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Benny Agosto, Jr., attorney, is shown at the South Texas College of Law Houston Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021 in Houston. The Houston trial attorney Benny Agosto, Jr. and his wife Nikki gifted $3 million to the Texas College of Law Houston, which will be used to create a diversity center. The new center will be named The Benny Agosto, Jr. Diversity Center at South Texas College of Law Houston. Benn...

All nine members of the County Council on Wednesday embraced a resolution seeking changes to the state Sunshine Law, even though most of the details remain unclear. Resolution 238 simply states it supports “the addition of an item titled ‘amending the Sunshine Law, Part I of Chapter 92, Hawaii Revised Statues, to enhance the capacity of County Councils to develop effective public policy while...

NEW HAVEN — Yale Law School is looking further into a controversy over a student’s emailed party invitation, after the student was urged by administrators and other students to apologize for what some considered racially insensitive language. Trent Colbert, a second-year law student from Seattle who is part Cherokee, sent the email Sept. 15 to about 20 members of the Native American Law Stude...

The Hawaii Law Enforcement Officer Independent Review Board has ruled that two Honolulu Police Department shootings over two years ago were justified. The shooting review board issued recommendations not to prosecute the officers involved in the deaths of Siatuu Tauai, 51, and Kyle Thomas, 26, who were both killed by police less than a month apart in early 2019. Members of the Hawaii Law Enfo...

SPACE AGE - Offices! Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em, right? First, the law firm office was essential, then it was obsolete, now… well, that’s TBD at the moment. As Law.com’s Ben Seal writes in this week’s Law.com Barometer newsletter, flexible in-person work appears to be the new standard, and lawyers are returning to the office at a time when the market still hasn’t caught up, l...

AG Leslie Rutledge ARK JONESBORO – Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge yesterday, October 21, 2021, announced at the Arkansas Rural Development Conference she would allocate $1 million to benefit the Arkansas State Police for the Emergency Vehicle Operations center and officer driving course. This announcement comes as investment in law enforcement is more crucial than ever. The Attorne...

Credit...Selman Design Next Friday, the United States Supreme Court is scheduled to meet to consider whether to hear appeals from two libel cases in which the plaintiffs seek to persuade the justices to reconsider the single greatest First Amendment victory for the press in American history. Two of the court’s justices, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, already have expressed a readiness to d...

The Lancaster County Government Center is located at 150 N. Queen St., Lancaster. A Philadelphia law firm is suing Lancaster County for unpaid legal fees stemming from a 2019 dispute between the county commissioners and former District Attorney Craig Stedman. Kleinbard LLC, which represented Stedman in a lawsuit that alleged the county’s top elected officials were infringing on h...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper completes signing into law a major energy bill as several legislators and a Cooper aide applaud during an Executive Mansion ceremony in Raleigh, N.C. Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson) CBC Editorial: Friday, Oct. 22, 2021; Editorial #8712 The following is the opinion of Capitol Broadcasting Company. On May 11 state Reps. Dean Arp, John Szoka...

FILE - Pro-democracy protesters hold up their mobile phone torches as they sing during a rally in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong on June 12, 2020. HONG KONG — A new Hong Kong telecommunications law requiring users to register their mobile SIM cards using their legal names could further stoke fear in a city already grappling with the national security law, experts say. The regulation p...