Over the past few years, many TV shows, YouTube videos and podcasts saw significant audience interest from anything Alex Murdaugh-related. Ronald Richter and Eric Bland, two South Carolina lawyers who in 2021 sued Murdaugh on the Satterfields’ behalf, have been happy to share their opinions about him.
More than half of states allow nonlawyers to serve as judges in lower-level local courts. Nonlawyers can be justices of the peace, magistrates, municipal judges or probate judges. The types of cases over which they preside can include eviction, probate and civil disputes with limits on the financial stake.
A Georgia lawyer who recently won a large personal injury verdict involving Amazon and a contract driver says when determining if a business is an employer, electronic apps used to manage routes were enough to prove liability by the online shopping giant.
According to one study of women in Oklahoma’s prisons, 66% were abused by a partner the year before they were incarcerated. The state has a new law that allows domestic violence survivors to seek shorter sentences. Oklahoma is one of only a handful of states to pass laws that provide sentencing relief specifically for domestic violence survivors.
For the 2025 class of Legal Rebels, we have chosen to honor seven individuals and one state licensing board. These rebels were not content with waiting for change to come to them. They were already hard at work trying to improve important aspects of the legal industry well before anyone knew what ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence were.
The White House budget office on Wednesday rescinded a memo ordering the freezing of federal grants after the administration’s move to halt spending earlier this week provoked a backlash.
Updated: President Donald Trump’s temporary pause on federal grants was poised to run into several roadblocks, including the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 and constitutional provisions regarding congressional spending and faithful execution of laws.
In efforts to ease the shortage of lawyers in rural areas, North and South Dakota are each considering public service options that impact bar admission, though each offers very different requirements—including whether going to law school is necessary.
Chase Strangio, co-director of the LGBT & HIV Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, stresses the importance of remaining hopeful, even if the legal landscape for transgender rights seems bleaker right now than it has in recent times.
ABA members will come together in Phoenix this week to discuss and debate the latest issues and trends impacting the legal profession.
