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Careers in law often make people hard and suspicious. But employment lawyer Michael Lefkow and his wife, U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow, seemed to lead unusually open and trusting lives. The couple drove to work together and held hands in public. Michael's bio is displayed on his practice's website. It includes his hobbies: opera, reading about Lincoln, singing in his church choir. At one point--before white-supremacist groups pasted the information onto their own sites--he apparently posted photos of his daughters and even the address of his home, in a tree-lined neighborhood of Chicago...
Mesereau has three other attorneys on his team, plus an intriguing new adviser--Gary Dunlap, a lawyer from nearby Lompoc who has reasons for going up against Sneddon. In 2003, Sneddon brought charges against Dunlap for witness intimidation. Sneddon lost, and Dunlap filed a $10 million wrongful-prosecution suit, still pending. If Mesereau was looking for a way to counter Sneddon's home-court advantage, he may have found it. --By Unmesh Kher and Matt Kettmann
...overturned the verdict against the men accused of raping Mai, citing a lack of evidence and a poor investigation by the prosecution. Her lawyer, Rashid Rehman, claimed that the investigators had been pressured by the Mastoi. Five of the accused walked free while the other had his sentence commuted to life in prison. "I am in pain," Mai said afterward. "I will ask my lawyer to challenge the decision." Human-rights groups have condemned the ruling: I.A. Rehman, director of the Independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, says the trial "brought disgrace to Pakistan's justice system." With the release...
...responsibility" in the Act is that it's essentially already there. Amendments in 1995 made explicit that, except in extreme circumstances, "parents share duties and responsibilities concerning the care, welfare and development of their children . . . (and) agree about the future parenting of their children." In addition, says Sydney family lawyer Hamish Cumming, assurances along these lines do little to mollify parents who feel their kids are slipping away from them. "When you try to say, 'Don't worry, you have the same level of parental responsibility as your spouse,' they don't all of a sudden go, 'Oh, well, then...
...Where time is the main issue, lawyers could often be more ambitious in the arrangements they seek for their clients, argues Anne Hollonds, chief executive officer of Relationships Australia (N.S.W.). Precedent guides lawyers; but in family law precedents are set in that small percentage of cases that make it to trial. "These needn't be the guide for how to handle cases where the two people are O.K. with each other," Hollonds says. It's a "wrong vision," she adds, which people won't be exposed to in the FRCs, lawyer-free zones to be run by community-based organizations...