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Seattle Attorney with Williams Kastner Named Delegate to International Law Council
Member Randy Aliment Selected as One of Four American Bar Association Delegates to Council of the UIA International Association of Lawyers, Headquarted in Paris CHICAGO -- Seattle lawyer Randy Aliment has been appointed one of four delegates to the Council of the UIA International Association of Lawyers UIA by...
Tags: American Bar Association, Council, lawyer, Litigation
Research articles 2008-09-30
ACT Litigation Services Lauds American Bar Association's Opinion on Outsourcing
ACT Litigation Services, Inc., a leading provider of digital document management, electronic discovery and document review for corporate legal departments and law firms, commends the American Bar Association and its Standing committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility for its recent Formal Opinion 08-451, titled "Lawyer's Obligations When Outsourcing Legal and...
Tags: American Bar Association, E-mail, FINANCE, lawyer, Litigation, Outsourcing, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2008-09-03
Saudi lawyer awarded US human rights prize
RIYADH AFP — A Saudi lawyer and human rights activist who is banned from travelling abroad has received the International Human Rights Lawyer Award from the American Bar Association ABA, he told AFP Friday. "This award shows that there is an international monitoring of human rights work in Saudi...
Tags: activist, Agence France-Presse, American Bar Association, lawyer
Research articles 2008-05-02
The lawyer's guide to buying, selling, merging, and closing a law practice
The lawyer's guide to buying, selling, merging, and closing a law practice. Ed. by Sarina A. Butler and Richard G. Paszkiet. American Bar Association 2008 215 pages $99.95 Paperback KF315 Editors Butler, American Bar Association ABA Associate Executive Director, and Paszkiet, ABA...
Tags: American Bar Association, FINANCE, lawyer, Leadership, Taxes
Research articles 2008-05-01
Sean Reyes
The American Bar Association named SEAN REYES as 2007 National Outstanding Young Lawyer. Reyes is a litigation attorney with Parsons Behle & Latimer and is the first recipient of this newly established award. He is also a past president of the Utah Minority Bar Association and is a director of...
Tags: American Bar Association, attorney, director, lawyer, Litigation, president
Research articles 2008-03-01
Pretend Justice-Defense Representation in Tennessee Death Penalty Cases
I. THE RIGHT TO EFFECTVE REPRESENTATION AND JUDICIAL REVIEW OF TENNESSEE DEATH PENALTY CASES..............306 II. THE SURPASSING DIFFICULTY OF EFFECTIVE DEFENSE REPRESENTATION IN DEATH PENALTY CASES ..................316 A. The Unique Posf-Furman Procedure in Tennessee Death Penalty Cases..................................................316 B. The Challenge of Effective Representation in Death Penalty Cases.............................................................318 III. TENNESSEE FAILS...
Tags: American Bar Association, attorney, counsel, lawyer, litigation, Richard, Standards, Tennessee
Research articles 2008-01-01
US lawyers urge freedom for imprisoned Pakistan attorneys
WASHINGTON AFP — Some 250 US lawyers protested at the US Supreme Court Wednesday for the release of thousands rounded up during Pakistan's state of emergency, among them numerous judges and attorneys. "We are here because we cannot forget the images of hundreds of our brave colleagues assaulted in...
Tags: American Bar Association, attorney, Government, lawyer, Pakistan
Research articles 2007-11-14
St. Louis attorneys honored, hired
The following attorneys from the St. Louis office of Husch & Eppenberger have been named among the "The Best Lawyers in America": Mark G. Arnold (appellate law, commercial litigation), Joseph P. Conran commercial litigation, Dave L. Cornfeld (tax law, trusts and estates), Robert P. Edler trusts and estates, Christopher E....
Tags: American Bar Association, attorney, estate, FINANCE, income, lawyer, Taxes
Research articles 2007-09-17
Among Our Members. . .
* Roben L. Gegios was elected president of the Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association. The association provides assistance to the Federal courts and focuses on improvements in the administration of justice. He will chair and moderate an international panel of five distinguished judges and attorneys at the American Bar...
Tags: American Bar Association, E-mail, Fax, lawyer, Litigation, Milwaukee, president
Research articles 2007-07-01
American Bar Association's Response to Unauthorized Practice Problems Following Hurricane Katrina: Optimal or Merely Adequate?
Introduction When Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans in late August 2005, breaching the city's levees and devastating communities, it left the region's legal system in shambles.1 Local courthouses were flooded-both the Louisiana Supreme Court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals were under water-and critical documents were destroyed.2 The...
Tags: American Bar Association, lawyer, Leadership
Research articles 2007-07-01
Cost of Attorney-Client Confidentiality in Post 9/11 America, The
INTRODUCTION The tragic attacks of September 11, 2001 served notice to the United States of the reality and enduring detrimental effects of terrorist attacks. Since then, Congress and the Bush Administration have taken measures to protect the country from future terrorist attacks, often authorizing laws that encroach upon civil liberties.1...
Tags: American Bar Association, attorney, confidentiality, Government, lawyer, terrorism
Research articles 2007-07-01
An Important Piece of the Bundle: How Limited Appearances Can Provide an Ethically Sound Way to Increase Access to Justice for Pro Se Litigants
INTRODUCTION For many Americans, the legal system in this country simply does not work. Despite a traditional philosophical commitment to the notion that everyone is entitled to a fair and impartial "day in court," meaningful access to justice eludes a significant portion of the population. The American Bar Association ("ABA")...
Tags: American Bar Association, attorney, lawyer, Leadership
Research articles 2007-07-01
Recognized Minnesota Employment Lawyers Join Fulbright
MINNEAPOLIS -- Eighth graph, first sentence of release should read: Through her work with the American Bar Association's Section of Labor and Employment Law, D'Aquila has strong professional relationships with numerous employment lawyers and various government agencies. (sted Through her work as the management co-chair of the American Bar Association's...
Tags: American Bar Association, Labor, lawyer, Litigation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Research articles 2007-06-26
ABA: Lawyers Can Search Metadata
For records departments already worried about complying with government regulations and potential litigation, here's another thing to lose sleep over: the American Bar Association ABA recently decided that lawyers who receive electronic documents can look for and use "hidden" information, or metadata, embedded in them. The ABA Standing Committee on...
Tags: American Bar Association, lawyer, Leadership
Research articles 2007-05-01
Okla. Leadership in Law profile: Drew Neville, Hartzog Conger Cason
Drew Neville, partner and shareholder of Hartzog Conger Cason & Neville, is a 30-plus-year veteran of the legal profession with a practice focusing on business litigation with an emphasis in federal securities law and antitrust. The University of Oklahoma graduate began his legal career as an associate with...
Tags: American Bar Association, CAREER, lawyer, Leadership, Litigation
Research articles 2007-05-01
New books at the Appellate Division Law Library
The National Conference on the Employment of Lawyers With Disabilities, Washington, D.C.: American Bar Association, c. 2006 KF 299 D57 A23 2006. A Lawyer's Guide to Networking by Susan R. Sneider, presented by the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division and the ABA-CLE Career Resource Center, Chicago, Ill.:...
Tags: American Bar Association, California, Chicago, FINANCE, Government, Illinois, lawyer, Litigation, Taxes
Research articles 2007-03-06
Lawyers' Pro Bono Service and American-Style Civil Legal Assistance
Lawyers are often criticized for stinting on their responsibilities for public service; nevertheless, their uncompensated provision of legal services to poor people, or pro bono work, provides a substantial part of available civil legal assistance in the United States. Cross-sectional analysis of data from the late 1990s reveals that reliance...
Tags: American Bar Association, Johnson, lawyer, M., MARKETING, Nelson, Richard
Research articles 2007-03-01
More states putting a la carte legal services on the menu.
The California Judicial Council recently approved new court rules allowing "limited scope representation"--also known by the more popular terms "unbundled" or "a la carte" legal services--in all California civil cases. Unbundled services allow clients to hire attorneys for specific tasks--for instance, coaching them through mediation,...
Tags: American Bar Association, INTERNET, lawyer, Litigation
Research articles 2007-03-01
Surfing the Next Wave of Outsourcing: The Ethics of Sending Domestic Legal Work to Foreign Countries Under New York City Opinion 2006-3
I. INTRODUCTION Outsourcing1 work from American companies to foreign workers is not a new phenomenon in the United States.2 The "first wave" of outsourcing to foreign countries hit the American economy in the late 1980s.3 From 1987 to 1997, outsourcing of manufacturing, industrial, and other "blue-collar" jobs to foreign countries,...
Tags: American Bar Association, attorney, ethics, lawyer, outsource, Outsourcing
Research articles 2007-01-01
Does a sitting judge have a right to write?
St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Robert H. Dierker has written a book that he says exposes the liberal subversion of the American judicial system and critics say undercuts his ability to impartially rule on a host of controversial topics. Although just released Tuesday, "The Tyranny of Tolerance: A...
Tags: American Bar Association, Judge, judge, lawyer, Leadership
Research articles 2006-12-29
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