Solicitor

Haywood Patterson’s Trial The first trial of the nine innocent black teenager boys involved accusations of a gang rape by two white women. The group of nine black boys, and a group of white boys were on a Southern railroad freight run to find jobs between Chattanooga and Memphis. A white boy stepped on a black boy, Haywood Patterson’s, hand, which caused a drastic stone throwing fight between the two groups of boys which impacted the whole turn of events. The black group of boys successfully…

Affirmative Action policies have stirred debate about fairness of favoring certain groups over others. The most controversial part of these programs is their use of minimal levels of required minority participation. “Affirmative action policies are those in which an institution or organization actively engages in efforts to improve opportunities for historically excluded groups in American society”ncsl. Affirmative Action has left many people out in the cold, it allows people to be chosen by…

Black Homosexuality in the 1930s During the 1920, a reform took place in Harlem. Afro Americans owned 60% of the businesses, jazz music was a new and popular genre of music, and it was a time of national innovation. This period was called the Harlem Renaissance. Harlem was and still is the city with the most concentrated population of black people. The 1930s was not as prosperous as the roaring 20s. The Great Depression hit the nation, but in particular, the already poorly funded black community…

Benjamin Franklin was a man who found himself on both extremes of the struggle for American Independence, once being the staunchest loyalist of America, and then becoming its fiercest patriot. For most of his life, and the build up to the war strongly loyal to the king. Franklin would idolize Britain, longing to live in “the sophistication and worthiness” of Britain, as compared to the “provinciality and vulgarity” of America. Additionally, Frankling would also have the grand goal of changing…

I think one as to consider the factors in determining the reasonableness of contingency fees and the hours spent on the case. For instance, under the Ontario Solicitors Act, contingency fee agreements should be in writing between the lawyers and clients with the court's approval in large class action lawsuits. Masry had informed the residents at the meeting that if they won the case the award would be 40% of the…

The federal judiciary branch consists of ninety-three district courts, thirteen circuit courts of appeals, and one Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is authorized under Article III of the Constitution. District and circuit courts are created by congressional statutes and can be eliminated or reorganized (Ginsberg et al. 609). All federal judges, except for judges of certain specialized or territorial courts, are appointed by the president for life. The president will discuss a lower federal…

Analyze the concept of a profession and explain the ethical and professional obligations of practitioners A profession can be said to be a vocation founded upon specialized educational training, of which its purpose is to supply objective counsel and service to the others, for a direct and definite compensation . It denotes an occupation that professes to develop a system of knowledge in a special problem area such as religion, health or law . The special knowledge that they have gives them an…

It’s nighttime in the city. The sun has long left the sky, and the streets are illuminated by streetlights and some neon signs. You would think a young girl, about the age of 14, would be hanging out with friends, eating dinner with her family, or doing after school work. However, some people, an estimated one million, are not doing this, but are selling their bodies in the human sex trade (Lloyd, Girls Like Us, 2011, p. 10). The same 14-year-old girl that should be hanging out with her friends,…

Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed a total of seven justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Author and professor of Law at Harvard, writer Noah Feldman, focuses on the Supreme Court of FDR in his book Scorpions, particularly the stories of the four most influential and revolutionary justices: Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and Robert Jackson. Feldman seeks to analyze what influenced each justices’ decisions in the court, and follows their evolution on the bench. Overall, Feldman…

Francis Bacon was the son of Nicolas Bacon, the Lord Keeper of the Seal of Elisabeth I. He entered Trinity College Cambridge at age 12. Bacon later described his tutors as "Men of sharp wits, shut up in their cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle, their Dictator." This is likely the beginning of Bacon's rejection of Aristotelianism and Scholasticism and the new Renaissance Humanism. His father died when he was 18, and being the youngest son this left him virtually penniless. He turned to the…