Bail bonds guarantee that the defendant appears in court and does not abscond. If they do not, the bail will be paid to the court. A bail bond helps to prevent the injustice of holding an innocent person in jail. It also helps the community to get criminals back into the justice system.

Guarantee to pay the bail amount to the court

Erie County bail bonds are legal agreements between bail bond companies and the courts that guarantee to pay the total amount of bail if a defendant fails to appear in court. However, if the defendant fails to follow the terms of the agreement, the company is liable for the loss of the money.

The bail industry has been criticized for its high fees and demanding requirements. In recent years, reforms have been introduced. These include the creation of partially secured bonds.

Partially secured bonds are used as a …

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Disability LawyerIf you’re filing a long term incapacity declare when you will have been injured or grow to be ill and can’t work, it’s helpful to know that incapacity insurance coverage is more sophisticated than most insurance coverage. But Federal Disability Retirement shouldn’t be a matter of a prognosis; not like Social Security Incapacity , which does include a semblance of categorical imperatives on the subject of certain medical situations, the preponderance of the proof needed in changing into eligible for Federal Incapacity Retirement benefits is threefold: First, the minimum number of years beneath FERS (18 months of creditable Federal Service) or CSRS (5 years, which is presumably already met by everybody in that retirement system); Second, a medical condition which got here into existence in the course of the time of Federal Service (with some debatable exceptions within one (1) 12 months of being separated from Federal Service); and Third, …

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  • New report highlights career movement for Asian American lawyers
  • Social and political issues are increasingly more important

(Reuters) – A new study has found that Asian American attorneys continue to be underrepresented in the top echelons of the legal profession, but are making progress in federal courts, in-house legal departments and law school enrollment.

A Portrait of Asian Americans in the Law 2.0 — a collaboration between the American Bar Foundation, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and several law schools, with California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu among the authors — is a follow-up to an influential 2017 reports on Asian Americans in the law. That study identified the hurdles of Asian Americans face in the legal profession, including stereotypes and a lack of mentorship.

“In terms of representation, I think we’ve seen some interesting progress,” Liu said Monday during an online presentation on the new study. “But across

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Find A LawyerIf you stay in Texas you understand that Texas legislation doesn’t take kindly to people who drink and drive. Legally, there is a probability it may well cause issues depending on the place you’re and even which decide you get (and the attorneys concerned if any). Additionally there is some consolation in waiting till you might be truly divorced in case you are too busy to find and develop a relationship anyway, which is probably going the case if there are kids and your partner is performing like a sexy teenager and also you assume the children should have a minimum of one guardian who would not undermine their integrity. However it would be good, legally to maintain any “adult” actions on the downlow as soon as you realize the wedding is over earlier than the divorce is remaining if it is not too inconvenient anyway. In case your partner …

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apps-ga1d3c25ac_1920Marvel has the Multiverse – a collection of alternate realities where superheroes interact and exist independently but are sometimes cognizant of their counterparts in other realities. Oddly enough, our world has the Metaverse, which is not fiction. It refers to the world that exists in digital format. Find out how the Metaverse impacts your law firm by reading today’s post.

What is The Metaverse?

Some experts define the Metaverse as a 3D version of the internet. Metaverse users interact within a computer-generated space. It’s not limited to one online location; it includes numerous virtual spaces. Many users have avatars that help them interact with others online. It’s like a virtual reality game and continuously evolves.

How Did The Metaverse Come to Be?

The term, Metaverse, is new to most of us. However, it originated in a 1992 novel entitled Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. The Metaverse in his novel was

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CASE PREVIEW

A lawyer’s legal advice is privileged. A court cannot order the lawyer or the client to disclose it. But a lawyer’s nonlegal advice is not privileged. What happens when advice is partly legal and partly nonlegal and the two parts cannot be untangled? In such dual-purpose situations, does the privilege protect all the advice or none of it?

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear opposing answers to that question in a case known as In re Grand Jury. A law firm will argue that the privilege should protect all client communications “where obtaining or providing legal advice was one of the significant purposes behind the communication,” even if nonlegal advice predominated. The United States will argue that unless legal advice was the client’s “primary” purpose, none of the dual-purpose communications should be privileged.

The difference between

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Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that Judge Thomas B. Griffithspecial counsel to the firm and former judge on the DC Circuit, has been elected to the American Law Institute (ALI), an independent organization that works to clarify, modernize and otherwise improve US law.

Griffith is among 31 lawyers, legal scholars and judges elected to ALI in December 2022 based on professional achievement and demonstrated interest in improving the law. He joins 13 other Hunton Andrews Kurth colleagues who are ALI members.

A retired judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Griffith has been active in efforts to preserve the rule of law in the United States and other nations. He was a member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States and frequently speaks and writes about the importance of preserving civics education and defending the

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By Michael McArthur

The final talk of the International Law Libraries Annual Course was another sobering perspective on the U.S. administration, most notably the absence of judicial review under the guise of national security. Stanford’s Professor Shirin Sinnar gave the presentation, titled “National Security and Accountability in the Courts.”

She began with the story of Professor Xiaoxing Xi, whose home was raided by the FBI in 2015 on account of an accusation that he was sharing private scientific technology with China. The news made the headlines and his life was turned upside-down, only to have the charges dropped a few months later. In an attempt to clear his name, he sued the FBI agents and the FBI for malicious prosecution based on his Chinese background. His claim was dismissed, unable to get past the threshold of Bivens action that protects federal agents for constitutional violations. The court went on to

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On a Monday in late November, I had breakfast with Nick Wurst, a conductor on the CSX railroad, at a diner in his home town of Worcester, Massachusetts. We met before dawn, and Wurst, a bearded twenty-six-year-old, was wearing a reflective Carhartt shirt and a knit hat for his 7:30 AM shift at the freight terminal in Framingham, about thirty miles away. his union, SMART-TD, which represented railway conductors and engineers, had just voted down a proposed contract meant to resolve a three-year-long standoff over wages, scheduling, and benefits. The agreement had been drafted not in the usual course of collective bargaining between the twelve rail unions and the National Carriers’ Conference Committee but by fiat, at the best of President Biden. The Administration had impanneled an emergency board, which whipped up a contract in less than a month to prevent a strike.

Each union had a chance to

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By Allison C. Reeve Davis, Senior Library Manager, Littler Mendelson, P.C. and Caren Luckie, Research Attorney, Jackson Walker LLP

Allison and Caren were both awardees of the PLLIP-SIS grant to attend the course and in this post share their experiences and “a-ha” moments.

On May 16-17, 2022, several legal information professionals gathered in Chicago for an immersive course on Competitive Intelligence (CI) in law firms. The small group of 11 comprised individuals from law firms of various size and included librarians and CI researchers alike. Facilitators Ben Brighoff (Foley & Lardner, L.L.P.) and Lynne Kilgore (Baker Botts, L.L.P.), along with additional speaker Nathalie Noel (Jenner & Block), led the group through several CI strategies, team development, stakeholder buy-in, working collaboratively with other departments, and other considerations. Attendees took away ideas and made connections with each other creating a larger network of colleagues working in this space. We have already seen

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