Disability community activists use social media to spread the message of equality, opportunity, justice and inclusion. Disabled people and their lawyers use the law to guarantee websites, mobile applications, kiosks and other technologies are available and accessible to everyone.

Throughout many years, disability rights activism has flourished through programs that advocate independence and provide young people opportunities to discuss with peers how laws could improve their lives.

As younger attorneys flood the workforce and begin replacing the retiring baby boomer ranks, even the most conservative law firms are realizing the need to reshape corporate culture and embrace millennials’ tech-savvy, self-confident and flexible point of view.

DNA labs are using probabilistic genotyping to analyze hard-to-interpret samples. Some scientists and lawyers worry that the computer code behind these tools limits its reliability and hinders due process.

More than 25 states have amended their laws on zero tolerance in schools during the last five years.

Patricia Brown Holmes had become the youngest African-American woman to serve as a Cook County associate judge. Then she was told she might have only six months to live.

The problem of campus sexual assault has been under scrutiny for a long time, with very little consensus on the best way for schools to discipline and protect all parties.

HB 688 ultimately passed with large bipartisan majorities, making Louisiana the first state to “ban the box” for college admissions.

Louisiana is part of a nationwide movement toward justice reinvestment—policies aimed at simultaneously reducing crime and reining in corrections spending, while still holding offenders accountable. Gelb calls those goals “our holy trinity.”

Each law firm has to decide the right course of action regarding website design based on its services and the type of client it wants to attract.