Parents of nearly a dozen Northeastern students suspended for breaking the school’s COVID-19 rules have hired a lawyer, who says the Boston-based university is deliberately setting out to humiliate the students and their families.Northeastern University dismissed 11 first-year students after the school said they were discovered together in a room […]
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Rittenhouse’s Lawyer Says 17-Year-Old Acted ‘100 Percent’ in ‘Self-Defense,’ Was Legally Carrying Rifle
A man carries a rifle in a parking lot near where people gathered outside the Kenosha County Courthouse to protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, August 25, 2020. (Stephen Maturen/Reuters) The lawyer representing Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen who shot and killed two protesters in Kenosha, Wis., said Monday that his client was […]
High profile lawyer Monferrier Dorval shot dead in Haiti
A high-profile lawyer, constitutional scholar and head of the Port-au-Prince bar was gunned down Friday night in Haiti. Just hours before, he called for “another kind of country, another state” during a radio interview in which he addressed several controversial topics including constitutional reform, elections and the breakdown of Haitian […]
Lawyer Investigating Voice Of America Has Active Protective Order Against Him : NPR
Investigating the journalism produced by Voice of America is one of the tasks lawyer Sam Dewey has taken on since joining the broadcaster’s parent agency, the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP Investigating the journalism produced by Voice of America is one of […]
Lawyer’s courtroom Hail Mary could get Amite football back into playoffs
BATON ROUGE – A lawyer for the Tangipahoa Parish School System will argue the Louisiana High School Athletic Association is unfairly enforcing its rule dealing with fights during football games Friday morning. This week, the LHSAA banned Amite High School from participating in its playoff game against St. James. The […]
Ojibwa lawyer seeks $55M in damages from law firm
An Ojibwa lawyer claims she lost her confidence and her livelihood after being replaced on the Indian day school class-action lawsuit. Joan Jack, originally of Berens River First Nation in Manitoba, makes the allegations in a statement of claim filed Sept. 10 against Canada and international law firm Gowling WLG. […]
Mike Lallier pleads guilty to providing alcohol to 15-year-old Fayetteville boy
The victim is disappointed by the outcome, his lawyer said By Paul Woolverton | USA TODAY Network BENNETTSVILLE, S.C. — In a plea bargain that allowed him to avoid a conviction as a sex offender, Mike Lallier of Fayetteville’s Reed-Lallier Chevrolet car dealership was convicted Friday of contributing to the delinquency […]
Raila Odinga, Atwoli join Sossion in celebrating lawyer daughter
– Rosemary Chepkorir graduated with a post-graduate diploma in law from the Kenya School of Law and was admitted to the bar – Chepkorir became the first female lawyer in her village, an achievement that could not go unnoticed – In 2018, the Kenya National Union of Teachers secretary-general gifted […]
Lawyer X: Victoria police admit use of Nicola Gobbo as informer was ‘profoundly wrong’ | Lawyer X
Victoria police has admitted an “indefensible interference” in the lawyer-client relationship by using gangland barrister Nicola Gobbo as a police informer. The admission, made in a submission to the Lawyer X inquiry, throws into question convictions of a number of gangland figures including Tony Mokbel. Mokbel is serving a 30-year […]
US lawyer says Assange faces decades in prison if convicted | International
LONDON (AP) — An American lawyer told an extradition hearing in Britain for Julian Assange on Monday that the WikiLeaks founder faces decades in prison if he is convicted on spying charges in the United States. U.S. prosecutors have indicted the 49-year-old Australian on 17 espionage charges, and one of […]
Queens Accident Lawyer Elected as a Member of the Touro Law Alumni Association Executive Board – Press Release
Jackson Heights, Queens based K L Sanchez Law Office is pleased to offer their services to those seeking legal consultation for car accidents, construction injuries, workers compensation, criminal cases and more. K L Sanchez Law Office is a local firm that practices personal injury law, workers compensation law, criminal law […]
Ethiopian Opposition Leader Charged With Terrorism, Lawyer Says
(Bloomberg) — Ethiopian authorities charged an opposition party leader and seven other people with terrorism following violent protests that erupted in the capital earlier this year after the killing of a musician. Eskinder Nega, the leader of the Balderas for Genuine Democracy party, was accused of inciting clashes and […]
Lawyer for Republicans argues that Johnson County auditor didn’t have discretion to disobey state directive regarding absentee ballot forms
IOWA CITY — A lawyer, arguing for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee, said Johnson County Auditor Travis Weipert didn’t have discretion to send out prefilled absentee ballot request forms for the Nov. 3 general election. The prefilled forms — also mailed in Linn and Woodbury […]
George Bizos, human rights lawyer who fought apartheid in South Africa, dies at 92
George Bizos, a workhorse attorney who campaigned against apartheid in South Africa and defended his lifelong friend Nelson Mandela in court, died in Johannesburg on Wednesday. He was 92. © Themba Hadebe George Bizos, a family friend of the late former President Nelson Mandela, listens to speeches during the memorial […]
A lawyer for alleged victims of Robert Hadden, a former New York gynecologist accused of sexually abusing patients for 2 decades says the case is ‘just getting started’
© AP Photo/John Minchillo Robert Hadden, right, is released on bail, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, in New York. Former New York gynecologist Hadden, accused of sexually abusing more than two dozen patients, including the wife of former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, was charged with six counts of inducing others to […]
heroic South African human rights lawyer with a macabre duty to represent the dead
Advocate George Bizos, who has died at the age of 92, stands in the pantheon of South African human rights lawyers and anti-apartheid activists. Throughout his lengthy lifetime, he doggedly used the courts as his chosen terrain to fight back against a police state that blatantly violated the rule of […]
Charles Manson’s defense lawyer, Irving Kanarek, dead at 100
The defense attorney who represented Charles Manson in the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders and continued to maintain Manson’s innocence after his conviction reportedly died last week at age 100. Irving Kanarek was known as loud and combative in the courtroom – by the third day of testimony in the Manson murder […]
Worcester lawyer Paul DePalo in line for seat on Governor’s Council – News – telegram.com
Steven H. Foskett Jr. Telegram & Gazette Staff @SteveFoskettTG Tuesday Sep 1, 2020 at 10:22 PM Sep 2, 2020 at 6:05 PM Paul DePalo appeared on his way to taking over the Worcester County seat on the Governor’s Council. With 253 of 254 precincts reporting, the tally in the 7th District was 72,847 votes (62.5%) for DePalo […]
Aubrey O’Day Hits Back At Body-Shaming Tabloid With Unfiltered Selfie, Lawyer Issues Statement
Aubrey O’Day. Photo: CP Images Aubrey O’Day isn’t putting up with any body-shaming. The former Danity Kane singer was the subject of controversy this week when the Daily Mail published photos of a woman on the street, claiming it was O’Day and calling her “unrecognizable.” RELATED: Aubrey O’Day Says She […]
Donziger’s Ex-Atty Hires Lawyer To Fight Trial Role
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