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Albany Law Students Create Tech Tool for Businesses to Obtain Nonprofit Status

Albany Law School released a web-based platform created by its students to help lawyers efficiently serve their clients that are attempting to gain nonprofit status in New York state.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Grewal Faces Lawsuit Over Blueprints for 3-D Printed Guns

A lawsuit seeks a declaration that New Jersey is unconstitutionally preventing several groups from sharing blueprints online that can be used to make a gun.
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: Proud Boys Founder Sues Southern Poverty Law Center for Defamation (Good Luck With That)

You don't have to look hard to find the irony in a defamation lawsuit filed Monday by Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes against the Southern Poverty Law Center.
6 minute read

The Recorder

In Dispute Over Koko's Companion, Judge Sides With Cincinnati Zoo

U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg found that The Gorilla Foundation had agreed to let a third party decide where Ndume, a gorilla loaned to the organization by the zoo, would live after the death of Koko, the western lowland gorilla who famously learned sign language.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

With a New Lawsuit Every 10 Days, NRDC Is Taking on Trump Administration--and Winning

In the past two years, litigators at the Natural Resources Defense Council have filed nearly 80 cases challenging Trump administration attempts to roll back environmental and human health protections.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Study: Major Benefits Seen in Investing in Counsel for Low-Income Tenants Facing Eviction

On Nov. 13, 2018, the Philadelphia Bar Association's Civil Gideon and Access to Justice Task Force released a landmark cost-benefit study that addressed in detail the benefits to low-income tenants—and to the city of Philadelphia—of providing legal representation to tenants facing eviction in court proceedings.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

The Public Interest Calendar of Events

This month's calendar features CLEs on cash bail reform, landlord/tenant law and immigration law.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Two DC-Based Nonprofits Hire New Top Lawyers

March of Dimes has announced that Adrian Mollo will serve as the organization's senior vice president and general counsel, while Allison Wielobob will head up the legal department as GC at the American Retirement Association, effective Jan. 28.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Official Broke Law in Curbing Protections for Haitian Immigrants, Ex-Agency Head Says

The director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services violated the law by disregarding dangerous conditions in Haiti when recommending the termination of temporary protected status for refugees who fled the country following a devastating 2010 earthquake, the director's predecessor told a federal judge at a Brooklyn trial testing the Trump administration's decision.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Parents of Teen Killed While Camping Sue Boy Scouts

Elijah Knight, 14, was an honor student working to become an Eagle Scout like his dad when he was killed by a tree falling on his tent during a thunderstorm.
4 minute read

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