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January 21, 2022

Dylan Simmons, third-year Stanford law student, passes away - The Stanford Daily

Stanford Law School. (Photo: IAN GARCIA DOTY/The Stanford Daily) Dylan Simmons ’17 M.S. ’17, a third-year Stanford law student, passed away in a campus residence on Thursday night, Vice Provost for Student Affairs Susie Brubaker-Cole announced in a message to the community on Friday. Simmons received a bachelor’s degree in sociology and feminist, gender and sexuality studies and a master’s de...
January 21, 2022

West Coast Biglaw Firm Joins Milbank Scale - Above the LawAbove the Law - Above the Law

A PR person from a firm here on the East Coast complained to me recently that I don’t refer to international law firms with regional terms other than that one, which is absurd, but here we are. Irell is not that firm because Irell knows enough about recruiting to say that the West Coast can’t wait…even if it keeps ATL editors up after happy hour. The Milbank Mo has hit the West Coast. When w...
January 21, 2022

New voting law has some El Paso mail-in ballot applications rejected - KTSM 9 News

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – The elections process has several changes in Texas and voters are already seeing the effects ahead of the March 1 primary election. “Don’t think how the election process was in 2021 is how it is now,” El Paso County Elections Administrator Lisa Wise said. El Paso County elections officials are scrambling to process mail-in ballots with new laws leading to more of those...
January 21, 2022

Texas AG KenPaxton denies his office violated open records law - The Dallas Morning News

FILE - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a rally in support of President Donald Trump called the "Save America Rally" in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. A district attorney says Paxton violated the state's open records laws by withholding or failing to retain his communications relating to his appearance at a pro-Trump rally that preceded the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol last year. (...
January 21, 2022

Retired from law, real estate, man turns woodcarving, stained glass art into career - WLOS

JAN. 21, 2022 - CAROLINA MOMENT: Once in law and real estate, now retired Fran Moore, of the Asheville area, has turned a longtime hobby of woodcarving and stained glass art into a second career in which he creates high-quality and highly detailed custom pieces. (Photo credit: WLOS staff) ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Retired from law and real estate, Fran Moore has turned an art that was once jus...
January 21, 2022

Rhodes-Conway returns from national conference of mayors, touts infrastructure law's benefits for cities - Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3

Play Video 00:00 00:00 spaceplay / pause qunload | stop ffullscreen shift + ←→slower / faster ↑↓volume mmute ←→seek . seek to previous 12… 6 seek to 10%, 20% … 60% MADISON, Wis. — Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway is back in Madison after spending the week in Washington, D.C. for the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The conference gives mayors a chance to meet up and exchange ideas. Rhod...
January 21, 2022

Charleston Police Department Explorers win first place in law enforcement competition - WCBD News 2

Via CPD CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Charleston Police Department (CPD) Explorers recently took the top spot in a multi-state law enforcement competition. The Explorer program “is a hands-on program open to young men and women between the ages of 14 and 21 who are interested in a career in law enforcement or other related fields.” Via CPD Explorer Captain C. Parish and Explorer Sergeant N. Neal ...
January 21, 2022

Accomplished, young Valley woman dies unexpectedly while in pursuit of law degree - 12news.com KPNX

Saron Berhe, 28, was in her last year of law school at Howard University. She immigrated to the Valley from Eritrea at 3 years old. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — At just 28 years old Saron Berhe had accomplished more than a lot of people. She had immigrated to the United States as a child before graduating from Arizona State University. She was nearly done with law school at Howard University when sh...
January 21, 2022

AG Ken Paxton denies violating open records law in newspapers' request for Jan. 6 communication - Yahoo News

Attorney General Ken Paxton denied Friday that he violated the state’s open records law, rejecting allegations by a Travis County prosecutor that his office should release communications from the week of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Paxton had given a speech at a pro-Trump rally just hours before the violence erupted in Washington, but his office hasn’t released messages to Texas media outlets ...
January 21, 2022

Illinois law enforcement talk with lawmakers about possible solutions to address violence - WGEM

Hazel Crest Police Chief Mitchell Davis III talks with the House Public Safety and Violence Prevention Task Force on January 21, 2022. SPRINGFIELD (WGEM) - Law enforcement leaders from across Illinois had the opportunity to talk about their ideas to address public safety and violence prevention with state lawmakers Friday. The Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police told a special House task...