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Photo by Tony Webster/Minnesota Reformer. Minneapolis hired the firm Hilliard Heintze to evaluate the city’s response to the protests and civil unrest following the police murder of George Floyd. Seven of the eight members of the team doing the work are law enforcement veterans, and the eighth is a firefighter. That has some questioning the rigor of their review of the Minneapolis Police Depa...

Gov. Polis orders changes that could make it easier to fire state employees who don’t get vaccine A man walks by an apartment building in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood on December 11, 2020. (Moe Clark/Colorado Newsline) With a Sunday executive order, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis ended the last remaining pandemic-era state protections for renters, which had been in place since August. The pr...

Credit: wutzkoh/Adobe Stock. Technology is not the core business of law firms, but its role in empowering and enhancing law firm operations is increasing at a significant rate. More specifically, an oft-cited Gartner study of legal technology spend from Q1 2021 forecasted a threefold increase by 2025, with corporate law department tech spending exploding from three to twelve percent in the sa...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Consumer-rights and personal injury law firm Hagens Berman has launched a nationwide investigation into CoolSculpting regarding the risk of permanent disfigurement and serious harm to patients’ bodies following treatment, which can include paradoxical adipose hyperplasia (PAH). “The effects of this botched procedure can be costly and permanent, and we’re hoping to h...

WVU law students advocate for people wrongly convicted  The Daily Athenaeum - thedaonline

How U.S. Sexual-Harassment Law Encourages a Culture of Victim Blaming  TIME

Kassi Jackson Hartford Courant via The Associated Press A Windsor Locks, Connecticut, family speaks to the media after a murder-suicide in May. Connecticut is one of 19 states that have red flag laws to confiscate weapons often used in domestic violence cases. If you or someone you know is concerned about domestic violence, you can call 800-799-SAFE (7233) or visit TheHotline.org for ...

Want to get this daily news briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up. WHAT WE’RE WATCHING HELPLESS - The tight labor market that has driven up pay and benefits for restaurants and big-box stores is now squeezing the public sector, contributing to issues like delayed trash pick-up, a lack of bus drivers and, as Law.com’s Max Mitchell reports, extremely shorthanded court systems. As public agenci...

A century ago, Congress passed the protectionist Merchant Marine Act of 1920, commonly known as the Jones Act. This law stipulates that any cargo transported between two U.S. ports must be carried in ships that are built, owned and operated by American citizens or permanent residents. The law is costing our economy more than $100 billion a year in lost growth and is making gasoline unnecessar...

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. As the battle over Texas’ law that effectively bans abortions six weeks into pregnancy plays out in the courts, advocates on both sides are closely watching a highly anticipated Mississippi case heading to the U.S. Supreme Court. Anti-abortion advocates see an opportunity for the conse...