2021 ends with us still wondering about what the future holds and how to plan for it. Coming off the accelerated innovation of 2020, 2021 seemed to leave us wondering how best to build on those changes over the long haul.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Such linguistic detection is possible, he claims, if you know how to analyze callers’ speech patterns — their tone of voice, their pauses, their word choice, even their grammar. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

It is not helpful on the defense side: it is not a long path and easy to see how a child might get lost. She later deleted her account (likely after her attorney regained consciousness). She later deleted her account (likely after her attorney regained consciousness). Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. He then stabbed him.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

According to one academic study, a petition in a non-pauper case (in which the petitioner is able to pay the usual $300 filing fee) “ is over 46 times more likely to be granted following a CVSG.” In October 2016, the ACLU filed a motion seeking access to the court’s opinions and orders from Sept. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Charleston, SC filed suit against fossil fuel companies alleging their responsibility for “devastating” climate change impacts. Source: Khanrak ). By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com. FEATURED CASE.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Its legal proceedings take place out of public view, under seal, with a low standard of evidence and often a court-appointed attorney for the fetus — but none for the person gestating it. Tamara Loertscher arrived at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Wisconsin on Aug. 1, 2014 despondent. Severe hypothyroidism fueled her anguish.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com.

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The Crime Report

MAY 4, 2022

Wade , it’s astonishing to recognize how far along the road we’ve already traveled towards the possibility that a woman who ends her pregnancy could be prosecuted for murder and face the death penalty. Three days later, the county’s District Attorney dropped the charges and released her from jail, after a statewide (and nationwide) outcry.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2021

But on Monday, it will first hear a very different First Amendment case: a challenge to California’s requirement that charities and nonprofits operating in the state provide the state attorney general’s office with the names and addresses of their largest donors. The case, Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Background.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Michael Morgan (MM) is a Phoenix personal injury attorney and partner at MDK Law Group with experience in handling complex injury claims across Arizona. There are outlines, study groups, and strategies for learning but none of them take the place of reading the material and understanding how it applies to various situations.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

On the same day, the companies filed an application for a stay in the U.S. The district court said Baltimore could seek to rescind the temporary extension “as improvidently granted” by filing a motion by October 7. On September 13, the companies filed an expedited motion for stay pending appeal in the First Circuit. BP p.l.c. ,

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the eighth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024. Your votes determine the 15 companies selected to face off in a live pitch competition that will be the opening-night event of this year’s TECHSHOW, which is Feb. 14-17, 2024, in Chicago. Please review them. 29, 2023, AT 11:45 P.M.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Jesse Rando reportedly assumed that they were critics of Trump and said how it was long overdue to throw the former president in jail. Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Six Flags St.

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