Above The Law

APRIL 3, 2025

Jeffery Williams, Barter 6 rapper and belt holder for the longest trial in Georgia’s history, is back in the hot seat. Georgia just filed a motion claiming that the “if” moment already happened. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.

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The Estrin Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Principal The Saunders Firm Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, 2009 LinkedIn. Here’s how Amber Saunders sums up what she does in her field of law: “I make trust fund babies.” You may be practicing law for a long time. In this column, we zero in on their top tips. Amber Saunders.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 18, 2023

Are you a paralegal Who’s wondering if you should go to law school? Should I take my paralegal career to the next level and go to law school? Now I’m not the right person to answer that question because the only time that I contemplated going to law school was when I was in a job that I didn’t like.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 3, 2022

Breaking The Stranglehold : Standardized tests may soon be optional for law schools. Your Move, HOV Lane : Georgia finance officials confirm that embryos can be claimed as deductions. Breaking The Schools : Oklahoma's war on what they imagine to be critical race theory is taking its toll.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 5, 2025

Michael argues that although private international law is increasingly important in our interconnected world, it has fallen out of favor at top U.S. law schools. To quote from the Essay: Private international law has not lost its jurisprudential import. Symeonides (Willamette University College of Law) Carlos M.

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Above The Law

APRIL 17, 2025

Considering that Georgia tried to get Thug’s parole revoked for a tweet he made about an investigator, he has to drop the album with the expectation that at least someone will be assigned to pick through the musical showcase for any hint of criminal activity: fictive or otherwise.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 24, 2023

Rhymes You Can Take Notes From: Georgia Law is offering a Rick Ross class. Barbie Would Be Proud: This law school just enrolled its largest class of women. Stroock Still Hasn't Struck A Merging Partner: Some of the lawyers won't stick around to see who the lucky winner is.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 13, 2025

During three fierce days 34 Moot teams from all over Europe and as far as Georgia, Kazakhstan, India, Singapore and Uzbekistan pleaded against each other. They relied on old and new case law, reports and legal scholarship. At the end, the University of Ljubljana won the competition, with Jindal Law School as the runner-up.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 28, 2022

Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, 2009. Here’s how Amber Saunders sums up what she does in her field of law: “I make trust fund babies.” You may be practicing law for a long time. Many of my law school professors loved their practice area but hated working for big law firms.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 30, 2021

And they say it gets better after law school.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Rick DeMedeiros , the Founder of DeMedeiros Injury Law , is a workers’ compensation lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia, a certified mediator, and a YouTuber who recently started his own channel called, The Work Comp Guy. Yes, from high school on, I knew I wanted to be an attorney, but I wasn’t entirely sure in which area I would specialize.

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LawSites

MARCH 11, 2024

Yet when Malamud and his organization Public.Resource.Org , sought to publish the official statutes of the state of Georgia, the state sued him , accusing him in its court filing of engaging in “terrorism.” holding that Georgia could not claim a copyright in the annotations contained in its official code. Public.Resource.Org, Inc.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 7, 2021

District attorneys around the country are deeply involved in lobbying for tough criminal justice legislation, but the minority of prosecutors who push for reform measures exert a powerful influence on state legislators, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Law School.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

“In 17 states, judges with no law degree are permitted to adjudicate eviction cases.”. In Georgia, they must be at least 25, have earned a high school diploma or equivalent, and register to vote. Instead, the researchers note that an idea for law schools to invest in joint social work and J.D.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Groups from New York Law School (not to be confused with New York University Law School, I am reminded whenever I interview a professor from the former) and the New York City Law Department are sworn in. Only a few people elsewhere in the courtroom are doing so. That was normal.”.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 7, 2024

Georgia Antonopoulou (University of Birmingham) From 24 to 26 September 2024 , the International Writing Workshop ‘Reimagining Access to Justice: An Equitable Research Partnership with Southeast Asia’ will take place in Jakarta, Indonesia. Antonopoulou, Birmingham Law School, the University of Birmingham ( g.antonopoulou@bham.ac.uk ).

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LegalTalkNetwork

AUGUST 6, 2019

AALL 2019: Does Georgia Hold a Copyright To Its Annotated Code? Who owns the law? Courtney, Cornell Law School’s Kim Nayyer, and Fordham University School of Law’s Todd Melnick. Stay tuned to hear about the pending SCOTUS case, Georgia v. Kim Nayyer : Associate Dean at Cornell Law School.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 1, 2021

law school program to integrate business, technology and entrepreneurship into an experiential course for J.D. It is an innovative partnership between Emory Law and Georgia Tech that brings together graduate students in law, business, science and engineering. The TI:GER ® program is the first U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther chair in American history at Fordham University and adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School. Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v.

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Connor Reporting

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Ethical considerations and requirements, as well as new case precedents, mistrials and sanctions are popping up daily throughout the country due to the misuse and lack of understanding of the affect social media now has in the work environment and practice of law. The presentation qualifies for 1 hour of Ethics MCLE credit.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Written by Georgia Antonopoulou (Birmingham Law School) & Xandra Kramer (Erasmus University/Utrecht University ; research funded by an NWO Vici grant, www.euciviljustice.eu ). We are grateful to Nicolas Kyriakides (University of Nicosia ) for providing us with very useful information.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 4, 2024

I actually was getting my college degree because I wanted to go on to law school. One of the professors had a criminal justice degree and it was in his criminal justice class. He had a friend who was the office manager at a local law firm, in Sarasota, Florida. I went and interviewed for the position.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The survey covered The Ohio State University, University of Nebraska-Omaha, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Georgia, Cornell University, University of Oklahoma and the University of Alaska-Anchorage.

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Above The Law

JUNE 13, 2024

The post Law Professors Should Teach The YSL RICO Case To Their Students appeared first on Above the Law. Chief Judge Glainville is doing more than creating a mockery of his robes. He's creating learning opportunities!

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

the morning of a critical meeting at Harvard Law School, where I worked. Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain and l were sitting down with Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed , the founders of a legal research startup named Ravel Law, along with lawyers from Harvard’s Office of General Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton and Gundersen Dettmer.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 21, 2023

The wife, domiciled in Georgia, USA, argued for the application of the matrimonial property regime of South Africa – their only (though temporary) common matrimonial domicile. In determining the applicable law, the Court upheld the traditional approach , which favours lex situs for real property and lex domicilii for personal property.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Target customer: Small and medium law firms, nonprofit immigration legal departments and law school clinics. Our customers consist of nonprofit legal departments, small and medium law firms, local government agencies, and law school clinics. Pricing: Subscription. Traction: We have more than 200 users.

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ALPS

APRIL 22, 2021

In March of 2020, just as Katie Peterson’s first year of law school was nearing its close, everything changed. As Katie rounds out a full year of remote law school, she and ALPS Claims Attorney Martha Amrine reflect on how 2020 upended long-held law school traditions and created new ones. Transcript: .

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Above The Law

AUGUST 5, 2022

I know you know law school is expensive, but most people just think that means tuition. California's Governor pulls a "Come to Death Row Records" to spite Georgia. [ appeared first on Above the Law. This isn't hyperbole. Even I can admit this is funny. [ The textbooks ain't cheap neither. The post Morning Docket: 08.05.22

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Georgia will take the justices back to law-school basics – the case could be a question on a law-school examination in criminal law. Because that is what happened here, he says, the decision of the Georgia Supreme Court should be reversed. Share Tuesday’s argument in McElrath v. The facts are simple.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Target customer: Small and medium law firms, nonprofit immigration legal departments and law school clinics. Our customers consist of nonprofit legal departments, small and medium law firms, local government agencies, and law school clinics. Pricing: Subscription. Traction: We have more than 200 users.

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Above The Law

JULY 20, 2022

Slate Pitch : The slate of fake electors in Georgia seem to be working overtime to pin this on someone else. Important Information : In all seriousness, the latest Black Student's Guide To Law Schools And Firms is out. Let's Play The Pyramid : Former Biglaw partner pleads guilty to role in Ponzi scheme.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 18, 2022

Vigilante Justice Firearm Laws. The law professors detail that the small arms race arises from three main “troubling” legal implications, and it’s looking at the examples of Wisconsin and Georgia’s laws that “exemplify this perilous confluence.”. The forthcoming paper can be accessed here.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The real limit on this is political,” said William & Mary Law School professor Jeffrey Bellin. In Georgia, to openly disagree with voting restrictions, Gwinnett County prosecutors vowed not to punish anyone for the “crime of distributing food or water to voters in line,” the Associated Press found.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Russell Covey, a professor at Georgia State University College of Law who has studied plea bargaining, has outlined how this sentence “ceiling” tied to the best plea offer could work in practice.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

My siblings and I were born and raised in rural Georgia in a small town named Manchester. I dreamed big in a small place and challenged myself to set my mind to become a lawyer, even though there were no other lawyers in my family and no African American lawyers in the small town of Manchester, Georgia.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Brandon Hasbrouck is an assistant professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, has written an article in The Nation calling for a new form of reparations based on voting. the outcomes in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were worryingly close.”.

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