Attorney at Work
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Danielle DavisRoe | Learn to use Word's built-in compare feature to redline legal documents and you'll know exactly what changes are made by reviewers. The post How to Quickly Redline Legal Documents With Word’s Built-In Compare Feature appeared first on Attorney at Work.
LawSites
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Yesterday, I attended the Harvard Law AI Summit organized by the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School. It was a fairly intimate, invitation-only gathering of roughly 65 people, held under the Chatham House Rule, meaning that participants were free to use the information we received, but we agreed not to disclose the identity or affiliation of the speakers or participants.
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JURIST
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The UK High Court began hearing on Wednesday 16 legal challenges, filed mostly by victims’ families, against the recently enacted Northern Ireland (Troubles & Reconciliation) Act. The act , which grants amnesty to former soldiers and militants involved in an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles, became law on Tuesday when it received Royal Assent.
ABA Journal
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
A lawyer’s Maine law license has been suspended after he tried to get continuing legal education credit for attending online programs that happened at the…
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Attorney at Work
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Mark C. Palmer | Q: "How can I show my firm that using generative AI shouldn’t be intimidating and can be done within ethical guidelines?" The post Harnessing ChatGPT: A Primer for Lawyers appeared first on Attorney at Work.
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Above The Law
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
You get a conflict! And you get a conflict! The post Georgia Prosecutors Ask Court To Probe Trumpland Lawyers’ Many, Many Conflicts appeared first on Above the Law.
SCOTUSBlog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Share The Biden administration on Thursday afternoon asked the Supreme Court to temporarily block a lower court’s order that would limit its ability to communicate with social media companies over content moderation policies. U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar told the justices that if the “unprecedented” order is allowed to stand, it would put a Louisiana district judge in charge of overseeing the executive branch’s communications with social media companies.
The IP Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Last year, Jason M. Allen won first place at the Colorado State Fair (the “Competition”) for the two-dimensional artwork entitled Théâtre D’opéra Spatial (the “Work”), which he produced with the aid of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). Despite receiving this accolade and Allen’s arguments that he contributed significant creative elements to the AI-generated Work, his attempts to copyright the work have been unsuccessful.
Attorney at Work
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
The problem of the shortage of rural lawyers now has a label. Areas with few or no lawyers are now called "legal deserts." The post The Problem of Too Few Rural Lawyers appeared first on Attorney at Work.
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JURIST
SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
Over 50 rights groups expressed their concerns to Chinese President Xi Jinping about the forcible returns of North Korean escapees detained by Chinese authorities. These groups call upon China to end its forcible repatriation of North Korean detainees in accordance with the non-refoulement principle in international law. The letter addresses the potential forceful repatriation of the detainees in China after the reopening of North Korea’s border on August 27.
ABA Journal
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Many public defenders are “overloaded” with work, even when caseloads are evaluated under outdated guidelines drafted in 1973 that don't reflect modern-day realities, according to…
Above The Law
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
From the 'hey at least we're trying something' department. The post Push To Strip Fox’s Broadcast License Over Election Lies Gains New Momentum appeared first on Above the Law.
LawSites
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
It has been a while since I have written about the copyright lawsuit by legal research giant Thomson Reuters against the no-shuttered legal research startup Ross Intelligence, in which TR alleges that Ross stole copyright content from Westlaw to build its own completing legal research product. But today, the judge overseeing the case, 3 rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephanos Bibas, sitting by designation in the U.S.
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The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Across the nation, we’ve seen an exponential expansion in attempts to pass legislation to decriminalize certain drugs–most recently psychedelics. A recent analysis of US legislation related to psychedelics found that since 2019, 25 states have considered 74 psychedelic reform bills, 10 of which were successfully enacted. By the end of 2022, there were 36 pieces of active psychedelic drug legislative initiatives, and now, a bill to legalize certain naturally occurring psychedelics in California
SCOTUSBlog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Alabama’s request to allow it to use a congressional map in the 2024 elections that a lower court had concluded likely violates the Voting Rights Act. The brief unsigned order, from which there were no public dissents, came less than four months after a divided Supreme Court agreed that the 2021 iteration of the map violated federal law by weakening the collective voting power of Black voters in the state.
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023
Approximately 150 Japanese fishermen, hailing from the Fukushima Prefecture filed a lawsuit on Friday in the district court of Japanese jurisdiction. The defendants in this case are the government and the TEPCO company. This legal action revolves around the discharge of radioactive treated water from the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant. The fishermen assert that the release of potentially hazardous material violates their right to fish.
ABA Journal
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Former federal appeals Judge Richard Posner must face a lawsuit alleging that he never paid a promised $120,000 annual salary to an employee who co-led…
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Above The Law
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Who could possibly be holding up the Court's adoption of ethical standards? The post Elena Kagan Thinks It Would Be A ‘Good Thing’ For The Supreme Court To Have An Ethics Code appeared first on Above the Law.
LawSites
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Finalists have been named for the 2023 American Legal Technology Awards , which honor exceptional achievement in various aspects of legal technology. Winners will be announced at a gala dinner at Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville on Oct. 8, the night before the Clio Cloud Conference starts at the same venue. Use this link for a special discount code ($75 off) for LawSites readers.
Patently O
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
by Dennis Crouch The Copyright Act has a seemingly simple three year statute of limitations: No civil action shall be maintained under the provisions of this title unless it is commenced within three years after the claim accrued. 17 U.S.C. 507(b). It is somewhat surprising then that the Supreme Court has just granted certiorari in a case asking whether the statute “precludes retrospective relief for acts that occurred more than three years before the filing of a lawsuit.” Warner Cha
SCOTUSBlog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Share The Supreme Court on Friday issued orders from its so-called “long conference” – the justices’ private conference in the last week of September, at which they met for the first time since the end of June to add new cases to their docket. This year the long conference yielded 12 new grants, on topics ranging from controversial laws seeking to regulate social media companies ( covered in a separate story ) to property rights and bankruptcy fees.
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JURIST
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Armenian state news agency Armenpress reported Friday that the country’s parliament will consider ratifying the Rome Statute. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is the treaty that established the ICC. Armenia signed the Rome Statute in October 1999 but has not ratified it. In 2004, Armenia’s Constitutional Court found that the Rome Statute did not comply with the country’s 1995 constitution.
ABA Journal
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
We are in the midst of dramatic changes in many areas of constitutional law. Thirty years ago, I wrote the first edition of a constitutional law casebook. I have just completed the seventh edition, and never has so much changed from the prior edition or since I began writing the book.
Above The Law
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
‘Commercial data, commercial processing is not classified. It does not matter that the DoD wishes it were,’ said Barbara Golf, special advisor to Space Systems Command. The post Pentagon Plans To Transfer ‘High Accuracy’ Space Tracking Data To Commerce appeared first on Above the Law.
LawSites
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
The American Legal Technology Awards launched in 2020 with a mission to honor those innovating in the legal space. It was founded by three friends (a lawyer, a law professor, and a legal tech entrepreneur) and is truly a grassroots effort with a big heart. The Awards also boasts 28 world-class judges and 10 award categories, including lifetime achievement.
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