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... Scourge of Schizophrenia: A Law Professor's Story," will be published in the Hastings Women's Law Journal. Professor Jones has also been named to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Louisville board of directors for 2008. ... Board will undertake the planning of next year's Section Event and a proposed newsletter or blog. Professor Lisa Nicholson was placed on the executive committee for the AALS Section on Securities Regulations. At the AALS conference, Professor Russ Weaver gave a ...

... increasing nationwide and don't be surprised if everyone says yes. Lisa Jones wouldn't be surprised, even though she knows cases have ... new taxes or draconian zoning restrictions on adult bookstore-type business. Ms. Jones is a research assistant professor of psychology at the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University ... were reported. "We have no reason to believe the iceberg has changed," Jones says. For Pennsylvania, sexual abuse cases identified by child protective service agencies ...

... you think that rich and powerful people are the only ones affected by what Giuliani has helped wrought, remember the name of Lisa Jones. As Daniel Fischel brilliantly explains in his book Payback: The Conspiracy to Destroy Michael Milken and his Financial Revolution ( ... refused to give in and remained loyal to Milken and Drexel to the end. Giuliani eventually prosecuted and convicted Jones for crimes that were never proven (sound familiar?) and she was sentenced to a year and a half in prison, ...

... own ... but the fact of the matter is we don't live in an ideal world," she said. Attorney Lisa Jones-Ables knows that all too well. She is currently representing the mother of the two Arkansas children who sold ... in high-conflict cases. She is currently fighting for the release of the Arkansas woman who was found in contempt for refusing to comply with visitation orders. Jones-Ables recently asked the Arkansas Supreme Court to declare the sentence invalid, arguing that the mother was denied due ...

... 000 (approx. $8,200) for sexual discrimination in the workplace after she was sent sexually explicit text messages. Lisa Jones, who worked for a mobile phone firm in Preston, told an employment tribunal that she had been sent explicit and sexual ... became explicit, and accused the firm and her manager of sex discrimination. The Birmingham Employment Tribunal ruled that Ms Jones had been a victim of sexual discrimination. Now that text messaging has become commonplace, I predict that text messages ...

... at one company, and changes jobs and brings the backdating problem with her to another company. The general counsel is a gatekeeper, and Lisa Berry was supposed to prevent problems like internal corporate fraud, not create them." Those are the provocative words of Jeremy Pendrey, the SEC staff attorney who investigated the matter of Lisa Berry, the former general counsel at both KLA-Tencor and Juniper Networks. As had been anticipated for some time, ...

... . In other words, sex offenses against children were already on the wane (you'd never know it from the cable news shows that feature them endlessly) and Any number of factors could have led to the declines, [Lisa Jones of the Crimes Against Children Research Center]said. She cited economic prosperity during the 1990s; increased numbers of police, social workers and offenders in jail; and widespread introduction of antidepressant drugs in the late ...

... Meanwhile, the SEC is waging its own backdating battles. Already, it's brought civil charges against Apple's former general counsel, Nancy Heinen. And the Recorder's Justin Scheck is reporting today that the commission may soon file charges against Lisa Berry, the former general counsel at both KLA-Tencor and Juniper Networks, in connection with schemes to backdate stock options at both companies. Berry now works for privately held Tellme Networks in Los Gatos, Calif. According to the article, ...

... "Had the prosecutors conducted an even cursory examination of the evidence prior to the arrests," he added, "this whole tragedy could have been avoided." And Tom K adds: "Not mentioned in the article is Giuliani's prosecution of Lisa Jones, which reveals far more about Giuliani's true character than what is presented in the NY Times puff piece." You may want to embrace Giuliani for one of his other "founding stones" -- that he cleaned up ...

... years covered in the study. Georgia had greater drops of 27 percent and 78 percent, respectively, for those periods. University of New Hampshire researcher Lisa Jones said the steepest part of the decline occurred in the 1990s as a range of things happened, including increased public education and more involvement by law enforcement and the judicial system. More aggressive prosecutions, increases in the number of law ...