Articles related to "Legal Careers"

In addition to law enforcement jobs, there are many ways in which a person can have a career in the law, whether as a main player in the system or in a supporting role.

A common career-day question asked by students is, "how do I become a lawyer?" The process can be broken down into seven basic steps.

Honest Abe's skills as a lawyer should not go unnoticed. In writing the Emancipation Proclamation, he used those skills to make it binding and prevent court challenge

Forensic Science has a multitude of opportunities for those interested, so many in fact, that only a few can be mentioned here.

Serving as a judge for the U.S. Customs court, one of Cline's first cases was historic for women, establishing that a married woman could determine where she lived.

Popularly known as a fair- and open-minded judge, Allen was suggested several times to fill a spot on the Supreme Court.

Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Democratic candidate John Edwards, has stage four metastatic cancer. Nevertheless, she moves forward during uncertain times.

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama Inauguration welcome event will be held at the Lincoln Memorial, built for the 16th President of United States who was from Illinois.

Complex characters and great ensemble performances from Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, and Tilda Swinton earn well-deserved Oscar nominations.

Historians have been negligent in studying Barnett's career as a whole because of his refusal to soften his stance on James Meredith's integration of Ole Miss.

Sonia Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic American and the third woman to serve on the nation's highest court.

Edmund Barton helped write the Australan Constitution before Ferderation, administered it as Prime Minister, and interpreted it as a High Court judge.

In 1856, James Buchanan became America's only bachelor president. Interestingly, his niece, Harriet Lane, was the first woman to be called "First Lady."

Oh Canada! was composed in 1880 in haste as a national song for an event, the lyrics written in French only. The poetic English lyrics were written twenty years later.

In 1822, the young lawyer, Stephen Austin, led a group of settlers to establish a colony in what would later become the State of Texas.