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A Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual ("the JLM") is a resource for incarcerated individuals and jailhouse lawyers. It is published and distributed by the editors of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, who are students at Columbia Law School. The JLM is designed to assist inmates in understanding their legal rights as prisoners.
Bryan Andrew Garner (born November 17, 1958) is an American legal scholar and lexicographer.He has written more than two dozen books about English usage and style [1] such as Garner's Modern English Usage for a general audience, and others for legal professionals.
Its first edition was published in 2000, under editor Darby Dickerson. Its seventh edition, under editor Carolyn V. Williams, was released in May 2021 by Aspen Publishing . The ALWD Guide to Legal Citation is published as a spiral-bound book as well as an online version.
L.Ed — Lawyers' Edition; L.Ed.2d — Lawyers 2nd Edition; LJ – Postnominals of a Lord or Lady Justice of Appeal (United Kingdom) LJJ – Postnominals of Lords or Ladies Justice of Appeal, plural (United Kingdom) LL.B. – Legum Baccalaureus — Bachelor of Laws; LLC — Limited liability company; LL.D. – Legum Doctor — Doctor of Law
According to Judge Henry J. Friendly, "Attorney General [Herbert] Brownell, whom I had known ever since law school—he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal the year I was at the Harvard Law Review and he and I and two others [from Columbia and Pennsylvania] were the authors of the first edition of the Bluebook." [16]
John Austin Darden (1879 – June 7, 1942) [1] [2] [3] was an Alabama attorney and publisher who served in the state legislature.. Darden was "a prominent, very wealthy member of his community", [4] and served in the Alabama House of Representatives from 1914 to 1919, and again from 1926 to 1933, and in the Alabama Senate from 1931 to 1933.
Starting in the late 1950s, judges Elbert Parr Tuttle (chief judge 1960–67), John Minor Wisdom, John R. Brown (chief judge 1967–79), and Richard T. Rives (chief judge 1959–60) became known as the "Fifth Circuit Four", or simply "The Four", for decisions crucial in advancing the civil rights of African Americans.
Edmund Gerald LaCour Jr. (born 1985) [2] is an American lawyer who has served as the Solicitor General of Alabama since May 3, 2019. He is a former nominee to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama .