ABA to offer six months of free study tools for law students
Effective immediately, the American Bar Association will offer law students six months of online study tools for law school through Quimbee.com.
Law students who join the ABA will receive a free six-month Quimbee membership that includes:
• On-demand video law school lessons
• Practice exam questions
• Case briefs keyed to the most popular law school casebooks
• Quimbee’s outlining tool
Students can learn more about the offer at http://ambar.org/quimbee.
“The ABA’s goal is to help law students confidently take on law school and transition into a meaningful legal career,” said Paulette Brown, president of the ABA. “One important step is law school achievement. We are therefore thrilled to offer Quimbee’s growing library of high-quality study resources to all of our members at no cost for six months.”
More than 119,000 law students across the country are eligible for free ABA membership. The ABA is working with law schools to explain simple enrollment processes. Law students can enroll online at www.americanbar.org/abalawstudents or by calling the ABA Service Center at 800-285-2221.
GM fund rejects 91 percent of ignition switch claims
DETROIT (AP) — Lawyers hired to compensate victims of General Motors' faulty ignition switches have rejected 91 percent of the claims submitted.
They finished determining which claims were eligible last week.
The compensation fund led by lawyer Kenneth Feinberg approved 399 of the 4,343 claims filed and rejected 3,944. The fund has made offers in 124 death cases and 275 injury crashes. Of those, 325 were accepted, eight rejected and 65 haven't decided.
Two injury claims were added to the eligible list in the past week
Families of those who died will get at least $1 million. GM has set aside $625 million to compensate people.
The company recalled 2.6 million older small cars last year. Ignition switches can slip out of the run position and cause the cars to stall.
CAP?seminar on negotiating plea agreements Aug. 28
The 2015 CAP Seminars are scheduled to begin on August 28. The seminars will be held in the auditorium located on the 13th Floor of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center (CAYMC), with a start time of 1:30 p.m.
Panelists at “Negotiating Plea Agreements in the Era of Advisory Sentence Guidelines” will be Anne M. Yantus, State Appellate Defenders Office; Thomas W. Cranmer, Miller Canfield Paddock & Stone, PLC; Wyatt G. Harris, Attorney at Law; Margaret S. Raben, Gurewitz & Raben PLC ; Barry Goldman, Barry Goldman Arbitration & Mediation; and Delphia J. Burton, Delphia J. Burton and Associates, PC.
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