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It's been said. . .

“In light of the impact on the (Supreme) Court's operations, the Court and the Administrative Office would hope there would be a mechanism for restoration, certainly to mandatory arbitration, which relies on these funds to operate a court program, as well as to (the Lawyers' Assistance Program).”

Cynthia Y. Cobbs, director of the Administrative

Office of the Illinois Courts, on fund “sweeps” that

transferred earmarked funds in the Court's budget

into the state's General Revenue Fund

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“I do take offense when I get rated lower than a dead, disbarred lawyer.”

Seattle criminal defense lawyer John Browne, who

filed a class action lawsuit against owners of avvo.com,

a Web site that rates lawyers on a 10-point scale;

Browne 5.5, Bernie Potter (disbarred and deceased) 6.2

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“It's much more difficult than we expected.”

William R. Rakes, chair of an ABA section working on

proposed benchmarks to measure accredited law schools'

preparation of graduates to pass the bar exam