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Access to Justice
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August 23, 2022
Afghan Atty Who Fled Taliban To Lecture At Loyola NOLA
A prosecutor from Afghanistan who investigated crimes against women and was forced to flee the Taliban will lecture at Loyola University New Orleans this academic year, the university announced Tuesday.
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August 19, 2022
Simpson Thacher Helps Free Miss. Man From Life Sentences
A team of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP attorneys working pro bono recently helped free a 51-year-old man wrongfully sentenced to life in prison over a series of bank robberies and purse snatchings committed a decade apart.
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August 18, 2022
6th Circ. Says Michigan Can Limit Court Recordings Access
A Sixth Circuit panel on Thursday let stand a Michigan state court administrative rule that allows individual courts to decide whether to provide the public access to audio and video recordings of proceedings after finding the rule does not violate the First Amendment.
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August 15, 2022
LA County DA Gascón Defeats 2nd Recall Election Attempt
Proponents of the latest effort to recall Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón have once again failed to collect enough valid signatures for a recall election, the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk said Monday.
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August 11, 2022
NYC Evictions Creep Up As Housing Courts Get Busier
Signs of activity in New York City's housing courts — case filings and court-ordered evictions — are up compared to 2021, though still well below pre-pandemic levels, as tenants and landlords continue to grapple with the fallout of the coronavirus.
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August 10, 2022
Immigration Attorneys Share Stories Of Trauma And Burnout
Immigration lawyers, in particular those handling asylum clients, are more likely to experience secondary traumatic stress and burnout, according to research. Attorneys, law clinic directors and an immigration judge tell Law360 how taxing this area of the law and the immigration system as a whole can be.
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July 29, 2022
How A Law Prof Is Training Non-Attys As Immigrant Advocates
As a law professor who routinely took her students to immigration courts for field work, Michele R. Pistone was irked to see how many noncitizens went unrepresented. So she built an online platform to train nonlawyers to help fill the gaps in legal representation.
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July 28, 2022
Portland Tackles Racist Past Of Urban Renewal
Blocks from the stadium where the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers play and Interstate 5 cuts a gash through Oregon's largest city, a proposed 94-unit apartment building represents the first step in an ambitious plan to reverse decades of racist land-use practices.
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July 27, 2022
NJ Suit Shines Light On Police Use Of Infant Blood In Probes
Last year, DNA from an infant’s blood sample was used to track down a New Jersey sex crime suspect. Public defenders are now suing to discover how often law enforcement agencies have subpoenaed a mandatory newborn health screening program, spotlighting a growing area of friction between genetic genealogy and privacy.
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July 26, 2022
How Some NY Judges Are Unpausing Eviction Cases
New York is among several states — including Oregon, Massachusetts and California — to pause eviction cases at least temporarily while rent aid applications are being processed, to prevent premature evictions. And while tenant lawyers say New York's rule has been broadly effective, some judges have said they have the authority to lift the stay.
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July 22, 2022
Inside An Atty's Plan To Get 2 Wrongfully Jailed Men Justice
Two Black men from Buffalo, New York, spent more than two decades in prison for a murder they likely didn’t commit before a state trial court overturned their conviction last year. Now, they’re suing Erie County for civil rights violation, helped by a savvy attorney who pioneered a legal strategy to pierce through prosecutors' immunity.
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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.