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On LawNext Podcast: Erika Harold, Executive Director, Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism

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Erika is also a former Miss America – the sixth Black woman ever to hold that title – and, as you’ll hear, she entered that competition to help fund her education at Harvard Law School, from which she graduated debt free. In 2014, she ran in the Republican primary for Congress to represent Illinois’s 13th congressional district.

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The Clock is Ticking: How to Miss Fewer Court Deadlines

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The firm had filed a voluntary dismissal back in 2014. After one of the clients notified him of the dismissal, the alarmed attorney filed a motion to reconsider and reinstate the case, attributing his failure to respond in a timely manner to “new filtering rules in his email inbox,” which moved the dismissal order to his junk mail folder.

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Why the Avianca ‘Bogus Cases’ News Is Not About Either Generative AI or Lawyers’ Tech Competence

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Avianca , has scheduled a hearing to allow the lawyers to show cause for why they should not be sanctioned for what the judge called “an unprecedented circumstance” of a brief “replete with citations to non-existent cases.” My poster child for this proposition has long been the 2014 Delaware case of James v.

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Ethically Dealing with Negative Online Attorney Reviews

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Determine if there’s a possibility of confusion, such as mistaking you for another attorney with a similar name. If the review appears to be a mistake, possibly intended for another attorney, explore the option of identifying and contacting the reviewer to remove it themselves. Respond or Not?

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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Here are my prior years’ lists of the most important developments: 2020 , 2018 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013. Beginning in March 2020, Pew found, courts adopted technology at unprecedented speed and scale, initiating online hearings and moving other routine functions online, such as electronic filing. Lee Partners.

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On LawNext Podcast: Erika Harold, Executive Director, Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism

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Erika is also a former Miss America – the sixth Black woman ever to hold that title – and, as you’ll hear, she entered that competition to help fund her education at Harvard Law School, from which she graduated debt free. In 2014, she ran in the Republican primary for Congress to represent Illinois’s 13th congressional district.

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Ep 227: Erika Harold, Executive Director, Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism

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Erika is also a former Miss America – the sixth Black woman ever to hold that title – and, as you’ll hear, she entered that competition to help fund her education at Harvard Law School, from which she graduated debt free. In 2014, she ran in the Republican primary for Congress to represent Illinois's 13th congressional district.

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