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New York Law Journal

Maintaining Careers and Undertaking New Activities

The NYSBA Senior Lawyers Section is home to New York's experienced lawyers, age 55+. C. Bruce Lawrence, Chair of the Senior Lawyers Section, outlines the section's Annual Meeting programming and awardees.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Working to Protect Evicted Domestic Abuse Victims

The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (the center) estimated that domestic violence victims evicted because of the abuse they suffer make up more than 11 percent of all evictions. Property owners evict domestic violence victims for a range of abuse-related factors, including because the police came to the property, the person obtained a protection from abuse order, or because of crimes the abuser committed.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Law Firms Band Together to Feed Hungry New Yorkers

Participating firms include Alston & Bird, Cadwalader, Carter Ledyard & Milburn, Dentons US, Goldman Sachs, Jones Day, Kramer Levin, McLaughlin & Stern, Morgan Stanley, O'Melveny, Paul Weiss, Ropes & Gray, Sidley Austin, Skadden, Weil Gotshal, Wells Fargo and White & Case.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Jonathan Reyes-Colon: His 2 Worlds Have Come Together

University at Buffalo School of Law student Jonathan Reyes-Colon is already in Puerto Rico helping prepare for the arrival of his classmates who will be providing legal services under the auspices of a practicing attorney. Here are his reflections on the legal clinic and his experience since Hurricane Maria.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Buffalo Law Students See Puerto Rico Trip as Defining Moment in Their Legal Education

Most of them haven't checked into their flights to Puerto Rico yet but the students from the University at Buffalo School of Law who are providing legal services to the island's residents say their legal paths have already been changed forever as a result.
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Support Yale Law Volunteers Advocating for Asylum Seekers

In the spring of 2016 four Yale law students founded an organization to respond to the unmet legal needs of Central American refugee families fleeing…
2 minute read

Daily Business Review

Ideas Offered to Recruit Business Support for Legal Aid

Two Miami groups are pursuing projects offering corporate legal services to small businesses and finding jobs for people in poverty.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Wilmer's Seth Waxman Makes Case Against Lawyer in Death Penalty Dispute

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with whether a criminal defense lawyer violates the Constitution by ignoring his client's express wishes in order to save him from the death penalty.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: Covington's Davidson Wins Litigator of the Week; Bed Bug Lawyer Strike Again; Kirkland's Loss Is Quinn's Gain

Covington & Burling's Jeffrey Davidson and co-counsel kept the DACA dream alive this week. Also, a record verdict for bed bug bites, and Kirkland & Ellis loses appellate star Christopher Landau.
8 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigator of the Week: Keeping the Dream Alive

Covington & Burling's Jeffrey Davidson took the lead at oral argument for plaintiffs challenging the Trump Administration's decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program--and won big.
4 minute read

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