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Founding director of Oregon Law’s Legal Research and Writing Program, Professor Emerita Mary Lawrence, JD ’77, died September 23, 2021. She was a pioneer in the national legal writing discipline and a legend in the national community of legal writing professors. Professor Lawrence founded Oregon Law’s Legal Research and Writing Program, which she led from 1978 until her retirement in 2000. Sh...

On Monday, the Knox County Law Director's Office filed a request that U.S. District Court Judge Ronnie Greer tweak his mask order for Knox County Schools. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — With a request for a change to the ruling in motion, Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs is speaking out against a federal judge's order that Knox County education leaders impose a mask mandate for health safety reasons. Jaco...

As a US court issues a decision on the dispute between the Andy Warhol Foundation and photographer Lynn Goldsmith, two lawyers explore past case studies in this legally controversial area Left: Lynn Goldsmith original photograph of Prince; Right: Andy Warhol's Prince. Appropriation art, the practice of using pre-existing elements or images in a new work while making few or sometimes even no a...

Quality talent has been — and always will be — a law firm’s most valuable asset. Yet only 60% of lawyers say they are “highly unlikely” to leave their firm within the next five years, which means that a stunning 40% of lawyers are flight risks. This risk to law firms is only amplified when we look at the talent development pipeline in which we see that the rate of flight risk for non-partner ...

TURTLE RIVER TOWNSHIP -- The Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office and Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension are still seeking the public's assistance with any information related to a Sept. 5 homicide in Bemidji. According to a release from Beltrami County Sheriff Ernie Beitel at the time of the incident, at approximately 3:25 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 5, the Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office rece...

Kena Betancur/Getty Images More than 130 judges have reportedly presided over court cases in which they had a financial conflict of interest, according to a new investigation by the Wall Street Journal. The newspaper found that since 2010, 685 court cases were presided over by judges who should have recused themselves, and two-thirds of the judges that participated in those cases made judgmen...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker is spending this week sorting through the files of 123 17-year-olds with pending criminal cases in the county. By Friday, he must decide which should stay in adult court, where they could go to prison, and which should be moved down to juvenile court, where they’ll get another chance. “We’ve got homicides, we’ve got armed robber...

Women work to ensure equal pay fiscal cliff - payroll tax SOURCE: File JACKSON, Miss. — Two women are working to make sure women across Mississippi get equal pay. "Mississippi is right now the only state in the country without an equal pay law," Cassandra Welchin said. "I know personally, very personally, what this means to these women and their families," Lilly Ledbetter said. Welchin, exec...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs has sent a letter urging Knox County Law Director David Buuck to consider appealing the court-ordered mask mandate for Knox County Schools. Jacobs begins the letter by explaining his belief in the “negative implications” on Judge Ronnie Greer’s temporary injunction has for the “health and wellbeing of students, faculty, and staff.” He a...

Fultondale Police Chief D.P. Smith (Contributed) Fultondale Police Chief D.P. Smith announced Tuesday he will retire after 35 years in law enforcement. Smith was appointed chief in October 2015. Under his tenure, the department beefed up its use of technology which has helped not only to solve crime, but to prevent crime, departmental officials said. He also led the department’s efforts to te...