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An early connection
Help before law school may help improve diversity in the profession.
BY KAREN SLOAN
Whitney Montgomery always knew she
wanted to be an attorney—a “young, female,
black Matlock,” as she put it in her law school
application.
But her road to law school was a bumpy one,
navigated largely through trial and error rather
than with the support of the pre-law counselor
at Northeastern University, where she obtained
a degree in criminal justice in 2006.
WHITNEY MONTGOMERY
ROHANNA MERTENS
Much pain, a lot of gain
EEOC awards for pain and suffering have reached an all-time high.
BY JENNA GREENE
DIEGO M. RADZINSCHI
JOSH BOWERS: The Maryland attorney said EEOC is moving to catch up with jury verdicts.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission feels federal workers’ pain—and
will pay them for it.
A review of commission decisions during
the past decade shows an uptick in awards
for emotional distress. In fiscal year 2011, the
agency awarded discrimination victims an
average of $106,000 for emotional pain and
suffering, an all-time high. Five years ago, the
average award was $84,477, according to the
EEOC, and in 2002, it was $67,484.
Stevens prosecutors blasted
Report: DOJ attorneys withheld information, committed misconduct.
BY MIKE SCARCELLA
A team of Washington lawyers spent more
than 2 1/2 years exploring the failed public cor-
ruption case against former Sen. Ted Stevens,
reviewing more than 150,000 pages of docu-
ments, interviewing numerous witnesses and
conducting a dozen depositions.
The lead special prosecutor, Henry Schuelke
III, concluded last week that U.S. Justice
Department trial attorneys in the case com-
mitted prosecutorial misconduct by withhold-
ing information from the late Alaska senator’s
defense lawyers.
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DIEGO M. RADZINSCHI
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