‘A lawyer with the heart of an organizer’: Southeast Como neighborhood organization appoints new executive director Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, social unrest and a divisive election season, the Southeast Como Improvement Association (SECIA) has chosen a new executive director, who her colleagues call “a lawyer with the heart of an organizer.” Jessica Focht-Perlberg, a Minnesota-born attorney, social worker and community organizer, has a long history of community advocacy and activism around her home state. She graduated with a degree in social work, legal services and psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and later received a graduate degree in social work. Focht-Perlberg then...
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Cleveland-born law firm Jones Day has done work for President Donald Trump for the last few years. But now, some of the firm's lawyers say, the nature of the work is starting to get uncomfortable. So says The New York Times in this piece, which asserts there's "growing discomfort" at Jones Day and Columbus law firm Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, both of which are representing Trump in election lawsuits. Jones Day is the most prominent firm representing President Trump and the Republican Party as they prepare to wage a legal war challenging the results of the election. The work is intensifying concerns inside the firm about the propriety and wisdom of working for Mr. Trump, according to...
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(Reuters) - Lawyers at Jones Day, which has earned millions as outside counsel to U.S. President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, have donated nearly $90,000 to the campaign committee of Trump’s Democratic rival Joe Biden. Contributions to the Trump campaign by Jones Day lawyers totaled just $50, records show. A Reuters analysis of Federal Election Commission records shows a wide gulf between individual lawyer donations to the candidates, with nearly $29 million going directly to Biden’s campaign and just under $1.75 million to Trump’s between Jan. 1, 2019 and Aug. 31, 2020. Lawyers at several other law firms representing Trump or his campaign also heavily favored Biden. The figures...
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Donald Trump's lawyer appears to be feeling the heat following the president's defeat in the US election. Speaking to reporters in Washington DC, what appeared to be hair dye began streaming down Rudy Giuliani's cheeks. The 76-year-old mopped his brow but failed to realise there were dark brown streaks running from his hairline down to his jaw at the Republican National Committee headquarters. Mr Giuliani used the news conference to repeat baseless claims that electoral fraud was a factor in Joe Biden's victory. When asked by Sky's US correspondent Cordelia Lynch about the president's efforts to overturn the election result, Mr Giuliani said: "The most important thing here is that this has...
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CEBU CITY—A lawyer was killed just as he was about to enter his office in Barangay Kasambagan here on Monday afternoon. Police were still looking into the motive behind the killing of Joey Luis Wee, 51. The attack happened in broad daylight, and while police checkpoints were mounted in several areas in the city as part of the measures to control the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). “The gunmen were really daring because they followed the victim to his office. The attack was done in about a minute,” said Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) Director Col. Josefino Ligan. According to the investigation, it was past 1 p.m. when the lawyer arrived in the parking area of a building where he...
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CEBU CITY, Philippines – A lawyer was gunned down here in broad daylight on Monday, November 23, 2020, just six weeks after an almost similar incident also occurred to a fellow lawyer in Lapu-Lapu City. The Integrated Bar of the Philippines – Cebu City Chapter (IBP-Cebu City) confirmed on Monday afternoon that lawyer Joey Luis Wee died after he was ambushed in front of his office in Barangay Kasambagan. Wee’s death came a month and two weeks after another lawyer, James Joseph Gupana, survived an ambush-slay attempt in the neighboring city of Lapu-Lapu on October 10. “IBP-Cebu City condemns to the highest degree the shooting of Atty. Joey Luis Wee outside his law office in...
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Most people in Washington face their legal problems alone. In fact, many have a problem that could benefit from a legal solution but either don’t realize it or can’t find the help they need. According to the 2015 Civil Legal Needs Study, 30% of Washingtonians who’ve sought legal help can’t afford it, 76% of those who experienced a civil legal problem do not get the help they need to solve it, and 65% of those who have a civil legal issue do not pursue help at all. (Note: A civil legal problem usually involves a private dispute between people or organizations; people involved in civil legal matters do not have a right to legal representation. Criminal law usually involves individuals tried...
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