HarrisBricken
JULY 1, 2025
Cannabis intellectual property (IP) licensing deals can be complicated, presenting unique issues. Many companies expect the biggest hurdle to be state cannabis law compliance. Although this is certainly a major concern, it’s important to start with the brand licensing fundamentals by analyzing the validity and strength of the IP itself. With any licensing deal, the first step should be determining who actually owns what IP.
LawSites
JUNE 30, 2025
In a landmark deal that will undoubtedly reshape the legal tech landscape, law practice management company Clio has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the AI and legal research company vLex for $1 billion in cash and stock.
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JURIST
JUNE 28, 2025
In a 6-3 ruling released Friday, the US Supreme Court found that a universal-service contribution scheme does not violate the nondelegation doctrine, which restricts Congress’ ability to delegate its power to federal agencies, private companies, or the other two branches of government. Writing for the majority, Justice Elena Kagan described respondent Consumers’ Research’s reading of the Communications Act of 1934 as extravagant, countering its interpretation by describing Cong
Attorney at Work
JUNE 26, 2025
The clock is ticking for law firms without a clear AI adoption strategy. Highlights from the Thomson Reuters Future of Professionals Report. The post The AI Adoption Divide Dominates the 2025 Future of Professionals Report appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
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The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 29, 2025
The residents of New Braunfels, Texas, didn't volunteer to help accelerate AI development. Their once quiet corner of the state now buzzes with construction crews building power plants to sustain data centers —industrial warehouses that could soon consume as much electricity as entire cities to power state-of-the-art AI models. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in Irvine, California, scores of video game developers laid off by Activision Blizzard back in 2024 may still be still looking for thei
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Attorney at Work
JUNE 27, 2025
Rev Product Spotlight Justice is delayed when digital evidence overwhelms. Discover how legal AI solutions, like speech recognition and AI analysis, help attorneys uncover critical facts and ensure justice. The post Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied: Legal AI Solutions for Evidence Overload appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
HarrisBricken
JUNE 26, 2025
This would be a good time to review the branding protection avenues available to cannabis business owners, and to discuss celebrity branding. There are three main ways a brand owner can establish trademark rights: By using the mark in connection with their goods or services (legally) in commerce; By registering the mark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO); and By registering the mark with an appropriate state trademark registry.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 26, 2025
Each June, Pride Month turns our public spaces into sites of celebration and remembrance. But Pride is not just a cultural event; it is a constitutional exercise. At its core, Pride embodies the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment: speech, assembly, press, and petition. Expressive acts of defiance wrote the history of LGBTQ+ rights in America.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 30, 2025
On Saturday, one day after the Supreme Court handed down some of its most anticipated decisions of the 2024-25 term, Chief Justice John Roberts was in Charlotte, North Carolina, answering questions about judicial power and independence at a conference for the judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit , as well as the lawyers who practice in that area.
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JURIST
JUNE 27, 2025
The US Supreme Court on Friday granted a preliminary injunction to a group of Maryland parents challenging their school board’s mandatory instruction of LGBTQ+ themed storybooks in elementary schools. The court stated that the introduction of the books, combined with the parents’ inability to opt their children out of the instruction, “places an unconstitutional burden on the parents’ rights to the free exercise of their religion.” In a 6-3 opinion authored by Justi
The Estrin Report
JUNE 27, 2025
By Chere B. Estrin I was lightly skipping (OK, doom-scrolling) through some industry articles the other day, looking for a couple of solid stats for my blog: The Estrin Report. You know, the usual “safe and boring” data I like to sprinkle in to show that, yes, I do my homework: Paralegal field projected to grow 1% 82% of paralegals are female Top-paying cities are still the usual suspects: San Francisco, D.C., New York, Los Angeles, yada yada And then it hit me.
LawSites
JUNE 30, 2025
Landmark news broke this morning that law practice management company Clio has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the AI and legal research company vLex for $1 billion in cash and stock.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 29, 2025
Considering recent news, you may have missed that the 2025 trustees reports for Social Security and Medicare are out. Once again, they confirm what we've known for decades: Both programs are barreling straight toward insolvency. The Social Security retirement trust fund and Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund are each on pace to run dry by 2033. When that happens, seniors will face an automatic 23 percent cut in their Social Security benefits.
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Why does it take 20-40 hrs. to create a compliant legal brief? TypeLaw analyzed 10,000+ briefs to determine the anatomy of the average brief—how many words, paragraphs, citations to the record, and more. See the research results in this infographic.
EvidenceProf Blog
JUNE 26, 2025
Is it reversible error for a bailiff to testify for one of the parties in a court case after having interactions with jurors when they were in the jury pool? That was the question addressed by the Court of Appeals.
JURIST
JUNE 28, 2025
A federal judge in Colorado on Thursday ruled that Filipino workers can proceed with forced labor claims against US-based construction companies that oversaw FIFA World Cup stadium projects in Qatar. Writing for the US District Court of Colorado on Thursday, Magistrate Judge Cyrus Chung ruled that under 18 U.S. Code § 1595 and § 1596 , US federal courts have “extra-territorial jurisdiction” over underlying trafficking offenses.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 27, 2025
In a major First Amendment decision, the Supreme Court on Friday upheld a ruling by a federal appeals court that allowed Texas to enforce a state law requiring pornography sites to verify the age of their users before providing access. By a vote of 6-3, the justices ruled that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit should have used a more stringent standard of review, known as intermediate scrutiny, to determine whether the Texas law passes constitutional muster.
Above The Law
JUNE 27, 2025
Ed. note : Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We should be concerned in this country about the tone of our political discourse [and] identity politics that are used so that a person is characterized by his or her partisan affiliation. That’s not what democracy and civil discourse is about. What democracy and civil discourse are about are taking issues and discussing them.
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The Volokh Conspiracy
JULY 2, 2025
If you suspect that many Americans prize their partisan affiliations above their common status as U.S. citizens, the evidence keeps rolling in to support your position. Pride in being an American has reached an all-time low even as we prepare to celebrate Independence Day. More telling is that Americans' pride—or lack thereof—in the one big thing they have in common seems increasingly linked to whether their preferred politicians are in power.
EvidenceProf Blog
JUNE 27, 2025
Pursuant to Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), the State has an affirmative duty, under the Due Process Clause, to disclose material exculpatory evidence to the defense. Usually, the State commits a Brady violation on its own. But, in.
JURIST
JUNE 26, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Secretary General of the Council of Europe Alain Berset on Wednesday agreed to establish a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, following Europe’s endorsement of the proposal in May 2025. The agreement , which will be supported by 46 member states, will establish a Tribunal intended to address crimes of aggression in response to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 27, 2025
The Supreme Court will not decide right now whether Louisiana violated the Constitution when it enacted a congressional map last year that created a second majority-Black district. In a surprise order on Friday, the justices announced that they will hear new arguments in the case sometime during the court’s 2025-26 term – likely in the fall. The justices did not provide any reasoning for their decision not to resolve the dispute before their summer recess, instead indicating only that they would
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Above The Law
JUNE 27, 2025
Writing separately in the transgender care case , Sam Alito injected the weird non-sequitur that “[t]he Court has also suggested that religion is a suspect class.” It turns out that was a preview of coming attractions, with Alito writing the majority in Mahmoud v. Taylor , officially ramming strict scrutiny into every situation where the most cloistered parent in your school district gets hot and bothered that serving Dino Nuggets intrudes upon their religious belief that the Earth i
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 28, 2025
The city of Douglas, Michigan, is determined to take the "free" out of "free range." In 2023, Kathryn Sarkisian, a resident of the Lake Michigan tourist town, wanted to do something that seemed simple enough: raise chickens in her backyard. She then sought—and received—a permit directly from the city, authorizing her to do so. Barely a month later, the city pulled an about-face, telling Sarkisian that she would have to get rid of her chickens on account of a neighbor's complaint.
EvidenceProf Blog
JUNE 30, 2025
Federal Rule of Evidence 803(3) provides an exception to the rule against hearsay for A statement of the declarant’s then-existing state of mind (such as motive, intent, or plan) or emotional, sensory, or physical condition (such as mental feeling, pain,
JURIST
JUNE 30, 2025
A UN Special Rapporteur on climate change and human rights urged countries on Monday to phase out fossil fuels to combat the climate crisis following the 10 hottest years in history, which saw average global temperatures reach 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in 2024, exceeding the Paris Agreement threshold. Presenting her latest report to the Human Rights Council (HRC), Elisa Morgera stated: Defossilisation of our whole economies is urgent from a human rights perspective and trul
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