SCOTUSBlog

JULY 26, 2023

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 24, 2023

This is because some paralegals might prefer a corporate setting as an in-house paralegal, while others might thrive in a law firm setting working in civil litigation or other commercial litigation. You could say “well, you were the exception” or “you worked in an AmLaw 100 firm in a major metropolitan city.”

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Our nonprofit law firm, the Institute for Justice , represents her. Supreme Court to overturn a decision from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals—which reversed a district court decision that her case could proceed. The public interest law firm also has offices in Minneapolis.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain and l were sitting down with Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed , the founders of a legal research startup named Ravel Law, along with lawyers from Harvard’s Office of General Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton and Gundersen Dettmer. The only official version of the law was the contaminated one.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Eighth Circuit backed a lower court's decision denying a law firm's bid to disqualify an expert in a suit claiming it is being harassed because of its representation of a patent owner in infringement litigation, saying Tuesday there was indeed no risk of a conflict of interest against the firm.

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LawTechnologyToday

JUNE 21, 2021

Most likely, it will take a couple of room-clearing court decisions to help owners and litigants navigate their waters. Julian Pipolo is an Australasian lawyer working at a top-tier firm predominantly in administrative law. If that is proven true, it will bring along with it a raft of securities legislation.

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LawSites

APRIL 19, 2022

I built a document automation app online to help people fight their tickets for free using a recent court decision that had come down in Manhattan. There were two other court decisions from just outside of the city that were persuasive as well. Download: The Complete Guide of Document Automation Software for Law Firms.

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MyCase

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Primary Sources: Primary legal sources are formal documents issued by a state or federal government that establish law such as: Court decisions Case law Statutes Regulations Constitutions Secondary Sources : Secondary sources provide summaries of legal matters and court decisions.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2023

Share In Re Grand Jury asks how courts should assess attorney-client privilege when a client seeks partly legal and partly nonlegal advice from a lawyer and the two parts cannot be disentangled. Monday’s oral argument exposed weaknesses and strengths in each side’s position.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

As always, we endeavor to collect all Chinese court decisions involving the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments (“REFJ”), and foreign counterparts concerning the recognition and enforcement of Chinese judgments. The Case List is made available for our readers to build reasonable expectations on REFJ in China.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 22, 2023

As always, we endeavor to collect all Chinese court decisions involving the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments (“REFJ”), and foreign counterparts concerning the recognition and enforcement of Chinese judgments. The Case List is made available for our readers to build reasonable expectations on REFJ in China.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 24, 2022

As always, we endeavor to collect all Chinese court decisions involving the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments (“REFJ”), and foreign counterparts concerning the recognition and enforcement of Chinese judgments. The Case List is made available for our readers to build reasonable expectations on REFJ in China.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 21, 2021

Following Professor Zhao’s presentation, Mr Alexander Blumrosen, Partner at Polaris Law (Paris), provided a historical account of the use of the Evidence Convention in the United States and the significance of the landmark Supreme Court decision Aérospatiale.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 17, 2020

What I would consider as an ambitious aspect of the book, however, is the authors’ categorical position regarding the non-binding effect of the obiter dicta of some Supreme Court decisions. It is a long overdue contribution to the field of private international law in particular, and to legal scholarship in Nigeria as a whole.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

(authored by Chen Zhi, Wangjing & GH Law Firm, PhD Candidate at University of Macau). Therefore, the discrepancy between pre-decision opinion and final award does not amount to annulment of the award. [xv].

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

The Biden administration is calling on law firms and law schools to help fight evictions following a U.S. Supreme Court decision last week to remove protections created by the federal government in response to the pandemic, reports Bloomberg News.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

After a few slow weeks on the relist front, the Supreme Court came roaring back this week with four newly relisted petitions that, if granted, will likely be added to the March 2023 argument calendar. The law firms’ bank records also reveal information about the firms’ other clients, such as Hanna.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2024

In 2015, the Supreme Court put Glossip’s execution (as well as those of two other men) on hold while it considered their challenge to the state’s lethal injection protocol. The firm pointed to (among other things) prosecutors’ “deliberate” destruction of “key physical evidence” and the “deficient and curtailed police investigation.”

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Intelligize Blog

JUNE 18, 2024

For example, Doug Ellenoff, a partner at the law firm Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, noted in a report this month on Law 360 that his firm expects 25 to 35 new SPAC listings between now and the end of the year. The SEC’s new SPAC transparency rules take effect July 1, 2024.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 28, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday appointed two outside attorneys to defend the lower-court decisions in two cases in which the federal government has declined to do so. Mills is the founder of (and apparently only lawyer at) Spero Law LLC, a Charleston-based firm. 17, and Christopher Mills to argue in Martin v.

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JURIST

JUNE 13, 2022

” Trump lawyer Matt Morgan relayed that law firms began to “disengage” from the Trump campaign amid allegations of voter fraud as they did not feel comfortable advancing those arguments. He also testified that the Trump campaign’s approach to the election results was not “honest and professional.”

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The Crime Report

MAY 17, 2022

Understandably, critics are troubled by the Supreme Court acting in such a unilateral manner and enlarging its own authority. By using the shadow docket, the Supreme Court escapes accountability for weighty decisions.

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Above The Law

MARCH 31, 2025

Highlights from Last Week – Top Fifteen Headlines #1 Trump Expands Retribution Against Law Firms in New Executive Order. From the Wall Street Journal : President Trump signed an executive order targeting the Jenner & Block law firm. You might want to grab a cup of coffee before you read to the end!

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Justice Sotomayor dissented, writing that she believed the Court’s interpretation would allow defendants to “sidestep” the general bar on appellate review by “shoehorning” a civil rights or federal officer removal argument into their case for removal. They seek a court decision setting aside government approvals of the power plant.

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Above The Law

MARCH 4, 2025

This precarious situation has inspired leaders of the bar to step up to affirm their support of the rule of law in America. There are disturbing signs that the administration of President Trump will defy court orders. … We call on the President and all in the executive branch to abide by court orders.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The question came to the court in the case of Ryan Carter , who was a member of the Air National Guard when he underwent spine surgery at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., A federal district court dismissed Carters claims, relying on the courts decision in Feres.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

After the developers terminated the Keystone XL pipeline project, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on July 16, 2021 dismissed for lack of jurisdiction an appeal of the district court’s denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction barring work on the pipeline.

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The Estrin Report

MARCH 16, 2025

From judicial appointments to executive orders directly targeting law firms, to ramifications of tariff wars, the profession is experiencing a seismic shift. Trump initiated a series of aggressive actions against the legal community, with an expanding list of targeted law firms. It is without precedent.

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Above The Law

MARCH 4, 2025

Law Firm Following Court Approval. From the Wall Street Journal : KPMG has begun to set up a law firm in the U.S. after a court decision made it the first Big Four accounting firm eligible to practice law in the country. Read more here (gift link). #2 2 KPMG to Launch U.S.

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Above The Law

APRIL 8, 2025

” The brief, filed by the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School and Susman Godfrey , takes particular aim at “the Presidents attempt to invoke national security to justify this punitive, retributive, ad hominem Order.” citizens simply because they disagree with him. But for my $.02, gov.uscourts.dcd.278290.98.1

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