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In July of 2021, Donald Trump held a press conference at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club to announce that he was suing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and their CEOs for tortiously deplatforming him in violation of his free speech. His theory was that @Jack, Zuck, and Susan Wojcicki were so afraid of the possibility that mean Democrats might cancel Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that they effectively became state actors. Thus they suppressed Trump and his pals’ First Amendment rights by deleting their accounts.

There are one or two tiny problems with this line of reasoning. First, conservative such as Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz have loudly called to repeal Section 230, which immunizes websites for user-generated content. Second, Trump himself actually vetoed the $740 million National Defense Authorization Act in 2020 because Congress refused to include Section 230 repeal in it.

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Last night, US District Judge Carl J. Nichols did former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows a solid and punted on his lawsuit to block the January 6 Select Committee subpoenaing his phone records and making him testify. Instead of reaching the pertinent issues, the court instead dismissed the case for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, holding that the entire claim is barred by the Speech or Debate Clause.

It’s an odd position for the court, since neither of the parties raised legislative immunity. And yet Judge Nichols asserted it sua sponte, tut-tutting at the Congressional defendants’ failure to assert their rights, hinting that they were attempting to have their cake and eat it, too, keeping Speech or Debate defenses in their back pocket to assert on appeal in case of an adverse holding by the District judge.

“The Congressional Defendants surely hope for a

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Today’s oral arguments in the affirmative action challenges against UNC and Harvard packed in a lot over the course of five hours. Unfortunately, very little of that content involved any legal or factual analysis. But what it lacked in judicial content, it more than made up in robed policy making and casual racism.

From distorting Justice O’Connor’s dicta that she hoped for a country that wouldn’t need affirmative action by 2028 into a sunset clause to musing that affluent Black people don’t face discrimination, the Court delivered the biggest hits in the anti-diversity catalog one after another without a miss.

It was truly the Midnights of white grievance.

The moment when I completed my personal BINGO card arrived when “viewpoint diversity” entered the conversation. At one juncture, Consovoy McCarthy partner Cam Norris pointed out that “Harvard is not diverse at all,” because only 9 percent

Many law firms have multiple locations. How should multi-location law firms handle websites and marketing? Marketing strategies for multi-location law firms are varied and may require more planning and management than marketing for one location. A multiple-location firm may choose to host multiple websites or just one website incorporating multiple links. A multi-location law firm may focus on improving its Google Business Profile or increasing traffic to its specific locations using legal blogs and informative content. There are best practices in marketing strategies that should be followed depending on your law firm’s practice, expertise, and goals.

Creating Websites For Multi-Location Law Firms
Should my multi-location law firm have one or more websites? More than one website may seem like a good decision if you have multiple office locations, especially if each location focuses on a different type of practice. Consider the following scenarios:

Multiple Websites
Some law firms may choose

When was the last time you skipped lunch to line dance to Shania Twain’s “Man, I Feel Like a Woman”? Did I mention it was with a group of 50 lawyers at a CLE in Nashville? For me, it was two weeks ago! Very few things are as satisfying as getting the grapevine right to three heel toes to a quarter turn down pat.

Attending the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference reminded me of the importance of friendships as an entrepreneurial lawyer. I connected with lawyer friends from all over the world (yes, even some from the U.K. and Down Under!) I get so excited whenever I have the opportunity to meet with attorneys I’ve met in various phases of my career. These lawyers are awe-inspiring tech founders, law firm owners, professors, and inventors. Fun fact: I met most of the lawyers through social media!

I felt isolated and unsure when