Sometimes when they are working together at her home, Detroit attorney Jonathan Schwartz brings the deli food while Holocaust survivor Clara Garbon-Radnoti smokes maybe a cigarette or two. For almost two decades, Garbon-Radnoti has been translating documents contained in over 180 digitized, searchable microfilm reels with more than 160,000 frames that were donated to the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
A political party shift in the White House traditionally doesn’t change much for career government lawyers. But the second President Donald Trump administration issued directives that some lawyers who worked in federal government say they couldn’t follow for ethical reasons.
Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act requires employers with at least one employee in the state to post salary ranges, benefits packages and application details for all jobs, including internal promotions. The law, which became effective in 2021, is widely considered a trendsetter in pay transparency, along with a 2023 California law.
Children and even adults are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence-created companion chatbots for friendship and romance, and there’s a push to better regulate them.
While it receives little attention, lawyers can and do experience emotional, physical and other forms of abuse, according to Amanda Lee, the owner of the Lee Consultants, which offers corporate training on domestic violence and support to high-achieving professionals who also are victims.
Playing the fantasy card game Magic: The Gathering has many parallels to practicing law, says Mihailis Diamantis, a constitutional professor at the University of Iowa College of Law and a lifelong enthusiast of the game.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday found that a Colorado law banning “conversion therapy” for gay and transgender minors probably violates free speech rights, the latest in a string of decisions by the high court rolling back protections for LGBTQ+ people and expanding the rights of the religious.
On the day Bruce Jacob came to the U.S. Supreme Court to argue one of the nation’s most significant cases, there was just one person in the public seating area: his wife. Ann Jacob watched her 27-year-old husband stand before the high court for the first time to argue for the state of Florida in the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright case in 1963. The young lawyer faced the imposing Abe Fortas, who later became a Supreme Court justice. Jacob recalls this moment and how it forever changed his life and career, in his new book, The Gideon Case: Inside the Supreme Court’s Historic Right to Counsel Decision. This March marked the 63th anniversary of the court’s decision.
American Civil Liberties Union Legal Director Cecillia Wang has filed lawsuits challenging racial profiling, illegal arrests and mandatory detention for undocumented immigrants. But when she appears before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, she will be arguing against the Trump administration over a question that is fundamental not only to the nation but also to her own family.
Small business owner Deborah Dombrowski’s Lighthouse Trails Publishing is among dozens of online retailers around the country that have been sued by the Institute for Truth in Marketing, an 11-year-old Washington, D.C., nonprofit that bills itself as protecting consumers against deceptive advertising.
