NCBA
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
By Sarah L. White In North Carolina, while the File & Serve (eFiling) system is widely implemented to streamline the filing process, there are still significant inconsistencies across different counties and courts. These inconsistencies can create challenges for legal professionals, including paralegals, who need to navigate the system for filing documents.
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Artificial intelligence has gone from science fiction to boardroom reality, and if youre an in-house lawyer, chances are youre grappling with its implications already. The rise of Generative AI and Agentic AI isnt just reshaping industries; its creating legal and ethical questions that demand attention. What exactly are these two AI categories, and why does it matter for your role?
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Above The Law
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
The federal judiciary — which employs more than 30,000 people, including several thousand judicial law clerks — is the most dangerous white-collar workplace in America. The toxic combination of pervasive harassment ; lack of outside, impartial oversight ; and dearth of impartial, effective mechanisms to report create an outrageous lack of accountability.
Rocket Matter
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
The post Digital Transformation for Law Firms: A Guide to Modernizing Your Practice appeared first on Rocket Matter. Learn how big tech has changed the legal industry Free Guide The Small Firms Guide to Big Tech While any change in how you operate your law office can feel overwhelming, theres never been a better time to start migrating your office structures online.
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Above The Law
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Law firms are under immense pressure to handle larger, more complex caseloads while improving efficiency. According to recent research from Ari Kaplan Advisors the median number of cases that midsize to large law firms manage per year is 200. The majority (83%) of law firms expect this number to rise in the next 12 to 18 months. Whats making legal work even more complex is that the volume of data in every case is increasingyet firms lack the technology needed to manage that data.
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CARET Legal
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
A centralized case management system consolidates all client interactions, case updates, and decisions in one place, reducing the learning curve and allowing new team members to get up to speed faster. Successful onboarding connects a new hire with your firms processes, active cases, and client expectations. The right tools reduce the time it takes for new team members to get up to speed by centralizing information and simplifying collaboration.
FDA Law Blog
FEBRUARY 23, 2025
By Steven J. Gonzalez & Allyson B. Mullen As the device industry is well aware, one of the greyest areas in device regulation (of which there are many) is determining when changes to a 510(k)-cleared device trigger the need for a new clearance. FDA requires a new 510(k) clearance when a modification to an existing 510(k)-cleared device (or other existing device subject to 510(k) requirements) could significantly affect the safety or effectiveness of the device.
CosmoLex
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
As competition grows fiercer in today’s legal sector, law firms are confronted by the new reality that they can no longer just rely on the quality of their legal services. Instead, they must embrace strategic marketing to set themselves apart. Winning cases may be your forte, but landing those cases often starts long before a client steps into your office.
Attorney at Work
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Marc Lauritsen | We may not welcome artificial minds into our law societies, but they will grace our workplaces. The post Societies of Legal Minds: A Lens on AI appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker
Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
The Taliban announced on Thursday that Afghanistan would no longer recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) , asserting that Afghanistan’s 2003 accession to the Rome Statute is declared to be legally void after ICC prosecutor Karim Khan sought arrest warrants for Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and the Chief Justice of Afghanistan Abdul Hakim Haqqani last month.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a group of Virginia drivers challenging a state motor vehicle law was not entitled to reimbursement of their attorneys fees even though a federal district court issued an order in their favor that temporarily prohibited the state from enforcing the law and the states legislature repealed the law. By a vote of 7-2, the court held that the drivers are not prevailing parties for purposes of a federal law that allows the winners in some civil rights case
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
This week, UnitedHealth Group faced two new investigations from federal lawmakers. The first was a senators probe into its Medicare Advantage billing practices, and the second was a Congressman’s investigation into a decline in care quality at Optum-owned clinics in New York. The post UnitedHealth Hit with 2 New Federal Probes in 1 Week appeared first on MedCity News.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
In Japan, climate litigation ( / Kiko soshou ) has been used to challenge the legality of the construction and operation of the coal-fired power plants and promote coal phase-out. The first climate case in Japan was filed in Sendai in 2017 ( Sendai Citizens v. Sendai Power Station ). Subsequently, two administrative cases were filed, one in Kobe in 2018 ( Citizens Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v.
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Amnesty International on Thursday welcomed the acquittal of prominent refugee rights lawyer and former chair of the organization’s Trkiye branch, Taner Kl , following an eight-year judicial process but expressed concern over continued repression of human rights activists. In its statement, the human rights organization said that Kl’s case exemplifies the Turkish authorities’ attempts to criminalize human rights advocacy through politically motivated prosecutions.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday was sympathetic to an Ohio woman who alleges that she was the victim of reverse discrimination. Marlean Ames contends that she lost out on a promotion that she wanted, and then was demoted, simply because she is straight. With Ames and her employer in what Justice Neil Gorsuch described as radical agreement that federal employment laws impose the same requirements on all plaintiffs, a solid majority (if not all) of the justices appeared ready to overturn a ru
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
There’s a lot thats shocking about the Department of Justice’s latest hire — former Oregon judge, Vance Day. Day has a *history* of questionable behavior that got him the longest suspension (at the time) in the history of the Oregon bar. But, for my money, the most WTF moment (and in the year of our lord 2025, that is saying SOMETHING) is that Day hung a portrait of none other than Adolf Hitler in the courthouse.
EvidenceProf Blog
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
This will be the biggest week for the Adnan Syed case in a long time. On Wednesday, Adnan will have his Juvenile Restoration Act hearing, and Baltimore City State's Attorney Ivan Bates has promised that this week will also feature.
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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?
JURIST
FEBRUARY 23, 2025
US Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys have asked a federal court in Texas to end a temporary pause on a case accusing Elon Musk’s tech company SpaceX of discriminating against immigrant job applicants. The DOJ’s motion to end the preliminary injunction a temporary court order preventing one party from taking further legal action until the judge issues a final judgmentaims to lift the injunction within 30 days.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
“Supreme Court Rejects Holocaust Survivors Suit Against Hungary; The justices unanimously ruled that the plaintiffs had not established a connection to the United States required by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. And Maureen Groppe of USA Today has an article headlined “ Unemployment benefits: Supreme Court says these workers can sue over delays; State labor departments are supposed to issue most of the of first payment
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Prospective law students, current law students, and law school alumni are eagerly awaiting the release of the 2025 U.S. News Law School Rankings, which usually occurs sometime in March. Will U.S. News dare to change its rankings methodology yet again? We suppose well have to wait and see but what if we told you that we had an admissions-based preview of those rankings?
EvidenceProf Blog
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Yesterday, Baltimore City State's Attorney Ivan Bates moved to withdraw the Motion to Vacate in the Adnan Syed case. There are two parts of the motion to withdraw: (1) the question of whether there was a Brady violation; and (2).
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
European Parliament’s Trkiye rapporteur, Nacho Sanchez Amor, expressed concern on Monday that persistent human rights violations and democratic regression in Trkiye are receiving diminished criticism from the European Union (EU) due to Ankara’s perceived shift away from its candidacy for EU membership. Amor highlighted the EU’s waning focus on Trkiye’s accession process, suggesting that Brussels and Ankara have deprioritized this agenda.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Share Gary Waetzig filed an age discrimination suit against his former employer, Halliburton. He then dismissed the suit when the company pointed out that he had agreed to arbitrate. When he lost in arbitration and tried to return to federal court, the statute of limitations on the alleged age discrimination had passed, and he asked the court instead to grant relief from the previous order of dismissal, essentially reopening that first case.
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Last week, I presented Part I of my written interview with Lindzee Barrera, a former Division I college golfer turned entrepreneur. That column presented her answer to the first of my three questions and focused on the current state of play for Lindzee and her company, Birdie Girl , on the trademark litigation front. What follows are Lindzees answers to my remaining two questions.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
“Supreme Court Poised to Rule for Straight Woman in Discrimination Case; Justices across the ideological spectrum and lawyers on both sides agreed that an appeals court erred in requiring members of majority groups to meet a heightened burden”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post reports that “ Supreme Court seems poised to lower bar for Whites to sue for job bias; Marlean Ames challenged rulings requiring members of majorit
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