From Corporate To Private Practice In Criminal Defense

Russellville, AR—Debra Reece says she's wanted to be an attorney ever since she was a four year old girl watching Perry Mason.  After working in private practice, she switched to corporate law for a brief time, then realized it wasn't for her. “While I worked there, I got a call from someone who didn't ...

FL Criminal Defense Attorney Shares His Insights From His Experience

Melbourne, FL—After 10 years as a prosecutor and another 10 as a private defense lawyer, Alan Diamond says he's started to see some serious changes in how the government treats people accused of a crime.  “The legislature, both in Florida and in the country, have gotten stricter on mandatory minimum sentencing, ...

Caesarean Section Statistics Show Major Changes

Atlanta, GA—A new report by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta shows that pregnant women in the United States no longer face an increasing rate of caesarean section in United States hospitals. For many women, this is good news: most doctors and experts believe that the current rate of caesareans being performed in the ...

Top Trial Attorney James Brosnahan Reflects on 50 Years of Law Practice

San Francisco, CA—One of the top 30 trial lawyers in the United States, James Brosnahan first realized he wanted to practice criminal law before he even went to law school. Once he graduated, he was plunged directly into the deep end.  “My very first trial was a first degree murder case,” Brosnahan recalled in ...

Dale M. Schwartz Elected Chairman of HIAS

Dale Schwartz, of Atlanta, Georgia, was this week elected Chairman of the Board of HIAS, the global Jewish nonprofit that protects refugees. An immigration lawyer, he is the twenty-second community leader elected to chair the agency since its founding in the 1880s. His initial term is for one year. He succeeds Marc Silberberg, of New York ...

Supreme Court Decision Narrows Harassment Laws

Washington, DC—After a ruling in Vance v. Ball State University, employees filing claims of sexual or racial harassment against their employers will now face a more difficult road. The case hinged on the definition of the word “supervisor” according to the terms of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits ...

Texas Filibuster Kills Anti-Abortion Bill

Austin, TX—A lone Texas legislator held an 11 hour solo filibuster on Tuesday night, in a successful attempt to stop the state from passing one of the nation's most restrictive anti-abortion laws. According to Texas state law, the bill was required to pass by midnight on June 26 in order to go to Governor Rick Perry's ...

Texas Reaches Death Penalty Landmark

Huntsville, TX—At 6:37 PM on June 26, Texas executed Kimberly Lagayle McCarthy, the state's 500th prison inmate put to death since reinstating the death penalty in 1982. A spokesman for the Texas Department of Corrections, speaking to the Dallas Morning News, told the newspaper that McCarthy spent her final hours feeling relatively ...

Supreme Court Releases Momentous Gay Rights Rulings

Washington, DC—In a move that excited gay rights activists and angered some conservative politicians, the United States Supreme Court made two rulings on Thursday in favor of gay marriage. The first of these rulings overturned a key part of the Defense of Marriage Act.  According to the law as it was written, gay couples ...

ISAAC - Approaching the Issue of Immigration the Christian Way

The Gang of Eight senators set out to reform the immigration system in profound ways through the immigration reform legislation that is being debated the Senate. The bill aims to increase border security, expand legal immigration for a decade, and, controversially, grant legal status to the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United ...

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