Danette Meyers is senior vice president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and chair of the Diversity Conference Planning Committee.

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Lord Archer QC, a former solicitor general, and Anthony Scrivener QC, former chair of the Bar Council, have been advising the league which has established a team to look at bring prosecutions.

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The decision coincides with LDP resistance to efforts to allow a jury system in Japan, says Kohei Nakabo, the former head of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations and now the chair of a committee to reform the legal system.

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He currently serves as a Director of the Washington, DC Estate Planning Council, as Vice-Chair of the Fiduciary Income Tax Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation, and as Co-Chair of the Personal Financial Planning Club of the University Club of Washington DC.

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The former chair of the Criminal Bar Association, Paul Mendelle QC, said sentences were too long and harsh.

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Ms. JOYCE KAUFMAN (Co-Chair, Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association): I just think it's very sad that rather than abide by those laws, they've just pulled out altogether.

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We cried with him at Italia 90, we celebrated with him at Euro 96 and in between we forgave his horror tackle in the 1991 Cup final and the "dentist chair" incident in a Hong Kong bar with the other England players.

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In my study I avoided my irritating desk with its neat binders containing bar charts and statistical tables and sat motionless in the leather chair, looking out the window at the leaves of hydrangea bushes.

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She spends her days in a bar and has decorated her new apartment as if she were in college again, complete with beanbag chair, a Jane Fonda poster and fold-up bed.

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