In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law
For 80 years, the nation’s basic minimum wage and overtime pay law, the Fair Labor Standards Act, has lifted wages and given most workers a guaranteed floor for earning a living. But the FLSA still has holes and needs some updating to include workers originally excluded because of race, panelists at a daylong seminar on the act said.
Experts are praising Clark County’s proposed rewrite of its policies on workplace harassment, bullying and discrimination.
Does the rise of today’s gig economy call into question whether an 80-year-old federal wage law is still relevant? Some updates may be warranted, but making significant changes to the Depression-era Fair Labor Standards Act won’t be easy, worker advocates and management-side attorneys told Bloomberg Law.
It has been many years since Ol’ Blue Eyes graced the stage in Las Vegas and 23 years since his last live performance at the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa in Palm Desert, California.
Myriam Parada, a woman living without documentation in the U.S., showed Minnesota police her Mexican ID when she got in a car accident. They handed her to ICE, and now she’s suing.
The special counsel whose investigation led to President Bill Clinton’s impeachment told an audience at UNLV today that he’d seen no sign of collusion involving President Donald Trump in the current investigation into the Trump administration.
Ken Starr, who rose to national fame in the 1990s as the independent counsel appointed to investigate President Bill Clinton, had a question about another embattled president Thursday during a lecture titled “Investigating the President” at UNLV’s William S. Boyd School of Law.
UNLV’s Boyd School of Law moved up three spots in U.S. News and World Report’s latest ranking of the nation’s best law schools.
The UNLV Boyd School of Law earned the top spot in the specialty category of legal writing with its Lawyering Process Program in the annual list of best graduate and professional programs by US News & World Report, which was released today.
Financial advisors from across the nation are offering a unique, free service called The Las Vegas Survivors Project to the approximate 532 claimants to the Las Vegas Victims’ Fund (LVVF).
With a new grant backed by billionaire California philanthropist Tom Steyer, UNLV’s Immigration Clinic plans to launch a pilot program in July focused on expanding its legal defense services, especially for its students.
The most recent edition of The National Jurist has a feature giving law students tips for surviving the barrister’s ball. The annual law school tradition — law prom, for the uninitiated — is just around the corner, and it seems law students need some help. After all, it’s just like high school prom, except now everyone is of legal drinking age and they give you free booze. What could possibly go wrong?