Legislature approves plan for answering lawyer shortage in rural Kansas
The Legislature has approved a plan to help solve a shortage of attorneys in rural Kansas with a bill offering incentives to encourage law...
UPDATED: Senate approves bill giving attorney general oversight of class-action lawsuits
(Updated to reflect final action Thursday)
The Senate on Thursday approved a bill giving Attorney General Kris Kobach oversight over class-action lawsuits brought by local...
Kobach agrees to delay enforcement of sex-designated driver’s licenses, bathrooms
Attorney General Kris Kobach will ask state revenue officials to refrain from making any more driver's license changes until March 26 to allow more...
Vetoed last year, bill giving attorney general oversight of class-action lawsuits returns
A bill giving Attorney General Kris Kobach oversight of class-action lawsuits brought by local governments is moving back through the Legislature after it was...
Supreme Court justice sets retirement date
Kansas Supreme Court Justice Marla Luckert will step down from the high court after 23 years on March 28, a decision that was announced...
Lawsuit challenges new law designating bathrooms, driver’s licenses by sex
(Developing: Will be updated as circumstances warrant)
A lawsuit has been filed challenging a new state law banning transgender people from using restrooms and locker...
House approves incentives to attract rural attorneys
The Kansas House has approved incentives to encourage law students to practice in rural Kansas in response to a shortage of attorneys in the...
BREAKING: Trump nominates three to federal bench in Kansas
(Developing: Will be updated)
President Donald Trump on Wednesday night nominated three lawyers to the federal bench in Kansas, including Kansas Bureau of Investigation Director...
Senate approves bill banning lawyers from floating damage awards to juries
The Kansas Senate on Wednesday passed a bill banning lawyers from suggesting amounts for noneconomic damages to juries, a technique that the business community...
National effort to ban NDAs in child sex-abuse cases comes to Kansas
It's one thing when lawyers use nondisclosure agreements in lawsuits over slips and falls, car wrecks or workplace injuries.
It's become entirely something else when...
