Up front: Planning law coverage can be challenging

May 27--This issue has been in the works for weeks and is full of law coverage. Our cover story is on the trend of declining enrollment in law schools. We offer a glimpse into the world of private detectives. Our Conversation is with Tom Work, a fixture at Stevens and Lee for more than three decades. There's a column on the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on prayer at public meetings.

What we don't have is anything on the biggest law story of this week: the ruling that overturned Pennsylvania's ban on gay marriage.

It's one of the challenges of publishing a weekly news magazine inside a daily newspaper. We plan things well in advance. We have a small window to adjust to breaking news. And this week, a short week because of an early deadline related to the holiday, the window closed.

You've been able to read plenty of daily coverage on this huge news story, and some of those have touched on business. Gay couples across Pennsylvania will be planning weddings, shopping for rings, working with caterers and florists, renting facilities and booking honeymoons. They will be talking to financial advisers and accountants.

And that's probably just the start.

The full impact of the ruling on human resources professionals, for example, probably isn't known, yet. And what companies will do (or not do) to provide health insurance benefits for same-sex partners isn't clear.

So we'll be watching those stories.

But that's for another day.

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