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The Crisis Of Unrepresented Immigrants: Vastly Increasing The Number Of Accredited Representatives Offers The Best Hope For Resolving It, Michele R. Pistone

Faculty Publications

The U.S. immigration system is exceedingly complex, and access to legal representation is the primary determinant in obtaining a just immigration outcome. Immigrants must navigate a byzantine, burdensome, and high-stakes legal process, conducted in a language they often do not speak. They often must do so without any legal representation. Unlike criminal defendants, immigrants are not entitled to government-funded lawyers. Legal services organizations, such as Legal Services Corporation, that receive any federal funding are prohibited from providing legal representation to most immigrants. Faith-based and charitable legal services organizations provide some legal representation to immigrants through attorneys, staff members, and volunteer …

Vol.51 N.19 Novmeber 30th 2023, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

1614 Midwood Holdings Llc V. Tiliaeva

All Decisions

Granting motion for reargument and granting summary judgment in tenant’s favor, dismissing the case. Underlying motion for summary judgment argued that landlord was unable to maintain the proceeding because the tenant is rent stabilized without a current lease. Judge denied motion, finding that landlord’s acceptance of ERAP payment constituted a lease and/or agreement. Motion for reargument argued that the proceeding was commenced in November 2022 and landlord did not accept ERAP payment until December 2022, therefore at the time that the proceeding was commenced there was no lease and/or agreement in effect.

The Link November 28, 2023, Access To Justice Institute

The Link Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Legal Ethics After #Metoo: Autonomy, Domination, And Nondisclosure Agreements, Sung Hui Kim

Duke Law Journal

The legal profession has long embraced what is called the “standard conception” of legal ethics, the prevailing model guiding the social and professional norms of American lawyers since at least the 1970s. The standard conception requires lawyers to promote their clients’ interests vigorously within the bounds of law and urges lawyers to be morally neutral toward lawful client ends, regardless of even the predictable consequences of their representations, including any harms inflicted on third parties or the public at large. Central to the most prominent defenses of the standard conception is the value of individual autonomy, specifically the client’s. According …

Vol.51 N.18 November 23rd 2023, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

The Urgent Issue Of Suicide In Nyc Jails, Kathleen Leuty

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice (ERSJ) Blog

Half of the people currently detained in New York City jails have a mental health diagnosis. Since 2020, the number of incarcerated people with a serious mental illness in New York City jails has nearly doubled—from 672 to 1,207 people. The medical support offered to those in jail suffering from mental illness, however, has not seen corresponding growth. The number of medical appointments missed by those incarcerated in New York City is staggering: “the monthly number of missed medical visits has spiked by 21%, from 9,259 in August 2022 to 11,176 in June 2023, outpacing growth in the jail population.” …

Decriminalization Of Suicide In India, Kallabi Borah, Tessy Treesa Jose, Anil Kumar M Nagaraj

Manipal Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences

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Vol.51 N.17 November 16th 2023, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

41-47 Nick Llc V. Odumosu

All Decisions

The tenant moved pre-answer to dismiss the landlord's holdover petition, arguing improper service of the termination notice. The court agreed with the tenant, finding that the landlord failed to meet the statutory requirements for service. Consequently, the case was dismissed, and the tenant substantially prevailed.

Birdie 141 Broadway Assoc., Llc V. Cruz

All Decisions

In this holdover proceeding in the Civil Court of the City of New York, Manhattan, the court denies the tenant's motion to dismiss and motion for summary judgment. The landlord initiated the case based on chronic late rental payments by the tenant, alleging breach of lease. The tenant argued for dismissal citing the statute of limitations and sought summary judgment claiming the landlord's failure to make repairs justified rent withholding. The court ruled that the statute of limitations did not bar the case and that the tenant's claims regarding the landlord's failure to make repairs were triable issues of fact, …

The Link November 14, 2023, Access To Justice Institute

The Link Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Vol. 65, No. 12 (November 13, 2023)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Legal Ethics, Code Of Conduct For Barristers And The Overriding Objective In Criminal Trials, Zia Akhtar

St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics

The criminal lawyer has a duty to his client, to the court, and to the administration of justice. This must be accomplished within a framework of ethics comprised from codes of conduct regulating the legal profession. There are difficult ethical problems arising from conflicts between a lawyer’s responsibilities to clients, the legal system, and the disciplinary codes of the profession. In England, the barrister’s conduct is governed by the Bar Standard Board, and legal professionals must abide by the regulations that are imposed upon them when acting for their clients. The new Criminal Procedure Rules and …

Conduct Relating To The Practice Of Law: Aba Model Rule 8.4(G) And Its History In Light Of The Constitution, Nathan Moelker

St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics

The ABA adopted a revision to the Model Rules in 2016, prohibiting harassment and discrimination against a list of protected classes. The Rule, while well-intentioned and targeted at a serious problem, was broadly phrased to include a large category of protected speech and behavior. The Rule has already faced extensive and well-crafted challenges from the perspective of the Free Speech Clause. This article argues that two additional provisions of the First Amendment—the Free Exercise Clause and Freedom of Association—further illustrate the failure of the Rule and the alarmingly wide-ranging effects of such a prohibition on attorney conduct.

Unauthorized Practice Or Untenable Prohibitions: Refining And Redefining Upl, Jan L. Jacobowitz, Peter R. Jarvis

St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics

An extraordinarily number of Americans either cannot afford or cannot find lawyers to assist them on civil legal matters. And an increasing number of Americans turn either to on-line apps or to nonlawyer professionals whose practices may overlap in whole or in part with what lawyers do. Although individuals receive much needed assistance, these alternative providers often confront allegations of committing the unauthorized practice of law. Unfortunately, the rules regarding the unauthorized practice of law (“UPL”) are both outdated and extraordinarily ambiguous. Moreover, UPL issues regarding alternative providers are distinct from questions concerning whether nonlawyers should be entitled to be …

Legal Protection Of Linguistic Minority Under Discrimination: The Case Of Anglophone Cameroon, Kome Donard

International Journal of Business and Technology

No abstract provided.

101 Lawyers: Attorney Appearances In Twitter V. Musk, Andrew K. Jennings

Duke Law Journal Online

In summer 2022, Twitter sued Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, in Delaware’s Court of Chancery over his refusal to close his agreed-to $44 billion acquisition of the social-media company. Twitter v. Musk had the makings of corporate law’s trial of the century. Leading law firms represented Twitter, Musk, and third parties in a dispute with enormous financial, social, and political implications. In the lead up to trial, however, Musk relented and closed the deal. The corporate trial of the century was a bust, over almost as soon as it began.

But in the meantime, in Twitter’s eighty-six days of …

Educational Policy Committee Meeting – Open Session Book 11/09/2023, Uc Law Sf

2023 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Vol.51 N.16 November 9th 2023, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

Finance Committee Meeting - Open Session Book 11/09/2023, Uc Law Sf

2023 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Exploring The Importance Of Criminal Legal Aid: A Canadian Perspective, Trevor C. W. Farrow, Marcus Pratt

Articles & Book Chapters

There is a growing global recognition that, in order to address the current access to justice crisis, more research, together with a better understanding of data, is needed. This article, through an examination of existing legal aid research primarily in the area of criminal law, explores some of what we know and do not know about the relative benefits and costs of providing different kinds of criminal legal aid services. Although not a comprehensive review of all available research, this article identifies data strengths and gaps and the need for further research and reforms.

Annual Report 2022, Tennessee. Department Of Human Services.

Annual Report

No abstract provided.

Vol. 65, No. 11 (November 6, 2023)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, And The Colonialization Of Data: Implications For The Rhetoric Of Human Rights, Adam Todd

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a new technology with profound implications for law, its practice, and our definitions of legal rights. This presentation examines how generative AI, particularly through its use of large language models like ChatGPT, may affect the social practice of human rights.

AI language models are computer programs that are trained by reading billions of pages of materials available through the internet and, through brute processing, is able to provide information about the relationships between the language derived from this raw, language-based data. Through this process, the program can provide users with valuable written information with summaries, analyses, …

Legal And Housing Service Providers’ Perspectives On Clients’ Experiences With Foreclosure, Cyleste C. Collins, Leaanne Derigne, Elizabeth Anthony, David Rothstein, Debbie Taylor

The Qualitative Report

Although the foreclosure crisis is considered over, some areas of the U.S. continue to suffer from high foreclosure rates. This research presents findings from in-depth interviews conducted with 18 service providers who worked with families to prevent their foreclosures in Cleveland, Ohio. The research focused on better understanding the landscape of the Cleveland foreclosure experience. Service providers provided insight into families’ experiences with the foreclosure process. The three main themes developed from the interviews included: (1) clients lacked knowledge about the mortgage process; (2) lenders exploited clients’ lack of knowledge, setting them up to fail with predatory mortgages and targeting …

Symposium On Transformative Gender Law: A Roger Williams Law Review Event 11-3-2023, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

No abstract provided.

6914 Ridge Blvd., Llc V Delao

All Decisions

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Gender And The Social Structure Of Exclusion In U.S. Corporate Law, Afra Afsharipour, Matthew Jennejohn

University of Chicago Law Review

Law develops through collective effort. A single judge may write a judicial opinion, but only after an (often large) group of lawyers chooses litigation strategies, crafts arguments, and presents their positions. Despite their important role in the legal process, these networks of lawyers are almost uniformly overlooked in legal scholarship—a black box in a discipline otherwise obsessed with institutional detail.

This Article focuses on a particularly crucial way that the structure of professional networks may shape the path of the law. Prior qualitative research suggests that networks are an important source of information, mentoring, and opportunity, and that those social …

Why (And How) The Constitution Should Protect Prisoners From Gratuitous Disclosure Of Their Hiv/Aids Status, Dillon Schweers

William & Mary Law Review

This Note is not the first to advocate for prisoners’ constitutional privacy rights concerning their HIV/AIDS status, but it is the first to focus on isolated incidents of disclosure rather than general policies that tend to lead to disclosure like mandatory testing or segregation based on HIV/AIDS status. This Note argues that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause should protect prisoners from isolated disclosures, meaning prisoners should have a § 1983 cause of action against guards or other prison officials who disclose their HIV/AIDS status in a gratuitous manner.

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The proceeding section of this Note, Part I, details the …