In March, young attorneys Katelyn Leese and Alissa Cooley told Desert Companion that they were worried the program they worked for — representing undocumented immigrant children in the U.S. legal process — would end if they didn’t find some funding beyond the Justice AmeriCorps grant that paid for their services at UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic. They didn’t want their vulnerable young clients to end up with no one to guide them through the arcane workings of immigration court.

At the end of this month, just about a week after Donald J. Trump becomes president, I will begin to teach my regular law-school course on immigration law at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. For the first time, I am apprehensive.

A conservative news outlet criticized a federal program created to bring United States children fleeing violence in Central America into the United States, saying it largely benefits adults.

One potential conflict of interest for President-elect Donald Trump could involve his dispute with employees attempting to unionize at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. The National Labor Relations Board has ruled against Trump, whose company has opposed unionization, but as president, Trump will have the power to appoint new members of the NLRB. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Ruben Garcia, a law professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Tensions are running high as the debate over sanctuary cities heats up.

One potential conflict of interest for President-elect Donald Trump could involve his dispute with employees attempting to unionize at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. The National Labor Relations Board has ruled against Trump, whose company has opposed unionization, but as president, Trump will have the power to appoint new members of the NLRB. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Ruben Garcia, a law professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

A federal court on Tuesday blocked the start of a rule that would have made an estimated 4 million more American workers eligible for overtime pay heading into the holiday season, dealing a major blow to the Obama administration's effort to beef up labor laws it said weren't keeping pace with the times.

Bully on the bench? That's what a district court judge is being called after a controversial video surfaces from Family Court.

With Democrats back in charge of the Legislature, things don’t look good for some of the state GOP’s key initiatives.

Business as usual on the Colorado River may be about to come to a screeching halt. One of the worst recorded droughts in human history has stretched water supplies thin across the far-reaching river basin, which serves 40 million people.

Dozens of Boyd Law School students got a firsthand look at their futures Tuesday. The Nevada Court of Appeals took its operation on the road to a small moot courtroom on the UNLV campus to hold oral arguments in two civil cases: one involving a complicated divorce and another involving a fall at Harrah’s.

Donald Trump won the presidential election after a campaign of full protests against rhetoric, but for now it does not reveal too much detail about what kind of migration policy he will lead.