Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As paralegals, it’s our job to provide support to attorneys and clients, dedicating countless hours to research, investigation, drafting, and client engagement. You serve as the point of contact when the attorney is not available. You also put in just as much dedication and effort into every case as the attorney.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

When it comes to learning how to be more successful in a courtroom, I usually suggest that new lawyers listen to oral arguments, especially if they also have a case to be heard that day, so they can see how other practitioners advocate on behalf of their clients.

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The Estrin Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Marina Shepelsky Founder, CEO Shepelsky Law Brooklyn, NY Fordham Law School, 2002. Now as founder and CEO of three-lawyer Shepelsky Law, she practices immigration law along with family and divorce law. I applied to medical school, which didn’t work out,” Shepesky recalls. Supreme Court.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 1, 2022

Over time, I realized that firms across the country were hesitant to invest in younger attorneys’ development due to fear of an attrition-driven mass exodus of clients. Training and coaching programs were seen as incredibly risky endeavors. law firm talent over the past few years. Invest In People. Make a Plan.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 19, 2022

In my former work life, I was a freelance art buyer at several ad agencies in New York City. Another lawyer recommended law firm marketers look to their professional organizations for more knowledge about copyright. Ruth has a regular column here on Attorney at Work.) But First, a Little Background. RC: Bwahahaha!

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Law 360

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As evidenced in recent instances of law firms separating from attorneys who represented certain industries or espoused certain views, firms and the legal practice itself have grown troublingly polarized and intolerant of dissent, says Rebecca Roiphe at New York Law School.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The New York State court system has routinely failed to demand personal accountability for prosecutorial misconduct, argues attorney and journalist Rory Fleming in New York Focus. The group plans to expand to other New York City boroughs soon. Although former Gov.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

I carried it through law school and right into the practice of law, not to mention alcohol and cocaine use disorder. National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) Eating Disorder Hope Brian Cuban is an attorney, author, and advocate for mental health awareness and recovery. That is what I dealt with for more than 20 years.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2022

jurisprudence , says a New York Law School Legal Studies Research Paper. . But FAS is rarely taken into consideration by courts during sentencing decisions, write New York Law School professors Michael L. According to the New York Law School study, racial minorities are more likely to have FAS.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re serious about starting a career in law – say, become a lawyer, an attorney, or even a Supreme Court Judge – you’ll have to attend a college and university that offers the best law education. Fortunately, in the United States, there is a long list of schools that will help you become a successful law person.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 5, 2025

Michael argues that although private international law is increasingly important in our interconnected world, it has fallen out of favor at top U.S. law schools. To quote from the Essay: Private international law has not lost its jurisprudential import. Symeonides (Willamette University College of Law) Carlos M.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

AUGUST 27, 2023

Lawyer bios are similar , as well : went to awesome law school, won big awards, had great achievements – without a word to say about how the attorney actually helps clients. So, it’s easy to say that law firms all act alike and look alike, but it’s difficult to really bring home that point, lacking a graphical interpretation.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 7, 2022

Among the city’s five district attorneys, this rate ranged from a high of 23 percent in Manhattan to just 1 percent in the Bronx, where just a single hate crime arrest out of a total of 92 resulted in a hate crime conviction since District Attorney Darcel Clark took control of the office in 2016.

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LawSites

MAY 13, 2021

A shared law school or employment connection from the past can mean a foot in the door today. During a preview demonstration given by Crutchfield, Reginald Jones , director of product management, and Lucas Otto , product manager, I had an opportunity to see some of the new functionality. Results for a search of a city.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 30, 2021

The other day, I placed a senior attorney at a very large non-profit organization. Today I was told I had misrepresented my position at [Acme Company] and was asked to explain the discrepancy, and was then asked for copies of my two degrees from undergrad and law school and verification that I am an active member of the Bar in good standing.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 17, 2022

Attorney at Work’s “Women in Law” series honors Women’s History Month with a focus on successful women lawyers who have carved a path for themselves in the legal industry and beyond. New York City. New York University, MSW, 2010. Cardozo School of Law, J.D., Advocate, Therapist. LAT Counseling.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 30, 2022

Attorney at Work’s new “Women in Law” series honors Women’s History Month with a focus on successful women lawyers who have carved a path for themselves in the legal industry and beyond. Columbia University School of Law. The law was complex and the facts messy. Deputy General Counsel. Massachusetts.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 3, 2025

New York , involving the right, guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, of criminal defendants to confront witnesses against them. Villareals attorney objected that such an instruction interfered with his clients right to confer with his counsel. The court denied review on March 24 in Franklin v.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

’ ” Olga Murray, who, after a 37-year career as a Supreme Court staff attorney, founded a non-profit organization to aid the children of Nepal, died yesterday. Murray (standing, second from left); Justice Mosk (seated, middle) Murray claimed being a court attorney was “the best job in the law.” She was 98.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 4, 2025

To say last week’s February California bar exam didn’t go smoothly would be a gross understatement. The technical meltdown has garnered not only local legal, but national mainstream media, attention.

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ALPS

APRIL 22, 2021

In March of 2020, just as Katie Peterson’s first year of law school was nearing its close, everything changed. As Katie rounds out a full year of remote law school, she and ALPS Claims Attorney Martha Amrine reflect on how 2020 upended long-held law school traditions and created new ones.

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InHouseBlog

JUNE 26, 2023

So, you’re one of those attorneys who has had little-to-no work for the last few months. It’s a lot easier to get a new job when you currently have one, so don’t wait until the axe has fallen to reach out to those who can help you. Prior to entering attorney placement in 1999, Jon was assistant trademark counsel at Joseph E.

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Patently O

JANUARY 4, 2024

I believe that Winston & Strawn will eventually prevail based upon a fair use defense, but it is still an embarrassing situation for the firm and attorneys involved. The role of attribution is also receiving increasing focus as attorneys begin to rely more heavily on AI outputs for their legal documents.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2023

Nebraska has a small state loan repayment program to help a few attorneys who agree to practice rurally; in a decade, the program has placed 39 lawyers in rural parts of the state. The situation is far worse in rural states such as South Dakota, with few attorneys outside of urban centers such as Rapid City and Sioux Falls.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Guardian ] * New York public interest attorneys plan strike after failing to get a favorable contract. appeared first on Above the Law. Access to justice is only as good as the legal team it can recruit and sustain. [ The City ] The post Morning Docket: 02.21.23

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

His work at the Sabin Center will include the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative , the Climate Attribution Database , the Climate Reregulation Tracker, the New York State and City Climate Law Trackers , as well as submitting comment letters on administrative proceedings.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JUNE 27, 2024

Most individuals attend law school with the intention of pursuing a career in Big Law or a traditional legal role, not exploring alternative career paths or unlikely legal positions. Jerome Crawford, a prime example, never intended to become a cannabis attorney.

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The Legal Ease

JULY 23, 2020

In this week that NY law grads were originally scheduled to be taking the bar exam, the New York State Court of Appeals (the highest court in the state) has announced a revision of its rules to temporarily authorize qualifying graduates of ABA-accredited law schools to practice law in New York under supervision pending their admission to the bar.

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ALPS

JUNE 8, 2023

In February of 2023, the front page of the New York Times reported on a bizarre exchange between technology writer, Kevin Roose, and a chatbot he was working with, named Sydney. Many are by now aware of the fact that AI tools such as ChatGPT have been able to pass exams from prestigious law schools and business schools.

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LawSites

MAY 5, 2021

At least one lawyer is in this pantheon of top-paid publishers on Substack – Glenn Greenwald , the former litigator turned Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of four New York Times bestselling books on politics and law, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. Second Stage.

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2023

Court officers doing so was unusual, unethical and possibly even illegal, according to a law school professor and a defense attorney who learned about these allegations from THE CITY. Only prosecutors and the judges who oversee them are supposed to give legal guidance to grand jurors.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

Prosecutors had argued that the claim was spurious on the grounds that the teenager’s decision to bring an AR-15 to the protest made him an “initial aggressor” under Wisconsin law. “You cannot claim self-defense against a danger you create,” said Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger in his closing argument. “If

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Prior to joining the Sabin Center, Carolina was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma, College of Law, where she has taught several courses on international law, including International Commercial and Investment Arbitration, International Business Transactions, Comparative Law, European Union Law, and International Energy Law.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 23, 2022

Before joining the Sabin Center, Matthew served for four years as an Assistant Attorney General in the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s Office. He also previously worked as a litigation associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and as a law clerk for Senior U.S.

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LawSites

MARCH 25, 2024

I chose Cornell Tech’s LLM program because, even before law school, I always itched to build a tech startup,” DeFelice said. “As Cornell Tech was the clear choice to fuse startup-focused legal and venture training. The Cornell Tech LLM is open to top practicing attorneys and recent law graduates from the U.S.

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InHouseBlog

AUGUST 31, 2023

Jessica is a former BigLaw associate turned financial counselor who paid off over $200,000 of law school debt while raising twins as a single mom. a New York based executive legal search and career consulting firm. Need help with other aspects of your in-house search? Reach out for a complimentary consultation.

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LawSites

JULY 7, 2022

Is the judge influenced by the prestige of the firm, the law schools of the lawyers, their political affiliations, or the nature of the company? But it plans to expand to cover other types of motions, such as summary judgment, and to include state courts, with California, New York and Texas already in development.

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