Nick Critelli has been invited to present a paper at the Gibraltar Human Rights Conference on 2nd and 3rd of September 2004. Over 170 delegates are expected to participate. Nick’s presentation will cover the civil aspects of international child abduction. In attendance at the Symposium will be Chief Justices, senior judges, lawyers and law teachers […]
The Law Chambers of Nicholas Critelli, p.c., has been selected as the recipient of the College of Law Practice Management’s First Annual InnovAction Award. This award recognizes innovation in law practices around the world. The InnovAction Award is a worldwide search for lawyers and/or law firms, of all sizes, currently engaged in extraordinarily innovative effort. […]
Our 2004 Anglo-American Scholar is Andrew Commins. Mr Commins studies for the LLB (European) law degree at the University of Exeter. He then completed a Masters degree in German Law and Procedure at the University of Saarland, Germany, which was supported through a scholarship from the Deutsche Akademishe Austauschdiendst (DAAD). Mr Commins then spent a […]
President’s Letter: August 2004 The front page of the June 23, 2004, edition of the Des Moines Register detailed a controversy surrounding the friendship between U.S. District Court Judge Mark Bennett and defense Attorneys Alfredo Parrish and Leon Spies. The article stated that “gossip about Bennett’s relationship with Parrish and Spies trickled back to the […]
President Letter: July 2004 Life in a two-lawyer home. Life in a two-lawyer Bar Association-oriented household can be very interesting. Instead of talking about theater, cuisine, or the myriad other topics that engage modern couples, Lylea and I talk about Bar issues. The other morning I was complaining about the newest lawyer joke on late […]
As the 118th President of the Iowa State Bar Association, I want to welcome you to the 2004 – 2005 ISBA year. Last year President Collins lead us through a reorganization and gave us a streamlined organization. I liken it to an airplane. He re-built it, replaced the prop with a jet, and and taxied […]
Proposed new Rules of Professional Conduct After two years of study, the Iowa Supreme Court has proposed new Rules of Professional Conduct. For the last 30 years, we have been operating under the Iowa CODE of Professional Responsibility. Now it appears that we will switch to from the Code to the Rules. The Rules will […]
Other attorneys’ perception of barristers and US attorneys can often been found in legal directories. Such directories are typically backed up by research and independent editorial and are used widely in the market place. The 2004 edition of the leading directories in the field, Chambers and Partners, has this to say about our practice: Chambers […]
Tre Critelli, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s Kathy Ruckman, and John Ballif, the Director of the Office of Children’s Issues with the U.S. Department of State gave a half-day presentation to the Iowa State Sheriffs’ & Deputies’ Association at their Winter School in Des Moines, Iowa. The presentation concerned International Child Abduction […]
Due to our involvement in a number of International Parental Child Abduction matters (most recently, Morgan v Morgan), we have been invited to participate in the US Department of State’s symposium on the 15th Anniversary of the International Child Abduction Remedies Act (ICARA), which implements the the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International […]
