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Attributions It's been said. . . (A)cross the country, many states are forcing their most experienced jurists off the bench because of arbitrary age limits based on outmoded ideas about aging. Part of a resolution adopted by the ABA House of Delegates at its recent meeting in Miami, urging states to raise the age at which judges are required to retire; in Illinois, judges must retire by age 75 The person doing a Google search is seeking a particular type of lawyer in a particular field from a particular (geographic) area. The consumer is looking for testimonials and looking for the experience of a lawyer. Dennis Kainen, a member of The Florida Bar's Board of Governors, on a proposed rule change that would allow lawyers to post client testimonials and claims of past successes on their law firm Web sites "I am not the Cookie Monster. (Fellow inmates) asked me what I was in for and I told them cookies.' It'd be funny if it wasn't so embarrassing. Tory Caruth, a Joliet truck driver, after release from the Will County jail on a charge of failing to turn in payment for 118 boxes of Girl Scout cookies sold by his daughter five years ago; Caruth maintains he never signed the permission form that would make him responsible for the paymen |