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The Yeager Law Firm, P.C. is proud to announce that Emily E. Parish has been promoted to partner of the firm. Emily has been a valuable member of The Yeager Law Firm team since 2019 and has consistently proven her work ethic to us, and more importantly, to her clients. Emilly has worked extremely hard…

By: Nellie Bowles | New York Times The people who called into the help hotlines and domestic violence shelters said they felt as if they were going crazy. One woman had turned on her air-conditioner, but said it then switched off without her touching it. Another said the code numbers of the digital lock at…

By: Sandra Feldman Georgia and Alabama are the latest states to authorize benefit corporations, effective January 1, 2021. A benefit corporation, in general, is a for-profit corporation that has as one of its purposes the creation of a general public benefit. Its directors must, or may, consider the interests of non-shareholder stakeholders in making decisions,…

By: Kent Faulk | The Birmingham News Shelby County Probate Judge Jim Fuhrmeister has hired prosecutor Allison Boyd to serve in the newly created position of Programs Coordinator for Mental Health Services and Legal Counsel to the Probate Judge. The hiring was effective Monday. Fuhrmeister said that with prison reform, state mental hospital closures, and…

By Kent Faulk | The Birmingham News Alabama’s attorney general today denounced a federal appeals court ruling today effectively denying residents of one California county the right of possession of a handgun for self-defense outside the home. “The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held today that residents have no Second Amendment right to carry…

By Andre Ramey, WPMI | SPANISH FORT, Ala. (WPMI) An upscale, unfinished Spanish Fort house is at the center of a lawsuit. Work stopped after fears it could collapse surfaced, but the fixes, two years later, are still being debated. We first investigated this project last year and tonight Local 15’s Andrea Ramey reports on…

By Matt Reynolds In April, a Florida court held a bench trial over Zoom to decide a child abduction case under the Hague Convention. Later that month, the same state held a major virtual trial on the voting rights of convicted felons, with the public listening in by phone. As criminal courts grapple with the…

Ryan Barber National Law Journal From net neutrality rules to the Sally Yates memo, federal agencies came out with major policy announcements and found themselves in high-stakes litigation in 2015. But by the year’s end, there was too little time left to see how those policies would be put into practice, or how lawsuits with…