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Connecticut Law Tribune

Meet J. Paul Vance Jr., New Vice President of the Connecticut Bar

"I was a high school basketball coach, and I think I was pretty good at motivating my teams," J. Paul Vance Jr. said. "That's what I want to do in this role as vice president, is be a worker and motivator, and to remind people that it's really important that lawyers across the state remember this is our labor union. This is an organization that speaks for all of us, and so I want to hear everybody's voice and be a resource for them."
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Meet Emily Gianquinto, New President-Elect of the CBA

"I think because so much of our lives have gone remote in the last couple of years, younger lawyers are missing out on in-person connections that happen when you're going to events ... or getting out and doing other things in the community," Emily Gianquinto said.
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Leaders in Law: Meet New CBA President James T. Shearin

"If courts can't protect people and institutions when they need protecting, then we're all in trouble," James T. Shearin said.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Hall Booth Smith Founder Uses Down Time to Pen Fictional Tales of Murder

John Hall has published "Gnats, Humidity and Murder," which pulls from his rural south Georgia upbringing, a brief stint in the U.S. attorney's office in Macon, his familiarity with Atlanta's social and cultural scene, and 40 years of practicing law.
4 minute read

The Recorder

'Ready to Fight': Former Public Justice Chairman to Lead Title IX Practice at Clarkson Law Firm

Bryant launched a career of litigating high-profile gender equity cases in 1984, when he tried a class action that resulted in the admission of female students to the formerly all-male Central High School in Philadelphia. In 1988, he tried the first Title IX case in the United States as lead trial counsel and won the suit filed on behalf of Temple University female athletes.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

A Juggernaut Built From Scratch: Morgan & Morgan's Business Model

Without Tim Morgan, there might not have been litigator John Morgan, who built one of the world's largest personal injury plaintiff firms.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

'Keep the Pressure Up': Civil Rights Attorney at Center of 'Hurricane' Carter Case, Attica Riots Retires After Storied 6-Decade Career

Even at a young age, Lewis Steel was aware of the racial and socioeconomic gulfs that segregated people, and this reflected to him that "something was seriously wrong in society."
8 minute read

The Recorder

Ex-Federal Prosecutor and White-Collar Defense Lawyer Joins Foundation Law Group

Stephen Cazares served as a lead defense attorney in the case against Theranos President Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

'The Finest Trial Lawyer I Have Ever Known': Noted Miami Attorney Has Died

"It's a profound loss of someone who really made a difference," said Carolyn B. Lamm, a past American Bar Association president.
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

The Brother-Sister Litigators Who Took on the FTC Over a North Carolina Hospital Merger

Gibson Dunn's Michael Perry and his younger sister, C.J. Pruski of Williams & Connolly, represented the seller and buyer of two North Carolina hospitals in beating back a preliminary injunction bid by the Federal Trade Commission.
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