New Book Offers Insightful Analysis of International Trends by Innovative Legal Service Providers-News
Laura Snyder's new book, "Democratizing Legal Services: Obstacles and Opportunities," provides a comprehensive analysis of international trends and developments in the regulation of legal service providers.
Aided by dozens of detailed interviews with both traditional and nontraditional providers of legal and quasi-legal services, Snyder explores a developing market through lenses that are both specific enough to create a multi-dimensional story and broad enough to give readers a sense of the issue's global scope.
Her refreshingly frank and pragmatic tone leaves one laughing aloud at the absurdity of some obsolete regulatory schemes while simultaneously cringing at the same. Similarly, her inclusion of personal stories and the experiences of individuals—both consumers and providers of legal services—presents the implications of the changing market in an accessible manner that never loses sight of the immediate and essential impact that legal regulatory regimes have on human lives.
In an era when innovation and technology allow a constantly shifting legal environment, Snyder examines the arguments both against and in favor of the growing trend toward relaxed regulation of legal service providers. Organized primarily as a collation of the experiences and impressions of providers and consumers in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Democratizing Legal Services artfully treads the thin line between presenting a collection of interviews and offering a fact-based analysis of various regulatory regimes.
Source responsivelaw.org 2-8-2017
Lisa Monaco and Michael Bosworth to join NYU Law-News
NYU School of Law has announced two new arrivals this spring, both of whom join the Law School from the Obama administration.
Lisa O. Monaco has been appointed as a distinguished senior fellow, affiliated with the Center on Law and Security and the Center for Cybersecurity, to begin on February 1. Monaco comes to NYU Law from the White House, where she was assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism. As the president’s homeland security advisor, she coordinated policy development and crisis response to terrorist attacks, cyberincidents, and public health emergencies and natural disasters.
Prior to her White House appointment, Monaco spent 15 years in various positions at the Department of Justice (DOJ), including as assistant attorney general for national security, where she established the first nationwide network of national security cyberspecialists and led a division of more than 300 lawyers responsible for national security cases and policy. Before leading the national security division, Lisa was principal associate deputy attorney general—the deputy attorney general’s primary advisor on criminal policy, law enforcement, national security, and civil litigation matters. She also served for three years as counsel and chief of staff to FBI Director Robert Mueller III, and before that, worked as an assistant US attorney, including as a member of the Enron Task Force. She began her legal career as a law clerk to Judge Jane Roth of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Monaco is the recipient of the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service—the DOJ’s highest honor—as well as the Edmund J. Randolph Award, awarded by the attorney general in recognition of outstanding contributions to the DOJ’s mission. She is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Chicago Law School.
Michael Bosworth joins as a senior fellow with the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, and is teaching a seminar on the executive and criminal justice reform this spring. Most recently, Bosworth served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy counsel to the president, where he oversaw domestic legal policy issues.
Before his White House appointment, Bosworth worked as special counsel to FBI Director James Comey Jr. Prior to that, he was an assistant US attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he was co-chief of the Complex Frauds Unit. Earlier in his career, he served as a law clerk to three federal judges: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Judge Robert Katzmann of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Judge Jed Rakoff in the Southern District of New York. He has received, among other honors, the National Association of Former US Attorneys’ J. Michael Bradford Award, which is given annually to one outstanding assistant US attorney. Bosworth is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School.
Source law.nyu.edu/news
Tell Gov. Burgum to Keep Standing Rock Water Protectors Safe-News
Once connected, tell North Dakota’s Governor Doug Burgum:
Keep water protectors safe from police abuse and remove the road blockade. The Standing Rock Sioux and water protectors have endured militarized police crackdowns – simply for defending their water rights and exercising free speech while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. Do not put political expediency over their safety and do not repeat former Governor Dalrymple’s mistakes.
President Trump took executive action encouraging the Army Corps of Engineers to override environmental review and speed up construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation.
His action is a slap in the face to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and water protectors. With resilience, water protectors have already endured militarized crackdowns, police abuse, and daily intimidation – simply for defending their water rights. An estimated 300 protesters were injured in November when police in riot gear used water cannons for hours in subfreezing weather to disperse them.
Any day now, law enforcement may try to disperse water protectors with unnecessary and dangerous use of force. But North Dakota has a new governor – and a chance to avoid the mistakes of its last governor.
Source aclu.org 2-8-2017
