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I’m not a fan of the Supreme Court’s recent precedent-overturning rulings, but it’s not lost on me that the end of Chevron deference may have come just in time…
The litigation unleashed by President Trump’s second term, combined with his distortions and lies, is testing the judicial system’s practice of deferring to the executive branch’s determinations about what is true.
Remember kids, the First Amendment is only concerned with government action.
Alito: Isn't "Content Moderation" just a euphemism for censorship?
Clement: "If the government’s doing it, then content moderation might be a euphemism for censorship, If a private party is doing it, content moderation is a euphemism for editorial discretion.”
Every workflow has bottlenecks, but not every slow spot is a true bottleneck. In my latest podcast episode I discuss why only one bottleneck in your law practice really matters, and how to get work to flow more smoothly through it.
#bottleneck #agile #kanban #lean #legalops
https://www.agileattorney.com/finding-fixing-bottlenecks-law-practice/
I'm excited to announce that I've re-launched the Agile Attorney podcast. One of my favorite quotes from the first episode:
"A main feature of an agile team is that they are actively managing capacity, not passively managing capacity. Because when you're passively managing capacity, you're going to go over capacity."
Check out episode 1 by searching for "Agile Attorney" in your favorite podcast player, or visit https://agileattorney.com/1
I can't begin to guess how many articles I read or podcast episodes I heard through the years that extolled the benefits of "nudge" thinking — the idea that small prods could have big results in human behavior.
Then we learned in 2023 that nudges don't work.🤯
Throwback to when I first moved to Seattle and there was a weekly public access TV show where people would call in so the host could time their bong hits. It was consistently one of the best things on television.
This really hurts. Tom (Tommy) Smothers, who along with his brother Dick formed the Smothers Brothers, has died at 86. Despite his character being played as a dummy, in reality he was the driving force of the comedy duo, pushing them from a fairly straightforward singing comedy team into realms of free speech, anti-Vietnam war, and anti-censorship realms that incurred the wrath of President Johnson, who pushed CBS to cancel their show ("The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour") -- which ultimately happened.
When they featured (in September 1967) once blacklisted Peter Seeger singing his anti-Vietnam war "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" all hell broke loose and CBS cut the performance from the tape before the show aired. After pressure from the brothers, CBS permitted them to bring him back for another performance of the song in February the next year, which did air -- but the brothers relationship with CBS was beyond repair, especially when CBS tampered with a performance by Harry Belafonte later that year.
It's impossible for me to express here the impact of the Smothers Brothers, or reasonably point at a single representative sample of their vast work, or their many interviews about these topics, but you may find this Q&A interesting as a starting point.
Peace Tommy. You deserve it.
So Michael Cohen, who is no longer licensed to practice law and therefore has no duty of technology competence, used Google Bard to pre-write a motion to shorten his probationary supervised release stemming from his criminal conviction. Cohen’s lawyer, David M. Schwartz, accepted Cohen’s arguments without scrutiny and filed the motion. SDNY Judge Jesse Furman did apply scrutiny, however, and discovered three citations to cases that do not exist.
Good lord, really?
WSJ: People Rely on Laxatives So Much, There Aren’t Enough To Go Around
“”It’s crazy to think that our collective bowel dysfunction problems have gotten so bad that we’re literally running out of stool softeners,” says Dr. George Pavlou, who runs Gastroenterology Associates of New Jersey. “
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/laxative-shortage-diet-weight-loss-5a15bf02
Lauren Weinstein
