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“Look, there’s nobody that can say there’s a violation unless one of us gives out information that this is being discussed,” a commissioner told fellow board members during a public meeting last year. Madeira Beach City Hall on Nov. 16 at 300 Municipal Dr, in Madeira Beach. A lawsuit filed by a Madeira Beach resident alleges commissioners violated the Sunshine Law when they made the private d...

Welcome back to the Big Law Business column on the changing legal marketplace written by me, Roy Strom. This week, we look at how law firms can use their increasingly lucrative equity shares to retain talent. Sign up to receive this column in your inbox most Thursday mornings. It’s worth taking a step back to remember just how far the Big Law market has come from a year ago. Through nine mont...

A recent hearing left the impression that the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is inclined to strike down a gun law that’s been on the books for more than 100 years. That would be a grievous error — and would make cities across the nation more dangerous. The law, passed by New York state, says those who wish to carry a firearm in public must show “proper cause,” or a demonstrated need fo...

L-R: Barbara Jordan, Vernon Jordan and President Lyndon B. Johnson at the Civil Rights Symposium, 1972. LBJ Library photo by Frank Wolfe What You Need to Know In the name of partner Vernon Jordan, Akin Gump has created a $1 million endowment for Howard Law School's library. The firm will also provide two fellowships a year to Howard Law students. Jordan, who died in March, will also have a f...

Rep. Patrick McHenry (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images) A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers have introduced a bill to amend the crypto-related provisions in the bipartisan infrastructure bill signed into law earlier this week. The “Keep Innovation in America Act,” introduced Thursday, would amend the definition of a crypto broker included in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act...

Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., and Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., prepare for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The two blocked what would have been the most consequential update a hardrock mining law has received in nearly 15 decades. Amid the recent skirmishes over revising the reconciliation bill, known as the Build Back Better Plan, lawmakers once again skipped a ...

Vote-counting on Nov. 2 lacked suspense. Early on, it was certain Question 1, to ban “high impact transmission lines in the Upper Kennebec region” would pass easily. What could have been a vote about providing renewable energy to New England, with significant benefits for Maine – and displacing the fossil fuel-burning that creates global warming – was instead a popularity contest about Centra...

Law & Order: SVU characters Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) have been in what’s probably the longest will-they-won’t-they situation in TV history. Some fans want them to get together, while others believe they’re better off as friends. Knowing it could easily become a polarizing fan issue, showrunners are handling the future of Stabler and Benson’s...

Chief Bobby Maldonado’s office in Sims Hall holds a collection of hats from his years working in law enforcement and growing up in New York. 2 hours ago Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here. In a temporary Sims Hall office that Bobby Maldonado will leave by the end of December, the Syracuse University Chief of the Department of Publi...

Photo Submitted The Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative at the U of A School of Law is participating in a new U.S. Department of Agriculture Indigenous Food Sovereignty Initiative. This historic collaboration supports the restoration of traditional Indigenous foodways, empowers Indigenous agricultural economies and seeks to improve health outcomes through Indigenous nutrition. USDA sel...