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Are We Slowly Forgetting What It Means to Be Human?
There is a product currently in development called Friend. You wear it around your neck. It records your entire day — every conversation, every interaction, every awkward silence. Then at the end of the day you pour yourself a glass of wine, open the companion app, and talk through your day with your AI. Who heard everything. Who judged nothing. It is your therapist, life coach, best friend, and mentor — for $129.99. No vulnerability required. No messy human relationships. I say that not to ridicule it.
Morris Manning Names Our House as MMMPact Nonprofit Partner
MMMPact, Morris, Manning & Martin’s corporate social responsibility outreach, recently chose Our House as its annual Atlanta nonprofit partner. Our House is an Atlanta nonprofit that provides a pathway to stability and independence for families experiencing homelessness.
State Board Reverses Student’s Expulsion After Hitting Teacher with Phone
An Atlanta plaintiff attorney has helped a West Georgia high school student win her appeal after being expelled earlier this year for throwing her cellphone at a fellow student and accidentally hitting a teacher with it. In an Aug. 24 order, the State Board of Education reversed the Troup County Board of Education’s decision to expel the student, who was a freshman at Callaway High School in February at the time of the incident.
SC Negotiator Joe Rice Joins PFAS Leadership Team to 'Get These Settlements Finalized'
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America Is Not, And Never Has Been, Colorblind.
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Meet the Candidates: Senior Assistant Solicitor Dionne McGee Says Balanced Resume Is Right for the Job
Editor’s note: This article is part of a continuing series on judicial candidates for the 2024 election. DeKalb County Senior Assistant Solicitor Dionne McGee was the first hopeful to announce her candidacy for the county’s next state court judge. She is one of several lawyers from across metro Atlanta seeking to succeed soon-to-be-retiring Chief Judge Wayne Purdom. The election for DeKalb’s next state court judge is set to take place in 2024.
20 State AGs Ask Fourth Circuit to Kill Jones Day's Texas Two-Step Tactic in Georgia-Pacific Case
The attorneys general of 20 states and the District of Columbia penned an amicus brief last week in hopes of overturning a preliminary injunction that enabled Georgia-Pacific to proceed with its “Texas-Two Step” bankruptcy maneuver in North Carolina.
Your Data & Technology Are Not Delivering You Value—Here’s How to Fix Them | Legaltech News
This is the fourth in a series on practical, low-cost options to improve performance and profits amid tight budgets and layoffs. The first piece, on collections, can be found here, the second, on practice management techniques, can be found here, and the third, on optimizing firm performance. can be found here.
Your Data & Technology Are Not Delivering You Value—Here’s How to Fix Them | The American Lawyer
This is the fourth in a series on practical, low-cost options to improve performance and profits amid tight budgets and layoffs. The first piece, on collections, can be found here, the second, on practice management techniques, can be found here, and the third, on optimizing firm performance. can be found here.
Ga.’s Top Court Rejects Trump Attempt to Thwart Prosecutor in Election Probe
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Debevoise Adds Litigators in Bay Area in Strategy to Support Bicoastal Work
New York-based Debevoise & Plimpton opened up shop in the Bay Area in late 2021 to be closer to its tech and investor clients. Now it is adding litigators to help those same clients and others. The firm is adding Josh Cohen, a litigator and white-collar trial lawyer with two decades of experience working in California, and Abraham Tabaie, a broad-range commercial litigator, to its office in the Bay Area, the firm said Tuesday. Want to continue reading?
Man Sues CNN for Defamation Regarding His Alleged Role in Jan. 6 Attack
Attorneys at Ballard Spahr on Monday removed a defamation lawsuit against CNN to Virginia Eastern District Court. The suit, centered on the Jan. 6, 2021 attack of the U.S. Capitol, was filed by Pincus Goodman P.C. on behalf of Jacob Gavin Hiles, who asserts that he entered into a plea agreement of one misdemeanor count in connection to the day’s events. Hiles claims he was misidentified as a rioter in an article published by CNN Oct. 2021.
Seyfarth's First-Generation Lawyers Create a First for Big Law
When Seyfarth Shaw labor and employment partner Rob Szyba first stepped foot into the law firm, the newness of the experience may have hit harder than many of his peers. After immigrating to the United States at age 7, Szyba entered grammar school without speaking English. Eventually, he decided to go Berklee College of Music, where he saw there was a need for legal support in the music industry and decided to pursue a career in law.
Gibson Dunn Brings on 9-Lawyer Linklaters Team in Paris
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Paris has snagged a nine-lawyer, partner-led team in energy and infrastructure from Linklaters—the latest in a series of recent moves by the firm to bolster its global firepower in a growing practice area. Darko Adamovic. (Courtesy photo) The team is led by Darko Adamovic, who practiced at Linklaters for 10 years, rising to partner, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Gibson Dunn Brings on 9-Lawyer Linklaters Team in Paris
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Paris has snagged a nine-lawyer, partner-led team in energy and infrastructure from Linklaters—the latest in a series of recent moves by the firm to bolster its global firepower in a growing practice area. Darko Adamovic. (Courtesy photo) The team is led by Darko Adamovic, who practiced at Linklaters for 10 years, rising to partner, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Aspartame Study Results May Take Fizz Out of Push to File Tsunami of Suits Against Coke, Others
Last week’s news on aspartame might have sounded bad for Coca-Cola and other consumer-product companies that widely use the artificial sweetener.
Justice Is Served: Highlights From Big Law's Year of Impactful Pro Bono
As part of this year’s Pro Bono Scorecard, we selected 15 matters that represent the very best of the legal industry’s pro bono efforts in 2022. These examples below demonstrate Big Law’s capacity to make a difference in the lives of their pro bono clients and demonstrate the breadth of the work these firms handle.
Reoperation Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights From 10-Year Experience
Article info Publication history Accepted: April 19, 2023 Received in revised form: April 17, 2023 Received: March 7, 2023 Publication stage In Press Journal Pre-Proof Footnotes Karen M. Kim: Investigation, Data curation, Conceptualization. Shinichi Fukuhara: Writing – original draft, Visualization, Validation, Supervision, Software, Resources, Project administration, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization.
Mutual fund-to-ETF conversion: Tax implications
“Mutual fund” is the common term for an investment vehicle that pools money from multiple investors and invests in various assets such as stocks and bonds. Most traditional mutual funds, commonly referred to as “open ended” funds, issue shares directly to shareholders and redeem them at the demand of the shareholder at the fund’s net asset value (NAV). Mutual funds register with the SEC under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Act).
In Focus: Love Rocks NYC 2022 at the Beacon Theatre – NYS Music
On Thursday, March 10, 2022, The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation is presented the sixth annual Love Rocks NYC benefit concert for God’s Love We Deliver, live from the historic Beacon Theatre.
John Mayer Sob Rocks Madison Square Garden with Questlove’s "New York Minute"
During a break from Dead & Company tour in June of 2018 John Mayer started to build “Sob Rock” on your Instagram in portrait mode from Electric Lady studios in New York City. The IGTV episode compartmentalizes the ideas behind the albums first single “New Light”.
Alien Opera House has "Five on it" with The Luniz at It's a Party Fest 2/18
Sunday February 18 at the Alien Opera House is round two of “It’s a party fest” to keep the 2022 Winter festivals rolling. The event will be hosted by actor & artist JT Campos. He is featured on the NETFLIX series “Queen of the South” and has been a guest on BREAL’ TV’s show Smokebox. For the first time ever in Upstate New York the Luniz will be performing their hit song ” I got 5 on it”.
John Mayer On The Old Air Waves; Fourth Tour Opener In Albany Set For Feb 17
What is it about Upstate New York winters that makes musicians bring their multi-colored California concepts here to heat things up? 41 years ago, Jerry Garcia Band came to be an act for the Lake Ontario sound at Laker Hall on the SUNY Oswego campus February 17, 1980. And next week, February 17, 2022, John Mayer opens his Sob Rock Tour at Albany’s MVP Arena. This marks the fourth time he’s shedded on the Hudson River for a tour opener.
Frank Stepanek: The Clay Prophet debuts "Jimi Marley" project -...
Frank Stepanek has been touring the world with roots reggae band Black Uhuru since 1989. When he’s not in Switzerland performing he spends his time in Clay, New York. Frank, a Tully native, wood sheds new music daily to kick the winter blues. He has a recording studio at the historic Clay Hotel site on route 31. The roots of BLACK UHURU were formed in Kingston Jamaica’s Waterhouse district also known as “Firehouse” in the early 60′s.
Interview: Snake Anthony and the Wood Brothers Shed Across New York State
The Wood Brothers started 2022 in the Empire State with dates in Rochester’s Kodak Hall at Eastman Theater, Albany’s Palace Theater and Plattsburgh’s Strand Center for the Arts. It marks the Wood Brothers first time at Kodak since Feb 2020, and bassist Chris Wood took some time after the gig for a quick chat with NYS Music. Matthew Romano: Good to have the Wood Brothers back at Kodak Theater for the first time since Feb 2020.
Local Midwest Band, Umphrey’s McGee, Celebrates 24 years at Landmark Theatre, Still Doing OK
Umphrey’s McGee came to Syracuse’s Landmark Theatre on Friday, January 21 for a special evening, as the date marked their first gig as a band 24 years ago. The band told the crowd about their first gig where “the power went out,” but tonight the electricity was synchronicity in Syracuse.
It's a Party Fest at The Alien Opera House on January 15!
Mad Dabber710 is an american musician, hip hop artist, funk producer. and cannabis activist born in Bandera, Texas. He is the host with the most at Syracuse’s Alien Opera houses “Its A Party Festival” on January 15 2022 from 3 PM till 2 AM. This past December the Alien Opera House hosted a performance of the Frank White Experience with Lil Cease of Brooklyn artist Notorious BIG.
Live Music in 2022: Reelin with the Feeling, Don't Stop Continue
As the spark from one tiny blaze affects various live music re-schedules and new formats to end this year, it becomes important to reflect on how far we’ve come in the past 12 months. As I picked up my matches and was closing the door I had one of those flashes I’d been there before, been there before. 2020 marked the first year of major live music cancellations since Phish’s Curveball Festival in 2018. However, the show of life must go on. Music finds its way throughout history.
Leo and Mike Tour Closer at The Strand: From the Cradle to the Grave
The city of Plattsburgh, New York has an Icelandic glow on the shores of Lake Champlain. The Strand Center for the Arts in town hosted Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon’s tour closing show on Sunday December 19. Just across the Lake is Mike Gordon’s Gamehendge in the city of Burlington. It seemed as if it was his first time performing in Plattsburgh since Phish’s infamous Clifford Ball festival that drew 60,000 to Clinton County in 1996. However, Gordon was making the trip to Plattsburgh well before 1996.
Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon History Lesson at Troy Music Hall
Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon brought their acoustic duo tour to Troy Savings Bank Music Hall on Wednesday, December 15. The venue has been a sought after performance destination by various artists since the early 20th century. The original padded wooden seats help absorb a layer of sound, allowing listeners in even the deepest seats to hear the same clear sound as the entire room.
Lil Cease performs at Alien Opera House, Reflects on the Moment
The Alien Opera House hosted a Sunday farmers market with Live Music throughout the day on Sunday December 12. The holiday festive green Sunday on the north side featured performances by Lil Cease, Ryan Mackey, Ebb n Flow with Mozy Calloway, Joe Driscoll, Handsome Bob, and DJ R Hop. Sound beats by Scott Gagnon. The Sunday matinee headliner was the Frank White Experience with special guest Lil’ Cease of the original Bad Boy Record label.
G Love Talks Empire State Memories ahead of Bringing the Juice to New York in 2022
G Love has been running the roads since his first American tour in 1994. He’s ready to return in 2022 with his band The Juice, starting in January, as part of a national tour. G Love & The Juice album been nominated for his first Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album as well. Throw in a live from home Christmas special to end this year to celebrate the holidays proper before heading back on tour. G Love is also an active artist.
Dave Hanlon Trio at the 443: Cookbook Fish Recipe interview
Dave Hanlon brought his power jazz trio to the 443 Social Club & Lounge on Friday, December 3rd with Ron France on bass and Ed Vivenzio on keys in tow. The trio delivered a Blue Note style-esque performance of their take on classic funk jazz compositions. Twenty seven pieces were on the set list to be exact. All performed with the same on the spot fervor that all good jazz is created in.
Vanessa Collier Storytellers Gig at the 443 Social Club
Vanessa Collier was an absolute stand out at the 2021 New York State Blues Festival grand return to the State fairgrounds this past June. She treated Syracuse’s most intimate venue, the 443 Social Club & Lounge to a blue note-esque performance on Thursday December 2nd. Club owner Julie B Leone told NYS music that it was their fastest show to sell out in under 24 hours. Vanessa Collier gave a two set and encore performance to match everyone’s delight at the 443.
Gregg Allman eats an Orange
Happy Birthday Gregg Allman! The road for the Allman Brothers Band certainly does go on forever. Some of its trails were carved by two of their managers who graduated from Syracuse University. They made residency history at the Fillmore East and The Beacon Theater in Manhattan during their time. The band evolved with a changing cast at Syracuse University’s Manley Field House over the years as well.
Keller Williams Sails The Southern Tier for 20 years
Keller Williams groove has been flowing through the Southern Tier for almost twenty years. His first Ithaca appearance at The Haunt in April of 2002 included all the elements of variety his one man show still carries today. Some first heard of “K Dubb” on K-Rock’s Sunday Night Jam Session as on air winners for entry to his various Central New York shows.
Kingfish Takes the delta back roads to Homer
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram brought his 662: Juke Joint Live (XXIX) tour to the Homer Center for the Arts on Tuesday, November 2. The 62nd annual Grammy awards just nominated the 662 from Alligator Records for Best Traditional Blues Album. Kingfish was in the Southern Tier over the summer with Robert Randolph who spoke with NYS Music at Jus Sum Jazz Lounge in Syracuse.
Steely Dan Close "Completely Normal Tour" at Syracuse's Landmark Theater
Steely Dan Closed their 2021 Absolutely Normal American Tour at the Syracuse Landmark Theater on Tuesday November 23. The fully renovated Landmark has reached its peak performance potential after this year’s final renovations of the seats and the legendary marquee that has been on Salina St since 1928. Walter Becker and Donald Fagans musical concepts they first drafted up together in Brooklyn in 1968 still hits in today’s music world.
Jon Fishman credits Syracuse Radio Station's “Rock Block” during Thanksgiving Episode of "Errant Path"
Syracuse, New York is a comfortable corridor of the state to spend the holidays. Dewitt native Jon Fishman told his satellite radio audience during “The Errant Path”s 63rd episode about featured artist Yma Sumac. Before Yma’s airplay Fishman said “we’re gonna do a couple of her songs back to back through out the show. Like a Rock Block of Yma Sumac music. When I would listen to 95X as a kid they would have these great rock blocks.
Samantha Fish Returns to Homer Center for the Arts: Talks about Her New York Journey
Coming fresh off the heels of a Halloween show at Stephen Talk House in the Hamptons, Samantha Fish brought her band to Homer Center for the Arts in Homer, New York on November 3rd. They laid down some voodoo bulletproof blues to the 150 year old brick baptist venuel with the center stage having taken on a Jimi Hendrix “Electric Church” vibe this season. This past summer Fish performed a festival with Eric Gales who just played the Center in October.
Blue Star Radiation Play First Show in Syracuse at Westcott Theater
Composition versus Improvisation. Moe, Kung Fu, The Breakfast, Lotus, Percy Hill, Ghosts of Jupiter, and Assembly of Dust all come from a heavy catalog of music that can be played differently any given night. Blue Radiation is a new band that glows off these concepts that includes Vinne Amico on drums, Rob Derhak on bass, Tim Palmieri on guitar and Nate Wilson on B3 Hammond keys.
Dirty Dozen Brass Band Cissy Strut back To The Blue Note
The Dirty Dozen Brass band from New Orleans just finished up a four night residency at Blue Note on Sunday November 14. Fellow Orleans Cats Ivan Neville and Tony Hall of Dumpstaphunk checked out the brass band at the Note on Thursday before their two night sold out run at Madison Square Garden with Dave Matthews Band. You never know who will stop in to New York City’s infamous Blue Note Jazz Club in Manhattan.
Lettuce cover Buffalo Native Rick James' 'Mary Jane' At Town Ballroom
Lettuce blazed back to Buffalo during their Fall run of their 2021 Bring Back The Love Tour. This past July they crushed Lake George and Western New York’s Art Park. The group played the fully renovated historic Buffalo Town Ballroom on Main Street. The three floor club is an infamous hometown venue to funk artists Rick James and Soulive. Lettuce founding member Sam Kininger joined for one just gig this summer at the Lake George Adirondack stage.
Dave Matthews Band and Dumpstaphunk Funk up The Garden on 2021 tour closer
Prior to the tour closing performance of Dave Matthews Band at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, November 13, frontman Dave Matthews introduced Dumpstaphunk, who would open the evening’s festivities. Sharing with the sold out New York City audience that he was so damn lucky, Matthews said “I got to listen to soundcheck yesterday with Dumpstaphunk and then I got to listen to them last night, then at soundcheck again today. So you guys only got two, by the end of this set I’ll have four.
Jess Novak and Cait Devin play Hazel Ways Benefit at ONCO in Tullly
On Sunday, November 7, ONCO Fermentations in Tully, New York hosted a benefit of music and activities to celebrate the dedication of a new town road, “Hazel’s Way,” in support of Hazel’s Hope. This brand new town of Tully street located off Meetinghouse road across from ONCO was named “Hazels Way” in honor of thirteen year old Cazenovian Hazel Shaw, who passed in April from a rare ninth chromosome disorder. The event raised over $3000 for Hazel’s Hope & families of children with special needs.
Ana Popovic and Electric Church at Homer Center for the Arts
This fall, Ana Popovic celebrates 20 years on the road. The Serbian blues artist from Belgrade went from a careeer as a graphic designer to a world touring musician. Having just played Homer Center for the Arts on Sunday October 24, much like Eric Gales the week prior, she paid homage to the Jimi Hendrix “electric church” style energy of the Center. And filled with energy she did, having been a performer and on the board of the Experience Hendrix European tour for the past 6 years.
20 years later: Oysterhead Plays The Utica Memorial Auditorium
Hey Uticats and Phish fans, do you remember when Oysterhead played the Utica Memorial Auditorium on November 9, 2001? This was Trey Anastasio’s first of four musical projects debuted in the Mohawk River city at the base of the Adirondacks. If you recorded the HBO show Reverb ,you’ll have a VHS tape of Oysterhead’s inaugural tour footage from Los Angeles’s Palladium to New York City’s Roseland Ballroom during its Fall 2001 episode.
Salt City Waltzes to Del Lago Casino for The Band tribute Concert
The Del Lago Casino venue “The Vine” is bringing an infamous night from San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom back to life. The famed concert of “The Last Waltz” will be recreating music by “The Band” at the Del Lago Casino on Saturday November 13th. The evening’s playbill includes over 40 performers as part of “The Salt City Waltz.” The 2021 edition promises to feature new faces and music added to the show. The production inside The Vine offers a glimpse into the 1970’s Winterland Ballroom.
Dumpstaphunk Grooves Brooklyn Bowl ahead of Madison Square Garden Debut
Dumpstaphunk last performed in the Empire State at the 2019 New York State Blues festival in downtown Syracuse. Later that evening, band members Tony Hall and Deven Trusclair kept the groove going at the Funk n Waffles club for a sit in on “Standing on Shaky Ground” by the Temptations that Funkadelic’s Eddie Hazel co wrote. A month later they opened for the Rolling Stones to 40,000 people in their hometown at the New Orleans Superdome.
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