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February 23, 2022
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Yale Law School is one Ivy League college that is helping do its part to wipe out student loan debt and give lower income students a fighting chance when it comes to their financial future.
Explore: 2 Major Ways Student Debt Burden Is Robbing Women of Their Freedom
Learn: Navient Student Loan Settlement Leaves Many With a Bill To Pay
Funded in part by a $20 million don...
February 23, 2022
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February 23, 2022 - Every winter, law firms receive from their clients a deluge of annual surveys and requests for data rega...
February 23, 2022
Construction on the Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge in Texas. (Eddie Seal/Bloomberg News)
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A group of Republican senators urged Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to revisit his department’s approach to aspects of an infrastructure law’s implementation.
The GOP senators took aim at recent messaging from the Federal Highway Admin...
February 23, 2022
After weeks of waiting, Davis Polk enters the salary increase game and re-raises, offering higher numbers for midlevel and senior associates. Is this the new normal, or could the market sustain one more shock to the system? Meanwhile, “Hobbit Law” aficionado Paul Davis gave Business Insider an interview that reads suspiciously like a rehabilitation attempt from a thoroughly embarrassed lawyer...
February 23, 2022
Heavy vehicles were set near the entrance to Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday ahead of possible protests over issues including Covid-19 vaccine mandates. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press
Protest organizers are calling for truck convoys to head to the Washington area ahead of President Biden’s State of the Union address next week to protest issues including Covid-19 vaccine m...
February 23, 2022
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Several comprehensive privacy bills are being considered at the state level. This blog post provides notable updates on bills companies should be paying attention to as they move through their respective legislatures. We will continue to keep you posted on updates to these bills and others as they occur.
Since our last update, various privacy bills have been intro...
February 23, 2022
Call it a move from the Redwood Empire to the Empire State.
The Law Offices of Omar Figueroa, which focuses on cannabis legal services, plans to hang a shingle in New York, considered an emerging market since voters approved adult recreational use last year. Medicinal marijuana became legal there in 2014.
The state is now working on establishing the framework of its licensing and taxation sys...
February 23, 2022
HOUSTON, Feb. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A historic $1.85 billion settlement reached late last week with opioid manufacturers and distributors resulted from the diligent work of the Texas Attorney General's office and a committee of top lawyers, including The Lanier Law Firm's Dara Hegar. The settlement marks a key milestone in the state's ongoing opioid multidistrict litigation, established to...
February 23, 2022
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Violence in the Buffalo community has many feeling unsafe, feeling frustrated and wondering what they can do to help. Those in the legal system say it's time for everyone to get involved to solve our city's problems.
"Things aren't changing. They're just kind of getting worse," said Amara Fields, student at SUNY Erie.
Fields, 20, is in the Legal Studies program, learnin...
February 23, 2022
First African Americans on the North Carolina Bench
This bonus episode features a tour of Campbell University School of Law's exhibit entitled First African Americans on the North Carolina Bench. The tour is conducted by Campbell Law School Dean J. Rich Leonard.
The exhibit features a timeline of the lives and achievements of each judge and justice from 1968-2006. While today North Car...
