Archives
August 29, 2024
Feature
- ABA joins national organizations to mobilize lawyers as poll workers for upcoming elections
- A sign of the times turned my stomach into series of knots
- Let’s Make a Deal: Planning and Managing Consequences
- Former state trooper’s prosecution moved to federal court
- Daily Briefs
Business
- NFL teams can now sell shares to private equity funds after letting other pro leagues lead. Why now?
- Fake online reviews and testimonials are a headache for small businesses. They hope the FTC can help
- Report: U.S. Latinas contributed $1.3T to the GDP, about as much as Florida’s economy
- Two-thirds of real estate investors blame themselves for high home prices
Courts
- Feds file new indictment in Trump Jan. 6 case, keeping charges intact but narrowing allegations
- ‘ER’ creator Michael Crichton’s estate sues Warner Bros. over upcoming hospital drama ‘The Pitt’
- Supreme Court rebuffs Biden administration plea to restore multibillion-dollar student debt plan
- Court revives Sarah Palin’s libel lawsuit against The New York Times
- Lowe’s changes some DEI policies amid legal attacks on diversity programs and activist pressure
Column
- Estate planning lessons from the $600M fight over Michael Jackson’s music catalog
- Policy, shmolicy: Election Day weather and football victories could decide the election
Nation
- Bikinis, surfboards and battle-axes? State loosens long-strict weapons laws after high court ruling
- First rioter to enter Capitol during Jan. 6 attack is sentenced to over 4 years in prison
- National Roundup
- New U.S. rules try to make it harder for criminals to launder money by paying cash for home purchases
headlines Detroit
- Innocence Clinic helps exonerate man more than 22 years after wrongful murder conviction
- GOP nominated Supreme Court candidates behind in funding, but hope a message of change can secure victory
- NCSC and partners equip courts to recover from cyber-attacks and disasters
- Detroit murder conviction overturned 22 years later because of police misconduct
- Daily Briefs
headlines National
- Unbeknownst to corporate lawyer, scammers used her name to file thousands of trademark applications
- Judge accuses high-profile law firms of possible effort to ‘gum up the works’
- Lawyer accused of ‘egregious acts of dishonesty,’ gambling with client cash gets disbarred
- Ex-BigLaw partner hit with prison time, $4.2M restitution order in tax case
- Artificial intelligence in the legal field ‘will lead to an exciting evolution in the ecosystem,’ Airia CEO says
- Florida lawyer says she used trust account funds to avoid becoming homeless