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The District of Columbia Bar (DCB) is the mandatory bar association of the District of Columbia. [2] It administers the admissions, licensing, and discipline functions for lawyers licensed to practice in the District. It is to be distinguished from the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, [3] which is a voluntary bar.
Amit P. Mehta (1997): [15] First Asian Pacific American male serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (2013) Sri Srinivasan (1995): [16] [17] [18] First South Asian American male serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (2013) and serve as its chief judge (2020)
The organization began in 1960 when the United States Congress established the Legal Aid Agency for the District of Columbia (LAA) under the District of Columbia Legal Aid Agency Act for the purpose of representing people who could not afford an attorney in criminal, juvenile, and mental health proceedings. The Bar Association of the District ...
Van Zile was born and raised in Ward 1 of the District of Columbia. [1] Her mother was a public school teacher and her father worked for the Washington, D.C., office of the corporation counsel. [1] She graduated from Phillips Academy in 2002. [2] Van Zile completed a B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale College. [1]
Activist legal group the 65 Project filed a bar complaint on Thursday against Edward Martin, interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, in Missouri, where he is licensed to practice law ...
By statute, the U.S. attorney is responsible for prosecuting both federal crimes and all serious crimes committed by adults in the District of Columbia. Therefore, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia serves as both the federal prosecutor (as in the other 92 U.S. attorneys' offices) and as the local district attorney. The attorney ...
Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani is one step closer to being disbarred. The professional responsibility board in Washington, DC, recommended Friday that the ex-New York mayor and ...
Steven B. Gould (born 1966), lawyer and judge from Maryland; born in D.C. Shauntay Hinton, Miss USA 2002, Miss District of Columbia 2002; educated in D.C. J. Edgar Hoover (1895–1972), FBI director; born in D.C. Charlene Drew Jarvis (born 1941), educator and president of Southeastern University; born in D.C.