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Judge sides with Alaska attorney who alleged wrongful firing
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2022/01/21 18:15
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A U.S. judge sided Thursday with an attorney who alleged she was wrongly fired by the state of Alaska over political opinions expressed on a personal blog.
U.S. District Court Judge John Sedwick ruled that Elizabeth Bakalar’s December 2018 firing violated her free speech and associational rights under the U.S. and state constitutions.
According to Sedwick’s decision, Bakalar was an attorney with the Alaska Department of Law who handled election-related cases and was assigned to advise or represent state agencies in high-profile or complex matters. She began a blog in 2014 that focused on issues such as lifestyle, parenting and politics but began blogging more about politics and then-President Donald Trump after his 2016 election. She also commented about Trump on Twitter, with her name listed as the Twitter handle, the order says.
Shortly after Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s election in 2018, the chair of his transition team and later his chief of staff, Tuckerman Babcock, sent a memo to a broad swath of state employees requesting they submit their resignations along with a statement of interest in continuing to work for the new administration. The request was derided by attorneys for Bakalar and others as a demand for a “loyalty pledge.”
“To keep their jobs employees had to actually offer up a resignation with an accompanying statement of interest in continuing with the new administration and then hope that the incoming administration would reject the resignation,” Sedwick wrote.
Babcock said he fired Bakalar because he considered the tone of her resignation letter to be unprofessional, the order says. But Sedwick said Babcock did not accept the resignation of an assistant attorney general who used the same wording he had found objectionable when used by Bakalar.
While every lawyer in the Department of Law received the memo, just two — Bakalar and another attorney who had been critical of Trump on social media — had their resignation letters accepted, according to Sedwick’s decision.
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Federal judge delays vaccine mandate for NYC teachers
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2021/09/27 17:46
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New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for its teachers and other workers by a federal appeals judge just days before it was to take effect.
Workers in the nation’s largest school system were to be required to show vaccination proof starting Monday. But late Friday, a judge for the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a temporary injunction sought by a group of teachers pending review by a three-judge panel, which will take up the motion Wednesday.
Department of Education spokesperson Danielle Filson said officials were seeking a speedy resolution in court.
“We’re confident our vaccine mandate will continue to be upheld once all the facts have been presented, because that is the level of protection our students and staff deserve,” Filson said in an email.
The New York Post reported that the department sent an email to principals Saturday morning saying they “should continue to prepare for the possibility that the vaccine mandate will go into effect later in the week.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced in August that about 148,000 school employees would have to get at least a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination by Sept. 27. The policy covers teachers, along with other staffers, such as custodians and cafeteria workers.
It’s the first no-test-option vaccination mandate for a broad group of city workers in the nation’s most populous city. And it mirrors a similar statewide mandate for hospital and nursing home workers set to go into effect Monday.
As of Friday, 82% of department employees have been vaccinated, including 88% of teachers.
Even though most school workers have been vaccinated, unions representing New York City principals and teachers warned that could still leave the 1 million-student school system short of as many as 10,000 teachers, along with other staffers.
De Blasio has resisted calls to delay the mandate, insisting the city was ready.
“We’ve been planning all along. We have a lot of substitutes ready,” the Democrat said in a radio interview on Friday. “A lot is going to happen between now and Monday but beyond that, we are ready, even to the tune of, if we need thousands, we have thousands.”
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Will I Know How Many Visitors Come To My Website?
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2021/08/14 05:03
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Yes, we install Google Analytics upon the client’s request. Google Analytics is the most widely used website statistics service – currently in use on around 55% of the 10,000 most popular websites.
Google Analytics is implemented with “page tags”, in this case, called the Google Analytics Tracking Code, which is a snippet of JavaScript code that the website owner adds to every page of the website.
The tracking code runs in the client browser when the client browses the page and collects visitor data and sends it to a Google data collection server as part of a request for a web beacon.
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Law Firm Website Redesign
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2021/08/02 17:38
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Is your law firm web site generating enough case leads? If not, can you easily analyze your traffic to find out why? Are potential customers even finding you? Perhaps your current site is difficult to navigate and the relevant information is not clearly apparent to visitors. Is your content out of date because updating your site is difficult?
Your Brand, Your Message. You’re in Control
Law Promo’s web redesign is completely customized and tailored to each of our clients. It bears repeating: Your website is a reflection of your law firm and your professionalism.
You have complete control over the design. No templates, no restrictions. There is nothing preventing you from delivering a unique image with a modern aesthetic. Our websites also feature a simple to use content management system, so you have the option to update your website content whenever you want.
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What is the Average Cost of Website Design For Small Law Firms?
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2021/07/31 04:30
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Have you been wondering how much it will cost to design your firm’s website?
A small law firm website design from an agency can range from $5,000 to $20,000, whereas bigger and more complicated law firm websites will cost you between $20,000 to $50,000. Many times these high costs do not even mean that you will have the best website. At Law Promo, we believe higher price tag doesn’t always mean a better product.
Affordable Small Law Firm Website Design
We are able to customize a plan for those who have a budget of $3,000 to $6,000 for a small law firm website design.
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