Everett Catts

December 01, 2023 | Daily Report Online

A record number of Black attorneys general, seven in total, are serving today. Two Black attorneys, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, have servedg as U.S. attorney general. And the vice president, Kamala Harris, was the first Black woman elected attorney general.

By Matt Brown | The Associated Press

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December 01, 2023 | Daily Report Online

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.

By ALM Staff

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November 30, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Academy Sports asked that the amount of the settlement be kept confidential because it could encourage other lawsuits, but a judge ruled it didn't make much of a difference because the case had attracted so much publicity already, and that the public had a right to know how it turned out. The estates of the victims will split the settlement.

By Jeffrey Collins | The Associated Press

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November 30, 2023 | Law.com

"The funds [$5 million for the law school], which are split between current use and endowment, will support the operation of our 12 clinics, which provide hands-on learning to students while helping to serve the unmet legal needs of North Carolinians," a Duke Law spokesperson said. "About 60% of students enroll in at least one clinic or externship during their three years at Duke Law In practice areas including health law, entrepreneurship, wrongful convictions and immigration."

By Everett Catts

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November 30, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"If you get arrested in one of these counties where grand juries seldom meet, you can wind up in jail for months or even years just waiting to be indicted, and you will spend more time behind bars simply because of geographic misfortune," said Cliff Johnson, an attorney who is director of the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law.

By Emily Wagster Pettus | The Associated Press

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November 29, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The Grammy winner, whose given name is Jeffery Williams, was charged last year in a sprawling indictment that accused him and more than two dozen others of conspiring to violate Georgia's anti-racketeering law. He also is charged with gang, drug and gun crimes and is standing trial with five of the others indicted with him.

By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press

6 minute read

November 29, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The one-page ruling by Senior Judge John R. Turner comes 20 months after defense attorneys for former District Attorney Jackie Johnson filed a legal motion arguing the case against her should be scrapped for lack of evidence.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

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November 29, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The wage-and-hour collective/class action mediation is a different type of case, and as mediator of wage-and-hour collective class action cases, I'd like to share some of the unique aspects of these types of cases.

By Donna V. Smith

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November 29, 2023 | Daily Business Review

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.

By ALM Staff

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November 29, 2023 | Daily Report Online

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.

By ALM Staff

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