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Windsor chosen as recipient of 2024 Traver Award

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Listen to this article Windsor Newport News attorney James L. Windsor has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 Traver Award by the Virginia State Bar Real Property Section. Windsor has worked at Kaufman & Canoles since 1987, where he currently chairs the Real Estate Claims & Title Insurance Solutions Group and co-chairs the Government & Municipal Law Group. A graduate of James Madison University and the University of Richmond School of Law, Windsor has focused his 38-year legal career on real estate, real property, title insurance and civil litigation. Since 1996, he has presented more than 120 seminars…
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California Primary election: LA County’s district attorney faces 11 challengers

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the country’s most progressive prosecutors, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascónwas leading in partial results in his bid for reelectionand Nathan Hochman, a one-time Californian attorney general candidate who ran as a Republican in 2022, was closely behind him. Tuesday’s nonpartisan primary pits incumbents Gascon against 11 opponents, including county judges and former federal prosecutors, such as Hochman. Partial returns showed Jonathan Hatami in third place. The local prosecutor who was running against his boss serves in the office’s unit that prosecutes the most difficult child abuse cases and has spoken about his…
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Tri-County Scholarship Fund to honor attorney Mary W. Browning – Essex News Daily

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Mary W. Browning GLEN RIDGE — Mary W. Browning, a borough resident and a senior member of the Cole Schotz law firm, is slated to be honored at the Tri-County Scholarship Fund’s 11th Annual Women of Achievement Luncheon. “We are delighted to honor Mary this year,” said Prudence Pigott, president of Tri-County. “The annual event recognizes four outstanding women whose professional achievements and contributions to community service establish them as community leaders and role models for our scholarship recipients.” Browning’s extensive experience in estate and trust tax planning, wealth preservation and her commitment to mentoring women in the legal field…
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Attorney explains why driver only received a ticket for food truck crash

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MILWAUKEE — It’s been nearly a month since the crash that destroyed Andre Richards’ business and left him with injuries he’s still recovering from. Police say the crash was the result of a 28-year-old driving under the influence. Information obtained from our open records request shows the driver was only handed a citation for property damage due to OWI. We wanted to know why the penalties weren’t harsher for Richard’s injury and totaled truck. TMJ4 brought that question to personal injury lawyer, Jeff Zirgibel. “It’s frustrating for him because if he’s injured, or he has bodily harm, which is any…
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Sacred Heart Academy volleyball coach accused of rape has died by suicide

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Mar 22, 2024, 10:50amUpdated 2d ago A high school varsity volleyball coach who was facing charges after being accused of raping a teenager while working at Sacred Heart Academy died by suicide. Attorney John Carman confirmed Saturday afternoon that his client, defendant Jason Maser, died Friday night. The MTA told News 12 that he stepped in front of a train in Syosset at 10:35 pm Police say 22-year-old Maser, of Syosset, is accused of raping a 15-year-old multiple times during his employment at the school. He was arrested on Thursday. News 12’s Krista McNally’s Friday evening report on the Sacred…
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NY district attorney supports 30-day delay in Trump hush money trial

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a court filing Thursday that his office doesn’t oppose Donald Trump’s request to delay his hush money trial — just days before the former president was scheduled to face his first criminal trial while simultaneously running to return to the White House House. The surprise move came after federal prosecutors began turning over tens of thousands of documents this month relating to their investigation and their prosecution in 2018 of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who is expected to be a key witness in the trial. Bragg’s filing said that “although the People…
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Fulton County hearing: Trump case hangs in balance as judge mulls DA Willis’ disqualification

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DA Fani Willis’s office on Tuesday urged the judge to reject the disqualification effort against her, arguing in a filing that Trump and his co-defendants failed to meet the “high” standard required by law to disqualify an elected district attorney. Willis’ office, in the filing, told the judge the law requires him to find a “high standard of proof” that he has an actual conflict of interest or that he is engaged in forensic misconduct — which he says he did not do. She urged the judge to reject the arguments from Trump and others that the judge could disqualify…
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Donald Trump’s attorney: New York AG bond suggestions ‘unjust’

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1 of 3 | Former President Donald Trump enters the courtroom in his civil fraud trial in New York City in January. File Photo by Louis Lanzano/UPI | License Photo March 21 (UPI) — Attorneys for Donald Trump called proposals from the New York attorney general to satisfy his bond judgment for civil fraud “impractical and unjust” in a filing on Thursday. Dennis Fan, senior assistant solicitor general to the attorney general, suggested in a filing on Wednesday that Trump could seek the services of multiple agencies to combine funds and pay the $454 million bond. Trump’s attorneys say this…
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