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The Recorder

Letter to the Editor: Responding to OEHHA on PFAs

According to the authors, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment's claims of being industry-friendly in California's new regulations for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate are dubious at best.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

A Woman's Decision to Have Children Shouldn't Be Limited by Where She Is on Corporate Rung

Lawyers should not be encouraged to freeze their eggs simply so that they can devote all their time to churn out billable hours. The work-life balance will not be significantly less challenging if a woman has children in her 40s.
2 minute read

Daily Report Online

Billable Requirements Are the Elephants in the Room: Letter

I cannot think of anything that would reduce stress, depression, etc., more than attorneys having the time to develop healthy lives outside of what they do for a living.
2 minute read

The Recorder

The Legal Question Underlying the Harvard Admissions Case Needs Resolution From the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has never addressed whether to achieve the optimal “diversity” for the educational experience a university may create categories within “the majority,” identify an “overrepresented” group, and discriminate against it.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Rule 68 Does Limit Exposure but Isn't as Broad as Column Suggests

A full evaluation of the impact of Rule 68 on a defendant's exposure in a case involving statutory fee-shifting requires analysis of whether the statute at issue characterizes attorneys' fees as a part of the costs.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Lawful Permanent Residents Also May Be Affected by 'Suazo'

It is not just people who are here without status whose ability to avoid deportation may be affected by a criminal conviction. Crucially, many people with status, including Lawful Permanent Residents, may be rendered deportable by certain misdemeanor convictions.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Letter to the Editor: Phila. Family Judges' Claim That Closed Courts Protect Kids Is 'Fearmongering'

Judges Margaret Murphy and Walter Olszewski claim they keep hearings closed to protect children “plain and simple.” They appear blissfully unaware that at least 40 percent of America's foster children already live in states where, for decades, such hearings have been open to the press and/or the public. There is no move in these states to close them again. That's because the fears have proven unfounded.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Treatment of Transgender People in Custody Must Improve

Quite frankly, it is difficult to overstate the extent to which transgender people are subjected to mockery, humiliation and violence at the hands of the police.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

No Way for a Jurist to End 19 Years of Service 

To be treated this way by his peers and to have a brilliant judicial career capstoned with ignominy in this manner is disgraceful and saddening.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Letter to the Editor: Closed Dependency Proceedings 'Erode Public Confidence'

Philadelphia Family Court and judicial districts across Pennsylvania conduct dependency proceedings in secret to protect juvenile court judges and lawyers from public scrutiny—plain and simple.
4 minute read

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