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Attorney Douglas J. Austin Featured as a Best Lawyer For 25th Year in a Row

P-Austin, DougFraser Trebilcock Attorney Douglas J. Austin was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2015 in the field of Real Estate Law.

Mr. Austin was first listed in The Best Lawyers in America in 1989 in Real Estate Law. He has also achieved an AV© peer review rating by Martindale-Hubbell.

Best Lawyers©  is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which almost 50,000 leading attorneys cast nearly five million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas; Continue reading Attorney Douglas J. Austin Featured as a Best Lawyer For 25th Year in a Row

Law Day Is A Good Time To Reflect On Our Freedoms

Today, May 1st, is Law Day in the United States.  Thus, it is an appropriate time for all of us to pause and consider the many privileges of living in a free society; privileges which we often take for granted, and responsibilities which we too often overlook.

Distracted by day-to-day concerns, we often lose sight of the fact that we routinely enjoy freedoms that are denied to most of the people in the world today.

While we enjoy freedom of the press, people in many nations have no choice but to read the propaganda in a single government-controlled newspaper.

While we enjoy freedom of speech, Russia and other countries have implemented sweeping restrictions on the Internet.

While we enjoy freedom of religion, people in fully one-third of the world’s nations face sadistic torture merely because of their religious beliefs.

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