The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

According to a forthcoming paper in the Columbia Law Review , some 32 states allow at least some low-level state court judges to adjudicate without a law degree. Since most poor litigants are unrepresented in civil legal cases, this sets up an almost Kafka-esque scene in courtrooms across the country,” they wrote.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Marisa Wright is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions Inc. a conservative organization headed by conservative legal activist Edward Blum. The two cases— Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.

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DECEMBER 28, 2021

.” That “what’s next” spans a range of topics, from rethinking legal education to innovating legal practice, from developing new technology to driving greater diversity. Notably, the most-downloaded episode featured a discussion of how law schools should teach tech, with April G.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Law schools are also facing controversial mandates. In 2022, the American Bar Association required law schools to “provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism: (1) at the start of the program of legal education, and (2) at least once again before graduation.”

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

by David Hricik, Mercer Law School. In North Carolina Legal Eth. Whether consent may be ‘implied’ by the circumstances requires an evaluation of all of the facts and circumstances surrounding the representation, the legal issues involved, and the prior communications between the lawyers and their clients.”.

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Patently O

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. Ordinarily, under Model Rule 4.2 In Formal Ethics Opinion 503 (Nov. 2012-7 (Oct. While Rule 4.2(a) While Rule 4.2(a)

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DECEMBER 28, 2021

.” That “what’s next” spans a range of topics, from rethinking legal education to innovating legal practice, from developing new technology to driving greater diversity. Notably, the most-downloaded episode featured a discussion of how law schools should teach tech, with April G.

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

As I survey the legal profession broadly, and the world of legal tech and innovation specifically, I see uncertainty and inertia. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo. After all, it was a good year for the legal tech industry. Overall, the legal tech industry saw unprecedented growth.

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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. Law Practice Management hour, not CLE.

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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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JonathanTurley

MARCH 12, 2023

Last night, Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Law School Dean Jenny Martinez issued a joint apology that is commendable in its words of regret, but conspicuous in its failure to promise any action against those who shutdown this event. Steinbach’s condemnation of Judge Duncan was chilling but hardly surprising.

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MARCH 4, 2020

In addition to being geared towards practical aspects of legal practice, the unconference sessions facilitated excellent networking opportunities. ABATECHSHOW pic.twitter.com/iwSvvhZJ6s — Legal Talk Network (@LegalTalkNet) February 27, 2020. Stay tuned to hear the three main ways law firms are responding to those mandates.

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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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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. Dellinger served as head of the Office of Legal Counsel and as acting solicitor general under President Bill Clinton. North Carolina Governor.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For example, according to Josie Caves Sivaraman, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine, North Carolina has no restriction, and anyone over the age of 18 can purchase a firearm. Key Findings and Policy Implications. Brett Gardner , Ph.D.,

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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. Whether or not a defendant trusts the prosecutor, district attorneys would be legally bound to keep their word, which can be enforced by judges.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

The sessions featured an amazing array of leaders and speakers whose voices carry great weight in the legal profession as well as our nation — FBI Director James Comey, GCs for Fortune 500 companies, U.S. — Legal Talk Network (@LegalTalkNet) August 8, 2016. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 31, 2023

For marginalized communities in North Carolina, it is critically important that UNC and other area institutions produce highly educated professionals of color. Sweeping claims of systemic racism are often made with little scrutiny in law schools and other departments. It saves lives.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2024

Starting in secondary schools, we have raised a generation of speech phobics who believe that opposing views are triggering and dangerous. University of Michigan Law Professor and MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade has written how dangerous free speech is for the nation. Anti-free speech books have been heralded in the media.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2022

It was always doubtful that a law school would take the unprecedented step of barring a sitting Supreme Court justice. It’s not an unfamiliar position for the Supreme Court justice, but it generated surprising support at a leading law school. The reason? His vote to overturn Roe v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2022

the University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. The Asian American Coalition for Education and the Asian American Legal Foundation argue that the schools illegally discriminate against Asian American students. Share Nearly 100 amicus briefs were filed in Students for Fair Admissions v.

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Above The Law

MARCH 14, 2025

Personal injury attorney Edward Ortega and I dive into the nuances of legal careers. 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. Highlights Why Law School?

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

After growing up in the segregated South, Drew Days attended Yale Law School, worked as a civil rights lawyer alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., Days was a member of the Yale Law faculty for more than three decades and led the Supreme Court and appellate practice at Morrison & Foerster from 1997 to 2011. 29, 1941 – Nov.

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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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JonathanTurley

JUNE 29, 2023

For months, liberal law professors and pundits have filled the media with dire predictions that the Supreme Court was about to carry out a long-planned “coup” and “ power grab ” — one even wrote that the court could be on the brink of establishing “ one-party rule ” in the United States. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. & & Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2023

At the University of North Carolina (Wilmington) one such campaign led to a professor killing himself a few days before his final day as a professor. In a recent column , the editors of the legal site Above the Law mocked those of us who objected to the virtual absence of conservative or libertarian faculty members at law schools.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2023

Likewise, in a n editorial column , the editors of the legal site Above the Law mocked those of us who objected to the virtual absence of conservative or libertarian faculty members at law schools. Students often face such choices of losing points on exams or just mouthing the political bias of their professors.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Many years later, as a young attorney who had held a prestigious clerkship on the Supreme Court, older partners at the law firm where she worked would assume that she was a legal secretary and “inquire pleasantly how long I had been with the firm and which of his colleagues I assisted.” District Court for the District of Columbia.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2025

From the historic Warren County, North Carolina 1982 protests against toxic waste dumping to the current fight to protect Chester, Pennsylvania from an LNG facility, communities of color and low-income have long stood up for their right to clean air, water, and land.

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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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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2025

By invoking “leading legal constitutional scholars,” Biden only added redundancy to absurdity in claiming that the Equal Rights Amendment is now law. Therefore, the Archivist of the United States cannot legally publish the Equal Rights Amendment. However, Tribe assured President Biden that it was entirely legal.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

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. One California-based firm, Gibson Dunn, did offer O’Connor a job – as a legal secretary.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Marisa Wright is a US national staff correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . Cannon’s order has been widely criticized by legal experts for its flawed reasoning and problematic implications. Judge Aileen M. Supreme Court agreed to take up a case involving the fringe theory this term.

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