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by David Hricik, Mercer Law School. That, said the court, was unethical: “Although a client can decide on its own whether to directly contact his adversary, a lawyer cannot advise a client to contact his adversary, or do anything that the attorney could not do directly. In North Carolina Legal Eth. 2012-7 (Oct.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

By David Hricik, Mercer Law School. There is, however, case law to the contrary not acknowledged by the ABA. For example, North Carolina Legal Eth. 25, 2013) stated: The fact that Lawyer B copies her own client… standing alone, does not permit Lawyer A to ‘reply all.’ Ordinarily, under Model Rule 4.2

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

Do lawyers return to the office or not? And it is true that other states continue to look at various reform measures along these same lines, including Colorado, North Carolina and Illinois. Others were blocked out of courts by archaic rules that prevented individuals without lawyers from filing documents electronically.

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DECEMBER 28, 2021

Notably, the most-downloaded episode featured a discussion of how law schools should teach tech, with April G. Dawson , associate dean of technology and innovation and professor of law at North Carolina Central University School of Law. How Law Schools Should Teach Tech, with April Dawson.

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LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 4, 2020

Blue J Legal’s Ben Alarie and Elevate Service’s Warren Agin sit down with host Dennis Kennedy to discuss predictive analytics and how lawyers can better guide their clients by using historic data. HR 101 for Lawyers – Best Practices for Hiring and Firing. Forecast-Alytics: Understanding Litigation Analytics for Case Evaluation.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2021

We recently discussed the case of University of North Carolina law student Sagar Sharma, a student of color, who faced a recall election as the first-year class co-president. The charges are connected to the prior controversy and raise serious free speech and retaliatory concerns at the law school. .

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MyCase

MARCH 10, 2023

Accidentally commingling or misusing those funds can have very serious consequences for lawyers, so maintaining IOLTA account compliance is top of mind for many law firms. Unfortunately, most law schools don’t spend enough time going into the practical ways this is done.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Do lawyers return to the office or not? And it is true that other states continue to look at various reform measures along these same lines, including Colorado, North Carolina and Illinois. Others were blocked out of courts by archaic rules that prevented individuals without lawyers from filing documents electronically.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Bollinger that the University of Michigan Law School could consider race in its admissions process as part of its efforts to assemble a diverse student body. Federal courts in Boston and North Carolina rejected the group’s arguments and upheld the universities’ admissions policies, prompting the Supreme Court to take up the cases.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Share Walter Dellinger, a constitutional scholar and skilled advocate who argued 24 cases at the Supreme Court, died on Wednesday at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was a long-time member of the Duke Law School faculty, which he joined in 1969. William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2024

There is a curious resolution of a civil right complaint against University of Minnesota Law School over a diversity fellowship sponsored by the law firm of Jones Day. Despite being created by a law firm and administered by a law school, the fellowship violated federal law in excluding white and male applicants.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers report , for example, found that the average sentence for fraud defendants who went to trial in 2015 was three times higher than the sentence for those who pleaded guilty; for defendants charged with burglary and embezzlement, the sentence at trial was almost eight times higher.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 16, 2025

American Lawyer ] * A crypto business breaking the law? Law360 ] * What do we know about online law schools. [ ABA Journal ] * North Carolina GOP effort to toss 60,000 votes to win a state supreme court seat they have lost on multiple recounts includes some "surreal" challenges.

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LegalTalkNetwork

AUGUST 22, 2016

Author of “Liars, Lawyers, and the Art of Storytelling” and “Deadly Force”. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. Cynthia Cwik: Chair of the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law. Heather Rafter: Former Chair of the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law. United States.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 8, 2022

Then we all read the rationale from Law Dean William Treanor , who adopted a technicality that not only avoided a full endorsement of Shapiro’s rights but left a menacing uncertainty as to his (and any other conservative’s) future protections at Georgetown University Law School. It was a stupid and offensive tweet.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2022

the University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. The American Bar Association argues that diverse educational institutions teach lawyers how to better administer justice without implicit racial bias and stereotypes. Attorneys, and over 80% of lawyers at federal agencies overall.” Eleven deans of U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 3, 2022

Some of us immediately noted that Biden’s exclusionary criteria have been declared unconstitutional or unlawful by the court for schools and businesses; they also are unprecedented , unnecessary , and unfair to potential nominees. Judge Jackson’s nomination magnified the controversy in an unexpected way. In 2003, in Grutter v.

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Above The Law

MARCH 14, 2025

From unexpected courtroom experiences to the role of technology in modern law practice, Edward shares his journey from family law to the largest personal injury firm in North Carolina. Discover the highs and lows of lawyering and learn why finding your fit can make all the difference in work-life balance.

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Above The Law

MAY 1, 2023

Bloomberg Law News ] * North Carolina overrules precedent from last year because nothing matters and it's just a superlegislature. Law360 ] * Sugar daddy lawyer sued young woman for $166 million. Splash 247 ] * A profile on how ASS Law leverages Supreme Court connections to artificially inflate its apparent prestige. [

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. Boynton went on to spend his career as a civil rights lawyer (even though his home state of Alabama refused to give him a law license for six years because of his involvement in the Supreme Court case). Bernard Sol Cohen.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2021

This trend has reached law schools, which is ominous since these students are the future judges and lawyers who are expected to defend these core principles. From high schools through law schools, free speech has gone from being considered a right that defines our society to being dismissed as a threat.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2022

She has called for “genuine” law professors not to fall “into complicity with lawlessness” in teaching such subjects. It is the latest voice of intolerance and orthodoxy at a leading law school. In the age of rage, calls for radical action from both professors and students have been particularly amplified at Georgetown University.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

She also pays tribute to some of her mentors, such as Judge Patti Saris, the federal trial judge for whom she clerked during her first year out of law school, and Fran Berger, the coach of the high school debate team where a teenage Jackson found community and confidence in a predominantly white school.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

When Berkeley Law School Dean and constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky taught Criminal Procedure in the Fall of 2019, he became frustrated when he realized many of the cases that were the subject of his lectures ended with the police winning and the rights of suspects losing. CHEMERINSKY: I think it’s a terrible change.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 24, 2021

There is a new legal challenge over academic freedom and free speech brought by former University of Miami Law School Professor Dan Ravicher. Such complaints can be the precursor for litigation and there is every indication that Ravicher is intent on a showdown with Miami Law School. He then committed suicide.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Encountering barriers as a young female lawyer In September 1946, then 16-year-old Sandra Day enrolled at Stanford. She wrote in Lazy B that she “felt poorly prepared compared to the other freshmen,” but she was admitted to a program that allowed her to start law school at Stanford in her senior year, as one of only four women in her class.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2025

The problem, Biden admitted, was his own lawyers told him that it would be flagrantly unconstitutional. Given the makeup of most law schools, it is relatively easy to produce a virtual flash mob of faculty to support anything from packing the Court to unilateral ratification declarations. According to Gallup, the U.S.

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