The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division have published a joint Dear Colleague Letter (Joint OCR and DOJ DCL) that,... Read more »
A new first-of-its-kind app and companion website, called FosterPower, provide foster youth with comprehensive but easy-to-understand information about their rights to mental health care, education and legal protections. Developed by Bay Area... Read more »
Surveys of corporate law departments describe increasingly tight budgets and the undue pressure Biglaw puts them under with every rate increase. Yet, somehow all that budget pressure hasn’t managed to dampen the... Read more »
Related Practices & Jurisdictions Saturday, August 26, 2023 We have a final answer to the question of whether a term loan is a security. Yesterday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed... Read more »
A high court in Nairobi on Saturday issued a directive ordering cryptocurrency project Worldcoin and its partners to halt the processing of any new biometric data in Kenya until a pending case... Read more »
A recent District of Columbia federal court ruling reminds employers that a severance agreement containing a release of claims under the False Claims Act does not guarantee dismissal of a suit on... Read more »
Google’s Local Services Ads can be both effective and economical for generating leads for certain types of law practices. Unlike pay-per-click ads, local services ads appear at the top of Google’s results... Read more »
What was he thinking? Former FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright has now sued two of his former students for defamation after they came forward with allegations of sexual harassment dating back to their... Read more »
Related Practices & Jurisdictions Saturday, August 26, 2023 Last week, Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”), shared remarks at a White House roundtable convened to address “harmful data broker... Read more »
A Times investigation revealed on Saturday that the Ministry of Justice has been tracking journalists who make information requests. In the UK, the right to request and access recorded information held by... Read more »