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    Jewish Lawyers in Nazi Germany

    The American Bar Association and its German counterpart co-hosted a discussion on the fate of thousands of lawyers of Jewish origins during the Nazi regime. Speakers included author Douglas …

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    Contempt of Court

    Author Mark Curriden spoke to students at American University about his book Contempt of Court, the story of the two black lawyers and their client accused of rape in Tennessee in 1906. The …

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    Police Misconduct: Attorneys' Panel

    At a forum on Police Misconduct hosted by the American University Washington College of Law and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers attorneys spoke about incidents of police…

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    Challenges for the Federal Judiciary

    This panel of respected legal minds, which was moderated by Dean Kathleen Sullivan of Stanford Law School, discussed the question of technology and its appropriate use in court rooms. Widesp…

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    The Arrest of Pinochet

    Panelists talked about the arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. A. J. Stone, Chairman of the Hispanic Law Students Association, moderated the discussion and gave a brief overv…

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    Legal System on Trial

    Participants examined how the U.S. adversarial sytem of justice administers justice in both civil and criminal cases. They debated whether the current system makes obtaining justice easier o…

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    Court Case Management

    Judge Parker discussed a program in his East Texas district to control the escalating costs of legal procedures to individuals and the justice system to settle civil cases as quickly, cheapl…

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    The "Rambo" Litigator

    The panelists talked about increasing problems in courtrooms of the “Rambo” litigator, the attorney who is uncivil and contentious in all his or her dealings in court. The counterproductivit…

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