Julie Sejpal, 68, of Carbondale passed away on Monday, Dec. 28, at Allied Services Hospice, Scranton, after a brief illness. She was preceded in death by her husband, Vinod âVinoâ Sejpal.
Born in Carbondale, she was the daughter of the late Hubert Griffin Sr. and the late Margaret States Griffin Talapa. She was a 1970 graduate of Benjamin Franklin High School and received degrees in special education from Bloomsburg University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and St. Francis University. She taught special education to middle school students for 35 years, first at Conemaugh Valley School District and later at Forest Hills Middle School. During her retirement, she volunteered with her daughterâs life skills day program by reading to the students. She made a difference in the lives of many children with special needs and loved volunteering her time to other causes over the years. She also enjoyed playing cards with her sisters, trips to the casino, the beach and spend
The Keynote Address delivered last week by Funke Aboyade, SAN FCIArb, at the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Ibadan Branch 2020 Law Week
âWe are this world. Its next generation. If youâre not trying to save us, then what exactly are you trying to save?â â Claudia Gray
Introduction
The topic is apt for these troubled times, as is the quote above. I hope to provoke, to engage, to challenge, to educate not just the audience but also myself, to ginger, to proffer solutions.
Questions, Questions
I begin with perhaps provocative questions. Why Lawyers as frontline advocates, what qualifies us? Put less politely, who do we think we are? Who really are the frontline advocates? Are we really the salt of the earth, as we like to think? Or have we lost our saltiness, no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot? This, after all, is a country where weâve gone from the days when people took off their shoes, tiptoed and spoke in whispers j