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Campaign 2007/North: Seven seek seat in Butler County Court
They all hold law degrees and promise to be fair. They all believe in creative alternative sentencing of first-time, nonviolent offenders and incarceration of career criminals. They all will apply the law as written, whether they like the law or not. The distinguishing characteristics among the seven judicial candidates for Butler County Common Pleas Court, a position that's being vacated by retiring Judge George Hancher, rest largely in their backgrounds. Mark Lope
Mark Lope, 49, of Penn, a county prosecutor, says his broad experience as a prosecutor, criminal defender and civil lawyer has prepared him to handle any kind of case that would come before him as a Common Pleas judge. He grew up in Johnstown and moved to the North Hills in the eighth grade, graduating in 1975 from Shaler High School.
Simmons gets legal counsel in fight to transfer from Chico State
If the communication gap between Chico State women's basketball player Amber Simmons and Athletic Director Anita Barker was already vast, don't expect it to narrow anytime soon. In fact, things are bound to get a lot murkier before they gain any sense of clarity. Nearly a month after being denied in a request to be released from her Chico State scholarship, Simmons now has legal representation. Leo Battle, a criminal lawyer from Paradise, is representing Simmons in her quest. "This is to quicken the process and to make sure we're doing everything right so that they can't use anything against us or bully us around or lie to us or not give us the ins and outs of everything," Simmons said. In a letter from Battle to Chico State last week, Simmons listed eight different universities to which she'd like to be released, including Division II Humboldt State and Seattle Pacific, and Division I Cal State Bakersfield, Long Beach State, UC Santa Barbara and University of Pacific, where former Chico State women's coach Lynne Roberts just completed her first season.
Former New York Deputy Attorney General Dietrich Snell Joins ...
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm with over 700 lawyers worldwide, announced that Dietrich L. Snell, the former New York Deputy Attorney General responsible for the investigation, litigation and regulatory activities performed by the Division of Public Advocacy under former Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. Mr. Snell will be a member of the firm's 250-lawyer Litigation Department and will be an integral part of its Corporate Defense and Investigations Practice Group. A highly sought-after attorney with a wide range of experience in criminal and civil enforcement and regulatory matters pertaining to the financial services, corporate, non-profit, and public sectors, Mr. Snell also served as Senior Counsel to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States ("the 9/11 Commission") and for 11 years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York.
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