Part of being a lawyer is giving formal legal opinions to one’s clients. These opinions are intended to provide clarity as to a client’s legal obligations in uncertain situations. Thus, clients often ...

One of the foundations of the practice of law is the legal memorandum. Legal memos provide an objective summary and analysis of relevant legal principles,… One of the foundations of the practice of ...

The DOJ's secret memo authorizing missile strikes on boats in the Caribbean isn't a legal analysis - it's legal laundering.

A memo from the Division of Legislative Legal Services identified dozens of issues with Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s executive order to split the Department of Health and Social Services into two new ...

A memo obtained by the News Journal written by the attorneys representing Escambia County in a lawsuit brought by a county paramedic says Commissioner Jeff Bergosh's deposition was harmful to the ...

The public deserves to know how the Trump administration has justified the outright murder of civilians as lawful,” the ...

OLYMPIA — A legal memo from the Washington Attorney General’s office says that the state’s new police use-of-force law does not prevent officers from responding to non-criminal calls like mental ...

The Obama administration’s secret legal memorandum that opened the door to the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical Muslim cleric hiding in Yemen, found that it would be lawful only ...

A new Freedom of Information Act request has revealed a heavily-redacted memo on the president’s legal authority to cancel student loans unilaterally. The seven-page memo is titled “The Secretary’s ...

Update: Read the memo here. ANN ARBOR, MI — Two City Council members sponsoring a proposal to prepare to disband Ann Arbor’s Downtown Development Authority pulled the resolution from council’s agenda ...