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May 04, 2022

Georgia High School Association uses new law to implement anti-trans sports ban - CNN

Washington CNN — Transgender high school students in Georgia were banned Wednesday from competing on sports teams consistent with their gender identities after the state’s high school association used a controversial new law to implement the restriction. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill into law last week giving the Georgia High School Association the authority to enact such a ban, a ...
May 04, 2022

Advocates push to pass Fertility Preservation Law on Beacon Hill - Boston 25 News

BOSTON, Mass. — Caity and Ryan Sebastian were married in October 2016. At the time, Ryan was battling a rare form of bone cancer that spread throughout his body. Ryan was diagnosed a year and a half earlier, just before his 26th birthday, while they were living in California. “Marriage wasn’t even on our radars, yet we had been dating since college and kind of putting it off. Kids certainly w...
May 04, 2022

New Hampshire House rejects latest attempt to change bail reform law - WMUR Manchester

CONCORD, N.H. — Attempts to make changes to New Hampshire's bail reform law hit another dead end Wednesday. The House voted to sideline legislation attempting to address issues law enforcement officials have raised about the release of violent and dangerous offenders. The bail reform law that passed in 2018 made it easier for criminal defendants to be released pretrial. The House on Wednesday...
May 04, 2022

New law removes licensure barriers for DACA recipients in Tennessee - News Channel 5 Nashville

Tennessee Capitol building More than 7,000 Dreamers — or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients — call Tennessee home. Many receive a temporary work permit or driver's license but still face restrictions in the workforce. Nursing, real estate and teaching are just some of the many career fields that require a commercial or professional license. But in Tennessee, DACA recipients wer...
May 04, 2022

FOX45 News questions if Safe Streets workers use employment to avoid law enforcement - Fox Baltimore

safe streets story pic.jpg BALTIMORE (WBFF) — After a former Safe Streets employee used his affiliation with the program to evade law enforcement and avoid arrest, FOX45 News continues to investigate the program operated out of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood, Safety and Engagement, or MONSE. In September 2021, Ronald Alexander, a 50-year-old man from Baltimore, was sentenced to more than ...
May 04, 2022

Law firm leasing dips amid industry's revamped office plans - Reuters.com

The Let Life Tower (L) and Chrysler Building are seen out the windows from the 54th floor of the 77 story One Vanderbilt office tower in midtown Manhattan. REUTERS/Mike Segar (Reuters) - Law firm office leasing volume decreased across major U.S. markets in the first quarter of 2022, down to 1.1 million square feet from over 1.5 million the previous two quarters, according to a Wednesday repor...
May 04, 2022

A powerful Philly-based law firm with offices across the U.S. will have a leader based outside the city for the first time - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Peter V. Michaud (L) will succeed Mark Stewart as chair of Ballard Spahr LLP In a move that underscored its increasing national focus, Ballard Spahr LLP announced Wednesday a succession plan that will place the firm’s leadership outside Philadelphia for the first time. The firm’s chair, Mark Stewart, 66, will step down as of Dec. 31, 2023. And Peter Michaud, 53, a Minneapolis-based partner at...
May 04, 2022

Why Corporate Law Firms Need a Client Value Team - JD Supra

The core function of a client value (or client success) team in a software company is to ensure that clients receive ongoing and lasting value from the product and services they have purchased. As the leader of a client value team, I see it as understanding the client’s success criteria (objectives), desired outcomes, tolerance for risk, communications preferences, and more. In the software e...
May 04, 2022

Attorney charged with manslaughter in fatal shooting outside of Litchfield law firm - Torrington Register Citizen

A Connecticut lawyer has turned himself in on a manslaughter charge in connection with a fatal shooting that occurred last year outside his Litchfield firm. LITCHFIELD — A lawyer turned himself in Wednesday in connection with a fatal shooting outside his law firm last June, according to law enforcement sources. Robert Fisher was charged with first-degree manslaughter and released on $50,000 b...
May 04, 2022

Banning trans athletes from womens sports to become a law in SC - WLOS

<p>A controversial plan that banning transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports is now on its way to Governor McMaster’s desk to be signed into law. Opponents say the so called ‘Save Women’s Sports Act’ is an attack on the trans community./WACH<br>{/p} COLUMBIA. S.C. (WACH) – A controversial plan that banning transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports is now ...