mjburnett.bsky.social @mjburnett.bsky.social · 03/04/2025reason.com/volokh/2025/...reason.comImportant New Professional-Client Speech Decision from the Third CircuitFrom Veterans Guardian VA Claim Consulting LLC v. Platkin, decided yesterday by Judge Stephanos Bibas, joined by Judges Anthony Scirica and Cheryl Krause: 010
mjburnett.bsky.social @mjburnett.bsky.social · 31/03/2025A new article on non-lawyer ownership by Professor Melissa Mortazavi, What Lawyers Could Learn from the Corporate Practice of Medicine journals.library.wustl.edu/lawpolicy/ar...journals.library.wustl.eduWhat Lawyers Could Learn from the Corporate Practice of MedicineProponents of the United States’ domestic experiments in non-lawyer ownership (NLO) of legal practice justify them in terms of increasing “access to justice.” But what if opening ownership of legal pr... 000
mjburnett.bsky.social @mjburnett.bsky.social · 28/03/2025www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/how-we-...insidephilanthropy.comHow We Got Here: Six Reasons Liberal Philanthropy Is Losing the Battle for America’s FutureDrawing on conversations with leaders across the progressive funding and nonprofit worlds, IP Editor-in-Chief David Callahan tells a story of strategic missteps, blind spots and underinvestment that l... 010
mjburnett.bsky.social @mjburnett.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Less than 10 state bar associations signed onto this ABA statement in support of the rule of law? www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...americanbar.org 201
mjburnett.bsky.social @mjburnett.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Today the Supreme Court of the State of Arizona adopted New Arizona Code of Judicial Administration § 7-211: Community-Based Justice Work Service Delivery Models, a critical step towards achieving meaningful access to civil justice for all Arizonans. www.azcourts.gov/Portals/22/a...azcourts.gov 030
Reposted by @mjburnett.bsky.socialAmerican Bar Foundation @abfresearch.bsky.social · 06/03/2025⚖️The 2025 SC Law Review Symposium, “Making Justice Real: Exploring the Intersection of Access to Justice, the Rule of Law, and Democracy" kicked off last week with our very own @mjburnett.bsky.social, @williamhjhubbard.bsky.social, and Rebecca Sandefur speaking. sclawreview.org/symposium/sclawreview.orgSymposium - South Carolina Law Review 021
Reposted by @mjburnett.bsky.socialPathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies @sdg16.plus · 04/03/2025🤔 How can we reduce the harmful impacts of women imprisonment from a global POV? 💡 An upcoming #CSW69 side event will highlight the links between poverty & the scale of the problem for incarcerated women & innovative solutions that UN Member States can adopt. RSVP: www.sdg16.plus/events/csw69... 011
mjburnett.bsky.social @mjburnett.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Congrats to Alaska Legal Services on winning the 2025 Michael Mills InnovAction Award for their groundbreaking Community Justice Worker program! www.collegeoflpm.org 010
mjburnett.bsky.social @mjburnett.bsky.social · 27/02/2025workshift.orgDemocratizing Legal Help with a New Kind of Frontline JobCampaign seeks to bring legal help to low-income Americans and to create training standards and credentialing for a needed type of worker. 000
mjburnett.bsky.social @mjburnett.bsky.social · 20/02/2025The World Justice Project & Ministry of Justice of Poland will convene the World Justice Forum 2025 from June 23-26 in Warsaw, Poland. Early-bird rate available until April 25, 2025. Hope to see you there! worldjusticeproject.myevent.plworldjusticeproject.myevent.plWorld Justice Forum 2025 000
mjburnett.bsky.social @mjburnett.bsky.social · 19/02/2025For folks thinking more deeply these days about why and how lawyers attack the rule of law, I’d recommend this piece by Scott Cummings, “Lawyers in Backsliding Democracy” www.californialawreview.org/print/lawyer...californialawreview.orgLawyers in Backsliding Democracy — California Law ReviewThis Article explores the role of lawyers in democratic backsliding—the degradation of democratic institutions and practices using law rather than violence. The Article’s central aim is to set an agen... 051