One difficulty of answering the question of whether a general counsel is a corporate officer is that the California General Corporation Law does not define “officer”. Corporations Code Section 312(a) requires a... Read more »
The law practice management company LEAP Legal Software has hired Misti Holmes, a 20-year veteran of the legal technology, as its new chief operating officer in the United States. Holmes will use... Read more »
The family of an 11-year-old boy who was shot by police after he called 911 and asked for their help have launched a $5 million federal lawsuit against the city of Indianola,... Read more »
Federal prosecutors say they plan to retry former Louisville Metro Police Detective Brett Hankison for violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor and four others during the March 2020 police raid that... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Brett Brenner has been appointed to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Deputy Chief Operating Officer position, effective Dec. 3, 2023, the federal agency announced today. The position is a... Read more »
A judge declared a mistrial on Thursday in the civil rights trial of the former Louisville Metro Police Department detective federally charged in connection with the fatal March 2020 shooting of 26-year-old... Read more »
On today’sLawNext, it’s a Clio double header, featuring two separate interviews with two of Clio’s top product-focused executives – one with Jonathan Watson, its chief technology officer, and the other with Hemant... Read more »
Despite being placed on paid leave for more than a year for forwarding a racist email chain that included pictures that were determined to negatively portray Black people, and that bore the... Read more »
A former CIA officer has been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting dozens of women over a 14-year period in at least three countries, María Luisa Paúl reports for the Washington Post.... Read more »
The City of Birmingham, Alabama’s first Black police officer, Leroy Stover, has died at the age of 90, the Associated Press reports. Stover joined the force in March 1966 at the age... Read more »