Maria Laus

Maria Laus

Maria Laus is an accomplished author and digital content marketing manager passionate about delivering valuable insights and information to legal professionals. She holds a degree from De La Salle University and has extensive experience in business development.

As a digital content marketing manager, Maria excels at developing effective strategies for managing online advertising campaigns. She is responsible for creating compelling content and making critical decisions regarding hiring contractors and content creators. Utilizing analytics software, she measures the performance of advertisements and identifies opportunities for enhancing future marketing efforts. Maria also plays a pivotal role in managing social media strategies, devising marketing budgets, and driving user engagement to achieve various advertising objectives. Her expertise extends to building brand identities and establishing online presences through creating and disseminating multimedia content.

As an author of legal career news articles for LawCrossing.com, Maria's primary focus is to keep legal professionals well-informed about the latest trends and developments in the legal job market. Her articles cover a wide range of topics, including job openings, salary trends, and shifts in the legal landscape. Through her writing, Maria provides valuable insights that empower legal professionals to make informed career decisions. Additionally, she shares advice articles on career management, job searching, and other relevant topics to guide readers in advancing their legal careers.

With her comprehensive knowledge of the legal recruitment industry, Maria Laus brings a wealth of expertise to her role as an author and digital content marketing manager. Her ability to stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and her exceptional writing skills allow her to produce accurate and informative content that resonates with her audience. Through her work, Maria continuously strives to deliver interesting and actionable information to legal professionals, providing them with the tools they need to succeed in their careers.

Assault with a Deadly...Peanut?

In many ways, crime provides some rather interesting stories. But this one is quite unusual, even so.

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An Unappealing Mess

Let's say someone approached you to represent him or her in a case and hired you. Further, let's assume that you were too busy to actually do anything and the court entered a bunch of sanctions, terminating the case and entering a $730,466 default judgment against your client.

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Texas Defies World Court

One wonders why the World Court bothers. While there are people like Robert Mugabe starving and assassinating people in their countries, the World Court (the International Criminal Court, as it is officially known) has decided that five murderers deserve its full efforts to save them from punishment.

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Handguns Still Banned By DC After Heller

Usually, when people lose cases at the Supreme Court, they give in. After all, if the court didn't like what you did the first time, they most likely won't appreciate having to slap you down again.

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Job hunting during the vacation season - a good move?

Question:I am seriously contemplating leaving my firm and am just beginning the search process. Now we are into ''vacation season,'' and I don't know whether to take my vacation as planned or use the time for potential interviews in the future. And how will it look if I take a vacation and then give notice a few weeks later?

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Bible Publisher Sued over Homosexuality

There are lots of lawsuits in the world, and lots that are, shall we say, less than likely to succeed. Then there are those that are not likely to succeed and are rather eye-opening.

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FISA Passes, Trial Lawyers Mourn

On July 9, 2008, the United States Senate passed the FISA bill, or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Actually, the Senate passed a renewal of the act, joining the House of Representatives.

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Rule 8(a) Rhymes Today

Sometimes lawyers forget to glance over the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. And sometimes they are forced to do things that conflict with each other.

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Law Firms Look to Partners for Cash

It is an unfortunate fact of our current times: tighter lending markets. Yes, the halcyon days of practically instant loans on generous terms are gone, at least until the next economic boom.

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Seattle Loses Its Sonics

On July 2, 2008, the city of Seattle, Washington, lost its National Basketball franchise — the Seattle SuperSonics — to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This has been in the works for a long time but finally became official on July 2 when the city of Seattle and the owners of the Sonics settled a lawsuit regarding the term of the lease on the local basketball arena, Key...

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Caught! The Suicide That Wasn't

You may remember Samuel Israel III. He's the former hedge fund CEO who got convicted on fraud charges for disappearing with hundreds of millions of his clients' money. He was then sentenced to 20 years in the clink for his misdeeds, but the judge let him out on bail until he was to report to jail.

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Woman Needs A Great Defense Lawyer

There are hard cases for many lawyers. There are tough, hopeless cases. But you can only imagine how much aspirin the poor soul who defends Lynne Rice of Norwalk, CA, will need.

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Dickie Scruggs Sentenced to Five Years

Friday, June 27, 2008, was the day of reckoning for Richard ''Dickie'' Scruggs, as he was sentenced for his roles in fraud and bribery of judges.

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Supremes Decide Americans Can Own Guns

On Thursday the Supreme Court finished its term, and the ruling that got the big publicity was the long-awaited decision in Heller v. District of Columbia, the Second Amendment case. The court hadn't touched the Second Amendment for a long time, and this was the first decision on the meaning of the Second Amendment in Supreme Court history.

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Supreme Court Says ''No'' to Executing Child Rapists

Ahhh, late June. Long days, warming weather, controversial Supreme Court decisions…it’s a good time of the year to be an attorney. Yes, it’s that time when most of the biggest, hardest, and most controversial decisions of the Supreme Court come down as the court winds down its term.

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When Boorishness Leads to Sanctions

Depositions range from the tedious to the profane but usually are pretty normal. Well, normal for the lawyers, at least — most people being deposed don't really enjoy the experience.

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Journalist Commits Suicide after Being Accused of Murders He Covered

There is some shock in Macedonia after journalist Vlado Taneski committed suicide in his jail cell. The story reads like it came from a Hollywood horror writer, of the really bad variety.

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Northwestern to Offer Two-Year, Five-Semester Law Degree

Northwestern University has announced a new choice for those who want to attend law school: a five-semester, two-year degree plan. In 2004, the American Bar Association lifted a requirement that law school be six semesters, and now Northwestern is the first major law school to offer a degree taking less than six semesters.

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Girl's Grounding Overruled by Court

In a ruling that will delight the hearts of children and children's rights advocates everywhere but strike fear into the hearts of the parents of those children, a court in Quebec overturned a father's grounding of his 12-year-old daughter.

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Ninth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Protection for Text Messages

In a huge ruling on June 18, 2008, the Ninth Circuit held in Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Company that users of text messaging services — such as all cell phone users — have Fourth Amendment rights.

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