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March 28, 2022

These Big Law Firms Promote the Most Diverse Partners in South Florida | Daily Business Review - Law.com

What You Need to Know Big Law offices in South Florida are promoting partnership classes that are more diverse than national averages for law firm partnership representation, a DBR analysis discovered. Of the eight Florida-founded Am Law firms with South Florida offices, Akerman, Cole, Scott & Kissane, Holland & Knight, and Shutts & Bowen stood apart in their promotions of divers...
March 28, 2022

New York Law to Turn Vacant Hotels Into Homeless Housing Is Failing - Bloomberg

The state set aside $100 million for New York City conversions, but lawmakers haven’t removed regulatory hurdles for developers. A former Jehovah's Witness hotel being converted to affordable housing in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Tuesday, June 29, 2021. A state law designed to help developers convert vacant New York City hotels into housing for homeless people has so far gone nowhere...
March 28, 2022

National Security Law Expert Addresses GOP Lincoln Day Dinner - Greeneville Sun

National Security Law Expert Addresses GOP Lincoln Day Dinner  Greeneville Sun
March 28, 2022

Law enforcement officers want people to beware of scams - Arkansas Online

Arkansas Democrat Gazette photo by CARY JENKINS Governor's Mansion Association Vice President Jan Zimmerman with association president Sheila Vaught Don’t be fooled Here are some warning signs of telemarketing fraud — what a caller may tell you: • “You must act ‘now’ or the offer won’t be good.” • “You’ve won a ‘free’ gift, vacation or prize.” But you have to pay for “postage and handling” or...
March 28, 2022

Avoid 'rigmarole' in abortion law – The Durango Herald - The Durango Herald

All this rigmarole and needlessly long, intensive, verbiage could be avoided. The law should say what it means. “If you are a female of any age residing in Colorado, and you are pregnant (with child), you have the personal right to terminate that pregnancy at any time, as you wish, up to date of birth of the fetus. Parental or spousal consent is not required.” Robert Phelps Bayfield
March 28, 2022

Law enforcement officers want people to beware of scams - Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Arkansas Democrat Gazette photo by CARY JENKINS Governor's Mansion Association Vice President Jan Zimmerman with association president Sheila Vaught Don’t be fooled Here are some warning signs of telemarketing fraud — what a caller may tell you: • “You must act ‘now’ or the offer won’t be good.” • “You’ve won a ‘free’ gift, vacation or prize.” But you have to pay for “postage and handling” or...
March 28, 2022

Nonprofit brings sport to youth who 'never touched a club, never been on a golf course' - Savannah Morning News

For five years, the LB4 & After Foundation has partnered with The Savannah Golf Club to offer access and opportunity for children from underserved areas to play the sport. The COVID-19 pandemic led to health protocols that limited participation for the youth clinics in June the past two years at the private golf club. "We had to scale back but we never stopped showing these kids that th...
March 28, 2022

Captive ALSPs Are Attracting Associates: The Morning Minute - Law.com

FUELING ANIMOSITY - NextEra Energy Marketing sued Koch Energy Services for breach of contract Friday in New York Southern District Court in connection with disputed charges arising from Winter Storm Uri. The complaint, brought by Locke Lord, accuses Koch Energy of wrongfully demanding payment of $8 million based on the plaintiff’s failure to deliver gas during the extreme weather event despit...
March 28, 2022

Kansas AG Schmidt targeting KCK immigration ordinance for political gain, critics say - Kansas City Star

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt was silent in 2020 when the Lawrence City Commission passed an ordinance declaring its community a sanctuary city. There was nothing from Schmidt later that year after the Roeland Park City Council approved a similar policy limiting cooperation with immigration and customs enforcement. But last month, when Wyandotte County created a municipal identificati...
March 28, 2022

Ninth Circuit Applies Nevada Law And Finds No Coverage For COVID-19 Business Interruption Loss - Insurance - United States - Mondaq News Alerts

Late last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled there was no coverage for the policyholder's COVID-19-related business interruption loss under the coverage provided by a commercial property policy. See Levy Ad Group, Inc. v. Federal Ins. Co. et al., No. 21-15413 (9th Cir. Mar. 17 2022, applying Nevada law). In reaching its decision that the insured's economic lo...