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Plagiarism Panic Hits The Courtroom (Again), And It’s Still Nonsense

Above The Law

Lets get one thing straight: there are many ways for a lawyer to mess up a case. It seems that Puerto Rico’s capital city decided to get in on the action a year after the fact and filed its own case. Casting your client as a carbon copy of an earlier, favorable case is the whole point of a common law system.

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US law schools help communities during eviction crisis

JURIST

The White House and the Justice Department announced Friday that 99 law schools across 35 states and Puerto Rico answered the attorney general’s call for action to help communities during the housing and eviction crisis. Please keep working for equal justice for all and stay hopeful.”

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Transforming legal borders: International judicial cooperation and technology in private international law – Part I

Conflict of Laws

1] ** Lawyer and notary, Law School, National University of Córdoba, Argentina. Law School, Master in International Business Law, Complutense University of Madrid. Assistant professor in Private International Law and Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, National University of Córdoba.

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Rapid-Development Platforms For Lawyers: A Conversation With Brittany Hernandez

Above The Law

In Season 10, Episode 6 of “Notes to My (Legal) Self,” Brittany Hernandez, head of legal innovation at Gavel, shared her unique journey from military service to law school and, ultimately, to becoming a champion of no-code platforms. Lawyers can create workflows to automate repetitive tasks. Client-Facing Products.

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Greater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan

SCOTUSBlog

He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. The nation’s African American leaders, from Frederick Douglass on down, were intensely focused on Harlan’s arguments, and he helped to inspire future generations of African American lawyers. These attorneys were of the first generation of truly wealthy lawyers. The back story.

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Renewables are key to a just energy future for Puerto Rico

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Puerto Rico’s already troubled energy system was devastated by Hurricane Maria in 2017 and a magnitude 6.4 billion for electric system work in Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) has submitted a plan to FEMA for the use of these funds that would perpetuate the use of fossil fuels.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2021

SCOTUSBlog

Wade just a few years out of law school. Some were lawyers. While attending Rutgers Law School in the 1960s, Frank Askin was a student of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Fellow law enforcement officers lined 1 First Street to pay their respects. The woman who argued Roe v. These were among the lives lost in 2021.

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