From ABA Journal authored by Debra Cassens Weiss : “A Florida judge isn’t disqualified from a case merely because she is Facebook friends with a lawyer who represents a potential party and witness in the litigation, a state appeals court has ruled. A Facebook friendship doesn’t necessarily signify a close relationship, according to Florida’s Third District Court […]
Monthly Archives: September 2017
Pay Up: Female lawyers are working for income fairness—by suing their firms
From ABA Journal authored by Stephanie Francis Ward: “Traci Ribeiro is single and has no children. Practicing law, the Chicago insurance-defense attorney has said, gives her significant joy. “It’s what I do for fun. So the usual defenses firms use for not paying women fairly, they couldn’t use those with me even if they wanted […]
A crusading attorney helped free a man framed for murder. They both ended up dead.
From Bridge authored by Ron French: “There is a photo I kept on my desk for years. In it, three people stand in a courtroom hallway. On the left is Dwight Love, a middle-aged man from Detroit who hadn’t stood in a courthouse hallway without handcuffs since he was a young man. Love was convicted […]
