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The face of legal practice has been altered considerably because of the pandemic. One of the most notable effects has been the number of legal professionals who now see remote and hybrid working arrangements as normal. Most firms widely adopted the remote model as a means of coping, but in the post-pandemic society, it is now informing a new situation where remote work and hybrid arrangements...

Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable spring 2022 graduates. Communication graduate Valentino Mejia has not let any grass grow under his feet while at Arizona State University. Valentino Mejia on campus proudly showing off his fraternity letters. Download Full Image Beginning his freshman year, Mejia has held several student worker jobs across campus to pay f...

Police officers in riot gear at Civic Center in October 2020. The Colorado Senate unanimously approved a bipartisan proposal Wednesday to fund $30.5 million in grant programs for state law enforcement, sending it to the House for consideration. If enacted, Senate Bill 145 would establish three grant programs to fund: crime prevention and crisis intervention in high-crime areas; law enforcemen...

That was an exhausting week for legal happenings! Marjorie Taylor Greene flummoxed a poor judge during a hearing into her ability to satisfy the 14th Amendment’s proscription against seditionists in office. Justice Kagan had just about enough of Neil Gorsuch and let us all know. Alex Jones took his defamation woes to Bankruptcy Court — after transferring millions among different legal entitie...

Oxford, MS – A month long joint federal, state and local law enforcement initiative organized in response to an increase in violent crime in the area has resulted in the arrests of more than 700 individuals in North Mississippi on a variety of charges including homicide, aggravated assault, aggravated domestic assault, child abuse, child sexual assault, drug distribution, unlawful gun crime, ...

WASHINGTON – A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty today to a felony charge for assaulting law enforcement officers during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election. Howard C. Richardson, 71, of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, plea...

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled this week that Jackson and St. Louis counties may challenge the constitutionality of a controversial state gun law, sending the case back to the circuit court. The ruling comes after the local governments, along with St. Louis City and the Biden administration, sued the state last year shortly after Gov. Mike Parson signed the Second Amendment Preservation Act...

Law students Kara Hafermalz, left, and Christina Kelly worked on the Virginia Literacy Act that was recently signed into law. (Left photo by Julia Davis, right photo contributed) new literacy program will help Virginia schoolchildren learn to read, thanks to a new law ushered in part by clinic students at the University of Virginia School of Law. Responding to persistently high rates of stude...

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — On Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law creating the nation's only election crimes police unit. The very next day, the Pinellas County Commission voted to sue the Sunshine State, challenging the legality of the legislation. The bill creates an Office of Election Crimes and Security under the Florida Department of State that would review fraud allega...

(WWJ) Authorities are hoping video of a dramatic highway crash in Southwest Michigan will draw attention to the importance of moving over for emergency vehicle. In a tweet shared Tuesday, @MspSouthwestMI wrote: "Some may ask what’s the big deal about the “Move Over Law”… the state law designed to protect emergency vehicles/responders. This video sums it up in 10 seconds." The footage, captur...