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Corporate Counsel

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Hires Successor to Longtime GC

The nonprofit, which doles out a half-billion dollars in federal funds annually, went outside the media industry to replace retiring General Counsel Westwood Smithers Jr., who has held the role since 2005.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Making the Right to Education a Reality for All Our Children

Last week we gathered in the Capitol in Harrisburg with other advocates, parents, educators, and students who are part of a statewide coalition called PA Schools Work to celebrate the anniversary of that pivotal ruling and to advocate for a proposed remedy to bring our school funding system into constitutional compliance.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Jails and Prisons Struggle to Provide Adequate Health Care to Incarcerated People

Incarcerated people have a long-established right to health care through the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The Americans with Disabilities Act also provides protection for incarcerated people with long-term medical conditions. Unfortunately, sometimes those rights are more theoretical than actual for those who are incarcerated.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

7th-Largest US Foundation Taps Ballard Spahr Partner as GC

Kahlil Williams is succeeding Kathryn Krecke as legal chief of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which has assets of $8.8 billion and focuses on improving the health and well-being of children.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

NRA General Counsel Says Ex-CEO Walled Him Off From Legal Decisions

NRA General Counsel and Secretary John Frazer told jurors that Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors was one of the most highly compensated outside vendors of the organization between 2018 to 2022.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Ex-CEO Confirms Use of NRA Assets for Personal Expenses

Wayne LaPierre's health has been a point of contention throughout the trial, and defense attorney P. Kent Correll last week requested a medical accommodation for his client.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

What I Wish I Knew Then: Twyla Carter

In an interview with Pollock Cohen name partner Steve Cohen, the Legal Aid Society's attorney-in-chief and CEO discusses the importance of being able to own up to one's mistakes. This is the latest in an occasional series.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

NRA Didn't Hold Ex-CEO Accountable, Even As It Knew of Profligate Spending, Witness Says

NRA president Charles Cotton admitted under questioning by an assistant state attorney general that the gun-rights nonprofit never moved to penalize Wayne LaPierre.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

NRA Hid Improper Spending by Billing Third Party: Ex-CFO

Under questioning at trial by Senior Litigation Counsel Monica Connell of the New York Attorney General's office, Wilson "Woody" Phillips said the system was set up to conceal information from prying employees.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

'An Unusual Lawsuit': NRA Lawyer Says Group Is Victim 'Betrayed' by Execs

NRA lawyer Sarah Rogers of Brewer Attorneys & Counselors told jurors. "Any damages you award in this case will be paid to the NRA. The government acknowledges that my client is the victim."
6 minute read

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