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How Paralegals Can Avoid UPL

Paralegal Bootcamp

Essentially, by this definition, a person who is not licensed to practice law may not offer attorney services or get paid for them. This involves client representation, offering legal advice (solicited or otherwise), and drafting legal documents. All that being said, the ABA does not define “the practice of law.” Smidt (2020).

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UN Draft Treaty on Transnational Business Enterprises and Human Rights in the Making: Raising the Global Bar in Corporate Litigation

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The future legal value of the Draft Treaty will be that of enforceable regulation, provided of course that it is adopted in its current form. The Draft Treaty is still being negotiated and amended. The Draft Treaty complements soft law in the same area, namely the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

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Customs and Trade Law Weekly Snapshot

Customs & International Trade Law

Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) announced the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled The Accredited Third-Party Certification Program: Questions and Answers: Guidance for Industry. On April 28, 2022, The U.S. trading partners’ protection and enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights.

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Customs and Trade Law Weekly Snapshot

Customs & International Trade Law

On April 19, 2022, the International Trade Administration announced the Department of Commerce is rescinding the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on polyethylene retail carrier bags (PRCBs) from the Peoples’ Republic of China, in part, for the period of review (POR) August 1, 2020, through July 31, 2021.

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: April 24 to April 28, 2023

Broadcast Law Blog

Under the PIRATE Act adopted in 2020, the FCC must conduct an annual sweep looking for offenders in the top 5 most active markets for pirate radio. This week, the FCC released a draft of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Order stemming from the Inquiry to be considered at that May 18 meeting. Licensed services currently in the 12.7

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Patent Case Management Goes Cross-Institutional and Global

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These efforts helped to persuade ITC administrative law judges to implement Markman hearings. I was delighted to be invited in the summer of 2020 to assist the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in developing an International Patent Case Management Judicial Guide. The draft of the U.S.

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Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies

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In an article published in 2014, law professor Thomas Merrill suggested that the Chevron decision was not regarded as a particularly consequential one when it was issued. But in the decades since then, it became one of the most significant rulings on federal administrative law, cited by federal courts more than 18,000 times.