Hello, and welcome to Legal Lads Quick and Dirty Tips for a More Lawful Life. Im your host, Adam Freedman. But first, your daily dose of legalese: This podcast does not create an attorney-client relationship with any listener. In other words, althoug...
by Michael W. Flynn First, a disclaimer: Although I am an attorney, the legal information in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for seeking personalized legal advice from an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction. Further, I...
by Michael W. Flynn First, a disclaimer: Although Legal Lad is an attorney, the legal information in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for seeking personalized legal advice from an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction. Leg...
Grammar Girl here. Todays topic concerns three sets of words that are easy to confuse: all together (two words) and altogether (one word), all ready (two words) and already (one word), and all right (two words) and alright (one word). As well see sho...
Rights groups in Nigeria have criticized the firing of the country's former anti-corruption chief from the police force for alleged insubordination. They say his dismissal was aimed at punishing a key voice in the fight against corruption in Nigeria...
A just-released Human Rights Watch report accuses all parties to the conflict in Somalia of regularly committing war crimes that contribute to the Horn of Africa nation's humanitarian catastrophe. But Ethiopia is taking strong exception to charges m...
Zimbabwe's leaders are meeting to choose a new government as part of a power-sharing agreement signed Monday aimed at ending the country's political crisis. But human rights groups say they will press the new unity government to reign in abuses by s...
The U.N. Special Investigator for Sudan reports an overall deterioration in the country's human rights conditions. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA the investigator has submitted a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. Sima Samar (2007 file...
New York's City Council has voted in favor of extending term limits for elected officials, paving the way for the city's billionaire mayor to run for another term. Victoria Cavaliere reports from VOA's New York Bureau that the move on Thursday had m...
The United Nations' deputy high commissioner for human rights has endorsed the establishment of a tribunal in Kenya to try those responsible for violence that followed December's presidential elections. She made the remarks at the end of a four-day...