We all know that building long-term, meaningful and influential relationships is foundational to a successful legal practice. After all, people don’t hire law firms; they hire an attorney. And the more people you connect with, the more opportunities you have to build meaningful relationships, and the...
President Trump has made four nominations to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, including three well-known conservatives who may be inclined to support tougher sentences in federal criminal cases. The commission advises federal judges on sentencing ranges. The nominees are federal appellate judge William Pryor of Alabama,...
There are certain words and phrases that set the antennae of promotions lawyers – and law enforcers – buzzing. “Everybody wins” comes to mind right away – but there is one little word that can pay out tremendous legal problems and should concern anyone involved...
Every year, the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center (LTRC) publishes TECHREPORT—a collection of easy-to-read breakouts of the annual ABA Legal Technology Survey Report, one of the leading surveys on how attorneys use technology. Practitioners, firms, and legal tech companies alike can use TECHREPORT to get...
In its conference of March 2, 2018, the court will consider petitions involving issues such as whether a state court’s denial of capital post-conviction counsel’s request for funds to conduct a mitigation investigation constitutes “cause” to overcome procedural default when the denial operated as an...
Robert Listenbee, former administrator of the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), will be joining the District Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia as the First Assistant DA, the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange reports. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said, “By having...
Yoga, aromatherapy, and linens in an earthy shade of green are not expected prison fare. For the last year, Pennsylvania inmates and staff have been testing policies and programs that focus on reducing violence and time inmates spend in solitary confinement, as well as increasing...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions rebuffed criticism from President Trump, vowing to do his job with “integrity and honor” after the president called it “disgraceful” that Sessions asked an internal watchdog to investigate Republicans’ claims of inappropriate behavior by FBI agents, reports Politico. Trump’s tweet blasted...
In 2012, with New Orleans coming off a year in which 200 people were murdered, Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s office partnered with a Silicon Valley tech company to collect and analyze data that would inform much of the city’s murder-reduction strategy. Created in 2004 by a...
The rate of gun injuries in the U.S. declines during the National Rifle Association’s annual convention, according to a study led by Harvard Medical School and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Guardian reports. Gun injuries nationally declined by 20 percent during...