Jason Holder—Senior Attorney
In August 2023, Alice Minium filed a Virginia Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request seeking the name, job title, rank, unit or division, gender, race, as well as hiring and compensation information for each
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Jason Holder—Senior Attorney
In August 2023, Alice Minium filed a Virginia Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request seeking the name, job title, rank, unit or division, gender, race, as well as hiring and compensation information for each…
Matthew T. McDavitt—Senior Attorney
Under U.S. law, a testator drafting a Last Will and Testament must possess testamentary capacity for the document to be legally valid. Testamentary capacity generally requires that the testator understands the nature of…
The Lawletter Vol. 50 No. 1
Matthew T. McDavitt—Senior Attorney
Under U.S. law, a testator drafting a Last Will and Testament must possess testamentary capacity for the document to be legally valid. Testamentary capacity generally requires…
Lawletter Vol. 49. No. 4
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: ABA Guidance on AI Use for Lawyers
Cassidy Crockett-Verba—Senior Attorney
The American Bar Association (ABA) has recently released Formal Opinion 512 addressing the increased use of Artificial Intelligence…
Paul Ferrer—Senior Attorney
The United States Supreme Court has limited one of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) major tools for penalizing securities fraud by ruling that the Seventh Amendment requires a jury trial…
Anne Hemenway—Senior Attorney
In United States v. Rahimi, 144 S. Ct. 1889, 219 L. Ed. 2d 351 (2024), the United States Supreme Court, in an unusual nearly unanimous 8-1 decision, upheld a 1994 federal criminal law, 18…
Anne Hemenway—Senior Attorney
On March 15, 2024, the United States Supreme Court decided a pair of cases from Michigan and California on the issue of whether a public official violates the First Amendment by blocking individuals…
Amy G. Gore—Senior Attorney
The attorney-client privilege has traditionally limited the disclosure of properly qualified communications between an attorney and a client who is seeking legal advice. The limits of the privilege were tested in…
Nadine Roddy—Senior Attorney
May an employer ask an employee whether they are thinking about retiring sometime in the foreseeable future without running afoul of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)? Some federal courts…