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The year "2021" is seen on the tassel of Mark Dodge, 27, a graduate from The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 13, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly Dec 14 (Reuters) - When it comes to law school admissions, 2021 was one for the record books. The number of applicants vying to be first-year law students this fall jumped 13%—the biggest year-over-year increase sinc...

Proposed Jackson County sheriff salary spikes to appease new law  Clinton Herald

Syringe Services Programs (SSPs) reduce the transmission of infectious diseases such as HIV and Hepatitis C through the distribution of sterile needles to people who inject drugs. These programs also provide additional health services such as overdose prevention education, HIV and Hep-C testing, and naloxone provisions. These programs now operate in 39 states and Washington D.C., however, dis...

Scott R. Jablonski, with Berger Singerman in Fort Lauderdale. What You Need to Know Jablonski hopes to see significant business, community resources and collaboration aimed towards technology-based emerging companies. Jablonski believes that business law practices can make the adjustments required to serve the startup ecosystem. Innovative legal technologies allow smaller operations to comp...

Boy starts petition to create 'Damon's Law' after best friend struck, killed by school bus  KMOV.com

WASHINGTON COUNTY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The Chief James Brooks Jr. Act was officially signed into state law. The law will ensure that volunteer firefighters who suffer a vascular rupture are covered by the volunteer firefighter’s benefits law. This bill came to light after one Washington County family shared their story. 44-year-old Chief James Brooks was a member of the Whitehall Volunteer Fire C...

Local law enforcement to offer free New Year's Eve rides - WBBJ TV  WBBJ-TV

A Court of Appeal held that the state’s density bonus law (Gov’t Code § 65915) does not require applicants to submit financial information to support requests for incentives or waivers and preempted a city ordinance that required such financial documentation to show that a project would not be “economically feasible” without the requested incentives. Schreiber v. City of Los Angeles, 69 Cal. ...

Jessica George tries to find help along the main street of Simla, Colorado, after her ATV broke down on Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. The state suspended George’s driver’s license over unpaid court debts, as it has done for thousands of other Coloradans. Among the roughly 500 bills Gov. Jared Polis signed into law in 2021, 14 go into effect on New Year’s Day. They concern a wide range of people and t...

Credit: IRStone/stock.adobe.com If 2020 was all about the legal industry adapting on the fly to extraordinary circumstances, 2021 was about figuring out how to turn that short-term adaptation into long-term evolution—and fighting the urge to simply revert to the pre-pandemic status quo. The year began with cautious optimism, despite many pandemic lockdown measures still being in place around ...