Attorney at Work

JULY 6, 2022

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 that is similar to this one: Rule 1.6(c) She is a past president of the Virginia State Bar, the Fairfax Bar Association and the Fairfax Law Foundation.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The scrutiny primarily centered on the Turkish government’s conduct towards legal practitioners specializing in criminal law and human rights. Notably, Türkiye was ranked 116th among 140 countries in the rule of law index published by the World Justice Project (WJP) in 2022.

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Above The Law

MAY 1, 2025

Most recently, the 2024 Legal Technology Report was released earlier this year and covers online research, marketing and communication technology, law office technology, litigation, and technology basics and security. In that report, only 16% of respondents shared that they used cloud-based tools for law-related work.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Only 52 percent of US law enforcement agencies, representing only 65 percent of the US population, submited their full 2021 data before the March 2022 deadline. The low level of participation may be attributed to the FBI new data collection system. However, the data does not accurately represent the nation’s crime trends.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Thursday moved to vacate 188 misdemeanor convictions tied to eight New York City Police Department officers. New Yorkers must know that everyone is acting with the utmost integrity in the pursuit of equal justice under the law. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The articles of impeachment accused Krasner of various “misbehavior” in office, including “dereliction of duty and refusal to enforce the law,” professional ethics violations and “usurpation of legislative function.” According to the New York Times , two Pennsylvania House seats remain uncalled.

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JURIST

JUNE 20, 2021

The remaining two, Next Digital CEO Cheung Kim-hung and Apple Daily editor-in-chief Ryan Law, were denied bail on Saturday. The pair have been charged under Article 29 of China’s National Security Law ( english ) – “collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security.”

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JURIST

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In a press conference, US Attorney General Merrick Garland stated that regional justice departments in the Eastern District of New York and the District of New Jersey arrested two and charged 13 people allegedly acting on behalf of the PRC. Unaware these documents were fake, the defendants then sent them to the PRC company.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the New York plan for subsidizing marijuana businesses with a preference for those with prior criminal records — or their family members. Legislators yielded to every political temptation in piling on dubious tax burdens and class-based preferences on this new market.

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LLRX

DECEMBER 31, 2023

But a New York Times article headline dated December 28, 2023 - "How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. The first article on this subject can be read here. Until recent weeks there was a dearth of publicly available information about the scope of sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas. 7" - focused public attention on the facts.

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Above The Law

MARCH 3, 2025

The templates span more than 30 jurisdictions, and are concentrated in eight practice areas: trusts and estates, family law, real estate, labor and employment, criminal law, business entities, commercial transactions, and civil litigation. The post The Next Step In Legal Document Automation appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The US House Ethics Committee published Thursday a report that found “substantial evidence” that Representative George Santos (R-NY) violated federal criminal law. Santos violated federal law appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 30, 2021

New York City Police are searching for this man who attacked a 65-year-old Asian woman in broad daylight in Midtown on the sidewalk on West 43rd Street near Ninth Avenue. The New York Post reported that the suspect yelled anti-Asian statements while he beat the woman, including, “F—k you, you don’t belong here.”

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The Crime Report

JUNE 11, 2021

The Armed Career Criminal Act targets repeat offenders responsible for most violent crimes, Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the plurality, singling out those with a history of knowing the harm they were inflicting when committing crimes. The New York Times reports that the case concerned Charles Borden Jr.,

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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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Patently O

AUGUST 11, 2022

Every year, law schools advertise open faculty positions via a Faculty Appointments Register sponsored by the American Association of Law Schools (AALS). Note that top ranked law schools rarely advertise for particular subject matter areas. The new hire then starts work the following summer. by Dennis Crouch.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

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. ” Rikers has long been in the control of the inmates, particularly criminal gangs. New York officials have let this go on for decades with no accountability.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2023

I have previously written how New York has been the gift that keeps on giving for the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups. The latest is a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit striking down key provisions of the law passed after the Bruen decision. New York Democratic Gov.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2021

New York has been hit recently by a number of chilling crimes. However, I was struck by the charges brought against Parker whose mugshot could be seen as a reaction to the redundancy of criminal charges today. One is the discovery of Nicole Flanagan, who was discovered inside a 55-gallon drum.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 20, 2024

Sahara Dula, 24, is a New England College criminal justice graduate who wants to specialize in “crisis communication. ” If so, she has a bit to learn after intentionally hitting a police officer with her Lexus and then declaring “F— these cops, it’s a lesson to him.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I have previously written about how New York has proven time and time again as the gift that keeps on giving for the National Rifle Association (NRA) and gun-rights groups. New York Democrats continue to pass laws that are virtually guaranteed to be struck down and further reinforce Second Amendment rights.

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LLRX

JULY 30, 2022

Four highlights from this week : Cyber insurance price hike hits local governments hard; New York Counties to Get Free Services to Better Defend Against Cyberattacks; Why emergency calls sometimes can’t get through; and A Rogues’ Gallery of Robocallers.

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ALPS

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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) Introduction to an Ethical Problem Most Attorneys Don’t Know About. In April of 2022, a headline caught our attention.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 23, 2021

Law firms leaders quickly learned that a willingness to adopt new technologies into their firms was a requirement for survival during the pandemic. Of course, the effect of the pandemic on the practice of law varied greatly from one firm to the next. For other firms, the transition to remote work was a much more difficult one.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 23, 2021

Law firms leaders quickly learned that a willingness to adopt new technologies into their firms was a requirement for survival during the pandemic. Of course, the effect of the pandemic on the practice of law varied greatly from one firm to the next. For other firms, the transition to remote work was a much more difficult one.

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The Crime Report

JULY 22, 2021

Often it’s to ensure fairer and more responsive treatment at the hands of a justice system that otherwise offers them few other options, says a Rutgers University law professor. It depends on deception to “sidestep the law without changing the law.”.

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JURIST

JULY 26, 2022

A New York judge Monday exonerated a sixth defendant in the Central Park jogger case. Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise and Yusef Salaam, known as the Central Park Five, were also wrongfully convicted and were exonerated in 2002 using DNA evidence. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr.

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

APRIL 21, 2024

In Part 1 of this series, we saw that the number of cases calendared for a hearing at the Court of Appeals in the first 4 months since Rowan Wilson became New York's Chief Judge increased significantly. In Part 2, we saw that the number of criminal cases calendared for oral arguments for the same 4 months had actually doubled.

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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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NewYorkCourtWatcher

JULY 7, 2022

We've previously looked at the reduction in the caseload at New York's highest court. Now we'll focus specifically on criminal appeals.Credit: Daniel caseThe magnificent Court of Appeals courtroom.This has been a source of considerable consternation for the state's criminal defense bar.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

This weekend, MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross and MSNBC regular (and past writer for Above the Law and the Nation) repeated the false claim that the trips constitute kidnapping. ” Such analogies are insulting to adults who elect to accept free transport to cities like Chicago or New York. ” He then added.

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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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Above The Law

MAY 29, 2025

.” However, generative AI output combined with carelessness is significantly hampering the administration of justice: “While one party can create a fake legal brief at the click of a button, the opposing party and court must parse through the case names, citations, and points of law to determine which parts, if any, are true.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Guidelines rationale is that “[o]rganizations can act only through agents and, under federal criminal law, generally are vicariously liable for offenses committed by their agents.” Which brings us to the FIFA prosecutions, a topic that would not typically be blogworthy for the FDA law blog.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 7, 2023

In a case reminiscent of the two New York lawyers convicted of firebombing a police vehicle, a lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was arrested for possible domestic terrorism in targeting a police training center in Atlanta.

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

JULY 10, 2024

As I've explained numerous times on New York Court Watcher [See e.g., NYCOA: Criminal Appeals (Part 3)--Voting & Decisional Patterns (Mar. Dissents, both opinions and votes, are particularly revealing. 13, 2019)] and elsewhere [See e.g., Great Dissents: 'Matters of High Principle' at the Court of Appeals, 94 N.Y. at 23 (Nov./Dec.

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