Feb 17, 2020 | Blog
By Bridget Moran Finland recently announced an unprecedented policy change for paid parental leave: both parents will now be entitled to seven months leave eachfor a total of fourteen months paid leave per family. Currently, Finland’s family leave policy grants four...
Feb 7, 2020 | Blog
No changes were made to this image. Image from: https://www.flickr.com/photos/30478819@N08/48439989976 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ By Asher McGuffin, Staff Member Everyone knows healthcare is expensive, but a growing number of patients are...
Feb 4, 2020 | Blog
By Devin McDonough A Texas district court recently decided that Tinslee Lewis, an eleven-month-old baby girl, can be removed from life support at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth – against her family’s wishes. The Texas Advance Directives Act (Tex. Health...
Jan 30, 2020 | Blog
By Thomas J. Mehlich, Staff Member A week before I began my second year attending law school, it dawned upon me that I needed to get my flu shot. School was starting soon, flu season was right around the corner, and I was going to be surrounded by a vast number of...
Jan 11, 2020 | Blog
Download By Michael R. Mancinelli, Lead Articles Editor and Co-Online Editor A new Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) ruling issued this week in Commonwealth v. Stirlacci offers a cautionary tale for solo-practitioners in Massachusetts. Doctors may be subject to criminal...
Nov 25, 2019 | Blog
Photo from: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck (https://toronto.citynews.ca/2016/06/24/mayor-supports-plan-to-establish-safe-injection-sites-in-toronto/). JHBL does not own this photo and has not altered it in any way. By Sarah Marshall, JHBL Staff Member The opioid...
