ABA President Bill Bay has condemned the Trump administration’s extensive attacks on the rule of law. The association announced Tuesday it has joined two legal challenges to the funding freezes on USAID and federally funded immigration programs.
Adding a wrinkle to the debate over remote work is new research suggesting that hybrid schedules can increase productivity. In a study published in June, employees who work from home for two days per week were found to be just as productive and as likely to be promoted as their in-person colleagues. In addition, employees with hybrid schedules were less likely to quit.
The main legal need surrounding reality show participants concerns their employment status—or lack thereof. Reality show participants are treated as independent contractors, which technically lets networks and productions evade many of the labor laws that protect employees.
Have you been looking for love in all the wrong places? If you want lawyer-turned-matchmaker Danny Goldstein to help turn around your love life, he’ll try. “I’ve found that matchmaking is a helpful antidote to the problems in current dating culture,” says Goldstein, owner of Crux Compatible, a matchmaking service in Austin, Texas.
“A lot of schools have considered bringing [third-party] NIL collectives in-house, but they may want to think again,” says Robert Boland, a professor at the Seton Hall University School of Law who previously was an athletics integrity officer at the Pennsylvania State University.
Pam Bondi was sworn in as the nation’s 87th attorney general Wednesday, inheriting a Justice Department roiled by Attorney General Pam Bondi spent her first day on the job Wednesday redirecting the Justice Department’s significant law enforcement authority toward addressing President Donald Trump’s grievances with the agency, making her allegiance to his agenda clear in a series of strongly worded directives.
After reexamining its precedent, a federal appeals court has ruled that a federal ban on handgun sales to youths ages 18 to 20 violates the Second Amendment.
The House also called for changes in President Donald Trump’s Jan. 21 executive order that encouraged the government and private sector to end “illegal preferences and discrimination.”
What can make the ABA House of Delegates have an hourlong lively debate? Apparently, it’s a resolution aimed at helping ease lawyer stress and achieve a better work-life balance.
At the ABA Midyear Meeting in Phoenix on Monday, the ABA House of Delegates considered how to best meet the needs of pet owners in family law and civil protection order proceedings.