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		<title>With business slow, high-powered firms send new law grads to nonprofits to gain experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Karush</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — If things had gone according to plan, Lindsay Murphy would be a big-city tax lawyer by now. Instead, the recent law school graduate found herself doing legal aid, listening to complaints about raw sewage bubbling up into the bathtubs of a Mississippi Delta housing project.

Murphy is among hundreds of newly minted lawyers who&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biographical information on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NAME — Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

AGE-BIRTH DATE — 75; March 15, 1933.
EDUCATION — Bachelor&#8217;s degree, Cornell University, 1954; attended Harvard Law School; law degree, Columbia Law School, 1959.
EXPERIENCE — Supreme Court justice, 1993-present; U.S. appeals court judge, 1980-1993; general counsel, American Civil Liberties Union, 1973-1980; national board of directors, ACLU, 1974-1980; fellow, Center for Advanced Study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suspect: Parents, both Mass. lawyers, knew he was pot dealer; pipe, scale found in their room</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Lavoie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NATICK, Mass. — Two prominent attorneys are under police scrutiny after their son, arrested on charges he was dealing marijuana from home, told investigators his parents knew what he was doing. Police found a small smoking pipe, scale and baggies in their bedroom.

Jonathon Cook, 20, said his stepfather, Suffolk University law professor Timothy Wilton, helped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor, as first Hispanic justice, could change the Supreme Court&#8217;s deliberations over time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor might find it was easier to disarm Republican senators who have one eye on Hispanic voters than to sway Supreme Court justices who have lifetime appointments.

She would be the new kid on the block in a group that values seniority and relationships built over years, even decades.
But Sotomayor&#8217;s self-assured performance before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court nominess puts on best face, but rough times also help define who she is</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Neumeister</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — For weeks, Sonya Sotomayor has put on her best face, displaying a pleasant disposition that has somewhat fended off critics of her nomination to become the nation&#8217;s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.

A federal judge the past 17 years, 11 of them on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, Sotomayor escaped the rough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human rights scholar Martha Minow to replace Elena Kagan as Harvard Law dean</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON — A human rights scholar and Harvard Law School faculty member since 1981 has been named the school&#8217;s new dean.

Martha Minow&#8217;s (MIN&#8217;-oh) appointment was announced Thursday by Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust. She replaces Elena Kagan, who was dean for nearly six years before being chosen as U.S. solicitor general.
Minow won the school&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winning streak: An $8,283 casino jackpot, then Supreme Court nomination for Sotomayor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor hit a casino jackpot for more than $8,000 last year.

Financial disclosure forms released Friday show the judge listed $8,283 in &#8220;jackpot game winning&#8221; on November 23. The forms don&#8217;t say where or how Sotomayor won the money. It was listed under non-investment income.
The White House said she won [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor often spoke about influence of her gender and Latina heritage on her judicial work</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor told the Senate on Thursday that the White House never questioned her about cases or issues she might have to decide as a Supreme Court justice, a disclosure gleaned from reams of documents that reveal she has spoken repeatedly about how her gender and Latina heritage affect her judging.

The federal appeals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorney General Holder encourages law school graduates to make commitment to public service</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 03:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder offers this advice for Howard University law school graduates: devote part of your career to public service.

At their commencement Saturday in Washington, he called the graduates &#8220;the privileged few.&#8221;
Holder said teaching a child to read is better than teaching a good jump shot. He also said helping to make [...]]]></description>
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