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A car street races on South Loomis Street in Pilsen. CHICAGO — Two lawmakers have proposed a law that would lead to more fines and criminal charges for people street racing on state roads, including DuSable Lake Shore Drive and major expressways. State Reps. La Shawn Ford and Margaret Croke are among the co-sponsors for the Vehicle Blocking Control Act. Should the law go into effect, the stat...

This episode features the Texas Appellate Law Podcast’s first three-time guest, M.C. Sungaila. She joins Todd Smith and Jody Sanders to discuss her new podcast, The Portia Project, which chronicles the careers of women judges and lawyers and their impact on the legal profession. M.C. discusses what drove her new project, as well as her goal of inspiring a new generation of women lawyers and l...

Little-known law says SC superintendents must have a master's. At least 3 candidates don't.  Charleston Post Courier

JACKSON — Mississippi could become the final state to enact a law requiring equal pay for equal work by women and men, after the Republican-controlled state House and Senate passed the final version of a bill Wednesday. The bill goes to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, and he has not said whether he will sign it. When he was lieutenant governor, Reeves let a similar bill die. A 1963 federal law r...

Dozens of restructuring lawyers at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan have left for new roles at rival Paul Hastings, in one of the biggest moves in big law in recent years. The attorneys departing Stroock, 18 of whom were partners, include restructuring practice group head Kris Hansen, distressed M&A lead Brett Lawrence, specialty finance lead Alex Cota and Jayme Goldstein, who was in cha...

Russian oligarchs and other powerful individuals are turning to an unusual method to protect their online images: data privacy laws. Those laws, which were intended to prevent ads from tracking consumers too closely around the Internet, are now being used in the United Kingdom to sue anyone holding undesirable information on their devices. That could include a journalist‘s notes from an inter...

Ron DeSantis An LGBTQ civil rights group sued Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over what they describe as the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, accusing the Republican of trying to “control young minds” through government censorship The law, which prohibits instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, violates the U.S. Constitution by preventing LGBTQ ind...

Justice Stephen G. Breyer joined the U.S. Supreme Court in 1994. Courtesy photo U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer has been named this year’s recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law. Sponsored jointly by the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the nonprofit organization that owns and operates Monticello, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal...

State Patrol coming in to guard the 3rd Precinct march in front of burning buildings on May 29, 2020 on South 27th Avenue, south of East Lake Street in Minneapolis. A newly released after-action report offers a stinging analysis of law enforcement response to the civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. The analysis by Wilder Research was released Thursday morning. It wa...

Workers walk to work during the morning rush hour in the financial district of Canary Wharf in London, Britain, January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh Many, many years ago, while I was still cutting my teeth at the practice management table, a wise law firm leader (and later political appointee) accurately predicted that big law firms would get much bigger, leaving those with specialty and las...