NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MAY 18, 2025

If youre not running paid advertising campaigns, you may be thinking that your law firm is SEO-adjacent . Youre potentially just happily running out your personal networking program & living your best life. But, if you have a website of any kind, SEO effects your business even if you v e never paid for a single online ad, in your entire life. Thats because youre probably losing business, by avoiding the SEO question.

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Legal Research is Easy

MAY 18, 2025

CAVEAT: If you lean left, might I suggest not reading this blog post as you're likely to lose your lunch. Typically, I would reserve a topic like this for the word of the month. However, I've been hearing this term over and over and if I don't get it down on "paper," I'm going to lose it. What am I talking about? I'm talking about Trump Derangement Syndrome (or TDS - which is a real thing, actually).

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iHire

MAY 18, 2025

Learn how the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) partnered with iHires Outsourced HR Services Team to save valuable time and resources, allowing them to focus on more strategic HR planning.

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JURIST

MAY 18, 2025

A Thai court on Monday issued arrest warrants for 17 individuals, which also included construction executives and engineers, on charges of felony negligence leading to death in relation to the collapse of a thirty-story skyscraper in Bangkok during the March 28th earthquake , according to local media. The partially built State Audit office tower crumbled within seconds after the 7.7 Magnitude quake struck Thailand’s neighbouring country, Myanmar, and resulted in the deaths of at least 89 w

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At the Lectern

MAY 18, 2025

On Wednesday and Thursday, in San Francisco, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the eight cases on its late-May calendar. (May is the only month with two argument calendars.) The arguments will be live streamed. Opinions in the cases should file by August 18. However, in one death penalty appeal ( People v. Cardenas ), some supplemental briefing won’t be completed until after the argument, which could delay submission of the case and, therefore, possibly also the filing of the opinio

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JonathanTurley

MAY 18, 2025

In the wake of the leaked audio of President Joe Bidens interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur, the media is going through another round of spinning its own failure to pursue the question of Biden’s obvious mental and physical decline. That is no more evident than at CNN, which was one of the most hostile networks to such questions before Biden withdrew from the presidential race after his disastrous debate.

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JURIST

MAY 18, 2025

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court to charges alleging she interfered with federal immigration enforcement by assisting a noncitizen avoiding arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Judge Dugan is facing two federal charges , the first being concealing an individual to prevent arrest, and the second obstruction of justice.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 18, 2025

By Charles D. Snow Operation Stork Speed is a go! On March 18, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a significant initiative called Operation Stork Speed to bolster the availability and safety of infant formula in the United States (see our previous blog post here ). The March announcement outlined six key actions underlying Operation Stork Speed, including the launch of the first comprehensive review of infant formula

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JURIST

MAY 18, 2025

On Friday, the US Supreme Court granted an emergency petition and an application for injunction to detained Tren de Aragua (TdA) members being held under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA). On March 15, 2025, President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act and classified Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang, as a terrorist organization. Following this classification, the administration began detaining and deporting those alleged to be members of the gang.

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Patently O

MAY 18, 2025

by Dennis Crouch In a pair of nonprecedential decisions, the Federal Circuit affirmed three PTAB inter partes review decisions--finding BillJCo's patents unpatentable as obvious under 35 U.S.C. 103. BillJCo, LLC v. Apple Inc. , Nos. 23-2189 (Fed. Cir. May 16, 2025); and No. 23-2188 (Fed. Cir. May 16, 2025).The cases were both decided by the same three-judge panel, with Judge Stoll authoring one opinion and Judge Chen the other.In reading the cases, one key take-away is that the cases represent

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Above The Law

MAY 18, 2025

Work From Home? That Was So 2024 : Sidley only gave a week’s notice before ordering folks back. Above The Law In The New York Times : Normally this newsletter is about Above the Law stories of the week, but let’s make an exception for this Times feature on ATL. Hold These Shells Up To Your Ear And You Can Hear Kash Patel Being Insane : Former FBI Director’s beach pic inspires administration conspiracy theorists to see Manchurian Clamshell scenario.

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JURIST

MAY 18, 2025

A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Trump administrations request to restart a controversial deportation policy that would send migrants to countries where they have no prior ties, including places like Libya and El Salvador. The First US Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Department of Homeland Securitys (DHS) motion to lift a nationwide preliminary injunction issued last month , which bars immigration officials from deporting individuals to unfamiliar third countries without first

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HowAppealing

MAY 18, 2025

“The Website Where Lawyers Mock Yellow-Bellied Firms Bowing to Trump; Above the Law, a legal industry website with a long history of skewering the nations most elite firms, has found a moment and plenty of inside tipsters”: Elizabeth Williamson of The New York Times has this report.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 18, 2025

James Comey continues to hear disturbing messages from shells on the beach. Comey is facing a public outcry over his posting of shells that he discovered on the beach saying “86 47,” a reference that some took as a threat against Trump. While I have stated that the posting would not establish a viable criminal case, Comey’s shell fetish seems to be having a decidedly harmful impact on the former FBI director.

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