Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, February 16, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s stories… Senator Evan Bayh, Democrat of Indiana, will not run for reelection… The National Conference of Bar Examiners appeal a Federal Court ruling forcing them to allow a blind California law graduate to use specific software during portions of the bar exam… Several [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 15, 2010
Baylor announced today that Kenneth Starr has been chosen as the university’s 14th president. Starr will assume the office on June 1st. Since 2004 Starr has been the Dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu. Starr earned his BA at George Washington University in 1968. He earned an MA from Brown University [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 12, 2009
Incoming associates at Cincinnati’s Frost Brown Todd will get a lower salary, although specific numbers have not been released. In addition, the new associates will spend their first 1,000 hours in an “apprenticeship program.” Clients will be billed at a lower rate for work done by “apprentices.” I keep putting the word “apprentice” in quotes because an [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Sponsors of California’s voter-approved gay marriage ban accused Attorney General Jerry Brown of advancing a “far-fetched” legal theory to justify overturning the homophobic initiative. That bizarre theory? That the state Supreme Court has the power to overturn unconstitutional initiatives. “The attorney general is inviting this court to declare a constitutional revolution,” reads a brief co-written by [...]
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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