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The start of a new year is the time for annual retrospectives, predictions, and promises to get back into the gym. Although we can’t help with that last one, we wanted to take this opportunity to offer our own analysis on the state of employment law in 2021, and to see if we can predict the hot-button issues for the rest of 2022. COVID Concerns For now, the headline issue remains COVID. 2021 ...

Susman Godfrey's Vineet Bhatia (L) and Kalpana Srinivasan (R). Photos courtesy of Susman Godfrey. (Reuters) - Last month, Susman Godfrey elected Houston-based partner Vineet Bhatia to be the law firm's managing partner, alongside Los Angeles-based partner Kalpana Srinivasan, who became managing partner in 2020. While Srinivasan and Bhatia focus on what's next for the 140-lawyer firm, we caugh...

By Police1 Staff WASHINGTON — A new app from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) is now available for download, the NLEOMF announced Wednesday. The Community Alliances and Law Enforcement Bulletin (CALEB) Network aims to build community relationships. The app works as a community social media space to inform citizens about what law enforcement is doing and as a platfo...

What You Need to Know Florida law firms in a new Wells Fargo survey reported an average of 13% revenue growth in 2021. The Am Law 1-50 posted 16% average revenue growth, while Am Law 51-100 firms and Second Hundred firms reported 11% and 9% growth, respectively. Competition for legal talent drove Florida expense increases above the national average. Without the benefit of the elite corporat...

Credit: larry1235/Shutterstock.com What You Need to Know Defendant Leo Jim moved to suppress all evidence obtained as a result of the unreasonable warrantless search and seizure to a locked gun safe in violation to Article II, Section 10 of the New Mexico Constitution. Prosecutors maintained that the search was reasonable under federal and state law and encouraged the appellate court not to ...

By Leila Merrill STILWELL, Okla. — Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. signed into law legislation that invests $54 million in Cherokee Nation EMS, the Tahlequah Daily Press reported. The law is intended to help reduce response times, increase staffing, improve training for community partners. The new law provides for a new ambulance facility and expansion of the tribe’s ambulance fl...

Gov. Spencer Cox delivers his 2022 State of the State address in the Utah House chamber at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. Cox on Wednesday signed his first batch of bills passed by legislators during the first few weeks of the legislative session. Gov. Spencer Cox on Wednesday signed his first batch of bills passed by legislators during the first few weeks of the...

The lawmaker who sponsored the Alabama Literacy Act, which focuses attention and resources on improving reading instruction in the earliest grades, has filed a bill to delay a key part of the law by one year. The Legislature passed the Literacy Act in 2019 as part of an effort to improve reading for Alabama students, who rank low on national tests. A key provision of the law is that third gra...

Students are seen on the campus of Georgetown University in Washington March 20, 2019. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn) Georgetown University's law school placed a newly hired professor on administrative leave after the academic criticized President Joe Biden's promise to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, tweeting that the pledge would lead to a "lesser" pick of nominee as compared to oth...

China passed its new Data Security Law ("DSL") in June 2021 and its new Personal Information Protection Law ("PIPL") in August 2021. Both new laws impact every business operating in or doing business with China, coupling extensive obligations with respect to the processing of all types of data, with potentially significant penalties for noncompliance. For buy-side transactions, the buyer shou...