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Woman on last day of carpentry school texts mom about suspicious car in campus parking lot, turns up dead later that morning: Family
Inset: Kimarii McLemore. Background: The California resource center where Kimarii McLemore was shot and killed on her last day of carpentry school (KTVU/YouTube). A California woman on her last day of carpentry school texted her mother about a suspicious car in the...
Teen who killed 15-year-old girlfriend and left her bleeding on the sidewalk tried to claim someone else shot her after running to grandma's house
Source: YouTubeSummaryInset: Azoria Jones (Facebook). Background: Courtroom footage of Javier Smith during his plea hearing (Law&Crime). A Wisconsin teenager will spend the next decade of his life behind bars after he fatally shot his 15-year-old girlfriend....
Teen who killed 15-year-old girlfriend and left her bleeding on the sidewalk tried to claim someone else shot her after running to grandma's house
Source: YouTubeSummaryInset: Azoria Jones (Facebook). Background: Courtroom footage of Javier Smith during his plea hearing (Law&Crime). A Wisconsin teenager will spend the next decade of his life behind bars after he fatally shot his 15-year-old girlfriend....
Building a Marketing Budget From Scratch
For many solo and small law firms, marketing starts without a real budget.Money gets spent when something seems important. A new website this year. A few Google Ads next year. Maybe a sponsorship if someone asks. Before long, you’ve invested thousands of dollars...
Minority Investors Looking into the Abyss: Invest with Caution and After Securing an Exit Plan
The opportunity to make a substantial investment in a private company can be exciting — it offers the potential to share in the rapid growth of the company and may permit the investor to participate on the company’s governance team. But private company...
Massachusetts Appeals Court Clarifies How Negligent Misrepresentation Can Support Chapter 93A Liability
On Aug. 7, 2026, the Appeals Court of Massachusetts vacated a Chapter 93A judgment in Antokal v. Spring Valley Country Club, Inc., holding that the trial court’s findings were insufficient to establish liability based on negligent misrepresentation.Plaintiffs...
Coming Soon Near You: New Privacy Laws in Alabama, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Vermont
A new wave of comprehensive state privacy laws is on the horizon for 2026 and beyond. Alabama, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Vermont have each enacted consumer data privacy statutes that will come online over the next few years, extending the patchwork and raising the...
First District Affirms Judgment Voiding Class 7 and 8 and Common Sense CEQA Exemptions for Sonoma County’s Groundwater Well Ordinance Amendments; Reverses Portion of Judgment Voiding Ordinance on Public Trust Grounds
In a published decision filed August 4, 2026, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. 2) partially affirmed and partially reversed a judgment granting a writ setting aside Sonoma County’s (“County”) 2023 amended groundwater well permit...
Cherryn-Paige Bissett Says AI Didn’t Replace Lawyers. It Repriced Judgment.
(Image via Getty) For the past two years, the legal industry has been obsessed with one question: Will AI replace lawyers? I think we’re asking the wrong question. The better question is this: If AI takes over routine legal work, what becomes more valuable? That...