What American Territory Graduates the Most Non-Lawyer JDs?
Think one territory: Puerto Rico. According to data collected from the ABA and put together by Startclass, the territory of Puerto Rico takes the crown for graduating JDs who don’t…
A Lifetime of GPS Monitoring for Sex Offenders Is Constitutional
A Wisconsin law requires convicted sex offenders who have been released from civil commitment to wear a GPS ankle bracelet all day, every day, for the rest of their lives.…
TPP Potentially Is Coming to Its 12 Member States
FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the Internet. The Trans-Pacific Partnership, aka the TPP, has been approved recently by 12 member…
Arbitration Agreements Can’t Wholly Reject the Law, 4th Cir. Says
Payday loans tend to be exploitative. Tribal payday loans tend to be really exploitative, since those quick cash advances can be made outside the restrictions placed on non-tribal lenders. That…
‘White Knight’ Laws Should Be Treated With Skepticism, Brief Says
From the past to the present, there have been hundreds of laws that seek to “protect” women by denying them full rights: laws shielding women from the corrupting influence of…
Is It Time to Take a New Look at Your Arbitration Agreements?
Arbitration remains an essential litigation prevention tool, and one that’s regularly been given favorable legal treatment by the Supreme Court and Congress. But two recent opinions, one from the Supreme…
Non-J.D. Program Enrollment Is Way up in Law Schools
According to Prof. Derek Muller of Pepperdine University’s School of Law, 10 percent of law school enrollment is in one of the variety of non-J.D. programs. For non-lawyer types, this…
How Lawyers Are Content Marketing Geniuses
We swear we’re not making this up: lawyers are absolutely dominating the field of content marketing. According to Contently, law firms both large and small are getting into the game…
5 Ways to Celebrate Black History in Your Firm
It’s Black History Month, the annual celebration of African American contributions to culture, society, and, of course, law. While Black History Month is hardly the card-sending, cocktail-houring, office-partying event that…
CACOL Calls Fashola’s “Illegal” Hike In Electricity Tarrif Demonic
The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) said on Tuesday that it “finds the insensitive hike in the tariff for electricity very provocative and illogical”, adding that it is “demonic and…