1. The excerpts are centred. Centred multi-line body copy forces the eye to hunt for the start of every line. Headings can be centred; three-line paragraphs should not be.
2. There is no metadata at all — no date, no practice area, no author. A visitor cannot tell whether an article is from 2014 or last month, or whether it is about the thing they came here for.
3. Nothing states that a card is clickable and there is no link to the archive. 427 articles exist and the homepage offers no door to them.
4. Three items, flat hierarchy, ~700px of page. No item leads; the newest and the oldest look identical.
5. The images carry no information (a stock photo of crops heads an estate-dispute article) while taking the most space in each card.

This also settles the open question from the badge round: the section header does not need to become a link. A "View all articles" control gives the archive a proper door without turning a heading into a control — so the badge can stay decoration, as picked.

Placeholder data: dates, read times and practice-area tags shown below are invented to demonstrate the layout — real values come from the posts. Article titles and images are the real ones from the live homepage.