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Featured Video: Can Government Mandate the COVID Vaccination?

The LawShelf video analyzes whether the federal and state governments can force people to take the COVID-19 vaccines and the possible tools in their arsenal to do so.

Featured Video: Can School Districts Force Teachers Back To In-Person Teaching?

This LawShelf video presentations analyzes to tools that schools can use to pressure teachers to return to in-person teaching from the remote learning that some schools have maintained since the start of the COVID pandemic. We look at protections associated with teachers’ union activities, lawsuits that have already been brought in this area and the balance between safety and learning that must be performed by all schools and school districts.

Featured Video-Course: Alternative Dispute Resolution

Welcome to LawShelf’s video-course on Alternative Dispute Resolution. This course is a primer in methods by which legal disputes can be resolved without litigation, both by the parties themselves and under the auspices of the justice system.This is an introductory level course and no prior knowledge or experience with dispute resolution or the justice system is necessary.Our first module is an overview of the landscape of alternative dispute resolution and includes discussion of the Federal

Featured Video-Course: Trusts and Trust Provisions

Welcome to LawShelf’s badge program on trusts and trust provisions. In this badge program, we’ll introduce you to the world of trusts and the amazing benefits they can bestow. This program is of low to moderate difficulty (the tax sections are where the moderate difficulty comes in) and no prior knowledge of estate planning or probate law is required.Trusts have acquired popular reputations as rich people’s devices. We hear terms like “trust fund babies” and think of excessive family wealth being