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CHICAGO – A measure to lay out qualification and education requirements to allow for certified midwives in Illinois was signed into law Tuesday. State Senator Cristina Castro (D-Elgin) sponsored the new law, which has been in the works for decades. “The demand for home birth services has been on the rise, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, and this law will help ensure that mothers who opt f...

Jillian Waldron and Bryan Pepper Heller Law Group has promoted associates Jillian Waldron and Bryan Pepper to partner positions, effective January 1. “Congratulations to Jillian and Bryan,” said founder Wendy Heller. “Their intense focus, attention to detail and commitment to this firm have been evident from the day they both started here, and I am so happy to announce them as the first partn...

Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today we're focusing more on Joinder, or who can and who must be party to a civil lawsuit. In particular, we look at intervention, impleader (or third-party action), and class actions. We previously covered permissive and required joinder in Bar Exam Toolbox podcast episode 145. In this episode we discuss: >The five types of joinder >Inte...

Elder law attorney Anthony J. Enea, member, Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano, LLP Westchester County elder law attorney Anthony J. Enea, Esq., member of Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano, LLP in White Plains and Somers, N.Y., recently welcomed matrimonial attorney John A. Pappalardo, Esq., partner at Farber, Pappalardo & Carbonari in White Plains and Roseland, NJ, for a special episode of the Ta...

Three of Notre Dame Law School’s alumni were drawn back to campus at the beginning of the fall 2021 semester by the opportunity to work for the Law School’s new Religious Liberty Initiative. The groundbreaking initiative promotes and defends religious freedom for people of all faiths through scholarship, events, and the Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic. John Meiser ’07, ’10 J.D., previou...

Say you’re in eighth grade. You walk up to a group and call them names while shoving one. Then they all kick the shit out of you. You insult and shove them a few more times. Then you run to the principal and claim you are being ganged up on. What’s that called? I’m asking for an academic or two. You see, I think the problem with academics on Twitter is people say on tweets what they would no...

Guest columnist The past couple of years have been challenging for Iowa’s 327 public school districts. Parents have become very engaged with their schools — and enraged, too, at times. This has revolved around masks and vaccines, what is being taught or not taught, the content of library books, and an assortment of other concerns. But in some communities, school leaders have greatly misjudge...

Lawsuit seeks to delay California law requiring humane treatment of meat animals  Bend Bulletin

CHICAGO, Ill. (WTVO) — On Tuesday, Gov. JB Pritzker signed a law that would legally recognize services performed by midwives in Illinois. The law will allow Illinois mothers to give birth outside of hospitals. “With the legislation I sign today, the lifesaving and lifegiving work midwives perform will be legally recognized here in Illinois. It’s a victory decades in the making and one that re...

Montclair this year raised a Progressive Pride Flag for the first time, one of a series of LGBTQ-inclusive initiatives. It also now requires that single-user bathrooms be labeled as available to all genders. “This is to make sure that when somebody who is non-binary goes to use the bathroom in Montclair, that they don’t have to have anxiety about which bathroom to go into they feel safe,” Cou...