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Queens man unaware of $2 bail, spends nearly 5 months at Rikers
A Queens man spent nearly five months at Rikers Island without knowing his bail was just $2.
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Think You Have a Right to an Attorney? Think Again
Concordia Parish extends tall and narrow along the Mississippi River, where the ankle of Louisiana meets the instep. Almost one-third of its 20,000 residents live below the federal poverty line. Strip malls dominate Vidalia, the parish seat. Smaller satellite towns are home to Pentecostal mega-churches, defunct gas stations, and tin-sided shacks selling crawfish for $2 a pound. State highways run through low fields once flush with cotton that was picked by slaves and sold across the river to Natchez.
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Still in law school? Artificial intelligence begins to take over legal work
Law professor says emerging artificially intelligent attorneys will displace some human lawyers. For those thinking of law school, keep in mind that technology may revolutionize the profession before you earn that J.D. In the research-driven, labor-intensive legal profession, the age-old question of man vs. machine is being answered as some law firms have begun to use an “artificially intelligent attorney” to research and hash out legal issues – a trend that legal minds predict will displace some human lawyers.
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New York’s Nightclub Lawyer Takes on the NYPD
Lawyer Alex Spiro helped Thabo Sefolosha turn the tables on the cops. Now he’s trying to do the same for Bobby Shmurda. “I don’t need this,” Alex Spiro says. “I could try bond trader cases where the bank pays you a million dollars, no one’s gonna argue with you, there’s no drama, no screaming, you try the case, you win, you move on. Or you lose and that’s unfortunate. You get a plea deal — they either take it or [they] don’t.”
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What You Should Know About Your Local Prosecutor: Travesties in Criminal Justice That Are Mostly Ignored
In many jurisdictions, prosecutors are elected officials, and municipal courts operate with relative transparency, yet voters are ignorant of deep injustices that go on every day.
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An Expensive Law Degree, and No Place to Use It
By most measures, John Acosta is a law school success story. He graduated from Valparaiso University Law School — a well-established regional school here in northwestern Indiana — in the top third of his class this past December, a semester ahead of schedule.
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Artificially intelligent lawyer responds to questions with in depth research, hypotheses, and conclusions
Law firm Baker & Hostetler has announced that they are employing IBM’s AI Ross to handle their bankruptcy practice, which at the moment consists of nearly 50 lawyers. According to CEO and co-founder Andrew Arruda, other firms have also signed lic...
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Antonin Scalia: Looking Backward
The Justice tried to make the United States a less fair, less tolerant, and less admirable democracy. Fortunately, he mostly failed.
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Heavyweight - The New Yorker
Jeffrey Toobin’s 2013 profile of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “As a litigator, Ginsburg brought cases before the Court that transformed its view of gender issues. Yet, one observer says, ‘she's very cautious, conservative in a Burkean sense.’ ”
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Is There a Career in Law That Doesn't Lead to Burnout?
Several new firms are trying to make one of the most brutal jobs a little more balanced.
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Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple
Judge: Repeated references to an earlier trial prejudiced jury against Apple.
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Bar Association Considers Striking ‘Honeys’ From the Courtroom
When Lori Rifkin asked the opposing lawyer to stop interrupting her while she questioned a potential witness, he replied: “Don’t raise your voice at me. It’s not becoming of a woman.”
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Jury Trials Vanish, and Justice Is Served Behind Closed Doors
The criminal trial ended more than two and a half years ago, but Judge Jesse M. Furman can still vividly recall the case....In his four-plus years on the bench in Federal District Court in Manhattan, it was his only criminal jury trial.
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Criminal Defendants Sometimes ‘Left Behind’ at Supreme Court, Study Shows
The quality of advocacy at the Supreme Court these days is quite high. “We have an extraordinary group of lawyers who appear very regularly before us,” Justice Elena Kagan said in 2014 at a Justice Department event. But there was, she said, one exception.
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Goodbye to ‘Honeys’ in Court, by Vote of American Bar Association
It is official. The American Bar Association says it is professional misconduct to discriminate against or harass opposing counsel, or anyone else for that matter, in the course of practicing law.
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Peer Monitor Index Slumps in Second Quarter/Demand for Legal Services Drops for First Time Since 2013
After an encouraging first quarter, the (legal) market was blindsided in the second quarter. A drop in demand across nearly all practices took the lift out from under the market’s wings. A slight increase in worked rates was not nearly enough to make up for the shortfall in demand. Meanwhile, rising headcount and overhead expenses, and falling productivity added up to a near-perfect storm .
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Steven Avery's attorney to offer alternate theory on Teresa Halbach's death today
Steven Avery's attorney, Kathleen Zellner plans to offer an alternate version of how photographer Teresa Halbach died.
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George Soros' quiet overhaul of the U.S. justice system
Progressives have zeroed in on electing prosecutors as an avenue for criminal justice reform, and the billionaire financier is providing the cash to make it happen.
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Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan Muse Over a Cookie-Cutter Supreme Court
As the Supreme Court prepares to return to the bench next month, its two newest members have been reflecting on the absence of Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February, and on the striking lack of diversity among the remaining justices.
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Obama Just Nominated A Muslim To Be A Federal Judge. That's A First.
Abid Qureshi would fill a seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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