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The State Bar of California | Credit: California Department of Justice The State Bar of California announced Wednesday it has seized an “unauthorized law practice” operating as National Family Solutions out of offices in Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Los Angeles. Neither of the firm’s owners, Eric Campbell and Anita Youabian, has a license to practice law in California, the Bar said, and they ha...

Internet site legal identity theft is becoming increasingly more sophisticated and common. If successful, a third party can use the theft of a legal identity to secure confidential information, harm marketing brand value, diminish good will and steal customers. Internet sites may employ legal, business, and technological means to protect their legal identities. Most commonly, identity theft a...

The new law comes as climate change is contributing to longer wildfire seasons and more intense blazes [File: Aude Guerrucci/Reuters] San Francisco, California – Overgrown forests and increasingly destructive wildfires are the legacy of more than a century of fire suppression policy in California. Historically, state laws held people liable for damages if they started a fire that burned out o...

New Jersey families who earn as much as $150,000 a year may apply for an expanded tax credit next year that will lower the cost of their child care expenses under a bill that sailed through both houses of the state Legislature Thursday and Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law Friday. The bill (S4065) was introduced on Nov. 8, less than a week after the Nov. 2 election that cost Democrats — the ma...

Back in August, there were some dire warnings about what the Biden Administration’s proposed infrastructure bill might do to the cryptocurrency and blockchain sector by driving crypto miners out of the United States, crippling America's leadership role, etc. In response, the crypto industry mobilized a full-court-lobbying press on lawmakers. However, it was too late to excise the troubling di...

"The absence of anti-SLAPP laws would be really damaging to an independent press." If you follow the Reporters Committee’s work closely, you’ve probably noticed that our attorneys frequently file friend-of-the-court briefs on the subject of “strategic lawsuits against public participation.” Known as “SLAPPs,” these lawsuits are frivolous defamation claims intended to intimidate people from e...

Mary Manhein founded and directed the FACES lab, assisting law enforcement in finding missing persons and human remains. (Photo courtesy of LSU) This story was written by Annalise Vidrine and Shelly Kleinpeter for LSU Manship News Service and the LSU Cold Case Project. “Can you get me the bone lady?” Since the 1980s, law enforcement officials from across Louisiana have called LSU for help in...

What's the status of New York's new cannabis law in your hometown? A new database from the Rockefeller Institute of Government is tracking the status of the law in local governments around New York. The database made public Friday by the Albany-based public policy think tank tracks which local governments have decided to opt out of allowing cannabis dispensaries and/or on-site consumption lou...

What's the status of New York's new cannabis law in your hometown? A new database from the Rockefeller Institute of Government is tracking the status of the law in local governments around New York. The database made public Friday by the Albany-based public policy think tank tracks which local governments have decided to opt out of allowing cannabis dispensaries and/or on-site consumption lou...

What's the status of New York's new cannabis law in your hometown? A new database from the Rockefeller Institute of Government is tracking the status of the law in local governments around New York. The database made public Friday by the Albany-based public policy think tank tracks which local governments have decided to opt out of allowing cannabis dispensaries and/or on-site consumption lou...