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Most of S&P 500 mentioned diversity in annual reports Reporting efforts are uneven as investors push for more data Large publicly traded companies are ramping up diversity and inclusion disclosures following George Floyd’s murder, as 80% of the S&P 500 now discuss work to achieve equitable businesses in annual reports. At least 402 companies in the stock index mentioned diversity, e...

Many years ago when I was practicing law in southeast Kansas, I was having lunch with an attorney friend. He was a large physically imposing man and was intellectually intimidating. As we finished the meal, he leaned over the table and asked in a firm tone, “Stan, what is the function of law?” I stammered like a first-year law student. He leaned back and smiled warmly and said, “The function ...

Housing law expert Hazel Remesch, an attorney with the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, photographed outside her office Friday, Oct. 25, 2019. Remesch worked for years to test out the idea of right-to-counsel in Cleveland eviction cases and then bring to fruition Cleveland's right-to-counsel project, which just completed its successful first full year helping the poorest Cleveland families avo...

The Department of Justice has asked the federal agency responsible for enforcing US labour laws to clarify its process for defining a worker as an employee. Subscribe to Global Competition Review Global Competition Review (GCR) is the complete source of news and analysis for competition practitioners. It keeps you up to speed with the issues and trends that matter, giving you the detail, and ...

The worth of stolen Jewish real estate during the Holocaust was calculated to be in excess of €47 million. National flag flutters over Latvian central bank headquarters in Riga, Latvia April 9, 2019. (photo credit: INTS KALNINS / REUTERS) Latvia's parliament passed a law on Thursday regarding Holocaust restitution to the country's Jewish community. Prior to the onset of World War II and the H...

Detail from an undated photo of a painting of the fourth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Marshall. (AP Photo) CLEVELAND, Ohio -- With all the issues that dog our city, Cleveland City Council took on one that, frankly, ought to be left to others. On the urging of Councilman Kevin Conwell, its loudest voice, City Council approved a meaningless resolution last month that called for...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — As the Virginia General Assembly reaches the halfway point of this year’s session, one of the year’s most complicated issues — possible changes to the state’s new law legalizing recreational marijuana — has stalled in the GOP-controlled House. Terry Kilgore, the chamber’s majority leader, said this week that he does not expect the House to vote on its own measures before ...

Inside the intensifying Israeli crackdown on Palestinian protest. Israeli police detain a young woman as Bedouins protest in the village of Sawe al-Atrash in the Naqab against an afforestation project by the Jewish National Fund on January 12, 2022. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images) Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! The sun had not yet risen on Ja...

Neptune police video: SUV drove onto church grass, then official called to fight ticket  Asbury Park Press

A sheriff's deputy posts a final eviction notice on an apartment in this 2009 file photo. The tenants challenging Arkansas' criminal eviction statute, the only one of its kind in the nation, are now facing a separate civil eviction filing that could jeopardize their case against the state. Cynthia and Terry Easley of Malvern filed a lawsuit in September in the U.S. District Court for the West...