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The Wrong Way To Deal With A Bar ComplaintDecember 21, 2020 at 11:13 PM In a lengthy opinion, the Maryland Court of Appeals disbarred an attorney for, among other things threatened to “blow up” building in which physical therapy facility that had filed complaint against him was located The court described the misconduct This... [Author: Legal Profession Prof]Tags: Law, Maryland Court of Appeals, Legal Profession Prof, Bar Discipline & Process 26 people like this. Like Apple farm hit with $2 million fine after migrant workers die of COVID-19December 21, 2020 at 8:46 PM Tags: Science, Law, Washington, Mexico, Church, America, Trends, Retail, Jamaica, Washington State, Charles Davis, Central America, United Farm Workers, UFW, Division of Occupational Safety and Health, Yakima Wash 116 people like this. Like Facebook Brings Support to Cancer Patients and Families and To Those Who Support ThemDecember 21, 2020 at 9:00 PM  Tags: Facebook, Law, Uncategorized, Jill, Zuck, Christmas Facebook 97 people like this. Like When NYC Vaccinated 5 Million People In Two WeeksDecember 21, 2020 at 9:08 PM The New York Times has a very moving article about New York City's Smallpox scare of 1947, and how the city rose to the occasion, vaccinating more than 5 million people in 2 weeks and 6.5 million people in under a month.
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[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Tags: Law, New York City, New York Times, NYC Vaccinated 18 people like this. Like Law Review Articles We Can Get Behind — See AlsoDecember 21, 2020 at 5:17 PM A Scholarly Deep Dive -- Into pie.
Analogies Are Like... Hard Things To Do: Professor suggests that asking her to join other faculty members in exam policy is akin to standing idly by while George Floyd was killed. It is not like that.
Stoel Our Hearts: Everyone's pleased with Stoel Rives right now as they announce extra bonuses.
Swing And A Miss: Trump is trying to seize voting machines now?Tags: Law, Trump, Stoel Rives, See Also, George Floyd 18 people like this. Like Report: Ironclad Gets At Least $100M Funding at Nearly $1B ValuationDecember 21, 2020 at 5:01 PM A report this afternoon says that Ironclad, the San Francisco-based digital contracting platform for legal departments, has raised at least $100 million in a Series D funding round at a post-investment valuation of more than $950 million.
The website The Information reports that the round was led by the venture capital firm Bond, which was cofounded by Mary Meeker, formerly a partner at Kleiner Perkins and publisher since 1995 of Meeker’s Internet Trends Report, a must-read for tech investors.
I...Tags: Law, San Francisco, Information, Mary Meeker, Kleiner Perkins, Cto, Ironclad, Palantir Technologies, Meeker, Fenwick West, Jason Boehmig, Cai GoGwilt 30 people like this. Like Joe Biden Is The Latest In A Long Line Of Attorneys Turned President Of The United StatesDecember 21, 2020 at 4:47 PM The tradition started back with John Adams.Tags: Law, Government, Joe Biden, United States, Trivia Question of the Day 21 people like this. Like Pondering next steps in federal sentencing reform on the second anniversary of the FIRST STEP ActDecember 21, 2020 at 4:38 PM The FIRST STEP Act, which is fully titled the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act, was signed by Prez Trump into law on Dec. 21, 2018. That means today is the second anniversary of what many have rightly called the biggest federal criminal justice reform legislation in a generation — while others have also rightly called this law a relatively small modification to the federal criminal justice system. Because I consider the FIRST STEP Act a ve...Tags: Law, Congress, Heritage, Doj, National Institute of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, Douglas A Berman, US Sentencing Commission, Congress Here, Prez Trump, Biden Sanders Unity Task Force, U S Reentry Commission, Bureau of Prisons Oversight, Biden Adminstration 15 people like this. Like A decade-long surge in amicus briefsDecember 21, 2020 at 3:44 PM  Tags: Featured, Supreme Court, Law, Anderson, Amy Howe, Arnold Porter, Anthony Franze, Franze, Reeves Anderson, SCOTUStalk 140 people like this. Like Former Justice Department Lawyer Apologizes For Not Quitting Sooner So Trump Would Have Crappier LawyersDecember 21, 2020 at 3:15 PM She's 'haunted' by the work she did to dismantle democracy.Tags: Law, Government, Department Of Justice, Donald Trump, Justice Department, Quote Of The Day 30 people like this. Like Magic Circle Gives Special Bonuses, But How Much Is Anyone’s GuessDecember 21, 2020 at 2:49 PM At least they're getting something for their hard work this year.Tags: Money, Law, Bonuses, Biglaw, Linklaters, Associate Bonus Watch 2020 28 people like this. Like Calls for national lockdown in England to curb spread of new Covid strainDecember 21, 2020 at 2:23 PM Scientists say inaction could cost tens of thousands of lives as variant spreads across UKCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBoris Johnson is facing intense pressure to impose another national lockdown within days, as more than 40 countries banned arrivals from the UK in an effort to keep out a new fast-spreading variant of coronavirus.Government scientific advisers warned that inaction could cost tens of thousands of lives and risk an “economic, human and social disaste...Tags: Health, Politics, UK, England, Society, UK News, Health policy, Boris Johnson, Johnson, Coronavirus 49 people like this. Like Even The Swiss Frown On (Allegedly) Laundering Money For The Bulgarian MafiaDecember 21, 2020 at 2:14 PM Which is too bad for an astonished Credit Suisse.Tags: Law, Finance 4 people like this. Like 3 hours and 24 minutes after the solstice....December 21, 2020 at 1:33 PM  Tags: Photography, Law, Sunrise, Lake Mendota, Ann Althouse 92 people like this. Like Doctrine of Equivalents in Lilly v. ApotexDecember 21, 2020 at 1:16 PM  Tags: Law, Patent, Robert, Matthews, Lilly, Federal Circuit, Eli Lilly and Co, Eli Lilly Co, Apotex, Alimta, Apotex Inc Fed 96 people like this. Like Justin Amash Proposes To Eliminate Civil Asset ForfeitureDecember 21, 2020 at 1:13 PM There is no justifiable reason to continue such an abused, ineffective, and (should be) unconstitutional practice. Tags: Law, Civil Forfeiture, Constitutional Law, Justin Amash, Tyler Broker 17 people like this. Like SolarWinds Vendor Supply Chain Attack: A Timely Reason to Review Procedures for Risk Assessments and Vendor ContractsDecember 21, 2020 at 1:09 PM Nolan Goldberg, Ryan Blaney, Margaret A. Dale and Jeffrey Neuburger
As reported last week, a state-sponsored hacker may have breached multiple U.S. government networks through a widely-used software product offered by SolarWinds. The compromised product, known as Orion, helps organizations manage their networks, servers, and networked devices. The hacker concealed malware inside a software update that, when installed, allowed the hacker to perform reconnaissance, elevate user privileges, move la...Tags: Law, Nsa, Middle East, Orion, SEC, FRCP, Jeffrey Neuburger, North America Europe Asia, Stephanie A Diehl, Nolan Goldberg Ryan Blaney Margaret A Dale, Cybersecurity Advisories Technical Guidance, Kevin P Milewski 20 people like this. Like US death row prisoner Dustin Higgs petitions Trump for clemencyDecember 21, 2020 at 1:04 PM Higgs to be executed next month for role in 1996 murdersLawyers say death sentence ‘arbitrary and inequitable’Opinion: Trump is on a literal killing spreeIn a last-ditch effort to stay alive, Dustin Higgs, a federal death row prisoner set to be put to death next month as part of the Trump administration’s flurry of executions in its final days in office, has petitioned the president for clemency. Related: Trump administration has executed more Americans than all states combined, report finds ...Tags: Human Rights, Law, US, World news, US news, Capital punishment, Donald Trump, Trump, Higgs, Dustin Higgs 28 people like this. Like Why Your Shared Space Will Be Key To Post-Pandemic Success [Sponsored]December 21, 2020 at 12:43 PM Online collaboration will be critical. The right technology can make it happen.Tags: Technology, Law, Everlaw, Sponsored Content, In-House Counsel 8 people like this. Like Domain Name Lawsuits Are Stupid (and the Initial Interest Confusion Doctrine Is Too)–Wooster Floral v. Green ThumbDecember 21, 2020 at 12:35 PM This case concerns the domain name WoosterFloral.com. It was initially owned by Wooster Floral, a florist in Wooster, Ohio. However, in 2014, the owner wound down the business and didn’t renew the domain name. The store manager then bought out the owner’s assets for $1, including the trade name, but not including the domain name (which had already lapsed). Meanwhile, a local competitor, Green Thumb, registered the domain name and auto-forwarded it to greenthumbfloralandgifts.com. The new Wooster...Tags: Law, Marketing, E-commerce, Hasbro, Toyota, Domain Names, Trademark, Green Thumb, John Deere, Ohio Supreme Court, Wooster, Taubman, WOOSTER Ohio, Avance, Wooster Floral, Oho Supreme Court 13 people like this. Like "Across the United States, many areas with large populations of Latinos and residents of Asian descent, including ones with the highest numbers of immigrants, had... a surge in turnout and a shift to the right, often a sizable one."December 21, 2020 at 12:30 PM "The pattern was evident in big cities like Chicago and New York, in California and Florida, and along the Texas border with Mexico, according to a New York Times analysis of voting in 28,000 precincts in more than 20 cities..... [T]he red shifts, along with a wave of blue shifts in Republican and white areas, have scrambled the conventional wisdom of American politics and could presage a new electoral calculus for the parties.... And over all, Mr. Trump, whose policies and remarks were widely e...Tags: Florida, New York, Texas, Voting, Law, California, Mexico, Immigration, Chicago, United States, New York Times, Ethnicity, Trump, Northwestern University, Center for American Progress, Ann Althouse 33 people like this. Like "Undercutting Trump, Barr says there’s no basis for seizing voting machines, using special counsels for election fraud, Hunter Biden."December 21, 2020 at 12:17 PM WaPo reports. [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]Tags: Voting, Law, WaPo, Ann Althouse, Trump 2020, Hunter Biden, William Barr, Trump Barr 43 people like this. Like After Hyping Above-Market Windfall, Kirkland & Ellis Releases Their BonusesDecember 21, 2020 at 12:12 PM Sure, bonuses are above market but the firm needs to manage expectations.Tags: Money, Law, Bonuses, Biglaw, Ellis, Kirkland & Ellis, Associate Bonus Watch 2020 Overlooked Secrets Of The Modern LawyerDecember 21, 2020 at 11:48 AM Appreciation, in the legal sector, is more elusive than Bigfoot, but it is one of the most underestimated tools in the law process.Tags: Law, In-House Counsel, Olga V. Mack 18 people like this. Like "What item of clothing was the emphasis on? What is the most risky piece of clothing?"/"Underpants... The insides, the crotch."December 21, 2020 at 11:29 AM From "Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned" (CNN). Toxicologists consulted by CNN say that if applied in granular form to clothes, the [lethal nerve agent] Novichok would be absorbed through the skin when the victim begins to sweat.... [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]Tags: Law, Russia, Cnn, Alexey Navalny, Underpants, Ann Althouse 30 people like this. Like The US wants startups to get a piece of the $16 billion spent on space techDecember 21, 2020 at 11:23 AM The U.S. government is one of the biggest spenders in the nascent space industry and the man who handles the money for the Air Force’s $16 billion checkbook wants startups to know that his door is open for them.
In all, Will Roper, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, handles about $60 billion worth of budget for the Air Force — a mandate that includes spending money on the new tech initiatives the Air Force deems important.
Historically, the Dep...Tags: TC, Technology, US, Tech, Department Of Defense, Military, United States, Pentagon, Air Force, Aerospace, Defense Department, U.s. Government, Space Technology, Roper, Technology Development, Will Roper 12 people like this. Like Law School Prof Says ACTUALLY Asking Me For A Longer Exam Window Is A Lot Like Killing George FloydDecember 21, 2020 at 11:17 AM This is ill-advised at best and potentially racist at worst.Tags: Law, Law Schools, UCLA Law School, George Floyd 37 people like this. Like |
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