Earlier this spring, the Trump Administration released its full 2018 budget proposal, which outlined deep cuts, and even outright eliminations, of some agencies. Among the 19 agencies on the chopping block is the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), an independent nonprofit established by Congress to support low-income Americans with civil legal aid. While the budget for …
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Drafting Assistant Enhancements Streamline Document Creation
Drafting legal documents can be a complicated, tedious task. Drafting Assistant has some new enhancements that can boost drafting productivity. A PDF converter allows any PDF to be converted into a Microsoft® Word document. This is particularly useful when a user wants to closely examine an image-based PDF received from counterparties, clients or colleagues by running …
Thomson Reuters report highlights diverse issues, loss of institutional knowledge facing government legal departments
Government attorneys face daunting workloads, tight budgets and pressure to keep current on increasingly complex laws and regulations at a time when a generation of institutional knowledge is leaving as Baby Boomer-era employees retire. That’s according to a Thomson Reuters survey across federal, state and city/county levels with 238 government attorneys responding. “Government attorneys face …
Mitchell & Mitchell on Health Care and the Trump Agenda, Part 15: Design Failure for Medicaid Program Reform
This is Part 15 in an ongoing series regarding changes in health care that may take place—and actual changes that do take place—with the Trump administration. The likely implementation issues to be encountered for both potential and actual changes are described, based on detailed methods of analysis. The emphasis is on what these shifts mean …
An Abbreviated History of the False Claims Act: Enlisting Citizens in the Fight Against Fraud
The Federal Government spends more than $3 trillion a year on everything from healthcare, defense, education, and housing, to technology, research and beyond. With that much money on the table, efforts to defraud the government are inevitable. Identifying, stopping or deterring fraud, however, can be difficult, given the challenging nature of detecting fraud and allocating …
Brexit, Cuba & Trademarks
Brexit and Cuba may be oceans apart, but they share one common issue: a potential disruption of trademarks in both markets. Jeffrey Greene, a trademark partner with Fenwick & West discusses what issues need to be aware of if they are doing business or plan on doing business there.
Insights from Thomson Reuters Second Annual Government Conference
Disruption doesn’t have to have a negative connotation; it can lead to opportunity. True leaders embrace it to succeed in a rapidly shifting landscape. This is a key take away from Dawn Scalici, Government Global Business Director at Thomson Reuters, on the recent Thomson Reuters Government Conference that was held in Washington, D.C. on June …
11 Years, The Jabot and the End of the Supreme Court Term
David Lat, founder of Above the Law and Karl Florida, managing director, small law firm and consumer at Thomson Reuters, recently discussed the 11th Anniversary of Above the Law, the recent Supreme Court term, and what’s next for Above the Law and Lat. As many know, David Lat’s first anonymous blog provided a highly-followed insider’s …
AALL 2017 – Bryan Stevenson on Inequality and Injustice
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) states on its website (LINK) that it is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenge racial and economic injustice, and to protect basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society. Bryan Stevenson has led the charge on these efforts since …
Mitchell & Mitchell on Health Care and the Trump Agenda, Part 14: CBO Analysis Distorts Debates
This is Part 14 in an ongoing series regarding changes in health care that may take place—and actual changes that do take place—with the Trump administration. The likely implementation issues to be encountered for both potential and actual changes are described, based on detailed methods of analysis. The emphasis is on what these shifts mean …
