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Nonilex

#Attorney representing #student protester detained by #immigration

Earlier this week, atty Amir Makled was detained by federal immigration agents while returning home from a family vacation to the Dominican Republic.
On Sun at the Detroit Airport, Makled—who is a #UScitizen —attempted to pass through customs w/his wife & children. His family entered the country w/o issue. But when Makled's turn came, one of the agents called the "Tactical Terrorism Response Team."

#law
npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-53574

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Alex Keane

One thing that's odd about being an attorney is how different the different jobs you can have are and how few of us can really imagine ourselves doing the other stuff.

Like, I do criminal defense. I cannot imagine not being bored out of my mind if I had to do transactions or estates or something with a slower pace.

(Honestly, there are times I feel bored compared to the summer my office was understaffed and I had twice the case load I now carry)

#Law#Attorney#PublicDefender
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Coach Pāṇini ®

The word “#attorney” originates from the Old French term “atorné,” which is the past participle of “attourner,” meaning “to appoint” or “to assign”.

This term derived from “a-” (indicating movement towards something) and “torner” (to turn), literally meaning “one turned to” or “appointed”.

#LawFedi
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today, in honor of Black History Month, we remember Flo Kennedy, who was born on this date February 11, 1916, in Kansas City, Missouri. Kennedy was a lawyer, feminist and civil-rights activist. As a lawyer, she represented Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Assata Shakur, H. Rap Brown, and Valerie Solanas (for her attempted murder of Andy Warhol). In 1972 she formed the Feminist Party and filed an Internal Revenue Service complaint alleging that the Catholic Church violates tax-exempt requirements by spending money to influence political decisions. "I'm just a loud-mouthed middle-aged colored lady . . . & a lot of people think I'm crazy. Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren't like me."

She grew up at a time when the KKK was quite active in Kansas City. She remembered her father had to have a shotgun to keep them safe. "My parents gave us a fantastic sense of security and worth. By the time the bigots got around to telling us that we were nobody, we already knew we were somebody." As a young woman, she moved to Harlem and enrolled at Columbia. She was refused admission to their law school because she “was a woman.” She knew it was because she was black. So, she threatened to sue them and they admitted her. She was the only black person among the eight women in her class.

As an activist, she once said, "we have a pathologically, institutionally racist, sexist, classist society. And that niggerizing techniques that are used don't only damage black people, but they also damage women, gay people, ex-prison inmates, prostitutes, children, old people, handicapped people, native Americans. And that if we can begin to analyze the pathology of oppression… we would learn a lot about how to deal with it." As early as 1966, she was picketing and lobbying the media over their portrayal of Black people. She played a prominent role in the protest against the 1968 Miss America Pageant. After the Attica prison uprising, she said, “We do not support Attica. We ARE Attica.” She also participated in the 1973 protests at Harvard over the lack of women’s bathrooms. When asked why she participated in the pouring of urine on the steps of Lower Hall, she said, “I'm just a loud-mouthed middle-aged colored lady with a fused spine and three feet of intestines missing and a lot of people think I'm crazy. Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

In addition to her activism and legal work, Kennedy also acted in the films “The Landlord” (1970), adapted from Kristin Hunter's 1966 novel, and the independent political drama “Born In Flames” (1983), directed by Lizzie Borden. She also acted in “Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow” alongside Morgan Freeman.

Flo Kennedy, c1972, wearing a leather cowboy hat and vest, and a t-shirt that says “bullshit” while flipping the middle finger and smiling at the camera. By http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/files/images/kennedy.jpg, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36268845
#workingclass#LaborHistory#flokennedy
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Paul Chambers🚧

Talk about a piranha and a no class man. #Attorney Michael Grossman. He rips breaking accident stories, including deaths, from the news, almost in real time, and then makes ads, excuse me, "news reports," pardon me, "commentary," out of them on his so-called blog, titled the 'Texas Wrongful Death #Lawyer' at MichaelGrossman.blog.

This man is about as bad as those for-profit obituary sites that rip obits for their clone memorial websites to sell flowers, and other memorabilia, with no connection to the deceased nor their families.

When you web search someone you know that has died, esp recently of an accident, his results are on the top 10 of the results and for some #enshittification reason, Google even ingests the 'Texas Wrongful Death Lawyer' into its "News" tab results.

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Marie 🇸🇪

theatlantic.com/politics/archi

“we shall see a profound degradation in the ability of this nation to govern itself rationally & fairly, with freedom & political equality under the rule of law. Because that’s not actually a prediction. It’s a logical deduction based on the words & deeds of the president-elect, his enablers & his supporters
& a long & often sorry record of human history. Let us brace ourselves.”

- George Conway, American attorney

The Atlantic · America Did This to ItselfBy George T. Conway III
#theatlantic#georgeconway#attorney
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Beachbum

@404mediaco This should be illegal. I keep my location services off at all times. Occasionally turned it on for maps and then turn it back off. They better not be tracking me because that’s an invasion of my privacy. We need to take our privacy very seriously because once we start giving it up, we will NEVER get it back. #RightToPrivacy #UnConstitutional #Vote Isn’t there an #Attorney out there who can fight this infringement? #uspol

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