It all began in 1957 when the president of the American Bar Association -- Washington, D.C. attorney Charles Rhyne -- approached the White House to establish May 1 as Law Day, a time when attorneys across the country could celebrate how the rule of law and our democracy contribute to American freedom. Rhyne "envisioned a special national day for celebrating our legal system. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower set aside May 1 as Law Day, establishing it as "a day of national dedication to the principles of government under law." "It is fitting that the American people should remember with pride, and vigilantly guard, the great heritage of liberty, justice and equality under the law," said then-President Eisenhower.
... at the recent Tax Section meeting of the American Bar Association in Washington, D.C. Additional hea...
New ABA president from Buffalo Buffalo native Carolyn Lamm, an international arbitration, litigation and trade lawyer in Washington, D.C., took office as president of the 400,000-member American Bar Association.
A strong sense of personal responsibility has infused Jill Duson's life, from her childhood growing up outside Philadelphia, to her law school days at the University of Pennsylvania, to her upcoming stint as mayor of Portland. Her career brought her to Maine nearly 22 years ago, when she left her job at the American Bar Association in Washington, D.C., and came to work for the Bureau of Maine's Elderly. Just shy of her 30th birthday, Duson was a nationally recognized expert on elder housing and long-term care issues. It was a 16-month, grant-funded position to set up programs that would help Maine's low-income senior citizens convert home equity into financial security.
The event was sponsored by LULAC District XV representatives. "We decided to organize a historical day," stated LULAC President of Council #4487 Henry Garcia. "We are so honored by the opportunity to witness a historical event. Her nomination will be accepted and she will be our first Hispanic justice. We are just so excited to have such an intelligent and wonderful judge to be a part of the Supreme Court," stated Legislative Staff Attorney Luis Figueroa from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). "It reflects the values and it reflects the population of the United States. I think she is going to be a great judge and we are really excited." "Republicans did everything they could to ignore her as a Supreme Justice," stated Estuardo Rodriguez, Principal of the...
... of the Raben Group headquartered in Washington, DC. "But her record is amazing. The American Bar Association gives her high marks. If she was a white man, she ...
The National Conference on the Employment of Lawyers With Disabilities, Washington, D.C.: American Bar Association, c. 2006 KF 299 D57 A23 2006. A Lawyer's Guide to Networking by Susan R. Sneider, presented by the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division and the ABA-CLE Career Resource Center, Chicago, Ill.: American Bar Association, c. 2006 KF 310.N4 S64, 2006.
... IRS Office of Tax Shelter Analysis in Washington. . Taxpayers can seek a private letter ruling fron...He is the immediate past Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation, is Co-Chair o...
How the 2006 election results may impact the nation's strategy in the war on terror is one issue to be discussed at the upcoming American Bar Association national security law conference in Washington, D.C. The 16th annual conference will be held Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 at the Marriott at Metro Center.
S. Treasury Secretary John W. Snow will address the nation's tax lawyers when he speaks at the American Bar Association Section of Taxation May Meeting on Friday, May 20, in Washington, D.C. More than 2,000 lawyers and other tax professionals are expected to attend the two days of meetings and programs to be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel May 19-21. Snow is scheduled to speak at a breakfast at 8:15 a.m. in the Independence A Ballroom, Level 5B. As the largest gathering of tax lawyers in the country, the May Meeting presents a unique opportunity for tax practitioners to hear from, and learn from, the best in their field, said Kenneth W. Gideon, chair of the ABA Tax Section.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- One in five high school girls has been physically or sexually assaulted by a dating partner. Two in five girls between the ages of 14 and 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend. Between 1993 and 1999, 22 percent of all female homicide victims 16 to 19 years of age were killed by an intimate partner. The severity of violence among intimate partners has been shown to increase if the pattern has been established in adolescence. The American Bar Association (ABA) will address these alarming statistics at the Teen Dating Violence Prevention National Summit in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 13 to 14. Funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the summit will gather "state teams" from 20 states for two d...
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