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Jordan Morgan, the daughter of former state Rep. C. Wesley Morgan of Richmond, recently started a new job in the Reminger law office in Lexington. On Tuesday, attorneys in the firm were “shocked and saddened” to learn of her death in a shooting at her father’s house in Madison County, attorney Kenneth Finley said Tuesday. “I only knew her a limited time. She had just started with us,” Finley ...

A team from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Bartlit Center on Trial Advocacy won the Midwest Regional of the National Trial Competition, held last weekend in a remote format. They will now go on to compete for the national championship, which will be held in person in Fort Worth, Texas, March 30-April 3. The team of Carly Pace (JD ’22) and Caitlin Schumacher (JD ’22) won all four rounds...

Ohio lawmakers eased restriction on getting a gun and passed "Stand Your Ground" legislation, giving the Buckeye State a "D" marking. Ohio's gun safety laws are too weak, according to a new report. (Shutterstock) OHIO — Ohio's gun safety laws are among the weakest and most permissive in the nation, according to a new report from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Ohio received ...

A Trenton man who gunned down a 30-year-old at one of Trenton’s highest crime intersections in 2019 was recently sentenced to a life term in state prison, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office announced. The prosecutor’s office successfully argued for an enhanced penalty for Hamilton Morgan, 40, via the state’s Three Strikes law. Mercer County Judge Darlene Pereksta made it official on Feb. 1...

Fort Bend County renaming library after Civil Rights Pioneer Willie Melton (KPRC) HOUSTON – Fort Bend County Judge KP George held a dedication and renaming ceremony for the county’s law library, honoring Civil Rights pioneer Willie Melton. Since 2018, the Law Library has been housed on the second floor of the Fort Bend County Justice Center, but on Tuesday, it will be renamed the Willie Melto...

Law had an attrition problem before the pandemic hit. Now it’s in hyperdrive, dovetailing with a wider movement of dissatisfied workers quitting their jobs in the wake of lockdown restrictions, in what economists have dubbed the “Great Resignation.” According to Codex Edge, a London-based legal market analytics firm, the average associate attrition rate for the “top 1,000 law firms in England...

Source: WNEM A public interest law firm in Mt. Pleasant has submitted a letter to the city urging them to change a law about allowing the drive-thru to stay open at Taco Boy. The Institute for Justice law firm sent a letter Tuesday calling on Mt. Pleasant to end the zoning ordinance and allow Taco Boy’s owner Robert Baltierrez to continue operating the restaurant. According to the letter...

Printer-friendly Subscription-based contracts are common. They provide certain benefits to businesses, such as offering predictable revenue. These types of agreement often contain ‘auto-renewal clauses’, whereby the agreement will auto-renew unless the consumer cancels. However, The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK regulator responsible for the enforcement of consumer pro...

A Fort Myers man who attempted robbing a store in 2019 and tried fleeing from law enforcement in 2021 has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. According to the State Attorney’s Office, Robert Diaz attempted to rob a tire shop in Pine Island Road in Lee County in 2019. During that attempted robber, Diaz was shot in the face by a man who was cleaning his gun in the store. Diaz was sentenced to...

I am in the market for a new rowing machine. My prior one, a Velocity magnetic rower, suffered an unfortunate demise during one of my HIIT (high-intensity interval training) sets, when I managed to completely crack off the plastic rear fulcrum — and barely avoided serious injury when my seat, thereupon, flew right off the Velocity’s newly exposed rear end. Attempts to contact the company for ...