JURIST

MAY 19, 2025

The UN expressed criticism of the Maldives Parliament’s dismissal of two judges from the Supreme Court on Monday, claiming that the government’s recent anti-corruption investigations targeted at Supreme Court judges threaten the independence of the judiciary.

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APRIL 8, 2025

Calling legal professionals, recruiters and coaches: Volunteer to help government lawyers who've lost their jobs. The post Get Involved: Volunteer to Support Federal Government Lawyers Job Searches appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Amnesty International called on the Chinese government to release human rights lawyers Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi, who have been jailed for subversion by attending a social gathering on 26 December 2019. The post Amnesty International urges China to release human rights lawyers detained since 2019 appeared first on JURIST - News.

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MAY 13, 2025

“SCOTUS, Meet The Broligarchs: Kara Swisher with the briefing constitutional lawyers need to understand big techs federal government takeover.” ” You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The UN Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus reported on Friday that the Belarusian government committed widespread human rights violations, including crimes against humanity against its civilian population to suppress opposition to President Aleksandr Lukashenko.

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JURIST

MAY 13, 2024

The Tunisia Lawyers Council called Sunday for a nationwide strike after police conducted a raid on the headquarters of Tunisia’s bar association and arrested Sonia Dahmani, a prominent critic of the government. These arrests come amid an increasing crackdown by the Tunisian government on dissidents and critics using Decree 54.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

On Friday, various academic lawyers from across the UK and abroad signed an open letter to Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, accusing the government of “attacking” mostly immigration lawyers for advising and representing clients – especially those seeking asylum.

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JURIST

APRIL 16, 2025

” The Tunisian government not responded to HRW’s latest findings. The post HRW: Tunisia government using arbitrary detention to suppress dissent appeared first on JURIST - News. “People are being prosecuted not for what they did, but for who they are or what they believe.”

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Besigye’s lawyer, Eron Kiiza, was later arrested after reportedly shouting at a court martial after being denied entry to the reserved space for lawyers at a court hearing. The post Rights groups urge Kenya government to end abductions and renditions appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

MARCH 4, 2025

A Nigerian government official on Sunday addressed the Supreme Court’s annulment of local elections, after months of silence, with the view that while he disagreed with the decision, he would respect the court’s ruling.The Supreme Court of Nigeria nullified the local government elections in the Rivers State on October 5, 2024.

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JURIST

MAY 16, 2024

In an unprecedented move, striking lawyers across Tunisia rallied in front of court buildings in Tunis on Thursday, effectively bringing all court proceedings to a halt. This unified action comes in response to what legal professionals are describing as a dangerous escalation by the government targeting their community.

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JURIST

JANUARY 16, 2025

A UN expert expressed concern Thursday over Trkiyes misuse” of counter-terrorism laws to detain nine prominent human rights defenders and lawyers. Among the detained are eight members of the rights-focused Progressive Lawyers Association (HD). The organization has been targeted by the Turkish government.

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JURIST

AUGUST 8, 2023

The UK government announced a new task force to target “crooked” immigration lawyers on Tuesday. Home Secretary Suella Braverman said lawyers who assist migrants with bogus asylum claims are common and “must be rooted out and brought to justice.”

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A former Australian government lawyer Tuesday informed a royal commission that he withheld legal advice that the Robodebt scheme , an automated debt assessment and recovery method utilized by Services Australia from 2015 through 2019, was illegal.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

If United Healthcare considered spending more on a cancer patient and less on lawyers to sue doctors for pointing out they didn’t spend on the cancer patient they wouldn’t be getting so thoroughly dragged online. The post Insurer Spending On Lawyers Rather Than, You Know, Healthcare appeared first on Above the Law.

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HowAppealing

MAY 29, 2025

“Kannon Shanmugam to join Harvard Corporation; Alumnus of College and HLS elected to Universitys senior governing board”: The Harvard Gazette has this report. And in news coverage, Janet Lorin of Bloomberg News reports that “ Harvard Picks Conservative Lawyer to Serve on Powerful Board.”

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Around 5,000 Moroccan lawyers protested a series of judicial reforms proposed by the government in Rabat on Saturday which would significantly diminish the role of defence lawyers and harm the integrity of the justice system. The post Thousands of lawyers protest judicial reforms in Morocco appeared first on JURIST - News.

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MAY 20, 2025

A former clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia and then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh was tapped on Thursday to defend a lower court ruling before the Supreme Court this fall in a Georgia mans challenge to the federal governments efforts to collect restitution from him. Therefore, the government posited, Ellingburg would lose in any event.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Chikwanda stressed the need for the government to honor its domestic and international human rights commitments. Zgambo’s arrest, following the publication of an article critical of government officials, marks his third detention in the past year. Zgambo’s repeated arrests reflect broader human rights issues in Zambia.

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JURIST

JUNE 18, 2024

A group of human rights organizations in a joint statement released on Tuesday called on the government of Tunisia to end its recent crackdown on free speech and free association and to uphold respect for human rights as attacks on journalists, lawyers and human rights groups have “significantly escalated” in the last month.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Here’s a guide to building and managing your lawyer referrals network. The Ask: How to Approach the Referral Source Deploying Your Lawyer Referrals Network Rules and Boundaries for Getting and Giving Lawyer Referrals 1. Work out the details, and inform the client How to Give Lawyer Referrals: Three Steps 1.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Amnesty International (AI) issued a statement Monday urging Ethiopian authorities to stop using the country’s state of emergency as a medium to “silence peaceful dissent” by arbitrarily detaining politicians and journalists critical of the government. ” The US previously called for an investigation into the killings.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Hill Dickinson , a UK-based firm with offices in Asia and the Mediterranean, had to send out an email blast telling lawyers to knock off all the AI stuff after realizing just how often the firm used generative AI tools in their work. Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer.

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JURIST

APRIL 10, 2025

Other groups have also faced repression in Egypt, including human rights defenders and lawyers. Further, a coalition of human rights organizations released a joint statement last year calling on the Egyptian government to stop the recent targeting and retaliation of human rights lawyers.

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Above The Law

MARCH 13, 2025

If youre an in-house lawyer facing job uncertainty, these words might feel like little consolation. Many in-house lawyers enter the corporate and government world expecting stability. Packing Your Parachute Before The Jump Many lawyers dont think about career transitions until theyre forced to do so. The best thing?

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Above The Law

APRIL 29, 2025

law firms facing heightened government scrutiny, and federal agencies being stripped to the bone, its no wonder lawyers are feeling uneasy. 3: Dont Cut Back On Marketing And Business Development I recently heard a lawyer say their firm planned to tighten the belt due to economic concerns.

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Above The Law

APRIL 21, 2025

ABA Journal has coverage: A lawyer who worked for the U.S. government, according to the April 16 opinion by the Appellate Divisions Second Judicial Department of the New York Supreme Court. The post Ready Or Not, Former DOJ Lawyer Could Be Facing Disbarment appeared first on Above the Law. Maybe he can join a Family Business ?

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Tokyo’s High Court found the government of Japan not liable Tuesday for damages related to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and associated mass evacuations, leaving responsibility solely with plant operator the Tokyo Electric Power Co. There is also a 2022 court case that found TEPCO executives personally liable.

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JURIST

MAY 5, 2024

.” The charity said its legal action against the Rwanda plan aims to ensure the government does not overlook “evidence of individual risk in Rwanda cases,” and to prevent cases from being unlawfully blocked from being admitted into the asylum system. Three people have been charged with obstruction of the highway.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A group of South Sudanese lawyers filed a petition on Monday in the Constitutional Court of South Sudan to challenge the decision of the government of President Salva Kiir Mayardit to extend the transitional period by two years and postpone the general elections from December 2024 to December 2026.

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JURIST

JANUARY 29, 2025

An Ethiopian government body overseeing civil society ordered the halt of the operations of the Ethiopian Human Rights Council and Ethiopian Human Rights Defenders Center in December 2024. While CARD and LHR briefly had their suspensions lifted on December 11, 2024, the ban was reinstated a few days later.

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Above The Law

MARCH 12, 2025

Whittaker argued that the world today is more surveilled than ever before, with a handful of corporations and governments wielding unprecedented access to our personal data. Her comments highlighted the risks that everyone but especially lawyers, given our duty of confidentiality need to take seriously.

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Above The Law

MARCH 5, 2025

. — Lauren Drake , a recruiter at Macrae, in comments given to the American Lawyer , on whether more Biglaw firms will revise their office attendance policies to mandate that attorneys spend four days each week working from the office. firms have practices before the federal government, she said.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Toronto-based cycling advocacy group Cycle Toronto along with two individual cyclists, Eva Stranger-Ross and Narada Kiondo have filed a court challenge on Wednesday against new legislation granting the Ontario government authority over the installation and removal of municipal bike lanes.

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MARCH 12, 2025

The most viral moment comes from a back and forth about DEI and if government agencies receive tax cuts for hiring people of color (they don’t): Sam Seder’s critical thinking chops are presumably heterogeneous, but some of the honing may have come from his time at Boston University School of Law.

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JURIST

JULY 16, 2024

Thousands of lawyers in the Indian capital city of Delhi protested against provisions of three new criminal laws on Monday. The lawyers said the new criminal laws are draconian and in opposition to litigants’ interests. Sharma said that lawyers from seven district courts around the capital participated in Monday’s strike.

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JURIST

JULY 7, 2024

The Tunis Court of First Instance sentenced lawyer and columnist Sonia Dahmani Saturday to one year in prison following public comments she made about the country refusing sub-Saharan African migrants from Europe, local media reported. Tunisian lawyers previously went on strike after Dahmani was arrested in May.

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