Attorney at Work

JULY 22, 2021

For a recent Reinventing Professionals podcast, I talked with Jacqueline Schafer, the founder and CEO of Clearbrief , a platform that uses AI to improve the accuracy of legal writing by identifying how well a writer’s sentence is supported by the source document. Legal writing has really specific requirements. seed round.

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MAY 24, 2022

This month, the Washington State Supreme Court took a bold step toward protecting children in the legal system. And like just about every other negative consequence in the criminal legal system, people of color bear the brunt. 1] The amendments were made to Washington’s General Rule 31 and Criminal Rule 2.1. [2]

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LawSites

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Similar to regulatory reform initiatives in Utah and Arizona, the Washington Supreme Court has entered an order approving a pilot program that will allow companies and nonprofits that are not owned by lawyers to provide legal services under carefully monitored conditions. The court’s order (Order 25700-B-721), entered Dec.

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MAY 1, 2023

“The Anatomy of a Washington Post Smear Campaign; The paper claimed conservative judge Matthew Kacsmaryk violated legal ethics; Ethics experts say otherwise”: Aaron Sibarium of The Washington Free Beacon has this report.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Sharon Basch is a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law filing occasional dispatches from Washington DC this semester. At the core of the dispute is the question of Gutierrezs legal standing to challenge the Texas law. Saenz, a case that could reshape the landscape of DNA testing for death row inmates in Texas.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

“Supreme Court attorney who founded SCOTUSblog is charged in tax case; Million-dollar poker games, payments to women and a duffel bag of cash are part of the indictment accusing Thomas Goldstein of tax evasion”: Dan Morse of The Washington Post has this report.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This was just passed along to me from someone at the Washington State Bar Association. Familiarity with the Access to Justice Technology Principles as adopted by the Washington Supreme Court. If you are interested, act fast. The deadline is tomorrow. I am posting the notice verbatim. Ability to represent the task force at BOG meetings.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

“Stephen Glasser, co-founder of the Legal Times newspaper, dies at 79; He and his wife started the Washington-based weekly in 1978; The newspaper was among the first to focus on lawyers and the legal profession, and helped spark a bevy of imitators”: Harrison Smith of The Washington Post has written this obituary.

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JUNE 9, 2022

“The Workhorse of the Early Court: Bushrod Washington may have been the most faithful conservator of the Constitution, and the soundest legal mind on the early Court.” ” John O. McGinnis has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The Independent has coverage: Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has accepted nearly $300,000 in donations toward his legal defense, according to the fund. Best of luck when it comes to paying the strongest legal representation available, Luigi! Louis School of Law.

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JANUARY 24, 2025

Laura Meckler and Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post report that “ Supreme Court to decide whether states can allow religious public schools; The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether the state of Oklahoma may fund a proposed religious charter school, the first of its kind in the country.” ” David G.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

“A legal renegade challenges the judicial system”: Marc Fisher of The Washington Post has this profile of attorney Jonathan Mitchell.

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JURIST

APRIL 5, 2023

The wrongful detention judgment, though not a legal determination, includes assessing the circumstances for indications of an arrest on arbitrary and discriminatory grounds. Ultimately though, legal limitations confine the government’s scope of power in protecting detained US nationals.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 22, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously struck down a Washington state law that was aimed at helping federal contract employees get workers’ compensation for diseases arising from cleaning up nuclear waste. The case, United States v.

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MAY 11, 2022

Wade, legal experts said, was evidence that the court is not much different from other Washington institutions”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this “Supreme Court Memo.” “A Leaky Supreme Court Starts to Resemble the Other Branches; The disclosure of a draft opinion that would overrule Roe v.

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Above The Law

MARCH 11, 2025

tie-ins to the freakoff lawsuits turned heads, but Diddy’s legal team thinks that the allegations are stomach turning. As caught by AllHipHop , Diddy’s legal team says the complaint demonstrates the depraved lengths plaintiffs will travel to garner headlines in pursuit of a payday.” Louis School of Law.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

.” The approval order has been met with severe outrage from legal and political commentators and state government officials alike with Judge Drain coming under heavy fire from activist groups. The US Department of Justice had also filed several legal briefs urging the court to reject the settlement agreement.

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JURIST

APRIL 24, 2021

The United States House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to establish Washington DC as the the nation’s fifty-first state in a 216 to 218 vote. The post US House passes DC statehood bill appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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Above The Law

MARCH 3, 2025

The public pathways pilot program is an outgrowth of a yearslong debate on the value of the bar exam as a measure of fitness for legal service in the state. He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law.

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JUNE 9, 2022

“Conservatives, your radical legal revolution will not go unchallenged”: Columnist Paul Waldman has this essay online at The Washington Post.

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JUNE 12, 2023

“Why Supreme Court voting rights decision shocked legal, political worlds”: Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post have this report. The post “Why Supreme Court voting rights decision shocked legal, political worlds” appeared first on How Appealing.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

“Justice Thomas goes toe-to-toe with the legal ‘chimpanzee'”: Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times have this report. The post “Justice Thomas goes toe-to-toe with the legal ‘chimpanzee'” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2021

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested in Washington, DC, Monday on a misdemeanor count for burning a Black Lives Matter (BLM) flag last month. The post Proud Boys leader arrested for burning Black Lives Matter flag appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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LawSites

AUGUST 23, 2021

There may be no more critical issue facing the legal profession than reregulation of legal services. Amid an escalating crisis in access to justice, proponents of regulatory reform argue that the only way to meaningfully address the crisis is to loosen restrictions on non-lawyers investing in and providing legal services. .

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

High taxes and baffling regulations have crushed small California marijuana growers since state voters approved legalization almost six years ago, reports the Washington Post. In some regions, one pound of cannabis is subjected to as many as five separate taxes, some based on weight and others on sales.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In our forthcoming Spring 2025 publication, Fighting the Hypothetical: Why Law Firms Should Rethink the Billable Hour in the Generative AI Era, [1] we hypothesize that Generative AI (GenAI) technology will change forever how legal services are delivered and will force law firms to re-engineer their legacy economic model.

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MAY 7, 2022

“Alito’s legal reasoning for ending Roe rests on history, the right to life”: Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times have this report.

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JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2023

New York has become the sixth state in the US to legalize this green method of burial. Washington became the first state to legalize human composting in 2019, followed by Colorado and Oregon in 2021, and Vermont and California in 2022. The body disintegrates into natural elements in about a month.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This wasn’t the best time to get involved in protracted legal battles as the school will be on the lookout for a new General Council very soon. Teaching is one hell of a switch-up from reviewing the schools contracts and providing legal advice. He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St.

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JULY 18, 2022

“Supreme Court’s religious liberty rulings give new life to legal battle for gay-marriage opponent”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“Cecilia ‘Cissy’ Marshall, keeper of Thurgood Marshall’s legacy, dies at 94; The former NAACP legal secretary married Marshall in 1955 and burnished his reputation as the leading legal architect of the civil rights movement”: Bart Barnes of The Washington Post has written this obituary.

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JURIST

MARCH 21, 2022

According to his brief , Matthew Woods is a legal aid attorney in Seattle. Woods filed a lawsuit alleging that SUGM violated the Washington Law Against Discrimination (WLAD) and that a blanket exemption for non-profit religious organizations was unconstitutional. He is a practicing Christian and identifies as bisexual.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

California, Michigan, North Carolina and Washington, D.C., Millions remain inadequately fed and housed, and there don’t seem to be nearly as many structural barriers in those areas as there are in the legal profession. Why should legal services be any different? have task forces up and running, exploring revisions to Rule 5.4.

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JURIST

JANUARY 11, 2022

Washington , deals with the federal government’s challenge to a state worker’s compensation law in Washington. Under this rule, the district court can reopen a judgement because of a “mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect,” if the original judgment was based on a legal error by the district court.

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Above The Law

MARCH 13, 2025

As her legal team mounts a defense, they’re trying to mitigate against the evidence that will be used in trial. He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. After years of delays, Donna Adelson’s trial is finally picking up some speed. Louis School of Law.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Such statements included: “We need to all come to an agreement … and go armed … and really take back Washington,” and “Tomorrow may very [well] be the day war kicks off ….”. While Florea never traveled to Washington, D.C. Florea posted threatening statements ahead of the Capitol riot on a social media platform known as Parler.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

“Why the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling is untenable in a democracy; Justices’ ruling in immunity case creates one legal standard for presidents and a different standard for citizens”: Senior Ninth Circuit Judge Stephen S. Trott has this essay online at The Washington Post.

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