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Daily Business Review

Bilzin Sumberg Provides Office Space to Legal Services, Which Awaits Restoration of Power After Irma

Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod has jumped in to assist Legal Services of Greater Miami, providing the organization with office space while it remains without power.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

10 Ways South Florida Lawyers Can Help After Hurricane Irma

If you emerged from Hurricane Irma with a few downed trees but no major damage to your home or health, you might be wondering how to make yourself useful helping those who weren't so fortunate.
7 minute read

Litigation Daily

Give 'Em Hell Judge Posner

As if I needed another reason to be a fan of Richard Posner, the newly-retired U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit judge is blasting the treatment of pro se litigants and vowing to help make the system work better.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Texas Lawyers Step Up to Offer Free Legal Advice in Wake of Hurricane Harvey

About 90 Baker Botts lawyers and their in-house attorney clients fielded Hurricane Harvey-related questions from 175 people calling into a legal hotline.
2 minute read

Daily Business Review

The Florida Bar, FEMA Prepare to Help Hurricane Irma Victims

The Florida Bar has raised the income qualifying cap for its online legal clinic, Florida Free Legal Answers, to ensure that Floridians can access the site and post questions related to Hurricane Irma.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

Technology, Harvey, and the Attorney 'First Responder'

Technology may be enabling a whole new class of attorney first responders.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

AVLF Movie Night Tackles Gentrification's Effects

The Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation is tackling a timely topic in Atlanta—rapid gentrification and the effects on housing costs and neighborhoods—for its fourth annual AVLF at the Movies event on Sept. 19.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Eric Holder's Advice to Jeff Sessions: Don't Force Career Staff to 'Defend the Indefensible'

From one U.S. attorney general to another, Eric Holder Jr. recently offered Jeff Sessions some leadership advice. Holder's observations were not solicited. "I urge you not to force them to further defend the indefensible—the president's inhumane and unjust executive orders," the Covington & Burling partner wrote to Sessions. Holder's letter, written on behalf of the California Senate, was attached to an amicus brief California lawmakers filed in support of Chicago's challenge to Trump administration immigration policies.
14 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

A Q&A as Debevoise & Plimpton Readies for Conn. Supreme Court's Education Funding Hearing

The case, "Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding v. Rell," garnered attention in last September when Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher ruled the state's funding formula is "irrational and unconstitutional." The lawsuit was filed in 2005.
11 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Lawyers Set Up Cots, Pick Up Trash at Harvey Shelters

With the sun shining and Hurricane Harvey moved out of Houston, some firms have reopened offices for lawyers and staff who can drive there safely. But with flooded-out Texans continuing to pour into shelters, some Houston lawyers are fitting their legal work into days filled with volunteer tasks.
3 minute read

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