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"People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten." (Bill Gates).
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If you need reference or circulation help, please reach out to one of your amazing law librarians. We’re here for you. Feel free to come in, study, relax, beat the heat, or whatever all you cool Law Buffs do in the summer.
The following are 10 interesting articles from the previous week. These articles were pulled from either the: ABA Newsletter, AALL Newsletter, vLex Newsletter, Law360, Law Practice Magazine Newsletter, LexisNexis’ Practical Guidance Newsletter, Bloomberglaw Filings of Note and/or Frontiers Newsletter. Enjoy!
“As questions remain unanswered about the response by police in Uvalde, Texas, to the elementary school mass shooting that left 21 dead, Jones Walker LLP partner David S. Weinstein talks to Law360 about potential liability protection for officers who responded to the scene.”
“After years of reform, Illinois earlier this month became the 17th state to clear its backlog of nearly 2,000 untested rape kits. Here is what states can learn from Illinois to end their own rape kit backlogs.”
“The 88-page indictment charging the rappers Young Thug and Gunna with racketeering along with 26 others made headlines last month, but it was hardly surprising to legal experts familiar with these increasingly common prosecutions.”
Introduction: “Plenty of people live together without getting married and don't see a reason to do so. But without a cohabitation agreement (often abbreviated as a cohab), you risk forfeiting financial or behavioral benefits that are legally entitled to people whose relationships dissolve but are married. And while a verbal agreement is legally binding, it's harder to prove its validity in court, experts say.”
“The Court held that the ‘look-through’ approach does not apply to requests to confirm or vacate awards under sections 9 and 10.”
“Imagine your managing partner asks you to ‘be creative’ and ‘invent’ facts to help win a case, despite knowing it's unethical.”
“One of the not-so-fun aspects of practicing as a young lawyer is figuring out when and how much to bill your clients.”
“The Fifth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision allowing two Lone Star State breweries to sell their products to-go in a ruling packed with drinking references and puns that the court said would have ‘stout implications for craft brewers in Texas.’"
Introduction: “EFF: ‘Westlaw, the world’s largest legal research service, is very likely to face antitrust liability. A federal court has ruled that ROSS Intelligence, a tiny rival offering new research tools (which Westlaw forced out of business with a copyright infringement suit) could proceed with claims that Westlaw uses exclusionary and anticompetitive practices to maintain its monopoly over the legal research market. The ruling is a significant step in an antitrust case about Westlaw’s conduct as an entrenched incumbent.’”