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On LawNext: Rasa Legal Founder Noella Sudbury On Simplifying Criminal Records Expungement

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Noella Sudbury became interested in the issue of criminal records expungement soon after law school, while working as a criminal defense lawyer. Last year, Rasa was selected as the 2022 Access to Justice winner at the American Legal Technology Awards. Last month, Inc.

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Why Police are ‘Natural Allies’ in the Fight Against Drug Abuse

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police chief) and his academic colleagues found that a majority of police officers surveyed “perceived control” over their decision to arrest for misdemeanors (69 percent) or confiscate drug paraphernalia like syringes (56 percent). A recent study published by Brandon del Pozo (the former Burlington, Vt. He writes from Philadelphia.

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The Collaborative Courtroom: A Proposal

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A groundbreaking study by the Rand Corporation and the University of Pennsylvania Law School makes this point. This isn’t the tail wagging the dog; this tail has swallowed the dog.

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Path To Well-Being In Law Podcast: Episode 6 – Tim Carroll & Margaret Odgen

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Margaret Ogden serves as the Wellness Coordinator in the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia, where she’s tasked with improving the mental health and wellbeing of Virginians in the legal profession through education, regulation and outreach. Bree, welcome. Bree Buchanan: . Absolutely. Welcome everybody.

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Caila A Coleman: 5 Things You Need To Become A Top Lawyer In Your Field

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Talking to people who are not attorneys will help ensure that your strategy is translating well, and they can help you think of options outside of the law that you may have overlooked. The legal field is known to be extremely competitive. What is the “backstory” that brought you to this particular career path in Law?

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For a Child Who Killed Their Child, Parents Chose Restorative Justice

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The applications within the criminal justice system that we now call restorative justice, that term really emerged in the 1970’s and has since expanded to schools and other communities.”. She said the approach has largely been implemented in cases of misdemeanor and juvenile “responsible party” cases.

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Alvin Bragg and The Art of Not Taking Law Too Seriously

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I have long been a critic of the Bragg indictment as legally incomprehensible. For months, even liberal legal analysts have expressed dismay that Bragg’s indictment had not clearly stated what specific crime that Trump sought to conceal by allegedly misrepresenting payments to former adult film actress Stormy Daniels.