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Welcome to the latest installment of Law Admissions Q&A, a feature that provides law school admissions advice to readers who send in inquiries. If you have a question about law school admissions, email us for a chance to be featured in a future post. I'm very much interested in a J.D.–MBA but I'm not sure how to go about it. Does every school require that you get into the law school first...

Last week, I took note of the Second District Court of Appeal's decision that allows for the possibility outside veil piercing, Blizzard Energy, Inc. v. Bernd Schaefers, 2021 Cal. App LEXIS 968. Readers may recall that the case involved the plaintiff's request that a California court add two limited liability companies partially owned by the defendant to a Kansas judgment against the defendan...

Audiologist examining a patient’s ear. Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images Some significant changes to Medicare could be on their way. With the House passage of the $1.7 trillion Build Back Better Act on Friday, provisions that would improve Medicare have moved a step closer to becoming law. The Senate must still pass its version and the possibility exists that any final measure agreed upon ...

THE DEFENCE hangs on a technicality. In February 2020 Travis McMichael, a 35-year-old white man, shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man going for a jog near Brunswick, Georgia. Robert Rubin, Mr McMichael’s lawyer, argued this month that his defendant “honestly and lawfully attempted to detain [Mr Arbery] according to the law.” He was referring to the state’s citizen’s arrest p...

JON C. LAKEY/SALISBURY POST - Sgt. Daniel Lancaster holds a pre-shift meeting for the Salisbury Police Department's patrol team David in 2019. Editor’s note: Ask Us is a weekly feature published online Mondays and in print on Tuesdays. We’ll seek to answer your questions about items or trends in Rowan County. Have a question? Email it to [email protected]. While many law enforcement age...

Pro-life activists carry a banner during the 47th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 24, 2020. Last month, both the Illinois State House and the State Senate voted to repeal the state’s pro-life parental-notice law. The legislation is currently on the desk of Illinois governor J. B. Pritzker, who has indicated that he will sign the repeal measure into law. Sadly, Illinois mino...

A haphazardly assembled online group of passionate people who formed a decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, and pooled a spectacular amount of Ether (ETH) for a noble cause came tantalizingly close to pulling off an incredible feat of collective action. While they fell short of reaching their main goal — securing the last privately owned print copy of the United States Constitution’...

BOSTON, Nov. 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Block & Leviton announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Zhangmen Education, Inc. (NYSE: ZME) American Depository Shares (ADS) for potential securities law violations. Investors who purchased shares and have lost money are encouraged to contact the firm to learn more about how they might recover those losses. For more details, ...

Sitka, Alaska (KINY) - In a graduation ceremony in Sitka, 25 new law enforcement officers received their badges Friday. The graduates completed more than 1,000 hours of training over the course of 16 weeks of basic Alaska Law Enforcement Training. Graduates include: • Curran Chapman - Unalaska Police • Taylor Davis - Juneau Police • Luke Freyder - Ketchikan Police • Martin Gardiner - Dilli...

Attorneys shouldn’t fear mandatory arbitration in the Law Division of the Cook County Circuit Court, a judge said Thursday.The program, adopted in the spring, applies to hundreds of personal injury cases in the Circuit Court of Cook County, but only in certain categories. The aim is to cut costs and delays.Cook Circuit Supervising Judge Kathy M. Flanagan discussed the program as part of the 12...