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... Court today begins: Mary Place Godsey, the longtime executive director of the Indiana Board of Law Examiners and a national leader in the field of bar admissions and lawyer testing, ... July and then complete her career with the Indiana Supreme Court's Board of Law Examiners, Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard announced today. Ms. Godsey began ... she worked as a secretary for former Chief Justice Norman Arterburn and started law school. After Chief Justice Aterburn retired, she served as a secretary and ...

In Santulli v. Texas Board of Law Examiners, 2009 WL 961568 (Tex.App.-Austin, April 10, 2009), the Texas Court of Appeals upheld the revocation of a lawyer's license to practice law, based upon his failure to either make payment arrangements for his outstanding debts or discharge them in bankruptcy. The Board of Law Examiners had found that [...]

... essay answers that had been submitted on laptops for 47 students had disappeared. The Board of Law Examiners did a grade approximation for 15 of those students and failed six of ... the missing essay answers, which I had covered previously (New York Bar Examiners Still Can't Find Complete Essay Answers): ...one or more of the essay answers ... how their results were determined. As to the exam results for the rest: The 15 New York law schools had a record pass rate for first time test-takers in the July ...

... patent (on October 22) together with a request for re-establishment into the time-limit for filing an appeal. The Board first examines the facts and finds that there have been two errors : an error of fact (the representative being ... substantive requests filed with the letter of 18 September 2007 would be granted. […] It is clear that this is not a case in which the law was doubtful and the procedure that the representative chose to follow cannot be considered to have been a "not unreasonable" one ...

... hiring a cheerleader for management) versus skill (i.e., hiring an objective and able observer) in the board appointment process. The agents we examine are former sell-side analysts who end up serving on the board of companies they previously covered. Unlike former CEOs or other senior executives who sometimes end up on corporate boards, for whom past performance attribution is complicated by the fact that firm performance is difficult to disentangle from individual performance, sell-side ...

... 623 merged with five other locals to form Local 500. Applying existing Board law, the judge rejected the General Counsel's contention that Local 500 was the successor ... America Local 1182 (Seattle-First), 475 U.S. 192 (1986), the Board examined whether the merger resulted in such a dramatic change to the Union as to alter its identity ... Country Electric, Inc., 516 U.S. 85 (1995) (unanimously approving Board's holding that paid union organizers who seek employment are statutory employees). The dissent ...

... Board found that the violation was related to the complaint. Chairman Schaumber recognized that the finding of a violation was consistent with extant Board law, which he applied for institutional reasons for the purpose of deciding this case. Member Liebman found that the ... away from the counting table, failed to display ballot markings, and refused the Employer's request to examine ballots. These actions prevented the Employer from seeing any ballot markings. Additionally, the Board agent took ...

... and the Respondent's repudiation of that relationship thus was unlawful. The majority, applying the Staunton Fuel standard, examined the parties' entire agreement to determine whether a 9(a) relationship was intended. They wrote after deciding that ... 5 years. The majority acknowledged that the parties to the case before it had not sought a reversal of Board law. However, the Board said that it was its responsibility to ensure that its remedies are compensatory and not punitive. The majority also ...

... 's decision was not palpably wrong and thus deferral was appropriate under Board law. Chairman Battista and Member Schaumber, in affirming the judge's deferral ... 8(a)(1) and (3). Hearing at Philadelphia on Dec. 15, 2004. Adm. Law Judge Karl H. Buschmann issued his decision Feb. 23, 2005. ... of his fellow employees. Contrary to her colleagues, Member Liebman wrote that "a careful examination of the circumstances demonstrates that, in each instance, the Respondent's action reasonably tended to coerce ...

... who chastised me for choosing these independent physicians and telling me I needed to get on board and work with the "adverse examiners". Despite the fact that this attorney had only gone to a full hearing a handful of times in ... to a service of Maximum Medical Improvement or a Notice of Intent to Discontinue Befits in the mail. As this is the goal of the adverse examination, your medical and/or wage loss benefits will likely be stopped as the result of your "independent medical examination". As ...