As they await the potential impacts of a new presidential administration and the GOP-controlled Congress, access to justice leaders across the country say they're headed into 2025 with an eye on issues like use of non-attorney professionals and AI technology to help address the ever-increasing need for free or affordable legal services.
As they await the potential impacts of a new presidential administration and the GOP-controlled Congress, access to justice leaders across the country say they're headed into 2025 with an eye on issues like use of non-attorney professionals and AI technology to help address the ever-increasing need for free or affordable legal services.
Aided by attorneys from Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, a group of women incarcerated at a California federal prison recently reached settlements with the Bureau of Prisons, including a consent decree and the agency’s largest-ever monetary settlement, to resolve claims of systemic sexual abuse at the notorious facility.
The number of new death sentences across the U.S. increased last year, as did the number of states imposing them, but public support for capital punishment continues to be at historic lows, the Death Penalty Information Center said in a year-end report published last month.
Brisa De Angulo won a historic international human rights victory against the government of Bolivia in 2023 over how it handled her legal case against the relative who sexually assaulted her as an adolescent, and an upcoming documentary is putting her story to the big screen.
A free speech challenge to a Middle District of Tennessee rule barring attorneys from making "any extrajudicial statements" about cases in the district should be allowed to move forward since the court is not entitled to sovereign immunity, according to the Nashville civil rights lawyer behind the suit.
Too often, public access to courtrooms is restricted without sufficient legal justification, and attorneys, judges and judicial oversight bodies must ensure courtrooms remain open to promote accountability and uphold constitutional principles, say Fordham Law graduate Olesya Lek and Parisa Djavaheri at Riza Realty.
