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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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Anyone Surprised to Hear 1.5M Hotel Customers’ Data was Stolen!

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million customers of the high-end Taj Hotels chain from 2014 through 2020. They claim they stole the data in 2020 and that it includes personal details, including name, email address, phone number, birthdate and address, for 1.5

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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. These include statutes of limitation for filing a case, deadlines for filing motions, preparing for hearings, producing documents in litigation discovery or responding to a summary judgment. The statute of limitations ran out due to his forgetting the deadline.

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With $5M Investment, PacerPro Expands Into State Courts, Hires Silicon Valley Veteran As CTO

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” (To hear more from McGrane about the company and the investment by Berkley, see my recent LawNext interview with him.). I first wrote about PacerPro in 2014 for the ABA Journal. “We’re thrilled to be able to provide that.” See that article here.).

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

Legal Tech Monitor

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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Understanding Judicial Codes of Conduct: A Guide for Lawyers

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The implementation and enforcement of these codes are also managed by these councils, which conduct investigations and hearings in response to allegations of misconduct. These bodies are often composed of judges and legal professionals who understand the nuances of judicial responsibilities and ethics.

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