While students from the Highland school district gathered for the mock trials traditionally marking Law Day, the members of the Madison County Bar Association celebrated in their own way – by honoring their own.
Hopkins A much overlooked gem of a movie is the Tim Burton directed "Big Fish." It deals with the death, and in retrospect, the life of Edward Bloom. With its setting in Alabama, it has elements of "Forest Gump" but more so with the tall tales told about the main character.
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Law Day, the Alton-Wood River Bar Association, in conjunction with the Madison County Bar Association, will sponsor a panel discussion on "The Rule of Law and You."
The winds of fearful political consequences notwithstanding,in an act of true courage, Cook County Judge Diane Larsen struck down the damage caps, finding they violate both the separation of powers provision as an impermissible infringement on the judicial process, as well as seeing the law for what is always was, an unabashed attempt to give even more special indemnities under the law to an already overly privileged class.
...[T]he circuit judges are charged by statute to select the best lawyer for the job. Not the most popular, not the prettiest, not the one that provides the most political advantage. But the best.
The conspiratorial brilliance lies in the lie, boldly and loudly told about the authors of the bills, banking on a guilt by association defeat, a guilt generated by the negative image incessantly promoted by the conspirators themselves, the truth notwithstanding.
For my long overdue first column of 2007, I have chosen as metaphor the 1979 film "Norma Rae." Sally Fields won her first of two Academy Awards with a performance of a lifetime as the title character, telling an all-too-familiar story of the noble fight against the status quo.
The Statewide Medical Alliance for the Survival of Healthcare (SMASH) announced its endorsement of Judges Don Weber and James Hackett to serve six year terms on the Third Circuit in Madison County.
Instead of a classic movie line or title, today's column uses as its metaphor the yet-to-be released World War II saga of the battle of Iwo Jima, "Flags of Our Fathers."
The Madison County Bar Association will conduct its annual memorial service at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 25 in Courtroom 327 of the Madison County Courthouse.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Record TV Network, and our live broadcast of the ceremonies surrounding the first annual Madison County Bar Association -- 'Oscars Ball', where the judges and lawyers of the Third Circuit come out dressed as characters from their favorite movies.