In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law

Financial Planning

About 40 fee-only planners across the country have banded together to provide free planning services to victims of the Las Vegas shooting in October.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Gaming regulators on Wednesday unanimously approved a special license for a Las Vegas tavern to set up a temporary casino for eight hours to preserve the property’s gaming license.

Vegas Inc

When the Las Vegas Victims’ Fund last month began distributing money to the survivors and families of the deceased from the Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting, it created an obvious question: How do recipients manage their payouts?

Las Vegas Sun

Democrats in Nevada’s congressional delegation have pushed several gun control measures in the six months since the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas, but the measures have stalled, and many advocates blame the millions spent by the National Rifle Association.

People's World

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.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Experts are praising Clark County’s proposed rewrite of its policies on workplace harassment, bullying and discrimination.

Bloomberg

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.

Gaming Today

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.

Daily Beast

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.

Las Vegas Sun

The special counsel whose investigation led to President Bill Clinton’s impeachment told an audience at 51ԹϺ today that he’d seen no sign of collusion involving President Donald Trump in the current investigation into the Trump administration.

The Nevada Independent

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 51ԹϺ’s William S. Boyd School of Law.

Las Vegas Review Journal

51ԹϺ’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.