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Bill adds coverage of hourly paid jobs, includes protections for small businesses and non-profit employers, and maintains strong salary transparency City Hall, NY – Civil and Human Rights Committee Chair Nantasha Williams, salary transparency law co-sponsor Council Member Justin Brannan, and Women’s Caucus Co-Chair Amanda Farías announced newly amended legislation supported by pay equity advo...

Utah has become the fourth state, following California, Virginia and Colorado, to enact a comprehensive consumer data privacy law. The Utah Consumer Privacy Act (“UCPA”), formerly known as Senate Bill 227, passed the Utah Senate and House with no opposition, and was signed by Governor Cox on March 24, 2022. The UCPA shares many similarities with Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA...

Since the onset of the pandemic, remote work environments have become the new norm for many law firms. (I am remotely working as I type this article!) Small law firms are no exception. If your firm has transitioned to remote work, you may be wondering how to manage your team effectively. Small law firms can often feel disadvantaged when managing a remote or hybrid team. After all, most of the...

File photo.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) Although his attorney says Kelvin Joseph wasn’t the gunman in a fatal drive-by shooting last month, the Dallas Cowboys cornerback could still be criminally culpable in the incident. Dallas police want to interview Joseph, 22, about his involvement in the death of Cameron Ray, a 20-year-old man who was shot early March 18. Surveillance video footage re...

ST. CLOUD — About 75 people gathered in the Great River Regional Library Thursday evening to listen to a panel of local public safety officials and ask questions about funding and some of the challenges facing law enforcement today. With a discussion led by Sen. Aric Putnam, D-St. Cloud, the panelists included St. Cloud Police Chief Blair Anderson, St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis, Minnesota Publ...

This article originally appeared in Law360 Pulse on April 14, 2022. It is republished here with permission. Women in law firm leadership add tremendous value to their clients, their colleagues and the firm as a whole. According to a recent study by Business Insider, female leaders are more effective at taking initiative, displaying integrity, building motivational relationships, and driving r...

(DEA) HAZARD, Ky. (WYMT) - A new bill requiring Fentanyl traffickers to serve at least 85% of their prison sentence recently became a law. The bill was made possible through a partnership between Perry County’s Commonwealth Attorney and Rep. Chris Fugate. “I got to go to Frankfort, and I saw him reach across party lines and demographics with other representatives, senators in Louisville, West...

ORLANDO, Fla. - A Florida lawmaker wants to remove what she calls a "loophole" in Florida law that did not require the Orlando FreeFall to display a "maximum weight" sign outside the ride. Tyre Sampson, 14, died after falling off of the Orlando FreeFall ride at ICON Park in Orlando, Florida, March 24. An operating manual for the Orlando FreeFall states that the maximum passenger weight is jus...

The Illinois Supreme Court has established the Commission on Elder Law to study ways in which the state can better serve the needs of those individuals advancing in age. (FILE) QUINCY, Ill (KHQA) — As people advance in age, they become more vulnerable to people taking advantage of their finances and legal rights. The Illinois Supreme Court wants to help change that. "It's really important tha...

“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” Those are “the 26 words that created the internet,” says Jeff Kosseff, an associate professor of cybersecurity law at the United States Naval Academy, who wrote a book with that title that came out in 2019. The fruitful word...