Katherine Glover

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Environmental Lawyer Profiles

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

When Every Day is Earth Day
by Katherine Glover
Southern California Super Lawyers 2010
February 2010

These four lawyers spend their lives toiling to keep a righteous balance between the needs of the environment and the demands of business and government. (Joel Reynolds; Les Lo Baugh; Greg Wilkinson; Lawrence Riff)


Brad Caldwell Picked Law Over CIA

Friday, April 17th, 2009

From CIA to TBA
By Katherine Glover
SuperLawyer
Texas Rising Stars 2009 (April 2009)

Brad Caldwell meets the most convincing law school recruiter ever…


SCOTUS case on asylum and persecution

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Asylum case for immigrants hinges on ‘participation in persecution’ issue
By Katherine Glover
MinnPost.com
March 16, 2009

Should an immigrant be denied asylum because he participated in persecution, even if his participation was forced?


Profile of Food Contamination Lawyers

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

The Food Detectives
by Katherine Glover
Minnesota Law & Politics
August/September 2008

After something like E. coli strikes, these lawyers turn into Columbo.


The Limits of Religious Freedom at Work

Friday, August 24th, 2007

God on the Job
by Katherine Glover
News21

Head scarves, vacation days, proselytizing, condemning gay co-workers on religious grounds, refusing to transport alcohol or dispense birth control pills – where do we draw the line? Employers and courts struggle to find a balance in how far religion should be accommodated in the workplace.

Also includes interactive sidebars – a selection of cases in which the job itself went against an employee’s religion, an overview of what courts have said about uniforms and dress code policies, and a surprising answer to the question “Can a company ever require an employee to convert to Islam?”


Wrongful conviction story: Robert Wilson

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Righting Wrongs
by Katherine Glover and Giang Nguyen
Medill News Service
February 27, 2007

A woman realizes after ten years that the man she’d sent to prison was not the man who’d attacked her.


Mayor Daley and Chicago police torture lawsuit

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Daley named in torture lawsuit
by Katherine Glover
Medill News Service
February 14, 2007

Lawyers petition to add Mayor Daley to a complaint regarding the infamous Chicago police torture scandal of the 1970s and 1980s.