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Plagiarism Police come for Winston & Strawn

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Additionally, the Opinion emphasizes lawyers’ duties under other ethics rules regarding competence, diligence, candor to the tribunal, and avoidance of frivolous filings. A key case on point is Iowa S. 2d 756, 757 (Iowa 2010). I suspect the Winston attorneys are likely happy to be in NY rather than Iowa.

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Reflections on ReInvent Law Silicon Valley @ 10 Years – Part 3

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Having worked both on internal law firm apps as well as building tools for lawyers and clients, Joe has gotten to play with a lot of cool tech, including industry NLP tools and a variety of front end and back end technologies. Joe continues to tinker away and can currently be found in Northwest Iowa. After London came ReInvent 2013.

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Searing Lessons From a State Bar Complaint: A Lawyer’s Story

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My home state, Iowa, has disciplined an average of 68 attorneys (just under 1% of the number of practicing attorneys in the state) each year over the past decade. I’m an Iowa-based attorney and CPA. That is, not if you don’t allow it to become one. A rough extrapolation would suggest that perhaps thousands of attorneys across the U.S.

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What senators are saying: Tracking reactions to Jackson’s nomination

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I am committed to doing my due diligence before making a final decision on this nominee. The RNC also called her a “Democrat partisan” and described her work as a lawyer representing people detained at Guantánamo Bay as “defending terrorists.”.

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