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PFAS foam in a Marinette, Wisconsin stream. The human-made chemical is one of the key water issues of 2022. Thursday, Feb. 17 at noon Marquette University is hosting an overview of 2022 water policy issues — both at the state and federal level. Professor David Strifling will cover persistent concerns, such as PFAS, lead contamination and the legal tussle over water protections. Strifling, w...

Photo illustration by Warren Craghead, photos by Ian Bradshaw and Julia Davis, and courtesy University of Alabama School of Law A presidential commission convened to focus on possible reforms to the U.S. Supreme Court had trouble finding agreement, University of Alabama School of Law professor Tara Leigh Grove says on the latest episode of “Common Law,” a podcast of the University of Virginia...

Denver-based law firm Messner Reeves LLP has made a further push into the Arizona market by scooping up a high-profile employment law practice group from a Phoenix firm. Julie Pace, David Selden and Heidi Nunn-Gilman lead the group of five attorneys and six other support staff, formerly with Gammage & Burnham PLC, who joined Messner Reeves effective Feb. 1. Pace, Selden and Nunn-Gilman ha...

EL CAJON, Calif. (KGTV) – An undercover law enforcement officer and a man were hospitalized after a shooting took place in an El Cajon neighborhood late Wednesday evening. At around 10 p.m., a task force with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department followed a van with a trailer into a neighborhood on Decker and Ballard Streets. The van entered a cul-de-sac, but the task force officers block...

Syracuse University College of Law has appointed four new Board of Advisors members: Peter Carmen L’91, Prashanth (PJ) Jayachandran G’98, L’98, Benita Miller L’96 and David Wales L’95. These appointments reflect the heft of the College of Law’s alumni and underscore the college’s commitment to project on its board the diverse talent and leadership represented by its alumni community. “The Col...

Thieves target car dealerships in King CountyCriminals are using stolen trucks as a battering ram to get into service centers to steal keys to cars on the lotCONNECTING... AUBURN, Wash. - Auburn police said there is an uptick in burglaries and auto thefts at car dealerships. Detective Damon Hewin said in a three-week period, there were 15 to 20 vehicles stolen from dealerships in the City of ...

Reinventions profiles people who've made big pivots. Meet Divya Mirlay, who leapt from corporate lawyer in India to copywriter (and podcast host!) in Berlin. Step by step, she describes how it happened. What were you before? I was an associate at a law firm in Bangalore. I practiced corporate law, mostly working on private equity deals. What triggered your reinvention(s)? During one of my in...

Shown here are 2021 scholarship winners, left to right, Khushi Afre, First Place, Northview High School; Janet Sigei, Second Place, Grayson High School; Joe Fried, Fried Goldberg LLC Partner; and Jamal Sayid; Third Place, Grayson High School. Thirteen years ago, the personal injury law firm of Fried Goldberg in Atlanta created the Scales of Justice Scholarship as a way for high school seniors...

Legal tech providers aiming to meet lawyers’ evolving needs are looking outside of their traditional responsibilities. Legal software provider Paradigm announced Thursday it acquired TrustBooks, an accounting software designed primarily for law firms with the aim of enabling lawyers to handle their own accounting needs. For Paradigm, the deal was an opportunity to further expand its practice ...

The Athletic’s national prospect analyst, Keith Law, recently published his annual MLB-wide top-100 prospects list and also released his review of the Twins’ farm system. Both are must-reads for Twins fans and prospect buffs. I put out my annual Twins top-40 prospects list in mid-January, so we thought it would be interesting to compare notes, discuss where and why our respective Twins lists ...