Above The Law

MAY 1, 2025

Nicole Black is a Rochester, New York attorney and Principal Legal Insight Strategist at AffiniPay , parent company of MyCase, LawPay, CASEpeer, and Docketwise. Shes easily distracted by the potential of bright and shiny tech gadgets, along with good food and wine.

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Above The Law

MARCH 6, 2025

Nicole Black is a Rochester, New York attorney and Director of Business and Community Relations at MyCase , web-based law practice management software. The sooner you familiarize yourself with its capabilities and limitations, the better positioned youll be to implement it effectively and ethically.

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Above The Law

MARCH 3, 2025

If youre a trusts and estates lawyer, you may need to create a will, a power of attorney, and a health care directive simultaneously, for example. In-house counsel may need to revise work arrangements and new hire agreements at the same time. Real estate lawyers will need multiple documents for pretty much everything.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

One of the threats faced by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is the pending criminal assault allegation in the Albany Police Department. If proven, the allegation of the former staff members of being groped by Cuomo could meet the standard for criminal assault. The women could bring direct criminal complaint against Cuomo.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The office Manhattan District Attorney expressed sympathy for his situation in agreeing to lower his bail to allow him to be released. I am less opposed to the bail as I am to the fact that New York officials cannot maintain a prison with a minimal level of security. Mungin is charged with attempted murder in an Aug.

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JURIST

JULY 26, 2022

A New York judge Monday exonerated a sixth defendant in the Central Park jogger case. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. ” Lopez’s attorney said he believes what happened to Lopez “was an American tragedy,” and it is “truly unbelievable to see how the system failed” Lopez.

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2021

The justice reform movement, particularly measures to eliminate cash bail, has put the safety of the New York City transit system at risk, argues Nicole Gelinas , a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. helped propel him into his appointment as New York police commissioner. Bratton’s success?felonies

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 20, 2024

However, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Lucy Shephard did not charge Dula with attempted murder. I did it on purpose. F— these cops! He wouldn’t move!” ” The wounded officer suffered a broken leg and extensive bruising.

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ALPS

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Introduction to an Ethical Problem Most Attorneys Don’t Know About. It referenced a new legal ethics opinion issued by the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics. Like New York, most states have a rule similar to this one: Rule 1.6(c) They almost certainly will be misused.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Najibullah entered the plea in a Manhattan federal court after the prosecutor unveiled the new charges last week. Haji had previously been accused of kidnapping New York Times Journalist David Rohde and Afghan journalist Tahir Ludin, as well as one other, at gunpoint in an unrelated 2008 incident.

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2022

Dashboard Legal is a collaboration and project management tool built for attorneys. Our new software helps lawyers organize their inboxes, track documents and deadlines, and collaborate with colleagues. The first and most awarded ODR platform – used by courts, corporations, law firms and more. Law should be easily accessible.

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Above The Law

MARCH 28, 2025

This years Legalweek conference in New York City was well attended and dominated by talk of vastly improved generative AI capabilities. The themes shifted from last years, which focused on generative AI as a new, more intuitive software interface that enabled legal professionals to access information more easily.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

We apply Natural Language Processing and a semantic knowledge graph to the process that attorneys use to research, analyze and write complex legal documents. Our system inherently understands legal relationships and keeps up with changes in the law. Attorney users $199/mo. Headquarters: New York, N.Y.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 30, 2020

We have previously discussed attorneys arrested in attacks with Molotov cocktails during protests. As with the lawyers arrested in New York, such an attack shows a fundamental rejection of the role of reporters. In a way, it is the most extreme form of new advocacy for reporters.

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

These figures underscore what is well known by attorneys who practice before New York's highest court, as well as by those who have worked there and by those who study it. We previously looked at the stark disparity among the Court of Appeals Judges in the number of CLA's (Crimnal Leave Applications) they granted last year.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 23, 2021

Nicole Black is a Rochester, New York attorney and Director of Business and Community Relations at MyCase , web-based law practice management software. If not, what steps can you take today to build resiliency into your firm’s processes so that your firm will succeed no matter what the future holds?

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The Estrin Report

MAY 23, 2021

Nicole Black is a Rochester, New York attorney and Director of Business and Community Relations at MyCase , web-based law practice management software. If not, what steps can you take today to build resiliency into your firm’s processes so that your firm will succeed no matter what the future holds?

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2022

Dashboard Legal is a collaboration and project management tool built for attorneys. Our new software helps lawyers organize their inboxes, track documents and deadlines, and collaborate with colleagues. The first and most awarded ODR platform – used by courts, corporations, law firms and more. Law should be easily accessible.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

One of those exceptions is for physicians who operate under the statute’s registration scheme; registered doctors may prescribe controlled substances in accordance with rules promulgated by the attorney general.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 23, 2023

Soon after, however, the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen , which struck down New York’s concealed-carry law and clarified that modern restrictions on firearms bearing no resemblance to those in place when the Constitution was ratified likely violate the Second Amendment.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 1, 2022

Dashboard Legal is a collaboration and project management tool built for attorneys. Our new software helps lawyers organize their inboxes, track documents and deadlines, and collaborate with colleagues. The first and most awarded ODR platform – used by courts, corporations, law firms and more. Law should be easily accessible.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 27, 2022

Attorney General Merrick Garland continued to refuse to address questions over his refusal to appoint a Special Counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation despite new evidence tying President Joe Biden to the controversial business deals. The New York Post shows that on Jan.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

to be charged criminally for transporting 36 people to Sacramento. California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced that she was taking a look, “long and hard,” at potential charges.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

New York nonprofit The Legal Aid Society (LAS) Thursday reported that data from the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) shows the successes of New York’s 2019 bail reform law. For those released on their own recognizance, re-arrest rates decreased from 18 percent to 16 percent by 2021.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Ashley’s a member and mentor, as you heard, of the Alberta Association of Professional Paralegals and an associate member of the Edmonton Law Office Managers Association. This is what she wrote: Ann, I’ve been an avid listener of your podcast and attended a Lunch Learn a long time ago when you were based out of New York.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

We apply Natural Language Processing and a semantic knowledge graph to the process that attorneys use to research, analyze and write complex legal documents. Our system inherently understands legal relationships and keeps up with changes in the law. Attorney users $199/mo. Headquarters: New York, N.Y.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 22, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the recent call for a criminal investigation of journalist Matt Taibbi for perjury by the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Now it appears these efforts to shield government censorship has come down to spelling.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Below is my column in the New York Post on the potential liability of the parents of Sam Bankman-Fried. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. It is not uncommon for federal prosecutors to go after family members to induce a plea by a defendant.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 5, 2022

We previously discussed the cases of attorneys Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, who were accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail into an occupied police vehicle in New York. Prosecutors presented evidence that the two attorneys were trying to distribute Molotov cocktails and suggested that Mattis did not appear rational.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The link between Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and criminal behavior is rarely acknowledged as a mitigating factor in U.S. jurisprudence , says a New York Law School Legal Studies Research Paper. . According to the New York Law School study, racial minorities are more likely to have FAS. Race and FAS.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Vullo involves a lawsuit in which the NRA alleges that Maria Vullo, then the Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, violated its First Amendment rights by threatening its business partners to try to encourage them to disassociate from the NRA. New York and 335-7 LLC v. City of New York, NY.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Loki factor was evident in the press conference this week when Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked about the rising lawlessness seen in major cities such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: “Does the president still think that crime is up because of the pandemic?”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

We previously discussed the case of two New York attorneys (Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman) who joined in violent protests in New York, including firebombing a police vehicle. Mattis graduated from New York University School of Law in 2016 and received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the indictment of Mayor Eric Adams. Here is the column: The federal five-count indictment of New York Mayor Eric Adams is on its face a damning document of alleged public corruption. The most serious charges may be the foreign campaign contributions.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

However, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , less than 3 percent of criminal cases have gone to trial in the last five decades. But they were still frog-marched into a plea bargain by their defense attorney or the prosecutor or the judge or some combination thereof. Photo by Brandy Brewer.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We recently discussed how figures like New York Times columnist Tom Friedman calling on people to move to Georgia to rig the vote in favor of a Democratic takeover of the Senate. However, the involvement of attorneys in such efforts is particularly alarming. Yet, Friedman is not a lawyer.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2022

We have been discussing the controversy over a ten-year-old girl who was raped in Ohio and removed to Indiana because the Ohio abortion law would not allegedly allow for the termination of her pregnancy. On the New York Post column, there was initially a headline referring to a “lie.”

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