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Blair Underwood On 'L.A. Law' Everett L.A. Law has taken a major step in its TV comeback. ABC has given a pilot green light to a new incarnation of the iconic Steven Bochco legal drama. The project, which had been in the works at the network since December, is headlined by Blair Underwood, reprising his role as attorney Jonathan Rollins in addition to executive producing. Courtesy of Michae...

Md. law enforcement agencies in a period of adjustment as police reform laws take effect - 47abc  WMDT

Members of the Navajo Utah Commission heard reports on upcoming American Rescue Plan Act funding, plans for increased law enforcement, and passed a resolution asking for quarterly meetings with the Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President at their September meeting. During the September 14 meeting, members of the commission heard a report from San Juan County Administrator Mac...

REUTERS/Andrew Kelly (Reuters) - The arm of the American Bar Association that accredits law schools shouldn’t put the Graduate Record Examination on equal footing with the Law School Admission Test without more data on how it predicts first-year grades, according to a new report by researchers the ABA tasked with evaluating the GRE's promise. The ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admission...

Indiana issued 43 percent more special education emergency teaching permits in 2019-20 than it did four years before. Indiana issued thousands of emergency special education teaching permits in violation of federal law over the last four years — placing some of the highest need students in the state with untrained teachers. State officials say this is an oversight they’re now trying to correc...

Photo: photolona/Shutterstock What You Need to Know Recreational marijuana was made legal in Connecticut on July 1. New workplace restrictions regarding the drug, however, don't take effect until July 1, 2022. More than 90,000 Americans died of opioid overdoses in 2020. Nearly 100 days after Connecticut passed a law making recreational marijuana legal in the state, employment attorneys have...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – New Jersey eliminated a carve-out Tuesday in its law against discrimination that permitted employers not to hire or promote workers who are 70 or older. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed the legislation into law, saying “discrimination of any kind has no place in New Jersey.” New Jersey’s law bars discrimination or harassment based on disability, gender, national origin,...

Austrian economists have long been interested in the study of money and the processes of monetization. The last global monetary standard that developed largely through market forces, gold, occurred well before the Austrians had performed their work on the topic. The advent of the digital monetary network known as Bitcoin gives the Austrian the utterly-rare opportunity to observe the reorderin...

In little more than a year, China’s expansive crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong has transformed the Asian financial hub and raised big questions for individuals and companies alike. Imposed by Beijing without public debate last year after historic mass protests calling for greater democracy, the national security law carries harsh sentences: Individual offenders face as long as life in prison...

New Data Privacy Law Will Soon Take Effect in China  SHRM