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Developing a Growth Strategy for Your Solo Law Practice: Focus on These 8 Things

Attorney at Work

As a solo law firm, you are small but mighty — able to run a lean business operation, offer customized and competitive pricing, and outperform your BigLaw competitors through personalized legal services delivery. Missing out on valuable revenue because of lack of clarity on your niche practice areas, target market and competition.

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European Parliament adopts Media Freedom Act in move to protect journalists

JURIST

A new European Board for Media Services will also replace the current European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services and be responsible for overseeing the act’s application across member states and addressing disinformation and foreign interference.

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Canada Supreme Court denies appeal on bank account information sharing case

JURIST

The agreement at issue compels Canadian banks to share financial information, including names and account numbers, of US citizens living in Canada with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the US’s taxation agency. The IRS says that the FATCA protects against cybercrime and international money laundering schemes.

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Immigrant workers reach class action settlement over Tennessee meat packing plant raid

JURIST

The plaintiffs, represented by the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) and the Southern Poverty Law Center, argued that a 2018 immigration raid of the meat packing plant where they worked violated their civil rights and that the law enforcement agencies targeted the workers because of their ethnicity.

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Afghanistan dispatches: ‘the impact of international donors on the economic development of Afghanistan over the past two decades will be demolished’

JURIST

2: Afghanistan derives a large part of its revenues from agriculture and some of the biggest agricultural projects were funded by World Bank, Asia Development Bank, and some other developments banks as well as funds established through the past 20 years in the country. The US Federal Reserve has also frozen an amount of $9.4B

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United States: What Might Bakers, Writers, And Cryptocurrency Stakers All Have In Common? Deferred Tax Liability! - Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Mondaq

A recent Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") decision to offer a refund for taxes levied on an individual's "Proof of Stake" cryptocurrency rewards could signal a major shift for the agency.

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9 Ways States Can Strengthen ‘Underfunded, Overburdened’ Public Defense

The Crime Report

The first question — “Does an independent agency oversee public defense in your state?” — suggests the importance of assigning a statewide agency the authority to oversee and evaluate defender services. As of 2017, 16 states lacked any such entity, and more than half the agencies that did exist lacked independence.