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Top Myths About Disability Benefits – Debunked by Lawyers

by Burn Tucker Lachaîne

California Grad Student Strike Sparks Legal Free-Speech Battle

by Gregory Sirico

Graduate students in California strike over free speech rights amidst university crackdowns on Pro-Palestine protests, fueling an ongoing legal battle.

FinTech Innovation Poses Data Privacy Challenges

by Michael Brown

FinTech companies are disrupting traditional financial models—and creating new data privacy concerns.

Merging Business and Responsibility: Gilbert + Tobin

by Best Lawyers

Attorneys Costas Condoleon and Sam Nickless from the Australian firm Gilbert + Tobin discuss the firm's 2020 award, how Australia’s Corporate Law practice is preparing for the world’s transforming economic landscape, and the international community’s demands of its businesses.

Chain Migration Solutions Desperately in Search of a Problem

by Aaron C. Hall

The White House insists that any new law giving Dreamers a permanent place in the United States also stop what it refers to as the chain migration problem.

Australasian In the Law: Legal News From Our Recently Awarded Countries

by Gregory Sirico

Best Lawyers highlights the top legal stories out of Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore, in conjunction with the 2024 Australasian launch.

Colorado’s New “Red Flag” Law for Extreme Risk Protection Orders

by James H. Chalat

Preventing Mass Shootings

The New Wild West

by Mary Frances Palisano

Artificial intelligence has only just begun upending industries of all kinds. It stands certain to play an exceedingly important role in criminal law as well.

Ketanji Brown Jackson Becomes Joe Biden’s Nominee for Vacant SCOTUS Seat

by Gregory Sirico

President Joe Biden has nominated former lawyer Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court of the United States.

Prop 36 California 2024: California’s Path to Stricter Sentencing and Criminal Justice Reform

by Jennifer Verta

Explore how Prop 36 could shape California's sentencing laws and justice reform.

The Paris Climate Accord and Dissatisfaction

by Joseph Z. Fleming and Mark L. Stermitz

The Paris Climate Accord was a voluntary and non-enforceable approach to resolving climate issues.

Perilous Times and Bottom Lines

by Geoff Mason, Bruno Caron, P. Jason Kroft, Bryan J. Buttigieg, Selina Lee-Andersen and Christie McLeod

Given the frequency and severity of extreme weather events in recent years, the changing climate is a topic of hot conversation. As the earth’s temperature rises, it is incumbent upon company executives to take stock of the foreseeable risks the climate crisis presents to their operations—and take every possible precaution to mitigate them.

Q&A with Jeff Hirsch of Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP

by Nicole Ortiz

"There is national mobility in Canada, so there is, in essence, free movement of lawyers across the country."

Guidelines for Acquisitions of Infrastructure Assets

by Posse Herrera Ruiz

A Colombian firm gives merger and acquisition insights to assess risks in the purchase of potentially tainted assets.

Facebook Whistleblower Testimony Shines A Light On Credibility Factor

by Justin Smulison

Landmark whistleblower testimony was provided on Capitol Hill which may have a national—and even worldwide—effect on how governments regulate Big Tech companies.

Government of the People

by Allyn Stern

How to Build Productive Relationships With the EPA