In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

The award honors a legal educator who has provided support, encouragement, and mentoring to colleagues, students, and aspiring educators, and has achieved excellence in the areas of public service, teaching, and scholarship.

Bloomberg

Opponents of newly proposed US Labor Department retirement advice standards are pushing state insurance regulators to fill in policy gaps of their own to boost their case for more lenient federal-level conduct requirements.

Virginia Lawyers Weekly

In the modern era, technological advancement knows no bounds. Every sector, from healthcare to finance, is experiencing a rapid transformation, and legal education is no exception. Artificial intelligence, especially its subdomain, generative AI, or GAI, is heralded as a game-changer. But with great potential comes an even greater responsibility: to balance innovation with integrity.

Bloomberg

The FTX and Silicon Valley Bank collapses show Sullivan & Cromwell's investments in its restructuring practice are paying enormous dividends for the law firm.

Las Vegas Weekly

Walking out onto the pedestrian bridge that connects the Cosmopolitan with the Shops at Crystals, the sound of Felicia Zaharoff’s violin soars above the crowds of tourists, conventioneers and the din of traffic below.

KNPR News

Almost 600,000 Nevadans are immigrants. That’s one out of five people.

The Daily Beast

Oversight Chairman James Comer has attacked Hunter Biden’s business dealings for their opacity. But Comer’s own shell company is far from transparent.

Travel Weekly

With cannabis consumption lounges poised to open soon in Las Vegas, the local university has opened the Cannabis Policy Institute.

Newsweek

Donald Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba, has defended her comments suggesting that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will "step up" and rule in favor of the former president in the Colorado 2024 ballot decision.

Guardian

Trump lawyer ‘has faith’ in US supreme court justice appointed by the former president, though the court hasn’t said if it will weigh in

NPR

A courtroom proceeding took a violent turn when a man attacked a Las Vegas judge on Wednesday morning. Video shows when 30-year-old defendant Deobra Redden runs and leaps toward Judge Mary Kay Holthus as she tries to scramble away.

Nevada Current

ACLU vows to sue to block ‘disorder-related’ ordinance