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Attorney suspended for juggling funds in guardianship accounts
The Supreme Court of Ohio recently suspended a Worthington attorney for two years, with 18 months stayed, for transferring money from guardianship accounts without probate court permission, then lying to the court about the amount of money moves he made.
The Supreme Court found Michael Juhola violated several ethics rules when h ... (full story)
Trump administration suspends 5 wind projects off the East Coast, cites national security concerns
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration recently suspended leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction along the East Coast due to what it said were national security risks identified by the Pentagon.
The suspension, effective immediately, is the latest step by the administration to hobble offs ... (full story)
Rural schools hit by Trump's grant cuts have few options for making up for the lost money
SHELBYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — When the funding for Shannon Johnson's job as a school mental health counselor came to an abrupt end, two years into a five-year grant, she thought about the work left to be done.
Johnson taught elementary and middle-school students in rural Kentucky how to navigate conflict, build resilience and ma ... (full story)
ABA report finds AI is rapidly impacting the legal profession
Once the subject of debate, generative artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly being integrated into the legal profession, impacting the way many tasks are carried out.
In fact, as attorney and journalist Bob Ambrogi discusses in a Dec. 16 post on LawSites (https://www.lawnext.com/2025/12/aba-task-force-ai-has-moved-from-experi ... (full story)
How does Pittsburgh have 20,000 vacant homes and a housing shortage?
418 Rochelle Street looks like an ordinary row house at first glance. Backed against a hillside in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Knoxville, its porch is messy, but that's hardly unusual.
A reporter walked up the front steps one windy day this November to take a closer look, peered through the front window and saw something that ... (full story)