The Crime Report
JANUARY 21, 2022
New York is moving to end a requirement that law school graduates report past arrests and police interactions short of convictions in order to become practicing attorneys, following a new report finding that excessive screening discourages people of color from applying to law school and the bar, reports Bloomberg News.
LawSites
JUNE 6, 2023
Noella Sudbury became interested in the issue of criminal records expungement soon after law school, while working as a criminal defense lawyer. In 2019, she led the successful effort that resulted in the unanimous passage of Utah’s Clean Slate law, which made Utah only the second U.S.
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ALPS
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Catapulted by the leadership of original National Task Force on Lawyer-Well Being member Chief Justice Donald W. Hello and welcome to episode six of the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being Podcast Series. The Path to Well-Being in Law. Lemons and his colleague Justice William C. Episode Transcript: Chris Newbold: .
The Estrin Report
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Have people to bounce ideas off of: those people can be other lawyers, but also make sure you are talking to people who are NOT lawyers as well. Lawyers are often smart, ambitious, and highly educated. That being said, what does it take to stand out and become a “Top Lawyer” in your specific field of law?
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 11, 2021
So, we assign advocates to present the case: one lawyer for the state; one for the accused. Both lawyers present the strongest case for their side, and both attempt to undermine the case presented for the other side. A groundbreaking study by the Rand Corporation and the University of Pennsylvania Law School makes this point.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 29, 2024
After the first week of testimony, the trial of Donald Trump is increasingly looking like a mad prosecution machine by lawyers who don’t take law too seriously. After all, the base charge is a simple misdemeanor under a New York law against falsifying business records. It was so implausible as to be impossible.
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
We had sociologists, lawyers, police officers, formerly incarcerated folks, all around the same table talking about things like bail reform and victim assistance. This was a story that you yourself talked about in a 2019 speech at New York Law School. That’s Vera’s legacy. So being at Vera was an exciting time.
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