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2 unusual facts about bar association


Murray Thompson

He was admitted to the Victorian Bar in 1982, set up his own suburban practice and worked as a solicitor before entering professional politics in 1992.

Wichita Northeast Magnet High School

The curriculum is driven by community service and legal research in partnership with the Wichita Bar Association, the City of Wichita, United Way, Wichita Festivals, Inc. and many generous individual mentors.


Charles Tilstone Beke

He later studied law at Lincoln's Inn, and for a time practised at the Bar, but finally devoted himself to the study of historical, geographical and ethnographical subjects.

Constantine W. Buckley

While Buckley worked there, he was tutored in law by Attorney General John Birdsall, which allowed Buckley to be admitted to the bar in November 1839.

Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe

The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) is an association gathering together bar associations of 32 countries in Europe (those of the European Union, of the European Economic Area and of Switzerland) and an additional eleven associate and observer members.

Frederick Schwatka

Studying law and medicine simultaneously, he was admitted to the Bar association of Nebraska in 1875 and received his medical degree from Bellevue Medical College in New York in the same year.

Garry Downes

He has served international and national organisations in various capacities, including as President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, Founder and Patron of the Anglo-Australasian Lawyers' Society, Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Australia, Member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, Member of the Council of the NSW Bar Association and Chairman of the NSW Council of Law Reporting.

Maurice Garçon

A major figure at the bar, he gained a certain notoriety and was even mentioned with René Floriot in the last phrase of Jean-Pierre Melville's film "Bob le flambeur".

Melchior Wathelet, Jr.

After a degree in law from the Catholic University of Louvain and a Master of European Law from the University of Southampton, he became lawyer at the Bar association of Liège in 2002.

Noel Power

Power was then appointed to chair the panel while other members of the inquiry were Ronny Wong Fook- hum, former Chairman of the Bar Association, and Pamela Chan, former Chief Executive of the Consumer Council.

Peter Detkin

He is a member of the bars of California and New York, and licensed to represent inventors before the U.S. Patent Office.

Roger W. Hulburd

Hulburd was active in the Vermont Bar Association and served for several years as Chairman of the state Board of Bar Examiners.


see also

Alaska Bar Association

The Alaska Bar Association is the mandatory association responsible to the Alaska Supreme Court for the admission and discipline process of attorneys for the State of Alaska.

Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis

Henry Hitchcock (1879–80), president of the American Bar Association and the Missouri Bar

Bill Lann Lee

He has received many honors for his outstanding career in civil rights law, including the Thurgood Marshall Medal of Justice (1998), the Trailblazer Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (1999), and the John Randolph Distinguished Service Award, U. S. Department of Justice (2001).

BINA48

Attorney and Cofounder of the Terasem family of organizations, Dr. Martine Rothblatt, during a mock trial at the International Bar Association Conference 5 in San Francisco on September 16, 2003, filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent a corporation from disconnecting an intelligent computer known as BINA48.

Calliope Tatti

After his premature death in 1917 she got married in 1922 to the chairman of the BAR association of Thessaloniki George Seremetis who was one of the most prominent attorneys in the city.

Chesterfield Smith

While serving as President of the American Bar Association he became an outspoken critic of the Richard Nixon and advocated for the congressional reappointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the Watergate affair, although Smith had earlier supported Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns.

David Maxwell

David Farrow Maxwell (1900–1985), president of the American Bar Association

Derek Schofield

Anne Schofield instructed a local barrister Charles Gomez to launch a libel lawsuit against Bar Association Chairman James Neish for making allegedly defamatory statements.

Frederick Brune

Brune also held positions of President of the Baltimore Bar Association (1939–1940); President of the Maryland Bar Association (1947–1948); fellow of the American Bar Association; President of the Maryland Historical Society; and as a member of the Board of Visitors of Harvard Law School.

Hans Corell

He currently sits on the advisory board of The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University and on the board of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association.

Igor Uporov

The Ural Siberian Bar Association gathers experienced Advocates to provide Legal Representation to clients in various courts and government entities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Samara, Penza, Orenburg, Kurgan, Khanty-Mansisk, Izhevsk, Tolyatti, and Omsk.

J. Henry Neale

He was president of the Westchester County Bankers Association from 1949 to 1952; as president of the Westchester County Bar Association from 1953 to 19555; as president of the State Bankers Association from 1959 to 1960; and as president of the New York State Bar Association from 1967 to 1968.

Jessica Stern

She has served on the Advisory Board of the American Bar Association Committee on Law Enforcement and National Security and the editorial boards of Current History and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

John Edward Parsons

He was a founding member, and later president, of the New York City Bar Association and played an important role in the Bar’s prosecution of corrupt judges Albert Cardozo, John McCunn, D.P. Ingraham, and George Barnard.

Judith A. Winston

Winston has received the prestigious Thurgood Marshall Award from the District of Columbia Bar Association, the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, and the Lawyer of the Year Award from the Women's Bar Association.

Karl Heinz Klee

He was also Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and a member of the International Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne and President of the Tyrolean Bar Association.

Konstantinos Stephanopoulos

He practiced law from 1954 until 1974 as a member of the Bar Association of Patras.

Kuo Lin-yung

Kuo Lin-Yung (Chinese: 郭林勇; pinyin: Kuo Linyung; born November 20, 1946 in Yuan-Lin Township, Changhua County, Taiwan, the Republic of China), Taiwanese politician, is a two-time legislator, former President of the Taiwan Bar Association, and former Vice-Minister of Justice.

Laura Russello

On March 16, 2009, the mayor of Ann Arbor, John Hieftje, issued a proclamation in support of Laura Russello's candidacy for The Washtenaw County Bar Association's "Liberty Bell" Award, which she subsequently won.

Mahendra Singh Pal

He is also President of the High Court Bar Association, Uttaranchal and a legal advisor to the Soldier Board in Haldwani.

Margaret M. Morrow

She has received numerous awards, including the Bernard E. Witkin Amicus Curiae Award from the Judicial Council of California; the Shattuck-Price Award from the Los Angeles County Bar Association; the Ernestine Stahlhut Award from the Women Lawyers’ Association of Los Angeles, and the Maynard Toll Award from the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.

MBCA

Model Business Corporation Act - A model set of law prepared by the Committee on Corporate Laws of the Section of Business Law of the American Bar Association

Michael Greco

Michael S. Greco (born 1942), former president of the American Bar Association

Nagendra Singh

He was also elected secretary in international bar association, and served as Chief Election Commissioner of India.

Norma Zarky

Zarky was the first woman to serve as President of the Beverly Hills Bar Association and was a founding member of Women in Film.

OAB

Order of Attorneys of Brazil (Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil), the Brazilian Bar Association

Oklahoma Council on Judicial Complaints

One member is appointed by the President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate, one member is appointed by the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, and the third member is appointed by the President of the Oklahoma Bar Association.

Rosario Fernández

Fernandez was the vice chairman of the Lima Stock Exchange from 1988 to 1991 and Treasurer of the Board of the Lima Bar Association from 1993 to 1994.

Rule of Law Initiative

ABA Rule of Law Initiative, American Bar Association's overseas rule of law programs

Salvatore R. Martoche

He served as assistant counsel to the majority for the New York State Senate from 1974 to 1982 and administrator for the Erie County Bar Association of the Pre-Trial Services Agency, Inc. from 1972 to 1981.

Sandy D'Alemberte

In 1962, he received his juris doctor with honors from the University of Florida where he was named to the Order of the Coif, served as president of the Student Bar Association, was captain of the moot court team, served as articles editor of the University of Florida Law Review, and received the J. Hillis Miller Award as the outstanding law graduate.

T. S. Kerrigan

He has served as President of the Irish American Bar Association and successfully defended a law created in the Great Depression to protect workers before the United States Supreme Court in 2001 (Lujan v. G&G Fire Sprinklers, Inc., 532 U.S. 189, decided April 17, 2001).

William Gordon Mathews

He was Referee of Bankruptcy for Kanawha, West Virginia from 1898-1908; Clerk of the Court for Kanawha, West Virginia 1903-1904; and President of West Virginia Bar Association in 1913.

Xavier Romeu

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rican Bar Association (“PRBA”) and chaired the Federal Affairs Committee of the PRBA and Hispanic National Bar Association.