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TEMPE AREA SCHOOL REPRESENTS ARIZONA IN NATIONAL COMPETITION
Corona Del Sol Students Recognized with Top Honors at “We The People” Competition
[PHOENIX, AZ] On April 25-27, students from Corona del Sol High School in Tempe represented Arizona in Washington, DC at the We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution National Finals. They placed 12th nationally and won the Region One award for the Western Region of the United States. More than 1,200 high school students from all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands participated in this highly prestigious academic competition that tested students’ knowledge of the U.S. Constitution. Corona won the opportunity to represent Arizona through a challenging statewide competition sponsored by the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services and Education and the Center for Civic Education. Read more...
Honoring Our Foundation Fellows - Peter Baird
Peter Baird, a partner at Lewis and Roca, has been a supporter of the Foundation's mission long before there was a Foundation. Inspired by his social worker mother growing up, Peter became a battler for civil rights and injustice. In law school he opposed the Vietnam War and fought against segregation. He came to Arizona to work with John Frank, Paul Roca and John Flinn and his first case was the very well known Miranda Rights case. He has handled first amendment cases with the Supreme Court, civil rights cases and put in many many pro bono hours.
Peter recently published his second book, a collection of short stories, essays and excerpts entitled Protecting Moscow From The Soviets. Just like with his previous novel, Beyond Peleliu, much of the proceeds from his book will be donated to the Foundation. Read more...
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We the People State Tournament on January 9th
Corona del Sol High School named State Champions
Competing against Arizona’s top 9 regional teams, Tempe’s Corona del Sol High School captured a first-place ranking in the annual We the People academic competition. The students from Corona del Sol will represent Arizona in Washington, D.C. at the We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution National Finals in April. More than 1200 High School students from all fifty states and the District of Columbia will participate in this highly prestigious academic competition that tests students’ knowledge of the U.S. Constitution.
Students representing Corona del Sol High School are: Eric McKay, Hannah Augee, Ahmed Aboul-Nasr, Vishal Maini, Jocelyn Hu, Derek Huang, Kaitlyn Beaudet, Alex Nunez, Christine Dyster, Shelly Jackson, Zeyang Yu, Jake Yocham, Smitha Ramakrishna, Molly Yang, Rachel Kultala, Elizabeth Lee, Seth Garrison, Katherine Cai, Pankti Shah, Mike Swindle, Wyatt Larkin, Lizzie Shafer, Abby Henderson, Hari Menon, Paul Gu, Siddesh Gopal, Vincent Park, Grace Do, Pooja Rajguru.
In addition to the 9 high schools that competed in the competition, there were also 4 Showcase teams, Desert Sands Middle School (Phoenix), La Cima Middle School (Tucson), Glassford Hill Middle School (Prescott) and Valley Vista High School(Mesa). These students also presented their knowledge and skills of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, some of the younger students answering high school-level questions. Read more...
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Attorneys Need to Take Extra Care in Watching Client Trust Accounts
With the precarious economy and the number of financial institutions either failing (such as IndyMac Bank) or being taken over by other institutions (such as Washington Mutual), lawyers who have client trust accounts should be thinking about the safety of those accounts.
Actually, lawyers with client trust accounts should be thinking about the safety of the accounts – property that belongs to clients and others -- all the time, not just in a financial crisis and not just to comply with the specific requirements of Rules 43 and 44, Ariz.R.Sup.Ct.