The most interesting thing about the State Bar's 16th annual ethics conference on May 19 was not the series of panels, valuable though they were, but the brief keynote speech of UC-Hastings Dean Frank ...

Will the merchants currently suing Visa U.S.A. Inc. and MasterCard Inc. for antitrust violations be successful? That depends on whether these consolidated interchange suits can achieve class-action ...

NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — I need someone to explain to me how class-action lawsuits are legal, and why we let these illegal actions continue. We have heard for years about reforming the tort laws. I can ...

For the past seven years, I’ve taught a course at Wayne State University for master’s-level social workers on how to help their gay clients learn to be comfortable about their orientation. This class ...

One tour in Saudi Arabia, two tours in Afghanistan, 28 years in the Marine Corps: My father is a proud veteran who has spent most of his life serving and fighting for the United States. He and other ...

BOISE, Idaho — It certainly has been a year of challenges and changes because of Covid-19. That goes for our colleges and universities, too. The College of Western Idaho took many steps to be able to ...

As mortgage banking has become a nationwide business, mortgage bankers have increasingly struggled to ensure that their origination and servicing practices comply with local law. The mortgage banking ...

Congress recently passed the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA), intending to lower the costs and risks class-action litigation imposes on businesses. CAFA works primarily by moving certain ...

For six weeks in late winter, a crowd gathered in a San Luis Obispo movie theater each week — not to watch the latest Hollywood blockbuster — but to learn about Islam. As far as we know, the class ...

Last week, the Pew Research Center published a report documenting the shrinking “American middle class” from 61 percent of all Americans in 1971 to 50 percent today. Florida experienced an almost ...