The TaxProfBlog links to an interesting article in the National Law Journal about rising attorney billing rates. One partner in particular, Benjamin Civiletti, charges $1,000 per hour: The partner charging up to $1,000 an hour at Venable is Benjamin Civiletti, the firm chairman and a 70-year-old partner in the firm’s Baltimore office who was the […]
From Saturday’s Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: Indiana State to Study Possibility of Opening Law School: Indiana State University officials are considering whether to start the state’s third public law school, saying many interested students are not being admitted elsewhere because of a lack of space. A feasibility study to be done by the school and […]
…Indiana became a state. On that day James Madison, President of the United States, approved the Congressional resolution formally admitting Indiana to the Union. That resolution read as follows: Resolution for admitting the State of Indiana into the Union. Whereas, in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the nineteenth day of April, one […]
The Cynic Center website has debuted and it will soon be hosting a new “Hoosier Cynic podcast” to cover Indiana politics. I’ll be participating in these podcasts on a regular basis. A few of the people already on board include Brian Howey, Ed Feigenbaum and Rick Wilkerson. Here is the CynicCenter’s press release: The ancient […]
State Senators Vaneta Becker and Larry Lutz, along with Representatives Suzanne Crouch, Dennis Avery, Phil Hoy, and Trent VanHaaften, will be holding a news conference at 2pm at the Evansville Civic Center today in room 301 in the City Council Chambers to discuss Evansville City-Vanderburgh County unification.
The leading organization in support of Evansville-Vanderburgh County government consolidation, an organization on whose board I serve, has endorsed a proposal to put the issue on two ballots over a span of two years. The idea, first floated by Sen. Vaneeta Becker (R-50), quickly caught on as the popular proposal among the area’s legislative delegation. […]
Doug Masson has a nice list of Senate bills for the 2006 session that are now online.
Over the summer the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, the school I currently attend, made national headlines when a professor accused another professor of opposing his tenure because of conservative views. Prof. William Bradford claimed that his support of the Iraq War and his refusal to sign a letter in defense of Ward […]
