The big (college) basketball game is on the horizon, and the playoff fight is officially on. Our own University of Houston Cougars are in the 2025 NCAA basketball tournament as a top seed, for the third time in a row! The tournament is one of the NCAA’s biggest successes, with the event bringing in $1.29 billion in 2023. As we celebrate this great achievement for the organization and its athletes, it seems worthwhile to remember the organization’s missteps toward its athletes as well.

The arrival of a new president brings with it much change. The White House issued 26 Executive Orders on the first day of the new term on a range of topics including immigration, the economy, crime, energy, the environment, and government operations. This rush of presidential actions in just the first week of the new term has many people asking questions: What exactly is an Executive Order, and how does it differ from other presidential actions? What legal authority grants the president powers to issue such orders? What legal weight do Executive Orders and other actions carry? Can they be challenged and how? With the glossary below and links to further reading, we attempt to answer these questions.

Today, January 28, is International LEGO Day, an annual celebration of the world’s most popular plastic building brick. From toddlers to teens, kids around the globe can’t get enough of Lego! Many adults (or AFOLs) also enjoy constructing and collecting this iconic toy. The name LEGO is an abbreviation of the two Danish words “leg godt,” meaning “play well,” but the Latin word lego has historically been used in wills to mean “I bequeath.” So, in honor of International Lego Day and its very tenuous connection to the law, we present you with the following will drafting resources. Build your legacy with the tools provided in this post!

Digital Discovery: Freedom for All: An Attorney’s Guide to Fighting Human Trafficking — Kelly Hyland, who co-authored the first edition of this title in 2016 with Kavitha Sreeharsha, partnered with the American Bar Association Book Publishing division to release a second edition in 2023. With this latest iteration, Hyland and the ABA seek to “encourage more attorneys to engage in anti-trafficking work.”