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March 2, 1807 – Congress abolishes slave trade.

Hanis Irvine Prothero welcomes new hire Kirsten Sinness to the firm. Kirsten joins HIP as a Legal Assistant assisting Partner Patrick Hanis in the areas of Business and Real Estate Law and Associate Attorney Amy Meharry in the area of Family Law.

On this date, in 1840, 2 U.S. Naval officers filed a salvage suit claiming rights to the schooner, La Amistad and the cargo aboard – 53 slaves. Former President John Quincy Adams represented the slaves, arguing they had the right to mutiny under the circumstances. Anthony Hopkins played Adams in the Oscar award winning picture, Amistad – a great movie for people with interest in the law.

 

February 15, 1879 – Statute permitting female lawyers to argue before U.S. Supreme Court enacted.

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