#Lawyers

Things I do that leave the criminal justice system ‘hamstrung’:* cross-examine vulnerable children with skill and care, agonising over every word to ensure their fairest evidence is given.* sit with
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1/ I shared some thoughts with @nikhileshde on XRP delisting. I believe XRP is a security & that Ripple's years of dumping on brainwashed retail investors is way overdue to
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Okay, so this is a fairly decent explainer about how SCOTUS decides to take cases, but I think it's a little vague and lacking in some background explanation.https://www.goldsteinrussell.com/pro-bono/supreme-court-criteria/ https://twit
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This is chilling. Yesterday Canadian Lawyer Magazine published an option piece by lawyer Shadin Farsai about practice directions requiring the announcement of pronounshttps://web.archive.org/web/20210207171112/https://www.canadianlawyermag.
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The right wing can try and steal an election in the open because they believe their opposition isn’t organized enough to pull off a general strike, or punish them after
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I’ve always been surprised at the misconceptions that women have about their rights in family law (custody, alimony, maintenance etc). Let’s do an #AMA session about Women’s Rights in family
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‘I’m Haunted by What I Did’ as a Lawyer in the Trump Justice Department - Ms. Newland worked in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department from 2016-18.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/opinion/trump-justice-department-law
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It’s been an interesting few months for e-signatures in law. Just my opinion: none of the platforms are yet in a place where they really cater well “out of the
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Anyone telling you that we've seen pardons of this sort before—and therefore we can be sure of their legality under the Constitution—is blowing smoke. These pardons are a matter of
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The nonseverability provision of Act 77, [THE PA MAIL IN BALLOT STATUTE] which would invalidate the entirety of the Act,including all provisions creating universal mail-in voting. Specifically, Section 11 provides:“Sections
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We recently performed a diversity review of sourcing in our stories. As a labor reporter I found a dichotomy I'm trying to address. Workers in my stories: Very diverse, disproportionately
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NEW: The city of Detroit has just asked a federal judge to refer Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and the rest of Team Kraken for disbarment proceedings. Powell & her colleagues
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The Pence Meeting?Let me read some tea leaves.. (Thread warning!)What do we know?Pelosi gave Pence (=Mitch) till end of Sunday to use 25A to remove Trump. Now Pelosi gave Mitch
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I’m FUMING. A law student called me to discuss a firm interview. The firm took her to lunch and, after everyone was seated, a lawyer said: “We don’t normally interview
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Maybe I'm just feeling cranky, but I have some Christmas wishes for the law of evidence: 1. Stop using "narrative" to circumvent the need to establish relevance to a material
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President Trump's lawyers have filed a new motion in Pennsylvania making clear that they only want to block the state from certifying the results of the presidential election, which they
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