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...interview with Federal News Radio, Stimson listed the names of several major law firms with lawyers defending Guantánamo detainees, suggesting that they be boycotted. Though these lawyers??��coordinated by the Center for Constitutional Rights—work pro bono, Stimson suggested that they were “receiving moneys from who knows where...
...laughter. “I could tell you that the Supreme Court may be our last, best hope, but I’m a journalist who after all are not suppose to have opinions.” Instead, Greenhouse, who is also a former Crimson editor, instructed the future lawyers??��some, as she noted, future Supreme Court law clerks—about the “10 Things I’ve Learned While Covering the Supreme Court.” Beneath the courtroom’s high-ceiling rafters, graduates, friends and family members in Austin Hall?...
...addition to the 25 students who volunteered in Louisiana and Mississippi, seven more spent their breaks working for the Lawyers??�� Committee for Civil Rights in Washington...
Erin Brockovich-Ellis, the iconic environmental activist who drew widespread attention to water contamination in a community in California, was honored with the Harvard School of Public Health’s (HSPH) most prestigious award yesterday, angering a lawyers??�� group and others at the University who discredit the science behind Brockovich-Ellis’ activism.Brockovich-Ellis was a clerk at a law firm in Hinkley, Calif. when her investigations revealed that hundreds of people in a single neighborhood had been exposed to water contaminated with chromium-6, dumped there by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Brockovich convinced...
More troubling is the spectacle of legislators—most non-lawyers??��using legalese in monologues unconvincingly replete with phrases like “jurisdiction stripping,” “qui tam” statues, and the massive euphemism for the abortion debate, “stare decisis”—the Latin term for letting existing precedents stand. We realize the good intentions of legislators, but please spare us. For a lawyer who routinely argues before the Supreme Court, questions of amateurs are easily deflectable. Such an imperfect method shall yield...