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A high-speed chase from Stafford to Prince William County landed one man in jail, facing charges he impersonated an FBI agent. On Sunday, May 1 at 7:42 p.m. deputies went to Stafford Market Place for a report of a disturbance. They found a construction crew preparing work on the parking lot. When a crew member approached a black Honda SUV to ask the driver to move the vehicle, the driver flas...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Angus King (I-Maine) celebrated the signing of their bipartisan Modernizing Access to our Public Land (MAPLand) Act into law. This legislation will digitize and standardize mapping records, like access points and permissible uses on federal public lands, to boost outdoor recreation and improve hunting and fishing access for sportsmen and wome...

Kathryn Bird, partner at Ogletree Deakins. Courtesy photo Global labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins has added a new partner to its Toronto office. Kathryn Bird, who left prominent Canadian labor and employment boutique Hicks Morely in December after almost 15 years, is the ninth lawyer in the Toronto office of the management-side international firm, which said her arrival “signals con...

Traffic signal with red light Image from Pixabay.com Two new lawsuits challenge the underlying state law that permitted red-light camera enforcement programs. The state's solicitor general points to both new suits in urging the N.C. Supreme Court to avoid taking up a similar case. Two recent lawsuits challenge the state law that allowed Greenville and Wilmington to set up red-light came...

Kansas' 'Ag-Gag' Law Denied a Revisit by Supreme Court  Drovers Magazine

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee answers questions during a news conference Wednesday, July 1, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee declined to sign off on a new law requiring governments and businesses to treat immunity from a previous COVID-19 infection as equal to getting vaccinated in their policies. The legislation became law Friday wi...

Utah is the latest state to enact a comprehensive privacy law after the governor signed the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (“UCPA”) on March 24 of this year. UCPA goes into effect on December 31, 2023. California, Virginia, and Colorado have passed similar laws in the past few years, with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) already in effect. UCPA’s core requirements are similar to those in...

NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education released an update on associate attrition. And, as hinted at by the hot lateral market for associates in 2021, attrition was also at a high. So, about that attrition rate — it was 26 percent in 2021, which, it was 16 percent in 2020… yup, that’s a pretty stark difference. In fact, it was the highest attrition rate recorded in the history o...

Recently, federal employment laws have been revised, clarified and implemented. In this column, I’ll focus on these: The Form I-9 policies due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been terminated, while the disease itself may now be considered a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Predispute arbitration and predispute joint action waivers will now be invalid for sexual assault or h...

The esports industry is a breed apart. The novelty, dynamism, and creativity that have spurred its remarkable growth in recent years differentiate it from most other industries, but the legal landscape that this industry must navigate is, for the most part, the same landscape that other industries have encountered before. Therefore, the esports world must contend with myriad issues in the lab...