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Ulmer & Berne LLP Partner, Timothy J. Downing, Appointed to the ...
As an Employment & Labor attorney with Ulmer & Berne, Mr. Downing helps companies develop and implement policies to attract the best and the brightest employees, protect their confidential information and resolve conflicts with employees who claim to have been discriminated against on the basis of age, race, sex, disability or sexual orientation. He also helps companies resolve conflicts with their customers and competitors. Mr. Downing has been named a "Leading Lawyer" by Inside Business magazine for the past six years and an "Ohio Super Lawyer" (2004, 2005). Ulmer & Berne LLP, established in 1908, is one of Ohio's largest law firms, as well as one of the fastest growing in the Midwest. The Firm was recently recognized in The BTI Consulting Group's most recent survey of corporate counsel as one of only 85 firms nationally "who deliver the best value for the dollar." Also, in a survey of Fortune 500 companies by Corporate Counsel magazine, Ulmer & Berne has been chosen as a Go-To Law Firm®.
Army lawyer slams disability retirement system
The Army disability retirement system stacks the deck against injured soldiers by forcing them to prove they have post-traumatic stress disorder, demanding physical evidence for traumatic brain injuries, and restricting access to rules and regulations they need to make their cases, said an Army lawyer who helps soldiers appeal their claims. "I think the problems are systemic," said Steven Engle, head legal counsel for soldiers going through the disability physical evaluation system at Fort Lewis, Wash. "The rules are inequitable." In some cases, he said, they may even be illegal. And the cases that are coming to define the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder and musculoskeletal injuries — are the ones most affected by unfair or unclear rules coming from the service's top-level Physical Disability Agency, Engle said.
Nigeria: They Need Better Treatment from the Government
Adamu Aminu, 35, was crippled by polio at seven years. He had to cope with difficulties of living a normal life unlike other healthy children in his village. As he grew older, his desire was to become a lawyer. But that was not to be realised, no thanks to his disability. He could not make the long distance from his village to the nearest secondary school in Birnin Kudu, Kano State. Aminu found his way to Abuja, to "try my luck in life." He was disappointed as he realised that the situation was no different in the city. .
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