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Access to Justice
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July 22, 2022
Programming Note: Law360's A2J On Vacation In August
Law360's Access to Justice will not publish its regular newsletter during the month of August as the editorial team readies for the fall.
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July 22, 2022
Prison Reformer Talks Of Crisis At NYC's Rikers Island
New York's Rikers Island jail complex has struggled with violence, dysfunction and disorder. Longtime prison reformer and attorney Zachary Katznelson spoke with Law360 about how the pandemic made the complex more dangerous for inmates and staff and why some advocates want a federal receiver to implement reforms.
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July 22, 2022
Long Sentences Make Up More Than Half Of Prison Population
The portion of the state prison population serving long sentences has increased over the past 10 years to more than half of the population, according to findings released by a Council on Criminal Justice task force on Wednesday.
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July 22, 2022
Hogan Lovells Helps Hawaii Tenants Keep Affordable Housing
A team of Hogan Lovells attorneys recently helped secure a deal that stopped a group of Hawaii residents from being priced out of their homes due to a developer's attempt to opt out of an affordable housing agreement decades early.
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July 22, 2022
Legal Observers Arrested At Floyd Protest Win $49K And Fees
Twelve legal observers for the New York City chapter of the National Lawyers Guild arrested during the George Floyd protests in June 2020 will collectively get $49,000 to resolve a federal lawsuit against New York City over what they called a "violent assault" by police, one of their attorneys confirmed Friday to Law360.
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July 22, 2022
Pay Is A Pain Point In Retention For Ill. Legal Aid Orgs
One of the biggest obstacles for legal aid organizations as they look to recruit and retain highly talented and diverse lawyers is making room in their budgets to pay attorneys competitively, according to a new report out Friday.
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July 22, 2022
Why Rocket Lawyer's CEO Wants Legal Help To Be Affordable
Charley Moore, founder and CEO of legal technology company Rocket Lawyer, realized as a kid watching his dad operate a chain of Shell gas stations that the U.S. legal system was too expensive for small businesses and most individuals and families.
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July 21, 2022
Equal Justice Works Names Law School Dean As New CEO
Equal Justice Works has tapped the dean of the University of Cincinnati College of Law to be the organization's new CEO.
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July 21, 2022
A Bruen Defense For Gun Charges? Attys Say Not So Fast
The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling declaring parts of New York's gun licensing regime unconstitutional gives people prosecuted for gun offenses new chances to shake their charges, but it's still unclear what legal strategies could ultimately succeed, experts say.
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July 08, 2022
1 In 20 Death Row Reversals Tied To Prosecutor Misconduct
Over the last 50 years, prosecutor misconduct has played a role in 550 sentence reversals and exonerations of prisoners on death row, a recent study shows.
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July 08, 2022
The Great Writ In Danger: Where Is Habeas Corpus Headed?
The Great Writ has been on a declining trajectory for several decades. With no signs that Congress will use its power to shore up the habeas process, and a Supreme Court appearing bent on limiting it, the future of habeas corpus is more uncertain than ever.
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July 08, 2022
Venable Donates Atty Fees To Help Exonerees Rejoin Society
Since 2008, Venable LLP has worked with the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project to free five Washington, D.C., men who collectively spent more than 100 years in prison for murders they didn't commit.
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July 08, 2022
Sheppard Mullin Aids Deal On Accessible NY Subway Stations
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP's pro bono partner recently played a key role in negotiating what could be a landmark settlement to guarantee more accessible subway stations in New York — the latest in a series of disability rights wins for the attorney.
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July 08, 2022
Kilpatrick Atty Aids Fellow Ukrainians In War Relief Effort
When one of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP's Atlanta-based attorneys entered the United States in 1988 as a 9-year-old refugee from Soviet-era Ukraine, she couldn't have imagined she'd end up helping her fellow countrymen flee a Russian invasion 34 years later.
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July 08, 2022
As States Toy With Reform, Legal Tech Cos. Fill Justice Gap
More than 100 legal technology companies have formed in the last 10 years to provide legal assistance to millions of Americans who can't afford an attorney, helping to bridge a gap in access to justice, while less than a handful of states have taken action to expand the practice of law.
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July 06, 2022
Eviction Default Buffer Lifts For Some In NYC Housing Court
A New York City administrative judge has lifted a procedural buffer that gave certain tenants an extra shot to match with a lawyer and mount defenses in housing court before facing a default judgment, citing the "changing course of the pandemic."
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June 29, 2022
Ohio To Use ARPA Money For COVID-Caused Case Backlogs
The state of Ohio set up a $10 million grant program paid for by its federal American Rescue Plan Act money for courts that want help clear backlogs of cases that stem from the coronavirus pandemic, the governor's office announced Wednesday.
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June 27, 2022
Justices Say Courts Must Consider Rehab In Resentencing
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that district courts must look at defendants' rehabilitation and updated sentencing guidelines when considering a reduction of their sentences.
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June 23, 2022
Justices Give Inmates Path To Swap Execution Methods
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that state death row inmates can ask to be executed in a method not approved in their states by filing a civil rights suit, reversing a ruling by the Eleventh Circuit that compelled the prisoners to file habeas corpus petitions instead.
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June 17, 2022
What San Francisco DA's Recall Could Mean For Reformers
The widely publicized and successful recall campaign of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin has been described by some as a warning call for progressive prosecutors and rehabilitative justice advocates nationwide.
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June 17, 2022
What States Can Learn From Illinois To End Rape Kit Backlogs
After years of reform, Illinois earlier this month became the 17th state to clear its backlog of nearly 2,000 untested rape kits. Here is what states can learn from Illinois to end their own rape kit backlogs.
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June 17, 2022
Legal System Ill-Equipped For Handling Dementia
The criminal legal system is largely not prepared to handle individuals with dementia who either age into the disease while incarcerated or face criminal charges as their mental capacity diminishes, according to a report released this week by an American Bar Association commission.
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June 17, 2022
Young Thug Case Shows RICO's Shift From Mobs To Gangs
The 88-page indictment charging the rappers Young Thug and Gunna with racketeering along with 26 others made headlines last month, but it was hardly surprising to legal experts familiar with these increasingly common prosecutions.
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June 17, 2022
Jones Walker Partner Talks Police Liabilities After Uvalde
As questions remain unanswered about the response by police in Uvalde, Texas, to the elementary school mass shooting that left 21 dead, Jones Walker LLP partner David S. Weinstein talks to Law360 about potential liability protection for officers who responded to the scene.
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June 17, 2022
Fla. Firm Seeks Restart Of Fee Suit Despite Atty's Misconduct
A Florida law firm that represented two wrongfully convicted men before one of its lawyers was caught defrauding them is continuing its fight for fees after a jury awarded the pair $75 million in a civil rights lawsuit.