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Federal appeals court finds US consumer protection agency’s funding is constitutional

JURIST

The court’s finding rejected the argument of the plaintiff in the case, the Law Offices of Crystal Moroney P.C., Congress must pass appropriation statutes in order for the government to spend money. They cited the specific statute, 12 U.S.C. The court again rejected the argument.

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Examples of Automated Legal Workflows for Law Firm Efficiency 

CARET Legal

By leveraging legal workflow automation to optimize operations, law offices can unlock a host of benefits that enhance efficiency, accuracy, collaboration, and overall success. The automation of legal workflows has become a game-changer for law offices.

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LawProse Lesson #414: Why a legal style manual?

Law Prose

Most law offices of 50–75 lawyers produce that much work every workday as well. For example, on page 1, where the subject of pronunciation is introduced, the Supreme Court is quoted as saying: “[T]he meaning of a statute will typically heed the commands of its punctuation.” The Redbook will help you meet that responsibility.

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ABA Ethics Opinion on Virtual Law Practice:

Patently O

In ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 498 (March 10, 2021) ( here ), the ABA provided guidance on the ethical issues that we all have done a lot of the last year, and which I am guessing we will continue to do for a while: practice law outside the confines of a typical brick-and-mortar, or steel-and-glass, law office.

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Is a Qualified Process Server Competent Enough to Notarize Documents?

LDA PRO

2) defines a paralegal as “a person eligible by education, training, or professional experience who is hired or retained by a lawyer, law office, conglomerate, governmental agency, or other entity and who conducts specifically ceded meaningful legal work for which an attorney is accountable.” . The American Bar Association (n.d.,

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New York Limited Liability Publication Requirements

Blumberg

Once this has been completed, the publication requirement has been satisfied, and the LLC complies with the statute. is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice or legal guidance of any kind, including the venue of publication of notice under the statute. The cost of publication of notice varies by county and newspaper.

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Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: Bruen’s originalist distortions

SCOTUSBlog

Thomas has taken law-office history to a new low, even for the Supreme Court, a body whose special brand of “law chambers history” has prompted multiple critiques and been a source of amusement for generations of scholars and court watchers. But the Texas statute, and the rationales set forth in English and Duke , are outliers.”

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