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(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) (Lynne Sladky | AP) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CNS) - The State of Florida has officially returned $878,000 it had withheld from eight local schools districts for implementing mask mandates with no parental opt out earlier in the school year. $309,000 in school board member salaries had been withheld along with an additional $568,000 after some school boards went to the federa...

Breaking news (WSAW) MERRILL, Wis. (WSAW) - John Z.A. Moua, 28, has been identified as the man killed by law enforcement during an investigation on Dec. 10. The Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation is investigating the death. Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call for a person with a knife in a residence on Shady Lane Avenue in the Town of Pine R...

Jackson Lewis Law Firm Logo On Nov. 19, 2021, the House passed a version of the Build Back Better Act that would vastly expand employer liability under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The bill adds aggressive “civil penalties,” on top of the traditional National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) remedies of backpay and reinstatement, for certain violations of the NLRA by employers. Empl...

The controversy surrounding extra pay for the director of the Pensacola and Perdido Bay Estuary Program deepened Tuesday after Escambia County's ethics office said it believes Matt Posner violated both the county's code of ethics and the state's ethics law for public officials. The ethics office's investigation recommends that the county administrator and county attorney consult with the Sta...

Boutique law firms are really showing their financial prowess this bonus season, matching Biglaw bonuses (and sometimes even wildly surpassing them) time and again. The latest boutique to announce a Biglaw bonus is Ross Aronstam & Moritz, a Delaware litigation firm founded by lawyers from Wachtell, Weil, and Kellogg Hansen. This small, specialized firm matched Davis Polk’s new salary scal...

Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center’ notes include an update of exemption numbers and assurances by the commission that implementation of the law and payroll tax are on track Elizabeth Hovde Washington Policy Center A few things of import happened in the Long-Term Services and Support Commission Meeting Friday, including an update of exemption numbers and assurances that implemen...

What You Need to Know Big Law talent development managers believe integration is the next great challenge. How firms allocate work is a big part of integration, particularly in a remote environment. Firms are using a mix of human and technology resources to tackle work allocation. And there's more to come. As deal work continues to fuel demand in Big Law, corporate talent is increasingly mo...

Mayor London Breed’s announcement yesterday that she wants to give law enforcement more access to surveillance technology left privacy experts and political figures baffled – the 2019 surveillance technology law she wants to amend already permits law enforcement to access such data, they said. Brian Hofer, who co-authored the 2019 legislation which aims to limit access to surveillance t...

Education Eli Fox and Jamie Marquis at their home in Sacramento on Dec. 4, 2021. Your tax-deductible gift today powers our reporters and keeps us independent. We rely on you, our reader, not paywalls to stay funded because we believe important news and information should be freely accessible to all. Jamie Marquis can’t count the number of times they’ve been called the wrong name. A juni...

Restaurants, grocery stores and industry groups in California are suing the state to block a farm animal welfare law set to go into effect on New Year’s Day that they say will destabilize the multibillion-dollar “national pork supply chain.” They allege that the state has long delayed creation of a regulatory framework to shepherd these major changes that affect businesses across the country....