JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2022

An Arizona court Friday granted Kari Lake, former Arizona gubernatorial candidate, permission to inspect ballots from the Arizona general election on November 8. In its ruling, the court noted, “The law in Arizona does not permit an election challenge to proceed based solely upon a vague sense of unease.”

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JURIST

JULY 20, 2021

The US District Court for the District of Arizona Friday ordered the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Recovery (ADC) to trial for failure to make agreed-upon progress toward prison healthcare reforms.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Seven lawsuits were filed Monday in Arizona against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) for allegedly covering up sexual abuse in church-sponsored Boy Scouts of America (BSA) troops. Your gift of $50, $100, $200, or $500 will help JURIST to keep its legal news and commentary free and accessible to a worldwide public.

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Diane Drain

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff’s Bidding Requirements at a Sheriff’s Execution Sale of a Judgment Debtor’s “Homestead” Residence. The Sheriff will schedule an execution sale of the Homestead Residence to enforce the Judgment only if all of the legal requirements discussed below are satisfied (“Sheriff’s Execution Sale”). By Larry O.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

My head bobbed up and down as I watched our new legal assistant bounce like a Jack Russell Terrier at my door holding a post-it-note above her head. The same can hold true with new legal assistants. As paralegals, we look for the blind spots, or red flags, with our cases, witnesses, and in our legal strategies.

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Diane Drain

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Diane is honored by Legal Services Corp – Pro Bono Service Award for establishing the Self Help Center at the Arizona Bankruptcy Court. The LSC is an independent nonprofit established by Congress in 1974 to provide financial support for civil legal aid to low-income Americans. Drain, who founded the Law Office of D.L.

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LawSites

MAY 7, 2021

The Arizona Supreme Court has approved the first three entities to be licensed as alternative business structures, enabling businesses owned by non-lawyers to deliver legal services under the liberalized licensing rules the court approved last August. The two principles are Kent Phelps, an Arizona lawyer since 1996, and Jeffery B.

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JURIST

APRIL 23, 2025

The editorial piece, titled “ America’s Lethal Politics ,” written by James Bennett, included a statement saying that Palin’s political rhetoric helped incite the 2011 mass shooting in Arizona that severely injured former US Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and killed six others.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 29, 2025

In 2020, the Arizona Supreme Court established its Alternative Business Structure (ABS) program which allows nonlawyers to have an economic interest or decision making authority in a law firm. Specifically the lack of legal services for low-income individuals and rural communities.

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LawSites

MARCH 13, 2024

Training kicked off last month in Arizona for a new class of legal advocates who will work at community-based organizations throughout the state to provide free limited-scope legal help to clients in domestic violence and housing matters. Related: LawNext Episode 60: Innovation for Justice Director Stacy Rupprecht Jane.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The program is only available to voters in certain swing states, including Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. ” There may be a grey area in the statute, but since a lawsuit has been filed, the court can provide a clear answer on the legality of the petition. He’s paying them to sign the petition.”

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Voters across Nevada, Connecticut, Michigan, Arizona, Nebraska and Ohio Tuesday voted on whether to expand or restrict voter access to election procedures. Though there are still unreported votes, Arizona appears poised to reject a law requiring voters to show identification before casting a ballot.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Wednesday ruled that Arizona does not have to give voters who forget to sign their mail ballots time to resolve the issue following the election, reinstating Arizona’s election day deadline for fixing the issue. In June 2020, the Arizona Democratic Party sued the state.

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ABA Journal

MAY 10, 2022

A new law requires the State Bar of Arizona to pay legal fees of lawyers targeted for legal discipline who prevail in their ethics cases.…

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 15, 2025

It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue. The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 25, 2023

A subsidiary of legal services provider Axiom Global will open as an Arizona law firm, thanks to its approval of as an alternative business structure…

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LegalReader

MARCH 19, 2021

Immigrants’ rights advocates are pushing back against Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s attempts to block President Joe Biden’s latest changes to U.S. The complaint, notes The Associated Press, was filed by the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational. immigration policy.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The post Legal Reforms In Utah & Arizona Made Law Better So Obviously No One Is Following Their Lead appeared first on Above the Law. We know access to justice gaps exist, what are we doing about it?

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LawSites

JANUARY 24, 2023

Axiom , a company that is one of the longest-running alternative legal services providers, this week stepped into the world of regulated legal services as it formally launched Axiom Advice & Counsel , an Arizona law firm. That follows from Arizona’s historic decision in 2020 to become the first U.S.

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Diane Drain

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Analysis of Enforcement of Money Judgments in Arizona Against a Judgment Debtor’s Residence / “Homestead” Property. Legal Analysis APPLICABLE ARIZONA LAW. The Arizona Court of Appeals’ 2018 decision in Pacific Western Bank v. Furthermore, the Arizona Court of Appeals, in Grand Real Estate, Inc. By Larry O.

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Legal Technology Resource Center (LTRC) is pleased to make its seventh annual announcement of its Women of Legal Tech honorees. LTRC’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. Rebecca Benavides | Director Legal Business and Strategy at Microsoft.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 29, 2025

It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue. The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Arizona is leading the way. As for the “not so much,” Florida’s task force examining this issue recommended many of the changes in place in Arizona and Utah, only to have it unanimously rejected by its bar’s Board of Governors late last year. Why should legal services be any different? New Developments in Law Firm Ownership.

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HowAppealing

APRIL 12, 2024

“Don’t blame the Arizona Supreme Court; The court gave the state legislature exactly what it asked for”: Adam Unikowsky has this post at his Substack site, “Adam’s Legal Newsletter.”

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Bob Denney was a kind, generous and insightful man who had his finger on the pulse of the legal profession like no one else. For nearly 30 years, Bob published a newsletter under the banner of “What’s Hot and What’s Not” in the legal profession. Other states, such as Arizona, have cut the rules to the bone. The ABA Model Rules.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared sympathetic to an Arizona man who contends that his constitutional rights were violated when an expert witness testified for the prosecution about drug analysis performed by another forensic scientist’s. But Alexander Samuels, representing the state of Arizona, took a harder tack.

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LawSites

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Arizona Supreme Court has granted an alternative business structure license to law company Elevate , enabling Elevate and its affiliated law firm, ElevateNext, to operate as a single entity in that state, the company says. ” In August 2020, Arizona became the first state to eliminate the ban on non-lawyer ownership of law firms.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 14, 2022

Elevate, a nonlawyer-owned alternative legal services provider, has been approved to operate in Arizona in tandem with an integrated law firm, the company announced…

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 25, 2024

“It’s never going to go well,” Arizona attorney Lynda C. Shely says about the prospect of representing anyone you are close to, including family members…

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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2024

The report cited 34 USC Section 12601 as the legal authority for the investigation, which prohibits law enforcement officers from engaging in a “pattern or practice of conduct” that “deprives persons of rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”

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LawSites

AUGUST 23, 2021

There may be no more critical issue facing the legal profession than reregulation of legal services. Amid an escalating crisis in access to justice, proponents of regulatory reform argue that the only way to meaningfully address the crisis is to loosen restrictions on non-lawyers investing in and providing legal services. .

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 16, 2022

I’m in the process of rebranding my firm (more on that in a future post), and I want to share the 10 steps I went through to change my law firm name in Arizona. In Arizona, you don’t need to file a trade name to have a dba, but it may be required to demonstrate to your bank that you’re using a new name. Table of contents 1.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This story was originally published by the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. In 2021, the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association submitted a proposal to Arizona’s top law enforcement-certifying agency to train officers in “American ideals and the principles of Liberty upon which the USA was founded.”.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

If you are looking for more information about how the legalization works in Arizona, which sportsbooks you can wager on, and everything in between, here is a guide for you.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The online behemoth has been authorized to dispense legal advice in Arizona and Utah.

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LegalReader

MAY 4, 2021

Making it legal could really increase state revenue for Arizona. According to betting industry statistics, Americans place billions of dollars worth of bets on sports each month alone.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As I survey the legal profession broadly, and the world of legal tech and innovation specifically, I see uncertainty and inertia. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo. After all, it was a good year for the legal tech industry. Overall, the legal tech industry saw unprecedented growth.

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