ABA Journal

DECEMBER 21, 2020

New ACLU lawyer is accused of firing gun at ex-wife’s car A newly hired lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah was arrested…

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A Stanford Law School study published today of regulatory reforms in Utah and Arizona finds that they are “spurring substantial innovation,” that they are critical to serving lower-income populations, and that they do not pose any substantial risk of consumer harm.

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MARCH 18, 2022

Will your case turn into a lawsuit? Probably not. Trucking companies tend to avoid bad publicity and they won’t want to be dragged into a long legal battle.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2021

Today, I will be speaking to lawyers and law students in Utah on the history of impeachment. The event is organized by the Utah State Bar litigation section in conjunction with the University of Utah and Brigham Young University law schools.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Constandinos (Deno) Himonas, the Utah Supreme Court justice who spearheaded the state’s first-of-its-kind regulatory sandbox to license new forms of legal services and providers, is retiring from the court. 29 letter to Utah Gov. 29 letter to Utah Gov. Lund, past-president of the Utah State Bar, for my LawNext podcast.

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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. Also last year, the Utah State Bar honored Sudbury with its 2022 Distinguished Service Award and, in 2019, Utah Business Magazine named her its 2019 Woman of the Year.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Pretrial conferences are required for divorcing parties before they can schedule a trial date.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

(Chad Flanders, Baltimore Sun) Resolving Carpenter ‘s third-party paradox (Michael Dreeben, Elizabeth Hadley, Conor O’Shea, & Johanna Seale, Just Security) Oklahoma man executed after Supreme Court denies new lawyer more time (Kelsey Reichmann, Courthouse News Service) Utah woman hopes to challenge firearms restrictions for felons at (..)

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Patently O

MAY 25, 2021

In other contexts, courts have found this can create a conflict between the targeted lawyer and client. 3d 1063 (2014), after a bitter and long custody dispute in which both the husband and his lawyer took ridiculous positions, the trial court imposed $55,000 in sanctions jointly against husband and his lawyer. 881, 332 P.3d

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Arizona has recently stricken the rule barring non-lawyer ownership in law firms from its professional ethics code. Utah is creating a sandbox environment to explore the same option. It’s only a matter of time before the traditional lawyer monopoly is broken. But, the chance to continue in that mode of operation has passed.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Arizona and Utah recently began allowing nonlawyers to establish or become part owners of law firms, raising the question of whether lawyers admitted in jurisdictions.

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LegalReader

JULY 7, 2022

If you apply for a job and you are rejected although you meet all the criteria, you may ask yourself whether it was an act of discrimination.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

Utah is one of a small number of states that use the no-fault insurance scheme.

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Above The Law

MARCH 27, 2023

Courthouse News Service ] * "Utah governor: Social media law limiting minors' access not 'foolproof.'" Because rather than regulate legal education to graduate lawyers who can practice immediately or require a comprehensive exam for any interested potential practitioner, we have BOTH. Maybe we were all onto something.

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Above The Law

MAY 28, 2021

CBS News ] * A court has reportedly dismissed a lawsuit filed by spectators who were allegedly banned from Utah Jazz games after a verbal altercation with a professional basketball player. * A paralegal who was fired from her law firm job for feeding zoo animals in a viral video has found a new job. Business Insider ].

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Above The Law

JUNE 17, 2021

Yahoo News ] * Prosecutors say Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels's former lawyer, deserves "very substantial" prison time for crimes he purportedly committed. [ Hill ] * A Utah prosecutor has apologized for telling a lawmaker to "die and go to hell" for interrupting his afternoon nap. Guess the judge put "ice" on that litigation.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Mechanical failure is also a reason to hold the trucking company liable for damages.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Constandinos (Deno) Himonas, the Utah Supreme Court justice who spearheaded the state’s first-of-its-kind regulatory sandbox to license new forms of legal services and providers, is retiring from the court. 29 letter to Utah Gov. 29 letter to Utah Gov. Lund, past-president of the Utah State Bar, for my LawNext podcast.

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LawSites

AUGUST 12, 2021

Rogers College of Law in 2018, has expanded its operations to form a collaboration with the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business, making it the first cross-discipline, cross-institution, cross-jurisdiction legal innovation lab in the United States. Teaching Business Skills ‘A No-Brainer’.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Current restrictions on how lawyers structure their businesses stand in the way of meaningful access to justice for many Americans, so states should follow the lead of Utah and Florida and test out innovative law firm business models through regulatory sandboxes, says Zachariah DeMeola at the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System. (..)

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ALPS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

MAPP is the Executive Director of the Utah State Bar’s Well-Being Committee for the Legal Profession working with Utah’s judges, lawyers, and law students to enhance engagement, performance, resilience, and overall well-being. One of them is the state of Utah. Martha Knudson, J.D., So welcome, Martha.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Many semi-truck accidents are caused by fatigue or distraction, and both of these threats become more common the longer a trucker stays behind the wheel.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 18, 2022

On October 25th, 2021 it was reported that extremely strong winds had wrought havoc on semi-trucks driving along Interstate 80 in Tooele County.

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Diane Drain

JANUARY 22, 2023

September 1, 2023: TILA Disclosures re Index Rates; California Garnishment ; Minnesota Debt Collection December 1, 2023: Bankruptcy December 31, 2023: Utah Data Privacy Musings by Diane Consumer legal protections are rare. Arizona Bankruptcy Lawyer. Drain, P.A.,

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Most lawyers are familiar with Rule 5.4 In a nutshell, it says that lawyers must own law firms. The purpose is supposedly to prevent nonlawyers from interfering with a lawyer’s independent and professional judgment. Remember, lawyers couldn’t advertise until 1977, and that reform was forced on the profession by the U.S.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Mechanical defects are one of the most common causes of truck accidents. In most cases it’s about tires, brakes or wheel issues.

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ALPS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In terms of being the original co-chair on the national task force on lawyer well-being, Bree has just invested countless hours to give back to the profession through this work and Bree, we’re just so fortunate to have you and to continue to have your leadership of this movement. And I know a bunch of lawyers. MATT: Sure.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

Parents of both parties are entitled to due process and legal protection.

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LawSites

AUGUST 9, 2022

As states seek to find innovative ways to address the access-to-justice crisis, a key component has been eliminating or loosening the prohibition on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. Just two weeks earlier, Utah had approved sweeping changes in legal services regulation that that allowed non-traditional legal services providers.

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LegalTalkNetwork

AUGUST 8, 2021

Turner also shared his vision for his ABA presidential year and called for young lawyers to get involved with the ABA. Although lawyers can “resist change like a boss,” McCormack explains to Palace that the pandemic taught them that it’s possible to develop new skills, collaborate, and rely on other stakeholders. . Shaping the future

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 25, 2022

million lawyers in the United States. Nationwide, there are approximately four lawyers for every 1,000 residents, but the number doesn’t reflect the reality. Most lawyers work in urban areas, while many rural areas of the country have few or no lawyers. have less than one lawyer per 1,000 residents. .”

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 19, 2021

According to Black’s Law Dictionary, UPL is “the practice of law by a person, typically a non-lawyer, who has not been licensed or admitted to practice law in a given jurisdiction.” Have a planned response, such as “I am not a lawyer, so I can’t answer that. What is UPL? Representing a Client.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 1, 2023

This already has happened in Arizona and Utah. Bennett , Jazz Hampton Thursday, March 2, 2023 | 8:30AM – 9:45AM Grand Ballroom EF KEYNOTE: PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSALS TO AMEND RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT 5.4 Come and take part in the debate!

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Louisiana, on the other hand, is more restrictive, requiring lawyers to include the file number of their state-reviewed ads. Since then, plaintiff’s PI lawyers have leaned into this low-risk, armchair model of client development and lead generators have flourished. For-profit lawyer referral services. The ABA Model Rules.

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JURIST

APRIL 21, 2022

The last firing squad execution came in Utah in 2010, and only three such executions have taken place in the US since 1976. Moore’s lawyers claim that he could never have intended to kill anyone considering he entered the store without weapons on him. South Carolina currently has a death row population of 37.

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LawSites

AUGUST 3, 2023

Readers may remember the controversy that erupted then over the company DoNotPay , which billed itself as the world’s first robot lawyer, and its founder Joshua Browder. First, it is no secret that the issue of regulatory reform remains controversial among lawyers generally and most certainly within the ABA.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 11, 2022

Supreme Court has told death row prisoners that if they want to fight lethal injection in court, they need to propose an alternative, and defense lawyers, charged with trying to save the lives of death row clients, now have to advise those clients on what way of dying they should fight for.

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