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The Legal Intelligencer

Housing Law: We Must Listen and We Must Act

Buying a house involves property, tax, and banking and finance law. You may also end up with construction or land use issues. Eventually, we will all run into trust and estates. Rental agreements are shaped by the Landlord Tenant Act, as well as fair housing, utility and consumer credit laws.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Public Interest Calendar of Events

Take part in several timely CLEs, pro bono events and the 42nd Annual Philadelphia Bar Association Virtual 5K Run/Walk.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Homelessness Is a Public Health Issue

Lessons from the year we started treating homelessness like the public health issue it has always been.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

'Right To Counsel' for NYC Tenants to Expand Citywide as Courts Brace for Wave of Evictions

The council previously passed legislation in 2017 that would extend the right to counsel to low-income New Yorkers in a piecemeal fashion based on their ZIP codes and make it citywide by 2022.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

City's Tax Reduction for Low-Income Workers Highlights Need for Additional Reforms

A woman in her 60s whose only income is Social Security disability and who lives below the federal poverty line requested help from Philadelphia Legal Assistance because she had recently received notices from the city of Philadelphia's Department of Revenue.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Youth, Parents and Advocates Demand Youth Services Ombudsperson

Youth in placement through the child welfare, juvenile justice, behavioral health or developmental disabilities system need a local, independent ombudsperson to hear their grievances and investigate allegations of abuse including educational deprivation.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Public Interest Calendar of Events

In this month calendar, learn about a few virtual CLEs, awards ceremonies and the 42nd annual Philadelphia Bar Association Virtual 5K Run/Walk.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

New York AG, Creditor Urge Texas Bankruptcy Judge to Dismiss NRA's Chapter 11 Petition

The NRA filed for bankruptcy protection in January, announcing it planned to decamp from New York, where it has been chartered as a nonprofit, and reincorporate in Texas.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

New NCAA Football Concussion Suit Filed in Macon, Georgia, Appears Headed to MDL in Chicago

The lawsuit filed as a class action in federal court in Macon claims former University of Alabama football star Kerry Goode suffered brain trauma and developed ALS due to his years playing for the Crimson Tide in the mid-1980s. It is one of hundreds filed despite a $75 million settlement in 2019 in which the NCAA agreed to set up a monitoring program.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Gun Lobby Prevails on Appeal Against Broward County

"We find that Broward County may not regulate indirectly what it cannot regulate directly," Chief Judge Spencer D. Levine wrote for a divided appellate court.
3 minute read

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