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How Law Firms Are Leveraging Leadership To Build Positive Cultures & Address Burnout By Prostock-studio Burnout and culture are two topics that dominated the workplace conversation in 2021, and the legal profession was no exception. A profession that isn’t known for making swift change found itself navigating unprecedented challenges while also experiencing tremendous growth, leading to...

Cleveland State University A working group of CSU Law School students calling themselves "Students Against Marshall" sent a formal request Tuesday to the school's dean, Lee Fisher, and the naming committee he chairs asking that former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall's name be immediately removed from the law school. "Our single objective," read the letter to the 29-member N...

With carefully compared notes and heavy hearts, activists, homeless service providers and other concerned community members made their own unofficial list of nearly 40 people who died while experiencing homelessness in Lane County in 2021. The total is significant — but likely still an undercount. Troubling stories across the state of deaths either attributed to or aggravated by people's lac...

The Alabama House of Representatives approved a bill Tuesday repealing the state's law on collegiate student-athletes profiting off their likenesses after the NCAA passed looser regulations on the topic. The measure, sponsored by Rep. Kyle South, R-Fayette, passed the chamber 97 to 1. It goes to the Senate. Rep. Mike Holmes, R-Wetumpka, was the sole no vote. Gov. Kay Ivey last year signed l...

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — South Carolina and Wyoming are the last two states without hate crime laws due to some Republican senators who questioned if it was necessary to add penalties to violent crimes based on someone’s intentions. However, Rep. Wendell Gilliard, D-Charleston County, has been working to get hate crime laws passed in the state. The “Clementa C. Pinckney hate crimes act wou...

* Company that probably played a massive role in proliferating anti-global warming propaganda fears the chilling effects of accountability. [Mother Jones] * New Jersey governor renews law that prevents cops from being near polling places because of that whole voter suppression by force thing. When are we getting a new Voting Rights Act again? [New Jersey Globe] * Illinois is trying to make bi...

Ruben Gutierrez Pioquinto (Manatee County Sheriff's Office) UPDATED at 2:20 p.m. with charges; details from news conference; clarifies relationship of suspect and victim. MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - A Bradenton man shot and killed his stepfather-in-law while they were driving in a truck, with the victim’s 15-year-old stepson watching, Manatee County Sheriff Rick Wells alleged Wednesday. At ...

Lorie Nachlis is a family law attorney with Nachlis Freeman LLP in San Francisco, CA. Below, Attorney Nachlis takes a look at some of the major news stories concerning family law trending in the United States. Same-Sex Parents Sue State Over Parental Designation Two women in Omaha, Nebraska, are suing the state in order to be recognized as equal mothers of their children. The lawsuit states t...

FILE – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses a joint session of a legislative session, Jan. 11, 2022, in Tallahassee, Fla. Democratic and Republican governors are taking vastly different approaches to addressing the ongoing pandemic in their state of the state speeches. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File) ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A central Florida health official has been put on administrative leav...

An Auburn University football game. The Alabama House voted Tuesday in favor of repealing a previously enacted law related to college athletes’ usage of their name, image, and likeness, for monetary compensation. The repeal does not restrict student-athletes in Alabama from earning off their name, image, and likeness, but prevents state law from restricting that allowance under current NCAA p...