In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law

Nevada Independent

I was never one for politics growing up. Like many, I saw our options as two sides of the same coin, though not necessarily in a bad way.

Casino.org

The recent case of a woman charged with threatening lawyers representing Caesars Entertainment is an unusual circumstance, according to a law professor. The threats reportedly came in response to an employee getting fired at a Las Vegas hotel-casino.

KNPR News

In 2018, the EPA handed oversight of the Anaconda mine cleanup project in Yerington to the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection.

Daily Beast

Josh Mandel—the far-right, former Ohio state representative now running for Senate—has recently joined the chorus of conservatives railing against Big Tech. But before he turned against Silicon Valley, Mandel was a Facebook stock investor who made tens of thousands of dollars.

Medium

Advances in computing are gradually guiding us toward the advent of computable contracts.

Las Vegas Review Journal

UNLV announced Friday that Boyd Law School Dean Dan Hamilton will leave the school June 30 to focus on “pressing family matters.”

Forbes

Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) advocates are having a moment.

Above The Law

In a recent Above the Law post, Kathryn Rubino points out that, on average, the 100 highest-grossing Biglaw firms (Am Law 100) increased their revenue by 6.6 percent.

Nevada Independent

One of the few hopeful outcomes of the 2021 legislative session so far is the progress of AB395, proposed legislation that would place Nevada among the now-majority of states that have abolished the death penalty.

Nevada Independent

Nine Nevada sheriffs from rural counties and Carson City have signed on to a letter blaming President Joe Biden’s policies for increased criminal activity related to illegal immigration and urging the Democratic president to embrace the border policies of the Trump administration, including resuming construction of the border wall.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Clark County officials hosted a "Know Your Rights" town hall Thursday night to address what rights Las Vegas area residents have if they are pulled over by police and immigrant rights for those approached by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

The Center Square

All but one of the 10 most tax-friendly states experienced gains in population from 2019 to 2020, according to a new analysis from MoneyGeek, a personal finance technology company located in San Francisco.