NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
APRIL 19, 2025
Lawyers can get taken advantage of by vendors from time to time, in at least a couple of ways. First off, most vendors know that attorneys are really busy & just want someone else to handle things for them. That means that lawyers will often not dig into the elements of a specific contract, or learn enough about a topic to ask relevant questions.
JURIST
APRIL 19, 2025
A mass trial on Friday started in Trkiye for 189 people following the protests against the detention and arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem mamolu last month. The defendants, mainly students, journalists and lawyers, are facing charges involving participation in illegal rallies, failing to disperse despite police warnings, carrying weapons, and covering their faces for identity hiding and incitement to commit a crime.
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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
APRIL 19, 2025
One of the primary ways that Google and other search engines connect legal consumers to law firms, is through domain authority, which is attributed to your website. You can check yours for free here. Domain authority is effectively a measure of the extent to which a search engine views you /your business (through the lens of your website) as providing relevant expert ise in your space.
HowAppealing
APRIL 19, 2025
“Understanding The Oral Argument Order in the Birthright Citizenship Cases”: William Baude has this post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site.
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Why does it take 20-40 hrs. to create a compliant legal brief? TypeLaw analyzed 10,000+ briefs to determine the anatomy of the average brief—how many words, paragraphs, citations to the record, and more. See the research results in this infographic.
NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
APRIL 19, 2025
Have you ever thought to yourself: I never can get any work done; Im always getting interrupted. Well, you feel that way, because its true. Its impossible to concentrate, when youre being interrupted constantly. On average, simply checking an email will get you off-task for 17 minutes! If you dont get any focus time, its really hard push through any project; and, the world as presently constituted, is rife with distractions.
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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
APRIL 19, 2025
Theres usually just one time every year, when law firm owners review their revenue and profitability. Thats at the end of the year otherwise known as the time when you cant do anything about your revenue numbers, that you dont like. So, the better strategy is to review your revenue and profitability, on a regular & recurring basis. You know, so you can actually do something about what you see.
HowAppealing
APRIL 19, 2025
“Princeton dedicates building, unveils portrait in honor of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor 76”: Emily Aronson of Princeton University has this report.
Law 360
APRIL 19, 2025
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority including the law firms that guided the10 largest real estate deals of the first quarter, and how dealmakers and companies have been navigating uncertainty in the market.
JURIST
APRIL 19, 2025
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) concluded Friday that there has been professional failure following the killing of several Palestinian medics but no planned execution or attempt to conceal the event. The IDF finding noted that the incident occurred in a “hostile and dangerous combat zone” and “under widespread threat to the operating troops” from the use of medical infrastructure by Hamas to conduct terrorist attacks and transport weapons.
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Law 360
APRIL 19, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in five cases this week, including disputes over the constitutionality of a task force that sets preventative healthcare coverage requirements, a school district's introduction of LGBTQ-themed storybooks and whether parties can establish standing based on harms affecting third parties.
JURIST
APRIL 19, 2025
A federal judge on Friday ordered Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk to be returned to Vermont, where she will remain in custody, pending a bail hearing. Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, was detained by Department of Homeland (DHS) agents near the university’s Massachusetts campus last month after her F-1 student visa was revoked. Ozturk was briefly held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Vermont before she was transferred to an ICE facility in Louis
HowAppealing
APRIL 19, 2025
“The Supreme Courts Late-Night Rebuke to Trump Is Extraordinary in More Ways Than One; The court didnt even wait to let Alito write his dissent”: Mark Joseph Stern has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate. Online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “ The Supreme Court signals it might be losing patience with Trump; In an unusual overnight order, most of the justices voted to halt several illegal deportations.” And at his “One First” Substack site, St
JURIST
APRIL 19, 2025
Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Thursday that the escalating violence in Haiti is putting civilians at “grave risk,” urging the international community to protect human rights in the country. HRW said Haiti’s transitional government is unable to contain the spread of violence throughout the country while criminal groups maintain a hold on the capital of Port-au-Prince.
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HowAppealing
APRIL 19, 2025
“Inside the Urgent Fight Over the Trump Administrations New Deportation Effort; The push to deport a group of Venezuelans raises questions about whether the government is following a Supreme Court order requiring that migrants receive due process”: Hamed Aleaziz, Alan Feuer, and Annie Correal of The New York Times have this report. Adam Liptak of The New York Times reports that “ An Urgent Supreme Court Order Protecting Migrants Was Built for Speed; In an overnight ruling block
JURIST
APRIL 19, 2025
The Alabama House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday requiring K-12 public schools to display the Ten Commandments in common school areas and classrooms routinely used to teach US history. The bill states that displaying the Ten Commandments “with an appropriate context statement” is essential to educating students in “Civics, Government, History, Philosophy, Religion, and Sociology.” The bill provides that the context statement is to state: The Ten Commandmen
HowAppealing
APRIL 19, 2025
“Supreme Court blocks Trump from conducting more deportations under Alien Enemies Act; The 1 a.m. order came after lawyers rushed to the court to stop an imminent wave of deportations”: Ali Bianco, Hassan Ali Kanu, Kyle Cheney, and Josh Gerstein of Politico have this report. You can access today’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.
JURIST
APRIL 19, 2025
The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg in Russia sentenced activist Daria Kozyreva to two years and eight months in prison for discrediting the armed forces” by using 19th-century Ukrainian poetry and graffiti in protest of Russias war in Ukraine, according to local media sources. Kozyreva began her anti-war activism in 2022. That year, she was detained for spray-painting the words Murderers, you bombed it.
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Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?
HowAppealing
APRIL 19, 2025
“Playing Chicken With the Constitution: Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are revving up for a face off between the president and the courts.” You can access today’s new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.
JURIST
APRIL 19, 2025
The Supreme Court of Nebraska on Friday found provisions of a challenged criminal reform act, Legislative Bill 50 (LB50), constitutional. LB50, passed in 2023, is just one of a series of reform legislation enacted in recent years by Nebraska. State Attorney General Michael Hilgers took issue with LB50, arguing the provisions abridge the power of the executive branch to make commutations and is therefore unconstitutional.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 19, 2025
It has been a busy 24 hours in the courts. Early this morning, the Supreme Court blocked (for now) the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under the Alien Enemies Act, a law only used three times before in our history. At the same time, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the lower court’s order in the case of Abrego Garcia.
JURIST
APRIL 19, 2025
Polish President Andrzej Duda sent a bill to the Constitutional Tribunal Thursday for review. The bill seeks to expand on hate crimes provisions by adding sexual orientation, gender and others to the list of protected groups from hate crimes. The tribunal will consider whether the bill violates the constitutional right to free speech. The current Polish Penal Code includes Article 119 which prohibits hatred based on “the victim’s national, ethnic, racial, political or religious affil
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LLRX
APRIL 19, 2025
Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.
JURIST
APRIL 19, 2025
The US Supreme Court early Saturday morning temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s latest attempt to deport Venezuelan nationals under a 1798 law known as the Alien Enemies Act (AEA). The Trump administration claims that the detainees are members of the gang “Tren de Agua,” which it has listed as a terrorist organization. Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), representing two Venezuelan men subject to deportation, claimed federal officials informed R
Above The Law
APRIL 19, 2025
Every so often, someone pings the tipster line and asks some variant of, Why arent you more bipartisan? Many times this is couched in a stream of expletives. Often it’s technically addressed to a guy that hasn’t worked here since before the pandemic. I don’t know if these people just don’t know that Elie Mystal left or if they find addressing their remarks to him provides a better hook for the racial slurs they want to drop.
JURIST
APRIL 19, 2025
In yet another development within a one-week period in the wrongful deportation case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Thursday denied the Trump administration’s request for an emergency stay of a lower court order demanding Garcia’s return. Including the Supreme Court, this is now the third federal court to deliver yet another blow to the Trump administration in the Garcia case.
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