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departments Message 6 President’s Our Challenge, Our Charge By Denise Scofield the Editor 8 From To Mandate, or Not to Mandate,
That is The Question
By Tamara Stiner Toomer the Bar 33 AtJudicial Portrait
Retirement Ceremony
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Spotlight 34 Committee Membership, Member
Benefits, and Pictorial Roster Committee By Nick Nicholas
Profile in Professionalism 35 ACarol Vance Retired Partner, Bracewell & Giuliani LLP Former Harris County District Attorney the Record 36 OffVivienne Schiffer:
Preserving History through Fact, Fiction, and Film By Polly Graham
Reviews 37 Media Spinning the Law: Trying Cases
in the Court of Public Opinion Reviewed by Don Rogers
Trends 37 Legal Supreme Court Ruling Threatens
Groundwater Regulation By Val Perkins
The Post-Wal-Mart v. Dukes World: Class Actions with a Twist By N. Jill Yaziji
The Houston Lawyer
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