peggy fox, wusa9. >> cuccinelli says this is the first of this sort of law firm in virginia and only texas has a similar law firm dedicated to defending the second amendment rights. >>> posting so-called revenge prince george's county is a big step closer to becoming a crime in maryland. the house of delegates unanimously approved a revenge porn bill this morning. that measure sets a two year prison sentence and a $500 fine for anyone who maliciously posts an image of somebody online nude or not that causes that person serious emotional distress. the bill now moves to the state senate. >>> tonight we're learning more information about information that was omitted from the public report on cecil mills' death. >> reporter: i'm surae chinn in northwest washington where we're learning that the deputy mayor's office failed to release a full report on cecil mills, the man who died across the street from the firehouse. >> i think it is working. i've been to the graduation. we're talking about one person. >> reporter: mayor vincent gray says one bad decision by a rookie out of dozens of othe

student where jillian hatfield teaches, one of the realistic shots at getting a job at a high paying law firm, 35 to 40% of the students there do so. at the vast majority of law schools, not more than 5 or 10% of the students get jobs that lead any reasonability possibility of servicing a $250, 000 debt load which is increasingly common moong amongw school graduates. >> paul, we have similar sentiments. my loan payments are almost as much as my rent and when i lived in sacramento more than my mortgage payments. i work 52 weeks a year to scrap by. she is an attorney. criminal defense ngo work with government subsidizing that work. kimberly says, there needs to be a realignment within the law field. right now big law makes all the money, while other law struggles. kimberly was a real estate grad. thinking about the consequence, that may lead to a shrinking pool. let's map this out. how will the average joe in america feel this? >> one of your tweets actually started down the right path on this. you got to think about the mismatch in demand and where people need it. i think the major problem we'

believe it's noble and are in it because they love it. >> well, i think the big law firms are part of the problems, as we discussed. how can they be part of the solution. coming up innovative things that a few law schools are trying and why one of our guests say that will make the problem worse. before the break, check out a couple of hash tags: what to expect. >> international outrage. >> a day of political posturing. >> every morning from 5 to 9 am al jazeera america brings you more us and global news than any other american news channel. >> tell us exactly what is behind this story. >> from more sources around the world. >> the situation has intensified here at the border. >> start every morning, every day 5am to 9 eastern. >> with al jazeera america. >> welcome back. we've been discussing what's behind the big decline in law school enrollment. can law schools be part of the solution, the dean of law school says yes. >> hands on legal experiences, first of all many students participate in our clinics. we have eight active clinics. and so students participate for example in immigrat

samson's clients at his private law firm.ple, his law firm had a client that wanted to make more money on its commuter parking lot that it had in new jersey. a lot of people commute from new jersey into new york. they park their cars and then take some sort of transit into the city. one of those computer lots was owned by the port authority. the port authority toned lot and this other agency operated it. the port authority charged rent in that parking lot. they charged about $900,000 a year rent. so yeah, the entity could make a lot of money off that lot. you charge people $10 a day to park there. they had to pay reynold too. they had to pay rep to the port authority and that reduced their profits. that entity shird david samson's law firm to see how they could increase that. so they said the rent should no longer be $900,000 a year. it should be $1 a year. port authority owns that parking lot. that mean the rent they were getting was going to a public agency which means theoretically that money was supposed to go to the good

or big law firm rather? >> i think the whole system does. all of us operate both the law schools and the legal professional operated a pretty protected environment and we haven't had to respond to much in the way of competitive pressures. and frankly what's happened over the last several years senior that a lot of the people who buy the expensive legal services have found outweighs to reduce how many of those expensive lawyers they need to hire and that's kind of wrecked our business model and the problem we are facing is the law school professions aren't seeing that structural problem. >> our community is deeply cynical like you mentioned at the top, lisa, two reasons for the decline, number one, students are duped in to thinking that law school say tick feed a b.m.w. and steak every night. i don't have a bmw or steak, lisa. second cost for schools is almost zero. decline is good, and she's a lawyer, it helped many realize that stem is the best way to go instead of pursuing j.d. that it's worth the money . here is tristan from berkeley admis

was working directly with its counterpart agency in australia to gather information about the law firm and its dealings with indonesia and yes this went far beyond just gathering for metadata as trailers signals directorate explicitly told the n.s.a. that quote information covered by attorney client privilege may be included in intelligence gathering well that's sure to make americans feel a whole lot better about the fairness of the u.s. justice system. from the wiretapping of western leaders to the industrial espionage of brazilian oil companies it's becoming increasingly clear that the so-called national security mandate is a complete joke the agency has shown time and time again that if it wants information on the inner workings of business government agencies and now law firms will stop at nothing to get it so if you believe that attorney client privilege still means something in this country then join us and let's break the set. they are very hard to take a. look. at how to act like that you are right there. just when you thought it couldn't get any worse for the water supply in

he cast a vote on that while his law firm has a big financial stake in the vote. we should note that david samson's firm has not replied to a media request for a comment on the parking lot. this is not the first time he's been on the oh, my god end of the story since the bridge scandal broke open. he rehabilitated a new jersey train station, even though his firm was building a bunch of luxury apartments right next to that train station. the train station development would really help his client. whether or not you think it's a good thing that harrison new jersey is going to get a new train station. how could he be voting on that, when he has a private financial stake in the outcome of his own decision. and david samson and his law firm are at the heart of the allegations made by the mayor of hoboken, new jersey. she was leaned on by the christie administration to support a private development in hoboken that again had representation from wolf samson from david samson's law firm. the mayor says she was told that sandy relief funds for hoboken would be contingent on

one of the schools where there is a realistic shot of getting a job with a high-paying law firm, aboutto 40% of the students there do so. but at the vast majority of laws, no more than 5 or 10% of the students get the kind of jobs that leave any reasonable possibility of services the debt load which is includingly common. >> we have lawyers climbing in with that same sentiment . . . jillian i'm going to go to you with this -- >> good. >> you teach at usc, andrew was a usc grad. thinking about the consequence, this might lead to a shrinking lawyer pool, what are the consequences that will have on society, big firms? let's map this out here. >> yeah, one of your tweets actually started down the right path. you have got to think about the mismatch in demand and where are people needed. i think the major problem we're facing -- because we're facing this amazing paradox. there is tremendous demand for legal help. there is tremendous demand in the corporate sector, in a more global complex fast-moving world, there is lots of need for legal work, and then at the other end of the scale, the or

at the same time he gets to stay at his law firm where he is a named partner and oh, look, that law firm happens to represent tons of people that are trying to do deals that the port authority can help them with. that in and of itself, right there, forget the traffic problems in ft. lee. that is a massive conflict of interest. you're talking about an $8 billion authority. >> the reason why people want to be the chair of the port authority is because of the amount of resources that it controls. when i was in the governor's office i held the position of director of appointments. my office made appointments to the port authority board. and i can tell you only the very closest, most supportive, most powerful person that is in the governor's circle gets that appointment. that is the plum in the state of new jersey for any powerful business person. so i will actually add, you said that you think patrick foye holds governor christie's fate in his hands. i would argue that david samson holds governor christie's fate in his hands. >> that is the fate. the reason we have seen, i would at least sug

it's not discrimination. >> so avery, how was it any different from a law firm saying we specialize in specifying they're specialty in divorce law. >> well, look. i don't think this is beautiful. i think this is horrifying. they're not saying that they specialize in family law. they're saying that they specialize in taking care of men in. and the argument in my opinion is an angry condemnation in a public advertisement of essentially eroding public confidence in our courts. >> rightfully so. >> under our ethics rules, that is a primary responsibility of lawyers. it's like saying we're represent white people but we won't represent black people. and i am horrified by that. i'm assuming that this law firm got an ethics opinion that it's perfectly fine to do, but i'm heartsick at this kind of approach and conveying to the public that don't trust the courts, don't trust the judges. come to us. we'll take care of you solely because you're a man. i think that's awful. >> so richard, is this just an issue of opinion? or can there be a legal challenge against this law firm? >> i don't believe t

law firm.alk about the nsa and lawyers, which goes to everyone's legal rights. >> there are two big points. one you brought out which is this is economic spying and edward snowden has said what will be revealed as we go through these documents are more and more economic spying and essentially, this whole claim this is about stopping terrorism is just bogus. that is really what is going on. i think that is a crucial point. this was to get an advantage in very straight talk over shrimps, etc. >> so it is a new role after the cold war is to be a spying arm. his corporations? >> that is what it appears to be. not only for themselves and negotiations but to private corporations, u.s. corporations in particular. veryolving concern for long time about spying on attorneys and our clients and we do know for example if i talk to my client julian assange, because he at least -- we don't have any public indictment of him. we suspect he has been indicted, but we don't know. according to the nsa spying role,

tried to live we quite -- leave behind after third in his law class he was disappointed with the law firm said turned down the job applications and her mom pulled strings for him to work as an associate the most reputable law firm. >> so he is just beginning his career and pat is having the best time. with his trademark persistence he pursued her. after six months pat really does not want to get involved she goes to michigan to buy a car and disappears from his life for three months. he did not like that. in september he heard she was mcenroe a letter saying above like to see you if you can stand me and i promise it will never be boring. he was right about that. if you have a moment to stand in the shoes of the person you are writing about. where richard nixon worked as a young attorney and one was impressed by he to buck up the window to see whittier high school i could imagine to dream of pat and yearning to see her. also looking through the daily diaries to the end of the year he began to make notations that recorded her comments that were beginning to show she had interests. i am will

. >> our mentors are partners at various law firms. >> there's no substitute for actually seeing whatou can do in court. or seeing what -- how a lawyer presents a case or understanding what goes into presenting a case. >> at the end of the year we have a debater of the year competition where we debate in front of a real new jersey supreme court judge. >> what is that like? >> it's stressful to say the least. but it's all worth it in the end. >> and in the end, the results speak for themselves. >> so 100% of our kids have matriculated into college. they're at many different colleges, many in top 100 colleges from princeton, to bryn mawr, to smith and rutgers and many other schools. >> but the real achievement is seeing the transformation in the students. >> when i originally entered high school, i wasn't taken as seriously as i should have. it was a real turn around for me. >> nj leep credits the excellence to the many partners who have provided various resources. including internships, mentors, finances and sponsorships. the parents are also a huge component of their success. >> there

the law firm that's representing three ministries called it's called mcquire woods mcguire woods also representing cam stream which is which is acquired by freedom industries it also represented rosebud mining which is all so owned by j. clifford forrest so this one guy j. clifford force is in charge of all of these corporations and it's actually a violation of federal law or company has every vested interest in previous companies to represent a firm during a bankruptcy this is really this is really outrageous and i can't like you said i can't believe that there's nobody that's you know been really held accountable for this it seems that the company itself is being shielded against any sort of you punitive punitive damages are just hiding behind this bankruptcy but i want to ask you about this lawsuit there is there's a class action lawsuit filed by by residents of west virginia what options do they have left to you know for accountability the people in west virginia that were affected by the spill. sure so those west virginians they're suing the department of environmental protection

was working directly with its counterpart agency in australia to gather information about the law firm and its dealings with indonesia and yes this went far beyond just gathering for metadata straightly a signals directorate explicitly told the n.s.a. that quote information covered by attorney client privilege may be included in intelligence gathering well that's sure to make americans feel.

they were attorneys with the law firm, even though they were never hired by the law firm. and we are asking for $550 an hour, multiplied up to $1100 an hour. because there is a risk. the judge knocked that down to $200 an hour, which is still outrageous. especially since it is supposed to be the market rate and it was very clearly established that the market rate of what paying clients pay for this, they pay cost. no law firm in the world gets away with marking it up. the other thing we discovered was when the judges made them turn over their timesheets, it was settled on may 12 and on may 13, they hired two dozen new contract attorneys to work 60 hours a week reviewing documents. meanwhile, all of the real attorneys on the case have stopped work. it was not we have to keep working on this case in case the settlement falls through, and then it never falls through. it was how we structure the bill that we can claim to justify the fee that we are asking for, the multiplier. the judge ended up knocking off $26 million worth of fees. we thought it should be more. we are lookin

the rose law firm where she worked in arkansas, some of her law records mysteriously disappeared andshowed up at the white house. immediately under subpoena by the independent counsel, ken starr. his investigation remember started about clinton family finances. a couple years later, back above 50. a political high point of sorts, imbeachmo -- impeachment, monic lewinsky, people support her and mad at him. 60% early in the obama administration, and even a lot of republicans came to admire her work as secretary of state traveling the globe representing the united states. now these new notes. the diane blair foils and the question asked is this. are keep cans who say hillary clinton's past is the way to block her from living in the white house in the future? smart strategy? >> not a smart strategy. i mean, you can bring this stuff up. you can churn it up, but when you talk to republican opposition researchers who really are going to be the ones that are doing the digging, they say you have to find something new, you have to find something fresh. voters when they heard all of this before

also a conflict of interest here concerning the company that bought out the this company and the law firm representing it can you give us a breakdown of that conflict of interest. yeah it's a really shady situation and i'm surprised no one. to be quite honest you know eight days after the still had the on january seventeenth j. clifford forced to his older freedom industry and another company called chemistry holdings l.l.c. he opened up another company eight days later called mountaineer funding l.l.c. now right after filing for chapter eleven bankruptcy which by the way is the unity from over twenty five cities lawsuits and one federal lawsuit after filing for bankruptcy an hour later they filed an emergency motion for the better in protection so on that on that agreement and basically making this agreement to get five million dollars in loans to keep them in operation while they're doing the bankruptcy now that agreement that they filed an emergency motion for as cheap places to sign one place for freedom industries and the other is for your fund the l.l.c. which is that band corp the

hannah, had pulled some strings to have her friend offer dick a job at whittier's most repute bl law firm. so here's nixon, and he's just beginning his career, and here's pat, and she's just having the best time. well, with his trademark persistence, he pursued her. but after six months pat, who really wanted to let him know she didn't want to get involved, what did she do? she went to michigan to buy a car, and she disappeared from his life for three months. well, he didn't like that. so finally in september he heard she was back, and he wrote her a letter saying i'd like to see you if you could stand me. and i promise it will never be boring, and he was certainly right about that. it was never boring with his life with her. well, one of things that's a thrill for a biographer is when you have a moment where you can stand in the shoes of the person that you're writing about. and myra hilliard of the whittier historical society arranged for me to go up in the office where richard nixon worked as a young attorney. and what i was really impressed by was that he could look out window, and he

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was working directly with its counterpart agency in australia to gather information about the law firm and its dealings with indonesia and yes this went far beyond just gathering for metadata straightly a signals directorate explicitly told the n.s.a. that quote information covered by attorney client privilege may be included in intelligence gathering well that's sure to make americans feel a whole lot better about the fairness of the u.s. justice system. from the wiretapping of western leaders to the industrial espionage of brazilian oil companies it's becoming increasingly clear that the so-called national security mandate is a complete joke the agency has shown.

people that work at law firms, the young legals that work these hours each week in the hope that, you sort of earn their stripes. is this analogous to back were very different? >> it is actually similar because there a lot of people to go to charity events for their work and are not compensated for that. and i'm not sure that these folks, i'm not sure that they agree with that. neil: because here is the thing. what you just said was a perfect example. i took a job as a summer associate for a law firm to get exposure and to meet the partners so that they would see how great i was an offer me a job, which they did. but i got the perks, but that didn't mean that they didn't have to pay the minimum wage. because you can make that argument for any job. there are always going to be incidental perks. neil: but when you pay by this hour, the straight salary and he put in an 80 hour work week, there is a difference. >> yes, there is. with an hourly job. that is the argument that these girls are going to make. and they ended up paying him so much more money than if they had just complied with t

i took a job as a summer associate for a law firm to get exposure and to meet the partners so that theyat i as an offer me a job, which they did. but i goerks, but that didn't meanthat they didn't have to pay the minimum wage. because you can make that argument for any job. there are always going to be incidental peks. neil: but when you pay by this hour, the straight salary and he put in an 80 hour work week, there is a difference. >> yes, there is. with an hourly job. that is the argument that these girls are going to make. and they ended up paying him so much more money than if they had just complied with the laws and paid these girls som dollars 85@ cents an hour. this is something that they think it's fun for them and that's why they do it. this is smething that is mandated in something that they have to do. neil: i'm going to keep a clos eye on this. meanwhile, it is not too late to get a valentine's present. >> because the storm was so unpredictable, by the way just coming down here, it has ttally stopped snowing and it's a beautiful day out there. >> as this woman was saying it

ben ginsberg serving as co-chairman, he is a partner in a law firm.2012 and 2008, he served as national counsel to the romney for president campaigns and i won't get into it, but he has had a profound effect in our electoral system. you changed america, not in a way that i liked but amazing with what you did. we would ask each of our witnesses to limit their statements to five minutes and additional statements. without objection, additional remarks, without objection, will be read into the record. >> senator schumer, senator roberts, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity testifying today with my co-chair. we discussed in advance how we would organize it so i'm going to open with some general considerations identified in the report that we asked our readers to keep in mind as we laid out our recommendations and the best practices we identified. and then i'm going to illustrate the approach we took by talking about the signature issue, the issue most associated with the commission and that is the problem of long lines at the polls. the

law firm mayer brown.the report bolsters claims by snowden and others that the nsa and its allies conducts buying for economic gains. the report was written by laura poitras and james rison. secretary of state john kerry is in indonesia where he has sought to downplay the reports of spying on officials. indonesians to take action against climate change, calling it perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass distraction. >> president obama and i believe deeply that we do not have time for a meeting anywhere of the flat earth society. indonesia is the third-largest inventor of greenhouse gases after china and the united dates. there has been a spate of u.s.,e weather across the and wear a winter storm killed 20 people. journalist who was abducted from his home earlier this month said he was tortured. went missing just before he was due to travel to europe to speak out against u.s. drone strikes, one of which killed his brother and son. he was taken captive by up to 20 men. he told al jazeera his captors

the rose law firm and billing during that time, investing in futures were all things americans across the country would begin to hear about when they made it to the white house. talk about her involvement in these decisions that she made that would become national. >> the real story here is about the decision to allow a special prosecutor. that was a big debate between bill and hillary. >> i'm looking at what she actually did there -- >> to this day, i don't think anybody really knows. she was investing. she had a hotshot investor who got her into cattle futures. >> a friend of their at the university when the clintons were there, and her husband was very sharp with trading. that is how they got into that. $1000 could make $100,000 on cattle futures. she got in trouble with the rose law firm records and actions involving jim mcdougal who was actually bill clinton's friend. >> it was sort of the morass of arkansas politics they got trapped in. >> john is watching us from michigan. what is your question? >> like everyone, i have been following this series of programs and i want to comme

then they gave the law firm $1.5 million, all in the hopes that wolff and samson could help them figurehow to make more profit out of their parking lots. well, the samson in wolff samson is this samson, david samson. he's the chairman of the port authority. it also happens to own that piece of land where the parking lot sits. hmmm. in early 2012, mr. samson in his official role as chairman of the port authority decided he would cast a vote to change the way his agency leased that land going forward. he voted that they should stop charging the entity that operated the parking lot, should stop charging them $900,000 a year that they had been charging them and instead they should start charging them $1. $1 per year. do the math. david samson in private practice was being paid to help that entity. and then changed their rent to $1 a year. that laugh out loud story broke yesterday morning on the front page of the "bergen record" paper. now port authority conflict in interest emerges. this came the same day samson gave his first public apology for his agency's role in the bridgegate scandal i

there's a big wash in the law firm that's been hired to represent the committee. under new jersey law, candidates, office holders, are not permitted to use campaign funds to pay the costs of criminal investigations. this is somewhat a novel situation i'm told because christie himself has not been subpoena subpoenaed. it's the campaign committee. if chris christie was hoping to be raising money right now or in the near future for a future campaign, his campaign is going to have to be raising money to pay for this investigation. it underscores how much of a distraction this has been for the governor. >> if someone on his committee is innocent, here's my computer, here you can have it, why is it costing so much money to comply with subpoenas? all it is is turning over information. >> there are 20 to 30 employees on the campaign committee. they all have computers and smartphones. these things are costly. in commercial litigation, you have to be thorough and complete. they can't afford to have missed something and not have it turned over and then be shown that they did

this partner at a law firm had been trying to secure her release from prison since 2011. i think she is a person who now believes for a strongly that the rhetoric of the past will not serve now. what the country needs is really a commitment to bind up the thisn's wounds and end mindless cycle of revenge. flexingvladimir hooton military ash with vladimir putin flexing their military strength on the border, some say there could be war. >> she is a person who i believe right now has an historic opportunity to play a very significant role in leading this country through this difficult time. for her to do that, she has to be a voice of unity, she has to be a voice of reconciliation, and forgiveness. says in advance of his meeting with commission go -- of , hemeeting with timeshenko referenced the second inaugural address of lincoln and martin luther king's letter from the birmingham jail. >> interesting, gordon. virginia at home, congressman frank wolf is calling for a special investigation into revelations the fbi had a mole in osama bin laden's inner circle and the early 199

the same experiences of race, tend to come from the same backgrounds, because we know even though law firms are making laudable efforts, by and large, most major elite downtown law firms have maybe one african-american partner, usually someone pretty junior, or maybe two. and there's still plenty where there's not a single african-american who's ever been a partner or a senior partner. so as this white attorney climbs the ranks, they're less and less likely to interact with african-americans as equals. well, maybe there'll be a janitor or someone cleaning their office, but the likelihood that when they go to a meeting with their client, their corporate client who can afford their $250 billing rate, that that room is going to include african-americans -- slim to none. they're invited to join a country club. they go to that country club, almost no chance there's going to be an african-american member of their -- and so on and so forth. so for this person who's white, they don't have to think about race. sometimes my white friends say to me, very nice, sincere people, they say, "well, get over

they don't make a ton of money, especially specialty law firms.n just one year. >> about a decade ago the deck -- the government made it easier for non lawyers to represent people in appealing a claim. they hire a bunch of cheap non lawyers and such and rushed people through the system, figure out the system, collect little bits of money. it adds that if you get enough people. john: and you pay. thank you. coming up, a doctor composing rap music to try to fight victimhood. >> now is time to have occurred and take responsibility for reactions in that year life the way it should be live. john: live your life the way it should be lived. that music is not from a professional singer, a doctor@ who works at a clinic in ohio. anthony atkins. you got this idea from the kids you saw. >> the idea from working with youth. it started in ohio, working in a fast track e.r. teen pregnancies come as tds, guns, drugs, things of that nature. we just developed a bond. i started talking to them. john: you would say to these kids, like you live like this? >> very stra