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New York Law Journal

Net Neutrality and Open Internet: How We Got Here and Where We Are Headed

Barry Skidelsky writes: The legal issue of “net neutrality” or an open Internet has been a point of contention between Internet access providers and network users since the mid-1990s. Most recently, this issue has become a serious matter of larger public interest that warrants some brief legal history to better understand the issue, where we are right now, and where we are all headed in this country.
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Legaltech News

Could Gaming Help Close the Access to Justice Gap?

A joint project between legal aid organizations in Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine is hoping games can help distribute important legal information to pro se litigants.
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Daily Business Review

Remember the One About the Lawyer and Naked Dance Contest? 6 Strange Stories from 2017

A "Cranky Lawyer," a litigator who saved a nightclub after three women got naked on the dance floor, six arrested personal injury attorneys and a bankruptcy…
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The American Lawyer

Ex-Williams & Connolly Lawyer, WaPo Heir Dead at 69

William Graham, a former lawyer at the high-powered, Washington, D.C.-based Am Law 100 firm and a son of late Washington Post publisher Kay Graham, died on Dec. 20 in Los Angeles from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Nearly 700 Law Clerks Tell Judiciary to Reform Sexual Harassment Procedures

Hundreds of former and current law clerks have urged judicial officers, including Chief Justice John Roberts, to make meaningful reforms to how the judiciary handles sexual harassment and misconduct complaints.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Judges, Critics Debate Proposed New Rule 22 Governing Court Recordings

Judges working to hammer out a new superior court rule governing how and when recording devices may be used in court got a push from all sides seeking changes in the current draft.
7 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Preserving Attorney-Client Confidentiality

Sometimes attorneys overlook the additional obligation set by the ethical rules for attorneys to protect confidential information obtained during the course of the representation.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Panel Won't Dismiss Fraud Claims Lodged Against CNN Analyst Paul Callan by Former Firm

In a lawsuit that draws battle lines between Callan, a 30-year litigator, and the Manhattan law firm he helped create, a unanimous Appellate Division, First Department, panel has weighed in with a decision that points to unspecified “evidence in the record” of improper conduct by Callan against ex-firm.
8 minute read

Daily Report Online

Georgia Congressman, Sheriffs Threatened With Suit Over Facebook Blocks

The ACLU said in a release Monday that they sent letters to Rep. Drew Ferguson, R-Georgia, as well as the Habersham and Worth county sheriff's offices and the Henry County Police Department, accusing them of violating the First Amendment by censoring critics' posts on official government Facebook pages.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Limits Discovery of Morgan & Morgan Clients, Ads

Rosenbaum & Associates has sought old Morgan & Morgan commercials and client information in a false advertising suit.
3 minute read

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