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By Alaina Lancaster | Allison Dunn | November 19, 2021
"Jacob Blake's shooting and the subsequent tragic, fatal shootings by Rittenhouse should usher in a significant wave of change, not only in Wisconsin but across the nation," said Leah Watson, staff attorney, ACLU's Racial Justice Program.
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By Paul Hodkinson | November 19, 2021
The British Legal Awards showed how happy people are to get back together, but that doesn't translate to office returns. Plus, a landmark Law.com investigation has uncovered a race scandal at the U.K.'s top firms.
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By Hannah Roberts | November 5, 2021
Several Big Law firms, including Mayer Brown, Ashurst and Allen & Overy took part in a number of global initiatives that have won praise from the industry.
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By Christine Schiffner | November 2, 2021
Jennifer Selendy's Thirty Birds Foundation has successfully evacuated more than 400 Afghan girls and at-risk community members so far.
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By Gail J. Cohen | November 1, 2021
From microaggressions to more severe hate crimes, Asian lawyers are speaking out about the stereotyping, biases and discrimination they face.
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By Gail J. Cohen | October 18, 2021
Clients across Canada are looking to legal advisers to help make their return-to-work policies—especially vaccine mandates—airtight.
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By Amy Guthrie | October 4, 2021
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is slated to appoint a fourth judge to the country's 11-member Supreme Court, prompting concerns about a consolidation of power.
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By Gail J. Cohen | September 8, 2021
In the era of Black Lives Matter, a landmark high court decision that recognizes and addresses social and racial injustice during sentencing could provide a blueprint for courts across Canada and even around the world.
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By Anne Bagamery | August 30, 2021
Those efforts, say lawyers involved, revolve around the things that law firms are set up to do efficiently and on a large scale: research, information-gathering and dissemination, and networking among themselves and with experts in the field.
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By Jason Grant | August 25, 2021
About 250 female judges inside Afghanistan, some of whom have previously tried and sentenced Taliban members, are believed to be at particularly grave risk, the bar groups said. In January, even before U.S. military forces withdrew from Afghanistan, two female judges were assassinated in Kabul.
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By Riley Brennan | January 29, 2024
"The court provided guidance that where a person has had an initial clinical evaluation for competency at court, the commonwealth has the burden to prove by clear and convincing evidence that hospitalization is the least restrictive alternative to adequately determine the defendant's competency to stand trial. Now, prosecutors across the state have clear guidance and judges have clarity that they must make clear findings to support those temporary hospitalizations." Norfolk District Attorney's Office spokesman David Traub said.
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By Angela D. Giampolo | January 29, 2024
As we look toward 2024, we do so with renewed optimism, carrying forward the lessons and victories of the past year, ready to build a more inclusive and equitable society.
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By Hugo Guzman | January 26, 2024
"We sometimes hear employers sort of downplay the concern with the EEOC, believing they're going to slip under the agency's radar. But it's important to remember that where the EEOC leads, the private plaintiffs bar follows," Seyfarth Shaw partner Christopher DeGroff said.
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By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press | January 25, 2024
Arbery, 25, was chased by pickup trucks and fatally shot in the streets of a subdivision outside the port city of Brunswick on Feb. 23, 2020. His killing sparked a national outcry when cellphone video Bryan recorded of the shooting leaked online more than two months later.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | January 24, 2024
"If any principle of constitutional law ought to unite all of us as Americans, it's that the government has no business imprisoning citizens for the views they hold or the questions they ask," Circuit Judge James C. Ho wrote.
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By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press | January 23, 2024
What was already a fraught topic has become downright raw with the Israel-Hamas war. Some protesters chanting "Free Free Palestine!" were dragged from the Judiciary Committee room by police officers after the vote.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | January 23, 2024
"Any flight attendant who needs to take time off work for an ADA qualifying medical reason is subjected to accruing 'absence points,' which are then used to harm the employee, including discipline and/or termination," the complaint said.
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By Mason Lawlor | January 23, 2024
"Racial profiling communicates to members of the subject group that, 'regardless of any actual basis for criminal suspicion, they continue to be viewed as less than fully human based upon their race,"' actor Jean Elie wrote in support of the comedians. "[T]hat is precisely the message a Black person receives when he is branded with criminal stigma before a line of gawking onlookers for no justifiable, articulable reason."
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By Adolfo Pesquera | January 22, 2024
The Dallas Court of Appeals upheld a temporary injunction brought by an lawyer alleging invasion of privacy.
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By Emily Cousins | January 22, 2024
"Plaintiff could no longer tolerate the extreme, offensive, and invasive behavior she endured while pumping," the complaint said. "On February 25, 2022, Plaintiff resigned her position at The Villa with Tender Touch because of the lack of an intrusion-free space to express breast milk and the harassment from [her supervisor]."
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