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Today, Caploe works in private practice in Richmond, Calif. and has been active in encouraging lawyers to do pro-bono work, serving as a board member of a local Bay Area-wide legal services organization...
...quite a night. Liam Gallagher of Oasis came by to pick up an award on behalf of the Who's Roger Daltrey, who has helped build eight hospital wards for the U.K.'s Teenage Cancer Trust. (Daltrey made a gracious speech by video from the U.S.) Bono, the Irish rocker who has become a renowned advocate for Africa and debt relief, matched wits with one and all, and so did the German actress Iris Berben, who has spoken out so forcefully against anti-Semitism, and the Swedish pop stars Hanna and Magdalena Graaf, who these days devote themselves to helping...
...degree, Nouman took a job as a criminal investigator at the Justice Ministry. Later she pursued a doctorate at the Sorbonne. Her studies were cut short in 1985, when she broke a hip in a traffic accident. Back in Baghdad, she began to take on criminal cases, mostly pro bono. That's how she came upon Naadi, a young Egyptian bellhop who had crossed Uday Hussein. Naadi was being held at a police station and being tortured even as Nouman waited to see him. "They were touching his fingers with a live wire, and I could hear his screams...
...degree, Nouman took a job as a criminal investigator at the Justice Ministry. Later she pursued a doctorate at the Sorbonne. Her studies were cut short in 1985, when she broke a hip in a traffic accident. Back in Baghdad, she began to take on criminal cases, mostly pro bono. That's how she came upon Naadi, a young Egyptian bellhop who had crossed Uday Hussein. Naadi was being held at a police station and being tortured even as Nouman waited to see him. "They were touching his fingers with a live wire, and I could hear his screams...
...What’s most impressive is she had no background whatsoever about the American political system and has become a master of the legislative process,” says Jared Genser, Yang’s classmate at KSG and his pro bono lawyer. “She is a much more effective advocate on behalf of her husband because...she’s articulate and...people will feel much more guilty about not returning her calls than mine...