Short biography of the first African-American woman attorney in the U.S.
THE PHILADELPHIA SUNDAY – The first Africa American woman to become a lawyer in the United States was Charlotte E. Ray.
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ABA JOURNAL – ABA President Paulette Brown has written to leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee to express ABA support for a bipartisan federal sentencing bill that reduces reliance on mandatory minimum sentences for low-level drug offenders.
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LAWYERIST – “On the podcast, Martha Delaney explains common misconceptions many lawyers have about representing low-income clients, identifies barriers to representing clients, talks about good client service.”
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CREDIBLE – If the nation’s highest court takes the case on, it will be one of the rare occasions when it has addressed the $1.3 trillion pile of student debt held by 41 million Americans.
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ABA JOURNAL – The Florida Bar has officially retreated from a plan to make it easier for attorneys who don’t live in the state to practice law there. The bar’s governing board rejected a proposal to allow experienced licensed lawyers in other states to become full members of the Florida Bar without having to pass…
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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH – Low-income Missourians have had the right to a public defender for half a century — it’s a right relayed during every arrest made. But with funding at its lowest level in four years, the state’s 376 public defenders are overworked and underpaid, statistics suggest.
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BENZINGA – The O’Connor Institute will be joining the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law in this state-of-the-art building located at Arizona State University’s Downtown Phoenix campus.
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THE BAY AREA REPORTER – A unique study enrolling participants in the Bay Area is comparing the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in three distinct age groups.
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ONWARD STATE – Students from the Penn State Law School’s Family Law Clinic proposed a proclamation declaring freedom from domestic violence to be a fundamental human right.
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FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY LAW – On Friday, October 16, the FIU Law H.T. Smith Black Law Student Association (BLSA) through its BLSA Reaching Out (BRO) program, hosted its annual Law Student for a Day Program – a progressive endeavor aimed at propelling the experiences and academic perspective of high school students in Miami-Dade County by…
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