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October 26, 2015 | National Law Journal

Pro Bono Week: The Best of This Year's Giving and Defending

From Rwanda to a tiny Catholic Charities office in downtown Washington, lawyers took on cases, founded projects and reflected on the good they do and what more they can achieve. As the American Bar Association celebrates pro bono work nationally this week, The National Law Journal highlights the leaders, cases and efforts that have helped lawyers give back in the last year.

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Doolittle v. Exchange Bank

Publication Date: 2015-10-21
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Date Filed: 2015-10-20
Court: C.A. 1st
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Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for plaintiff and appellant: HARTOG & BAER, P.C., David W. Baer, John A. Hartog, Laura C. Roche
for defendant: Counsel for defendant and respondent: ABBEY, WEITZENBERG, WARREN & EMERY, Lewis R. Warren, Michael R. Wanser
Case Number: No. A143422

Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 11463 SUSAN DOOLITTLE, Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant, v.

People v. Woods

Publication Date: 2015-10-20
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Date Filed: 2015-10-20
Court: C.A. 4th
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Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, Charles C. Ragland, Scott Taylor and Paige B. Hazard, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
for defendant: Eric R. Larson, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
Case Number: No. D066741

Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 11426 THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. GREY DAVID WOODS, Def

October 16, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Associates List

Justine L. Abrams Firm: Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, Woodbridge Born: Oct. 31, 1988 Practice Areas: Family law Joined Firm: September, 2015 Clerkships: Hon.

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Cole v. Carson, 14-10228, 15-10045 (5th Cir. 09/25/2015)

Publication Date: 2015-10-15
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Date Filed: 2015-09-25
Court: United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
Judge: PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge
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Case Number: 14-10228, 15-10045

Appeals from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Before HIGGINBOTHAM, CLEMENT, and HIGGINSON, Circuit Judges./maj

Najera v. Shiomoto

Publication Date: 2015-10-14
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Date Filed: 2015-09-17
Court: C.A. 5th
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Attorneys: For plaintiff: Middlebrook & Brehmer, Richard O. Middlebrook, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
for defendant: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Alicia M. B. Fowler, Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth C. Jones and Sarah M. Barnes, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Appellants.
Case Number: No. F069387

Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 11226 JOSE NAJERA, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JEAN SHIOMOTO, as Di

Carla L. Marin, Plaintiff v. Town of Southeast, Defendant, 14-CV-2094

Publication Date: 2015-10-14
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Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
Judge: District Judge Kenneth Karas
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Plaintiff: Stephen Bergstein, Esq., Bergstein & Ulrich, LLP, Chester, NY.
for defendant: Counsel for Defendant: James A. Randazzo, Esq., Denise M. Cossu, Esq., Gaines, Novick, Ponzini, Cossu & Venditti, LLP, White Plains, NY.
Case Number: 14-CV-2094

Cite as: Marin v. Town of Southeast, 14-CV-2094, NYLJ 1202739274560, at *1 (SDNY, Decided September 015) Decided: September

Kirkland v. State

Publication Date: 2015-10-13
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, and Bentley Adams, Public Defender, Columbus, for appellant.
for defendant: Thomas Earnest, District Attorney, and Ronald Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Cuthbert, for appellee.
Case Number: A15A1143

The fact that the then-4-year-old child molestation victim was unresponsive to certain questions on the witness stand did not render her out-of-court statements regarding the sexual abuse inadmissib

Stanislaus Food Products Company v. USS-POSCO Industries

Publication Date: 2015-10-13
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Date Filed: 2015-10-13
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Lawrence J. O'Neill, District Judge, Presiding Before: M. Margaret McKeown, Mary H. Murguia, and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Berstein, Eric B. Fastiff (argued), Dean M. Harvey, and Marc A. Pilotin, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstain, LLP, San Francisco, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
for defendant: James C. Martin (argued), P. Gavin Eastgate, and Michelle A. Mantine, Reed Smith, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Daniel I. Booker and Alexander Y. Thomas, Reed Smith LLP, Washington, D.C.; J. Michael Jarboe, United States Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Allan Steyer, D. Scott Macrae, and Gabriel D. Zeldin, Steyer Lowenthal Boodrookas Alvarez & Smith, San Francisco, California; Rex S. Heinke and Reginald D. Steer, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, San Francisco, California; and Steven M. Pesner and Nicholas Adams, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, New York, New York, for Defendants-Appellees.
Case Number: No. 13-15475

Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 11195 STANISLAUS FOOD PRODUCTS COMPANY, a California corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v.

JOSEPH PRESSIL, Appellant v. JASON A. GIBSON, JASON A. GIBSON, P.C. D/B/A THE GIBSON LAW FIRM, CLIFFORD D. PEEL, II, AND ANDREW C. SMITH, Appellees

Publication Date: 2015-10-09
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Date Filed: 2015-09-10
Court: COURT OF APPEALS OF TEXAS, FOURTEENTH DISTRICT, HOUSTON
Judge: Marc W. Brown
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Case Number: 14-14-00731-CV

COURT OF APPEALS OF TEXAS, FOURTEENTH DISTRICT, HOUSTONJOSEPH PRESSIL, Appellant v. JASON A. GIBSON, JASON A. GIBSON, P.C.