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California Pumped Tens of Millions into Immigration NGOs that Fight Deportation, Track ICE and more…

OpenTheBooks Substack • 270 implied HN points • 11 Jun 25
🇺🇸 U.S. Politics Immigration Policy advocacy Government funding Nonprofits Legal Services
  1. California has invested a lot of money, around $73.6 million, into nonprofits that help immigrants and fight deportation. These organizations aim to provide legal support and advocacy for immigrant rights.
  2. Some of these groups not only offer legal help but also encourage activism and political engagement among immigrants. They focus on changing laws and policies that affect immigrant communities.
  3. The spending on these organizations has raised concerns about whether taxpayer money should support efforts that challenge federal immigration laws and enforcement.

Technology Enabled Scams

David Friedman’s Substack • 125 implied HN points • 19 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Scams Legal Services Ransomware
  1. Technology has enabled a variety of scams, like mass production blackmail and forged evidence threats, taking advantage of a large number of people at a low cost.
  2. Legal and computer service scams are becoming more prevalent, with scammers using tactics like phone calls offering legal help after accidents or fake tech support from companies like Microsoft.
  3. Advanced technology like deepfake videos and ransomware pose serious risks, as seen in cases where fraudsters used deepfake technology to trick workers into transferring large sums of money or when victims are extorted for payments to decrypt their files.

Drills and holes

The Jolly Contrarian • 39 implied HN points • 06 Jun 23
💼 Business Legal Services Tech Innovation Market Trends
  1. Customers want outcomes, not the inner workings of legal processes. They care about results, cost-effectiveness, and speed.
  2. Despite predictions of a legal industry revolution, significant changes have been incremental rather than revolutionary.
  3. Various external events have failed to drastically alter the traditional legal industry, leading to the ongoing dominance of established legal practices.

Fire, rebirth, and pace layers

The Jolly Contrarian • 59 implied HN points • 24 Jun 22
🚌 Education Complex Systems Legal Services Professional Services
  1. The Great Fire of London in 1666 presented a unique opportunity to reimagine and optimize the city but ultimately, London was rebuilt exactly as it was, showing how persistent and resilient systems can be.
  2. Complex adaptive systems, like cities, operate on different time scales with layers such as nature, culture, governance, infrastructure, commerce, and fashion, each dependent on the layers below.
  3. Lasting change in a complex system requires either a new shock it has not yet experienced or a transformative opportunity that existing layers cannot exploit, showing the need to understand the depth at which change must occur.

AI will make lawyers cheaper, faster, and better

Adam's Legal Newsletter • 19 implied HN points • 27 Jan 23
🕹 Technology AI Legal Services Artificial Intelligence
  1. AI will make lawyers cheaper, faster, and better, potentially replacing some tasks traditionally done by human lawyers.
  2. AI's ability to quickly search, analyze, and generate legal content can significantly enhance legal research and drafting processes.
  3. AI's impact on the legal profession may lead to increased access to justice, faster litigation, and changes in the traditional structure and costs of law firms.
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