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I am passing this forward for my good friend, Kirk T. Hartley, of the Chicago litigation boutique, Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd LLP.
He cares a lot about voting rights!
Kirk asked me to direct you American Lawyers who care about voting rights to his post Offtopic – Lawyers and Voters’ Rights 2008 – Get
Americans!! You are the only ones who can participate in your upcoming election so on behalf of foreigners like me, (in my case, a proud Canadian living in Anguilla, British West Indies) PLEASE get involved and please vote. The higher the turnout, the more those of us who are not Americans can respect your outcome.
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The New York Times Business section included an article yesterday called: For Lawyers, Perks to Fit a Lifestyle.
The article alluded to a variety of perks including money, candied apples, milkshakes, car discounts, valet services, wine, office parties, in-office gourmet meals on silver platters, nap rooms, child care, emergency nanny services, sabbaticals and even
Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry — fired by Musharraf Saturday — in a phone call to a gathering of lawyers urged them to go to "every corner of Pakistan and give the message that this is the time to sacrifice."
This in the face of:
"Baton-wielding police fought with lawyers outside courthouses in Islamabad and
Pakistan attacks the rule of law and beats on lawyers who were attempting to peacefully protest for the most fundamental rights available to human beings. Every lawyer in the world feels the pain of every brutal blow of the oppressing regime’s batons on our profession. This is not a political blog but it is about
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Indulge a father’s proud moment as I celebrate the extraordinary work of my son Daniel Riskin (PhD Cornell – now doing post-doctorate work at Brown) along with the other scientists on this project. The sophistication of the analysis of the flight of bats is unprecedented and its rather poetic that
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