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The Legal Intelligencer

When a Name Is Not the Right Name

Without a name change, transgender individuals are forced to rely on identification that reveals their transgender status in innumerable everyday interactions and reduces their opportunities for employment, housing, travel, and medical care.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

'Best Interest of the Child' Standard Can Disadvantage Parents and Caregivers With Disabilities

The challenge in representing a custody litigant with disabilities lies in understanding and countering what many think they know when they see a person with disabilities caring for a child.
7 minute read

Delaware Law Weekly

District Court: Boy Scout Bankruptcy Plan Doesn't Need Changes

The District of Delaware decision allows the largest sexual abuse settlement in U.S. history to proceed with distribution, including $2.46 billion already available and potentially another $4 billion from BSA insurers who haven't settled and assets that haven't been liquidated.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Rockefeller Foundation Appoints New General Counsel

Erica Guyer said she is honored to become legal chief "at a time when the stakes are so high for vulnerable people around the world."
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

PMC's Educational Efforts Help to Put Knowledge in Hands of Residents

The lack of knowledge, understanding and confidence in the judiciary—the third branch of government—is very troubling.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Public Interest Calendar of Events

In this month's calendar, join HIAS Pennsylvania for a new volunteer information session, an awards ceremony and more.
1 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

'A Civil Death': Guardianship Reform Is Needed Now

Guardianship can be an important tool for helping to care for vulnerable individuals who need assistance when they lose capacity to make certain decisions for themselves. But guardianship must and should be, by law, the last resort.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Down to One Person, 'We Build the Wall' Non-Profit May Still Appear at Trial, Judge Says

Justice Juan Merchan said he would allow defense counsel Justin Weddle to withdraw from the case once he'd communicated a legal warning to the organization's founder and remaining director.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Appoints New Legal Chief

The world's largest charitable foundation tapped a longtime member of its legal department to succeed Connie Collingsworth, who has retired after 20 years as CLO.
2 minute read

Daily Report Online

ACLU of Georgia's New Legal Director Plans to Continue Work 'Where We're Most Needed'

"In some ways we're moving backward as a state and losing rights that have been long held by citizens of our state," Cory Isaacson said.
5 minute read

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