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A Hollywood Awards Show For Lawyers (That Isn’t A Deposition)

Above The Law

Before law school sucks their dreams away under a mountain of student debt, many students picture themselves getting into the entertainment industry. Follow him on Twitter or Bluesky if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Famous clients! Exciting legal problems! Hollywood living!

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Columbia Law School Professor Banned From Depositions Over Allegations Of Abusive Behavior

Above The Law

The post Columbia Law School Professor Banned From Depositions Over Allegations Of Abusive Behavior appeared first on Above the Law. There's a lot of history between these parties.

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Avoiding Common Trust Accounting Errors for Well-Intentioned Lawyers

Attorney at Work

If a client deposits $3,000 into your trust account, they need to have a $3,000 credit in your trust account. If you have credit card processing set up to subtract processing fees before making the deposit, the client will have less than $3,000 in the trust account after the deposit is made. This is not right.

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Law School Canons: The Spoils of Discovery

Patently O

He is starting a new series linking law school canonical cases with intellectual property counterparts. The first line of class notes I took in Civil Procedure during our discovery module says, “Spoliation – OLD LEGAL DOCTRINE.” Editor’s Note: Avery Welker is a 1L at Mizzou and likely a future patent attorney. By Avery Welker.

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A Big Week For Not Knowing The Law

Above The Law

From Elon Musk's deposition to law school protests, a lot of folks forgot to look up the actual law this week. The post A Big Week For Not Knowing The Law appeared first on Above the Law.

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Three Tips for Owning Your Career as a Young Lawyer

Attorney at Work

One of the most pernicious myths for young lawyers is that someone will teach you everything you need to know about practicing law, and as long as you keep your head down and “do what you’re supposed to,” success will come. That someone could be your law school, your law firm, or a supervising or mentoring attorney.

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With Goal of Promoting Open Access to Legal Scholarship, Yale Law School Launches Law Archive

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With the goal of making legal scholarship freely available outside of “proprietary and predatory frameworks,” Yale Law School has launched Law Archive , a free and open archive for publishing legal scholarship.