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Securing your Path to Success as a Start Up Law Firm
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2018/09/12 12:26
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Whether you have moved forward from your previous firm to work as a Sole Practitioner or to organize a partnership for your new legal enterprise, getting your firm on a successful path can be an extraordinarily stressful endeavor. From employing your staff, securing a location, creating your legal entity, finding the right CPA, anticipating your pre-launch to administrating the day-to-day operations, walking in the path as a successful startup firm can be overwhelming. Responsive Website Design for Law Firms
As they say, the grass is always greener… Statistically, lawyers developing a new business venture will eventually succeed and many exceed their income level they once had at larger firms. Typically, most start up lawyers will initially struggle to attain their goals, especially during the first year. However, with precise planning and diligent research, these challenges can be managed, and in many cases be avoided: by adhering to a thorough, well-planned preliminary launch, setting attainable goals and the exploitation of successful marketing tactics, launching your startup can posture your firm into an optimal position for your first year leaving the nest. Marking Solutions For Lawyers and Law Firms
Lawyer web designers are numerous these days, and as a lawyer or law firm, you need to be selective in your choice. Your website is, after all, the online representation of your firm, and the first impression a potential client will recieve. A good website that has achieved top rankings can make all the difference in the world, and is becoming more and more imperative for law firms by the day. Every law firm in todays world should hire a lawyer web designer to create a lawyer website for them, or risk falling behind the crowd. This site will hopefully help you in choosing the best lawyer web designer for your firm.
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Nevada high court says execution doctor's name stays secret
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2018/09/12 00:07
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The name of the physician picked to attend a state inmate's execution can remain secret, even from drug makers suing to ban the use of their products in the twice-postponed lethal injection, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled Monday.
In a twist, lawyers for three pharmaceutical companies who won the right to obtain the name last week — and had promised to sue the doctor once they got it — told a judge in Las Vegas that they welcomed Monday's high court order.
Attorney Todd Bice, representing drug firm Alvogen, told Clark County District Court Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez the high court decision to protect the doctor's identity, coupled with a recent sworn statement from Nevada prisons chief James Dzurenda, bolsters companies' arguments that their business would be hurt if their drugs are used.
"We aren't going to get into the identity of the doctor. We do intend to argue strongly that having your name associated with capital punishment is harmful to reputations," Bice said. "The director testified that it would be ruinous of the doctor's reputation."
Gonzalez had ruled last week that drug companies could learn the name, but it would not be disclosed to the public.
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Court: No review of 100-year sentence for attempted murders
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2018/09/11 12:03
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A Louisiana court is refusing to review the case of a 31-year-old man who is serving 100 years for the attempted murder of two people.
Houma Today reports the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal Wednesday denied a review of Joshua Dean’s case.
The Houma man was convicted in 2008 of wounding two people in separate drive-by shootings.
Prosecutors described the shootings as random acts of violence. One victim was shot in the shoulder and another was shot in the back and paralyzed from the waist down.
Dean was sentenced to 50 years in prison on both counts to run consecutively.
He’s currently serving out his sentence at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. |
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India’s Supreme Court strikes down law that punished gay sex
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2018/09/11 12:02
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India’s Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a colonial-era law that made gay sex punishable by up to 10 years in prison, a landmark victory for gay rights that one judge said would “pave the way for a better future.”
The 1861 law, a relic of Victorian England that hung on long after the end of British colonialism, was a weapon used to discriminate against India’s gay community, the judges ruled in a unanimous decision.
“Constitutional morality cannot be martyred at the altar of social morality,” Chief Justice Dipak Misra said, reading the verdict. “Social morality cannot be used to violate the fundamental rights of even a single individual.”
As the news spread, the streets outside the courthouse erupted in cheers as opponents of the law danced and waved flags.
“We feel as equal citizens now,” said activist Shashi Bhushan. “What happens in our bedroom is left to us.”
In its ruling, the court said sexual orientation was a “biological phenomenon” and that discrimination on that basis violated fundamental rights.
“We cannot change history but can pave a way for a better future,” said Justice D.Y. Chandrachud.
The law known as Section 377 held that intercourse between members of the same sex was against the order of nature. The five petitioners who challenged the law said it was discriminatory and led to gays living in fear of harassment and persecution.
Jessica Stern, the executive director of the New York-based rights group OutRight Action International, said the original law had reverberated far beyond India, including in countries where gay people still struggle for acceptance.
“The sodomy law that became the model everywhere, from Uganda to Singapore to the U.K. itself, premiered in India, becoming the confusing and dehumanizing standard replicated around the world,” she said in a statement, saying “today’s historic outcome will reverberate across India and the world.”
The court’s ruling struck down the law’s sections on consensual gay sex, but let stand segments that deal with such issues as bestiality.
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