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Roundup: Texas police-reform news, bail update, jury trials during COVID, and other storiesJanuary 7, 2021 at 11:13 PM Lets' clear a few browser tabs with a roundup of recent items that may have escaped Texans' attention while our Attorney General was in Washington D.C. inciting mayhem.Dallas bail lawsuit to move forward. Bail litigation in Dallas can move forward to trial after a 5th Circuit decision, but the array of potential remedies has been narrowed. See Dallas News coverage. More on this soon. In related news, Tarrant County announced they'd begin using a new risk-assessment instrument when setting bail. ...Tags: Florida, Texas, Law, Colorado, Washington, New York Times, Dallas, Houston, Roma, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Tarrant County, TX, Texas Tribune, 5th Circuit, McManus 15 people like this. Like Dickerson Fellowship at the University of Chicago Law SchoolJanuary 7, 2021 at 10:10 PM Applications are open. [Author: Brian Leiter]Tags: Law, Dickerson, Brian Leiter, University of Chicago Law School 14 people like this. Like Attack on Congress is an Attack on the Rule of LawJanuary 7, 2021 at 9:34 PM In my last semester in law school, we had a program where you could serve a legal fellow in a Congressional office instead of taking classes. I was all too happy to work a 40 hour week (instead of 12 hours of classes) and get picked for a legal fellowship in the office of Senator Joseph Lieberman – my home state senator.
To this day, it remains one of the greatest privileges of my life.
With my yellow badge at that time, before 9/11, I had some freedom to naviage the complex. I could walk the ...Tags: Law, Congress, Senate, Paul Simon, Attack, United States, Treason, Rudy Giuliani, Rule Of Law, Trump, Bill Bradley, Capitol, Congressional, U S Chamber of Commerce, Dwight D Eisenhower, Laws and Regulations 38 people like this. Like Calls for mass duck cull in France as bird flu hits foie gras industryJanuary 7, 2021 at 8:04 PM Highly pathogenic H5N8 virus was first detected in a bird in a pet shop on the Mediterranean island of Corsica French producers of foie gras have called for a mass preventive cull of ducks to try to halt the spread of a severe strain of bird flu that is ripping through poultry farms in the south-west of the country.The highly pathogenic H5N8 virus was first detected in a bird in a pet shop on the Mediterranean island of Corsica in November before spreading to duck farms on the mainland in Decemb...Tags: Health, Europe, France, Society, World news, Corsica, Bird Flu, Mediterranean 33 people like this. Like Relist WatchJanuary 7, 2021 at 6:05 PM  Tags: Featured, Supreme Court, Law, Congress, United States, District Of Columbia, Social Security Administration, Puerto Rico, Ssi, Trump, Scott, Chipotle Mexican Grill, U S Court of Appeals, Northern Mariana Islands, Birt, 3rd Circuit 126 people like this. Like So. You Survived Your First Coup. — See AlsoJanuary 7, 2021 at 6:44 PM Remember That Call Donald Trump Had Trying To Bully Georgia Election Officials That Kicked Off Our Week Of Attempted Coups? Turns out a second Biglaw partner was on the call. We're looking at you, Fox Rothschild.
One Of Yesterday's Insurrectionists Is A Lawyer: And he used to have a job. Not anymore.
Viral Hero Of D.C. Is From Biglaw: Some good news from the attempted coup, and the definitive answer on how you should bill yesterday.
Biglaw Firm Wants The 25th Amendment Enacted: You and me bot...Tags: Law, White House, Georgia, Donald Trump, Fox Rothschild, See Also 1 people like this. Like Gearing up for Prez Trump's coming final round of clemency grantsJanuary 7, 2021 at 6:13 PM Prez Trump's ignominious behavior raises uncertainty as to whether he will serve out the last two weeks of his term. But we can all be certain that Prez Trump is planning to issue more clemency grants before he loses the power to do so. As everyone surely recalls, just before Christmas, Prez Trump granted clemency to all sorts of friends and family and politically-charged defendants (basics here and here). And recent press reports detail other grants that could be forthcoming.
First, this ne...Tags: Law, White House, Bloomberg, New York Times, Fox News, Lil Wayne, Biden, Donald Trump, Baltimore Ravens, Trump, Kodak Black, Westchester County, New York Trump, Jeanine Pirro, Lamar Jackson, Pirro 44 people like this. Like What is the purpose of universities?January 7, 2021 at 7:10 PM  Tags: Education, Youth, Society, Cnn, Teaching, United States, Innovation, Aristotle, Van Jones, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Jonathan Haidt, Haidt, Michael Oakeshott, New York University Stern School of Business, UCCS NYU 97 people like this. Like The Seuss Is Loose!January 7, 2021 at 5:47 PM Ninth Circuit rescues copyright claim brought by Dr. Seuss estate over out-of-this-world infringement.Tags: Law, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Ninth Circuit, Seuss, Dr. Seuss, Scott Alan Burroughs 28 people like this. Like Longtime Competitors Fastcase And Casemaker Merge, Reshaping The Legal Research LandscapeJanuary 7, 2021 at 5:17 PM The merger creates a single company under the Fastcase brand that has an estimated subscriber base of more than three quarters of all lawyers in the United States.Tags: Technology, Law 27 people like this. Like We’re Back! Join Us Friday For Our Legal Tech Journalists’ RoundtableJanuary 7, 2021 at 5:00 PM It’s been a quiet few weeks since our last Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable — not! Fact is, we’re just a few days into the year, and already there is plenty of legal tech news for us to discuss.
Join us tomorrow, Friday, Jan. 8, at 3 p.m. E.T., as we convene for a live video discussion of the week’s top stories.
It’s on Zoom and all free, but registration is required. Once you register for one, you’re registered for every subsequent week.
All prior episodes are also available, both as a po...Tags: Law, Uncategorized, Nicole Black, Zach Warren, Caroline Hill, ABA Journal Joe Patrice, Victoria Hudgins, ABA Journal Molly McDonough, Legaltech News Victor Li, Legaltech News Hope, MyCase Stephen Embry 16 people like this. Like Puzzle Over How To Refresh The Old And DullJanuary 7, 2021 at 4:47 PM The question of how we can reinvent and refresh standard legal services is a puzzle – and it’s a project for 2021.Tags: Law, Small Law Firms 29 people like this. Like Lawyer-Moms Who Think Their Life Is Too Messy For Mindfulness Should Read ThisJanuary 7, 2021 at 4:16 PM Let go of those Google images of what mindfulness allegedly looks like.Tags: Google, Law, Health and Wellness, Health / Wellness, MothersEsquire, Claire E. Parsons 38 people like this. Like Merrick Garland Is Here To Save The Rule Of Law In AmericaJanuary 7, 2021 at 4:11 PM He'll bring integrity back to the role of attorney general.Tags: Law, Government, America, Department Of Justice, Quote Of The Day, Merrick Garland 50 people like this. Like Nice Litigators Finish FirstJanuary 7, 2021 at 3:47 PM Litigators can benefit from a civil and courteous attitude toward adversaries and other with whom they interact.Tags: Law, Biglaw, Litigation, Small Law Firms, Jordan Rothman 22 people like this. Like White House Counsel’s Legal Advice: Stay Away From Trump!January 7, 2021 at 3:43 PM That's the stellar legal advice a T-14 law degree gets ya!Tags: Law, Government, White House, Coups, Treason, Donald Trump, Pardons, Biglaw, Trump, Kirkland & Ellis, Pat Cipollone 16 people like this. Like "Even if you believe — as David Bernstein states above — that the election didn’t turn on fraud, you should be concerned that so many people do."January 7, 2021 at 12:23 PM "It’s important... that elections not only be free of fraud, but trusted by the vast majority, even among those who lose. We don’t have that, and the huge number of stories about potential election fraud that were running in mainstream media right up until election day indicates that if Trump had been declared the winner, Democrats would be running around screaming fraud. We need a system that is obviously trustworthy enough that the vast majority of people will trust it, and we certainly don’t ...Tags: Voting, Law, David Bernstein, Trump, Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit, Electoral College, Ann Althouse, Trump rhetoric, Trump 2020, the Trump resistance, David Bernstein From Bernstein 7 people like this. Like "Cotton appeared to be referring to Hawley, his potential rival for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, whose campaign sent out a fundraising email Wednesday..."January 7, 2021 at 12:08 PM "... promoting his plan to object to Pennsylvania’s electoral votes. The email was sent shortly before a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, bringing a temporary halt to the counting of the Electoral College vote and leaving offices and hallways in the Capitol ransacked." The Hill says, commenting on this tweet from Tom Cotton (which says "while," not "shortly before"): Some senators, for political gain, misled supporters about their ability to challenge the election results--some even s...Tags: Law, Pennsylvania, Trump, Capitol, Hill, Tom Cotton, Electoral College, U S Capitol, Hawley, Ann Althouse, Josh Hawley, 2024 Campaign, the Trump resistance 2 people like this. Like At the Rime and Hoar Café...January 7, 2021 at 12:42 PM  Tags: Photography, Law, Trees, Snow, Trump, Ann Althouse, Hoar Café 117 people like this. Like Time is of the Essence, Even When the Contract Doesn’t Say SoJanuary 7, 2021 at 11:27 AM  Tags: Law, Virginia, Court, Contracts, VDOT, Richmond VA, Virginia Department of Transportation, APCO, Wagman, Supreme Court of Virginia, Western District of Virginia, Construction Law, Construction Mediation, Virginia Construction Attorney, Business of Construction, Construction Contract 65 people like this. Like I’m pretty far from okayJanuary 7, 2021 at 11:16 AM  Tags: Law, Earth, Capitol, Wikimedia Commons, Jon Hyman, Andrew Van Huss 100 people like this. Like A Sweet Sounding QuartetJanuary 7, 2021 at 11:16 AM The District of Columbia Court of Appeals got the new year off to an excellent start by approving four (count em four) petitions for negotiated discipline. The most interesting of the quartet involves a cautionary tale of an associate attorney... [Author: Legal Profession Prof]Tags: Law, Legal Profession Prof, Bar Discipline & Process, District of Columbia Court of Appeals 31 people like this. Like Sales TaxJanuary 7, 2021 at 11:16 AM A criminal conviction has led to a complaint filed by the Illinois Administrator Beginning in 2011 and continuing through at least May 2019, Respondent owned and operated at least five Jimmy John’s sandwich shops in the Tampa Bay area of... [Author: Legal Profession Prof]Tags: Law, Tampa Bay, Jimmy John, Legal Profession Prof, Bar Discipline & Process 14 people like this. Like There Was ANOTHER Biglaw Firm Partner On The Donald Trump Call With Georgia Election OfficialsJanuary 7, 2021 at 10:48 AM Fox Rothschild partner was the elusive third of the 'attorneys that represent the president' on the transcript.Tags: Law, Uncategorized, Georgia, Donald Trump, Biglaw, Fox Rothschild, Cleta Mitchell, Alex B. Kaufman 42 people like this. Like Sixth Circuit panel reiterates "district courts have discretion to define 'extraordinary and compelling' on their own initiative" for 3582(c)(1)(A) motionsJanuary 7, 2021 at 10:47 AM A helpful reader made sure I did not miss another recent notable Sixth Circuit ruling discussing the reach and application of the compassionate release provisions amended by the federal FIRST STEP Act. A couple of months ago, as noted in this post, a Sixth Circuit's panel handed down US v. Jones, No. 20-3701 (6th Cir. Nov. 20, 2020) (available here), to become then only the second circuit to rule expressly that district courts now have broad discretion to determine what now qualifies as "extrao...Tags: Sixth Circuit, Law, US, United States, Jones, McCoy, Second Circuit, Gunn, Elias, Seventh Circuit, Bureau of Prisons, Bop, Brooker, Ruffin, Douglas A Berman, New District Court 2 people like this. Like "One administration official described Trump’s behavior Wednesday as that of 'a total monster,' while another said the situation was 'insane' and 'beyond the pale.'"January 7, 2021 at 10:37 AM "Fearful that Trump could take actions resulting in further violence and death if he remains in office even for a few days, senior administration officials were discussing Wednesday night whether the Cabinet might invoke the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to force him out, said a person involved in the conversations.... Aides mortified by their boss’s conduct said they were weighing whether to resign or to stay in office to help ensure the transition to the Biden administration.... Cons...Tags: Law, Congress, White House, Biden, Cabinet, Trump, Capitol, Mark Meadows, Ann Althouse, Trump 2020, the Trump resistance 3 people like this. Like Thursday round-upJanuary 7, 2021 at 11:20 AM  Tags: Supreme Court, Law, Georgia, US supreme court, Round-up, Breyer, Steve Benen, Alex Thompson, Rally Natalie Colarossi Newsweek Liberals, MSNBC Biden Taps Ex Supreme Court Nominee Garland, Chris Strohm Jennifer Epstein Bloomberg 86 people like this. Like Legislative Changes that Impact Construction 2017January 7, 2021 at 11:27 AM  Tags: Law, Senate, Virginia, Construction, Bill, General Assembly, Virginia General Assembly, Richmond VA, AGC, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Construction Law, Virginia Construction Attorney, Business of Construction, Virginia Construction Mediator, Virginia Construction Statutes, Wikipedia Well the Virginia General Assembly |
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