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South Dakota Lawmakers Face Opposition Over Proposed New Women’s Prison

The Crime Report

Lawmakers in South Dakota have proposed a new women’s prison, estimated to cost $60 million, in response to the state’s current overcrowding issue, Lee Strubinger reports for the SDPB. The women’s prison in Pierre, South Dakota, currently has a population of 316 inmates in a facility built to hold just over 200.

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ALPS In Brief -Episode 81: Tam Nash, ABA YLD President - Inspiring First Gen Lawyers to Summit New Heights

ALPS

Tamara Nash, Director of Experiential Learning and lecturer at the University of South Dakota School of Law and Chair of the ABA's Young Lawyer Division shares her plans to reach more young lawyers by organizing the ABA's inaugural first-generation summit in April 2024.

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Lack of Rural Lawyers Leaves Much of America Without Support

The Crime Report

While the running joke may be that there are too many lawyers in the world, in many rural places in the United States, there are demonstrably too few. Despite efforts in recent years by a handful of states, universities and legal associations to ease the problem, there remains a glaring lack of lawyers in many far-flung places.

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South Dakota Truck Accident Lawyers Help You Get the Damages You Deserve

LegalReader

Trucking companies know when they’re in the wrong and they usually prefer to settle out of court. .

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Can You Sue for Wrongful Termination in South Dakota?

LegalReader

Anti-discrimination laws cover all aspects of the employment process from hiring practices to non-discriminatory policies in the workplace and termination.

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ALPS In Brief – Episode 64: Project Destination

ALPS

I’m on the road today and out in South Dakota at a convention and have had the pleasure to meet Tamara Nash. And she is the Director of Experiential Learning and a lecturer at the University of South Dakota School of Law. We had a judge and I was his lawyer. And first, I just want to say welcome.

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Morning Docket: 05.05.21

Above The Law

Maybe Gates read a good online review of the lawyer written by Bezos. [ Huff Post ] * The military promotion of the South Dakota Attorney General has been blocked because of his involvement in a deadly car collision last year. [ * Attorneys in the Gates divorce also worked on the Bezos split-up. Juris Lab ].

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