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Federal efforts to expand high-speed internet connectivity will spur long-term innovation in telemedicine, a sector that is booming thanks to a recent surge in venture-capital funding, investors said. The $1 trillion infrastructure law signed in November includes $65 billion to expand access to broadband. As access to high-speed internet improves in the coming years, many more patients will b...

University of Illinois at Chicago law professor Jason Kilborn said he never could have imagined that a final exam that contained a racial insult to an imaginary woman of color in a pretend civil case would create a campus firestorm that would divide colleagues, lead to his ouster and placement on leave for more than a year. The tenured professor’s exam question on the December 2020 quiz invol...

The Hudson Common Council will vote on a proposed law to convert the city Tourism Board into a new council committee HUDSON — The Common Council discussed supporting a new local law that would in effect eliminate Hudson’s Tourism Board and at the same time amend the city’s lodging tax. The short-term lodging tax created the need for the nine-person Tourism Board and provided it with a dedicat...

Jon A. Ballis took charge at Kirkland & Ellis 68 days before the pandemic was declared. He now faces the challenge of driving success while competition for top legal talent is fierce. Kirkland & Ellis’ hard-charging culture dubbed ‘wolves in wolves clothing’ Chairman wants to soften that image as firms battle for talent Kirkland & Ellis chairman Jon Ballis holds a trump card in...

The bill makes it illegal to terminate a pregnancy after 24 weeks and also requires every person seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound. by Saphfire Brown / The Dartmouth A new abortion law took effect in New Hampshire on Jan. 1 that restricted access to reproductive care across the state. The initial bill makes it illegal to terminate a pregnancy after 24 weeks and requires anyone receivi...

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EPA Projects Work to Be Completed at 22 of 25 Remaining Great Lakes “Areas of Concern” by 2030 WASHINGTON (Feb. 17, 2021) – Today, President Biden and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan will announce that as a direct result of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, EPA will make significant progress in the clean-up and restoration of the Great Lakes’ most environm...

Sam Waterston has had a long and varied career, but he remains best known for “Law & Order.” He and the show are back on Feb. 24.Credit...Mark Sommerfeld for The New York Times “Law & Order” premiered on NBC in 1990. A procedural that was really two procedurals conjoined, the first half of each episode focused on the investigation of a crime, the second on the prosecution of the accus...

Ranchers stand by a water tank as they work on a water project to try and get more water to their ranch from a well on June 8, 2021 in Tomales, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images In the rural county of Madera in California’s San Joaquin Valley, some farmworkers have learned to ration their water on a two-week schedule. Water gets hauled in by trucks and delivered to homes that h...

As regulators set their sights on the cryptocurrency industry, whistleblowers will come forward, internally and externally, to report illegal activity at their workplaces, explain Katz, Marshall & Banks attorneys Alexis Ronickher and Nicolas O’Connor. These whistleblowers may be protected against retaliation and may be eligible to earn large awards, they say. After over a decade of operat...