If you are a new associate at a medium or large law firm, it is not uncommon to sacrifice time with your friends and family in favor of working with multiple superiors for extended hours into the evening or even ...
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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has put police officers on notice when it comes to using Taser stun guns as a compliance tool on a resisting subject. Unless officers can demonstrate that the subject poses an “immediate danger,” ...
Tagged with: Federal Courts Judge Stephanie Dawn Thacker
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A pair of police officers might have lacked reasonable suspicion to stop behind a parked pickup and activate the lights on their cruiser. But the gun that the driver tossed during the encounter was abandoned and could come into evidence, ...
Tagged with: Federal Courts Judge Diana Gribbon Motz Search & Seizure
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Said one forward-thinking lawyer to another: “Let’s just go paperless. We can free up all that space in the file room and quit paying so much for outside file storage.” “What a great idea!” said the other. “We’ve already got ...
Tagged with: Law Office Management
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RALEIGH, NC — The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has said it is time to turn common practice into precedence for cases in which district courts have dismissed claims for failure to plead sufficient facts. On Dec. 9, a ...
Tagged with: Federal Courts Judge Andre M. Davis
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The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended on Dec. 1. The primary purpose of the amendments is to curtail discovery costs by making the courts and the parties focus on discovery that is “proportional to the needs of the ...
Tagged with: ADR Civil Procedure
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A three-part series in the New York Times this past fall (“Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice,” Oct. 31), spotlighting certain abuses and injustices in particular types of arbitration, has gained wide attention in the ADR community, the broader ...
Tagged with: ADR
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Solo practitioners are constantly faced with tackling multiple jobs while trying to achieve the most important goal: building a successful law practice. If you’re a solo, in addition to being a lawyer, you have to be a small business owner, ...
Tagged with: Practice Tips Virginia Practice
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A lie about the existence of a search warrant allowed a group of police officers to comb through an apartment and find crack cocaine and digital scales, leading to the conviction of one of the occupants after a federal judge ...
Tagged with: Federal Courts Judge James A. Wynn Jr. Search & Seizure
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The perception of legal service delivery is in constant flux. In my Dec. 7 column, I pointed to legal service apps and nonprofit law firms as two quickly emerging factors that are reshaping the landscape for practicing attorneys. Now I ...
Tagged with: Technology
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