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Access to Justice
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June 03, 2022
How Baker McKenzie Attys Helped Ukraine Apply To Join EU
Baker McKenzie LLP attorneys based in Ukraine helped prepare the war-torn country's application to join the European Union, which was submitted last month during the ongoing Russian invasion.
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June 03, 2022
Port Authority Settles Civil Rights Suit Over Bathroom Patrols
Winston & Strawn LLP attorneys and The Legal Aid Society secured a settlement ending the Port Authority Police Department’s bathroom patrols practice that appeared to target members of the LGBTQ community. The settlement will have a far-reaching impact, attorneys say.
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June 01, 2022
ABA Lauds 3 Firms, 2 Texas Attys As Pro Bono Standouts
The American Bar Association this August will honor a lawyer from Baker Botts LLP, a partner from Holland & Knight LLP and the law firms Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC for pro bono work ranging from tenant advocacy to refugee assistance, the organization announced Wednesday.
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May 23, 2022
NY Lawmakers Grant 1-Year Grace Period For Sex Abuse Suits
The New York Assembly on Monday passed the Adult Survivors Act, which, if signed by the governor, would open up sexual assault and abuse litigation by creating a one-year window for adult survivors whose claims are otherwise time-barred.
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May 23, 2022
Justices Shut Door On Inmates Claiming Ineffective Counsel
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said two Arizona death row inmates could not present evidence in federal court they said proved they were provided with ineffective trial counsel, narrowing the options the prisoners and others convicted in state court have to escape the death penalty.
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May 20, 2022
Push For Gov't-Funded Deportation Defense Gains Steam
Programs that provide government-funded attorneys to noncitizens facing deportation are becoming more common in cities and states across the country, and immigration advocates hope to harness that momentum to scale up those initiatives to the federal level.
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May 20, 2022
Who, Where, How: Mapping Pandemic Rent Aid Across NY
Jada, a tenant from the Bronx, was relieved last summer when her management company sent out an email encouraging her to apply for New York's $2.4 billion federally funded Emergency Rental Assistance Program, or ERAP. Combing through application and payment data, Law360 explores the pandemic program's effectiveness.
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May 20, 2022
Sanctions On Russia Raise Complex Ethical Questions
The sanctions regime imposed on Russia for its war on Ukraine is the most extensive in history, dwarfing all sanctions previously imposed on other countries combined.
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May 20, 2022
Calif. 'CARE Courts' Spark Concerns Over Forced Treatment
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pioneering a court model that he claims is supportive and empowering to people who have severe mental illnesses, but civil rights advocates oppose the plan, arguing it subjects individuals to involuntary mental health treatment.
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May 20, 2022
DOJ Picks Ex-Public Defender To Head Access To Justice Unit
The U.S. Department of Justice has picked a deputy associate attorney general who previously served as a Los Angeles public defender to lead its revamped Office for Access to Justice that was shuttered under the Trump administration.
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May 20, 2022
Service Members Aid Afghan Women They Fought Alongside
An organization called Sisters of Service, started by two women who served as special operations members in Afghanistan, is working to support female former Afghan soldiers as they navigate the United States' immigration process.
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May 20, 2022
New Orleans, Detroit Join Tenant Right-To-Counsel Movement
A pandemic-fed boom in tenant right-to-counsel laws appears to have staying power, with New Orleans and Detroit recently joining more than a dozen cities and states in guaranteeing renters facing eviction the right to a free lawyer.
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May 20, 2022
Amnesty Int'l Slams US 'Failure' To Protect Native Women
Amnesty International has decried what it calls the U.S. government's failure to adequately prevent rates of violence against Indigenous women, saying in a new report that not much has changed since the nongovernmental organization last studied the issue in 2007.
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May 19, 2022
5th Circ. Says Service Error Dooms Excessive Force Case
The Fifth Circuit declined to revive a "gruesome" police brutality case brought by the family of Darrall Thomas, who was wrongly identified by police in a Texas suburb as a suspect in an ATM break-in and was "tased and brutalized" by police until he died, saying that a failure to properly serve the officer who committed the violence doomed the suit.
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May 16, 2022
Immigration Assistance Platform Formally Raises $2.3M
After beginning life as a hackathon project to assist asylum seekers, Formally, a legal collaboration platform, raised $2.3 million in pre-seed funding, with Bessemer Venture Partners leading the round, the company announced Monday.
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May 11, 2022
Biden Taps 7 Nominees To Fill Out Sentencing Commission
President Joe Biden nominated seven potential new members of the U.S. Sentencing Commission on Wednesday, hoping to round out a bipartisan body that has been without a quorum since 2019.
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May 06, 2022
Barriers To Discharging Student Loans In Bankruptcy Persist
A cancer patient’s upcoming bankruptcy trial over her student loan debt highlights how a nearly unwinnable court test keeps many in need from discharging their educational borrowing, but mounting public and political pressure could change that.
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May 06, 2022
Call It Genocide? The Debate Over Labeling Ukraine Atrocities
As evidence of atrocities in Ukraine continues to emerge, Western political leaders, including President Joe Biden, have said Russia has committed genocide. But legal scholars say the burden of proof for genocide is hard to meet, and the legal community is split as to whether the evidence gathered so far does that.
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May 06, 2022
In Reformer DA Recall, Local And National Questions At Play
As signatures come in, both supporters and opponents on the ground in Los Angeles are closely watching a recall effort against District Attorney George Gascón, who ran on a progressive platform, with some viewing it as part of a wider struggle for criminal justice reform.
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May 06, 2022
How Lowenstein Managed 23K Pro Bono Hours Last Year
Last year, Lowenstein Sandler LLP attorneys racked up more than 23,000 hours of pro bono legal services. Here, Law360 talks with Catherine Weiss, partner and chair of the Lowenstein Center for the Public Interest, about that milestone and what’s ahead for the group.
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May 06, 2022
DOJ-Led Initiative Outlines Metrics For Justice Data Collection
An initiative led by the U.S. Department of Justice recently unveiled a set of more than 40 metrics covering the entire criminal legal system, from law enforcement to community supervision, that states can report online to provide policymakers with more current data about their justice systems.
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May 05, 2022
DOJ Restores Settlement Projects For Environmental Justice
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced a raft of environmental justice initiatives, including restoring prosecutors' authority to allow defendants to undertake special community projects as part of settlements that resolve apparent environmental violations.
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April 28, 2022
Judges Say Zoom Makes Courts Safer, Expands Due Process
State judges from Texas and Washington told Loyola Law School students Thursday that they've seen a "sea change" in the management of their heavy caseloads since going virtual post-COVID, saying it has expanded due process for vulnerable litigants and improved the safety of those in the courtroom.
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April 25, 2022
Justices Skeptical Prisoner Can't Challenge Execution Method
Several of the U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday picked apart the state of Georgia's argument that a condemned prisoner is barred from challenging the method of his execution because he is actually challenging the death sentence itself.
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April 22, 2022
Squire Patton Boggs Org. Builds On Legal Aid In Puerto Rico
The Squire Patton Boggs Foundation initially focused a fellowship on Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in September 2017 to help with community rebuilding and disaster relief. But as the post-hurricane situation stabilized in Puerto Rico, the foundation has broadened fellows' work to also include areas such as access to justice and the environment.