The long, strange path to charges (or not) against the police officer who killed Michael Brown
Seven weeks after Mike Brown was gunned down in Ferguson, Missouri, the police officer who killed him remains uncharged and on salary. Why?
Author: Lisa Bloom, Avvo Legal Analyst
Adrian Peterson: The excuses we hear for inexcusable violence
Lisa Bloom: These excuses are “Get Out of Jail Free” cards that allow Americans kids to get beaten and abused at horrific levels.
Ray Rice: Why did the NFL need a video to show the obvious?
Lisa Bloom: What kind of fantasy world did police, prosecutors, and the NFL live in before this video?
What happened at Joan Rivers’ clinic?
Lisa Bloom: We must resist the impulse to assume the death of Joan Rivers was due to her age. A full, thorough investigation must happen.
Lisa Bloom answers your top questions on the Michael Brown case
Avvo legal analyst Lisa Bloom answers your top questions on the Michael Brown shooting, as the grand jury trial enters its second day.
The shooting of Michael Brown: Why it’s time to move beyond condolences
Lisa Bloom: With all due respect, Mr. President, we need more than calm reflection and quiet conversation. We need outrage. We need change.
New York City allows “poor door” separating rich from regular folks
What’s most repulsive is the implication that it’s an affront to the rich to walk beside a a neighbor who struggles to make ends meet.
Renisha McBride: Unarmed, black, shot in ‘self-defense’ by a frightened white shooter. Again.
Trayvon Martin, Renisha McBride, Darius Simmons: Do we want to continue to pretend that these cases have nothing in common with one another?
How a pitbull prosecutor outlawyered Pistorius’ defense
If a trial were merely a lawyering contest, we could easily call the case for the prosecution and go home right now.
Why the Hobby Lobby decision is a stunning setback for women’s rights
The Supreme Court’s decision is a radical departure from prior law and has monumental implications for over half of America’s workforce.