The 2017 Clio Legal Trends Report revealed many alarming statistics about the daily work habits of practicing attorneys, but perhaps most shocking were the statistics on the tasks consuming the majority of attorneys’ time, the tasks receiving little attention, and the net results of their...
Criminal case filings involving violent crime are up during the Trump administration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions boasts. Sessions says DOJ charged the largest number of violent crime and firearm defendants in its history in the year that ended Sept. 30. Sessions says he has ordered...
Each year on September 26, we stop to observe Mesothelioma Awareness Day, a national event building support for the mesothelioma community, patients who are battling the rare cancer, and all of the work being done to cure the disease. On this year’s Mesothelioma Awareness Day,...
When Nak Kim “Rickie” Chhoeun arrived at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Los Angeles last October, he thought it would be a routine check-in. Instead, he was arrested and detained for six months, unsure whether he would ever see his family,...
The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation recently held its International Symposium on Malignant Mesothelioma in New York City, the second of two events scheduled for 2018. Doctors, nurses, patients, and caregivers met in Manhattan to discuss the disease, current treatments, and cutting-edge tactics aimed at helping...
A few Republican senators did something unusual on Wednesday: With the Senate not in session and no Democrats in sight, they convened the Judiciary Committee to advance a half-dozen of President Trump’s judicial nominees. For Republicans, nothing matters more, Politico reports. They aren’t pitching a...