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Fresh off signing the historic $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law, President Joe Biden hit the road Tuesday with his sales pitch, visiting a New Hampshire bridge in disrepair and hoping to translate the legislation into real terms for Americans. With money from the complex legislative package doled out to states, cities and specific projects through a complicated series of formulas an...

Pritzker signs electric vehicle manufacturing incentives into law  Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette

The relationship between access to justice and the unauthorized practice of law was explored in the Florida Supreme Court's recent 4-3 decision that a traffic ticket app developed by a startup amounted to the unauthorized practice of law (UPL). The app, TIKD, connected qualifying ticketed drivers to Florida lawyers who were hired and paid by TIKD to represent the drivers. If the drivers and l...

Students walk on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut November 12, 2015. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (Reuters) - Two Yale Law School students on Monday sued the school's dean and the university, claiming they faced retaliation for not participating in the investigation of a high-profile professor earlier this year. The students, who sued anonymously as Jane and John Doe, clai...

President Biden on Monday signed into law a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that will invest in the nation’s roads, bridges, mass transit, broadband infrastructure, and build a nationwide network of electric vehicle chargers. What do you think?

(Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal) We haven’t hit Thanksgiving yet but Albuquerque leaders are already contemplating tax time. On Monday the City Council voted not to enforce the Albuquerque Tax Preparer and Consumer Rights Ordinance during the upcoming tax season. Councilor Pat Davis — who sponsored the original legislation at Mayor Tim Keller’s request — proposed temporarily stopping the ci...

NJ Law is our annual compilation of important data projects—including Largest Law Firms, which we release this time of year, as well as signature Law Journal projects such as Top 40, Top Personal Injury Awards and Top Lawyer-Lobbyists, which we release over the course of the year and present again here. Last fall, we wondered what 2021 would bring. We would come to learn that many law firms p...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CDF Labor Law LLP, a California employment, labor and immigration employer-side law firm, was recently named the smallest one of only 28 US-based law firms to earn a place on Bloomberg Law’s inaugural Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Framework list. The firm was recognized for its level of disclosure of diversity-related metrics, and distinguished perfo...

Road work continues in the CBD as New Orleans prepares for the Super Bowl. Mayor LaToya Cantrell has signed a new law that will require contractors to meet certain standards in order to work for the city of New Orleans. The "responsible contractor" ordinance will allow officials to determine whether a prospective vendor is qualified to perform the work before a contract is approved, according...

The European Union’s highest court ruled Tuesday that a Hungarian law passed in 2018 — which the government calls the “Stop Soros” act — violated E.U. law by criminalizing people who help migrants and refugees apply for asylum. The European Court of Justice ruling does not annul the legislation backed by far-right Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, but the Luxembourg-based court could imp...