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With DADT's Demise, Law Schools Dropping Military Recruiter Bans

The National Law Journal

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Don't Ask, Don't Tell has long been a source of controversy at law schools, and the end of the policy means that law campuses will become less hostile to military recruiters.

Case Against Alleged Fort Hood Shooter to Test Military Justice System

The National Law Journal

Monday, November 16, 2009

Lawyers involved in the court-martial of the man accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, will shoulder incredible pressure from inside and outside the military to get it right, experts on military law say. And they'll have to do it while trying to find an unbiased jury and managing a complex and high-profile capital trial at the same time overlapping congressional investigations may be under way. Even under normal circumstances, a court-martial is a "real drain" on the military and needs to be handled expeditiously, said John O'Connor, a partner at Washington's Steptoe & Johnson

Houston Lawyers Develop Niche in Iraq War-Related Cases

Texas Lawyer

Monday, November 16, 2009

Toby Cole and Mark Midani, partners in Houston's Midani, Hinkle & Cole, have carved out a specialty of sorts: Iraq war-related cases. They are handling about a dozen pending complaints for current and former employees of KBR Inc., a Houston-based military contractor with operations in Iraq. Cole estimates there are about 30 federal civil suits pending in the United States in which Iraqi plaintiffs are suing private security contractors operating in Iraq.

Plaintiffs Suing KBR Hope to Lift Order Keeping Cases Secret

Texas Lawyer

Monday, June 9, 2008

Three suits against military contractors in Iraq over the deaths or injuries of civilian truck drivers in convoys attacked by Iraqi insurgents in April 2004 have been veiled in secrecy for more than two years. (Pictured: Tobias Cole of Midani, Hinkle & Cole)

Fog of War: Jack Zimmermann Sees Larger Cause in His Defense of Marine Charged With Iraq Killings

Texas Lawyer

Monday, September 3, 2007

For Houston criminal-defense attorney Jack Zimmermann, a civilian lawyer who has practiced in the military justice system for 25 years, the case of a U.S. Marine charged with the "unpremeditated murder" of two Iraqi children was an opportunity to show that the military system "is fairer than the state and federal systems if it functions the way it is supposed to function."