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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Thursday announced he will appoint state Attorney General Jeff Chiesa to the seat left vacant by the death of Democratic senator Frank Lautenberg . Chiesa will serve for only a few months until a new senator can be chosen in a special election on Oct. 16 , a date chosen by Christie. Christie said Chiesa will be sworn in Monday after the necessary paperwork is filed. Chiesa's name came largely as a surprise . In the hours before his...

TEHRAN, Iran — Just weeks after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election victory in 2005, Iran's top nuclear negotiator Hasan Rowhani stepped down from the post after quarrelsome meetings with the new president. The decision cemented Rowhani's reputation as a moderate who rejected Ahmadinejad's combative approach in world affairs in favor of the more nuanced philosophy of Ahmadinejad's leading political foe, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani was rejected by Iran's election...

A moment, please, for the down-ballot journeyman. He's put on his gray suit, though he needn't have. He shakes the limp hands of the preoccupied. He's waited through hours of puffery and platitudes to deliver his stump speech. "Hey, how's everybody doing this afternoon?" Hubbub. The Democratic candidate forum is over. The crowd has splintered in the auditorium of a public charter school on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE. Nate Bennett-Fleming, 27, raises his voice. "Can I have your...

A look at the six candidates in Iran's presidential election Friday. Two others — parliament member Gholam Ali Haddad Adel and former Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref — withdrew earlier this week. ___ SAEED JALILI: Iran's top nuclear negotiator since 2007 and considered a hardliner. Jalili, 47, is believed to have backing from many in the ruling theocracy, including possibly Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He also gained the support of ultraconservative cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi,...

In Lynne Hyde's earliest memory of her father, he is pointing out star formations. The two used to stand on their balcony and watch stars shoot across the night sky. When her father, Bill Kraham, of Gaithersburg wasn't looking down at a law book, Hyde said, he was looking up at the sky. Now, Kraham, 88, spends much of his day looking up. After working as a lawyer for more than 50 years, spending most of his years in administrative law...

The value of a legal education in this economic climate is a worthy topic. However, in its Nov. 4 Magazine article, " The Case Against Law School ,"The Post focused on a single employment statistic that is grossly misleading and relied on a number taken from only one of 16 primary employment categories collected by the American Bar Association. A legal education is important preparation for a wide array of career choices, including employment in highly competitive jobs and fellowships in legislative and political offices, in...

Sri Srinivasan scores big on every court. As a standout basketball guard for Lawrence High School in Kansas, Class of 1985, Srinivasan could both dish and shoot. As a lawyer, he's argued more than 20 cases before the Supreme Court. And as a new, unanimously confirmed appellate judge, he's joining what's often called the nation's second-highest court. "I'm bursting with pride," said Deanell Reece Tacha, a retired federal appellate judge from Kansas who's known the Srinivasan family for several decades.

Washington real estate businessman Mike Glosserman comes from a hard-nosed line of Texas Hill Country entrepreneurs. So when his son, Marc, asked if Dad wanted to be an investor in Marc's barbecue start-up, the elder Glosserman signed on — with conditions. The investment from the family was not a gift. Mike Glosserman wanted the money back, with interest. Six years later, the Glossermans have their money back — with interest. They collect dividends on their son's...

The 62-year-old Wheaton barber had earned a law degree in his native Thailand and waited eight years for a visa so he could move to the United States and begin a new life. When he heard this year about the Maryland Dream Act, which would grant in-state college tuition discounts to illegal immig rants, he was outraged. "I did the full legal process," Anuchit Washirapunya, who is deaf and cannot speak English, wrote on a notepad as he hunched in his barber's chair. "The illegal students have no right to...

Company: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner. Location: Offices in Washington and Reston. Employees: 761 locally; 974 nationwide. For many prospective students, the decision to go to law school means taking on a hefty burden of debt. But not for future attorneys at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, a law firm that specializes in patent and trademark work. Finnegan has a generous reimbursement program that covers 100 percent of staffers' law school...

Washington real estate businessman Mike Glosserman comes from a hard-nosed line of Texas Hill Country entrepreneurs. So when his son, Marc, asked if Dad wanted to be an investor in Marc's barbecue start-up, the elder Glosserman signed on — with conditions. The investment from the family was not a gift. Mike Glosserman wanted the money back, with interest. Six years later, the Glossermans have their money back — with interest. They collect dividends on their son's Hill Country...

J. Bankhead Davies, who practiced law in Arlington County for more than 60 years, died May 12 at his home in Fairfax City. He was 96. He had dementia, said his son, Bankhead T. Davies. Mr. Davies founded the law firm of Douglas & Davies with Lawrence Douglas in the late 1940s. After Douglas retired in the 1950s, Mr. Davies continued as a solo practitioner until he was joined in the practice by his son, Bankhead, in 1982. Father and son practiced under the name Davies & Davies until the elder Mr. Davies retired in 2007.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Thursday announced he will appoint state Attorney General Jeff Chiesa to the seat left vacant by the death of Democratic senator Frank Lautenberg . Chiesa will serve for only a few months until a new senator can be chosen in a special election on Oct. 16 , a date chosen by Christie. Christie said Chiesa will be sworn in Monday after the necessary paperwork is filed. Chiesa's name came largely as a surprise . In the hours before his...

NAME: Jeffrey S. Chiesa AGE: 47 RESIDENCE: Branchburg, N.J. POLITICAL PARTY: Republican NEW FOUR-MONTH JOB: appointed by Gov. Chris Christie as U.S. senator, effective Monday, filling seat of the late U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg until the winner of an Oct. 16 special election takes office. Will not run for election. CHRISTIE ADMINISTRATION ROLES: state attorney general since Jan. 10, 2012; governor's chief counsel, 2010-11; executive director of governor's...

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie named a longtime loyal colleague, state Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa, to temporarily fill the U.S. Senate seat Thursday that opened up this week after Frank Lautenberg's death. Chiesa, 47, has never held or run for political office and will not seek the office in an October special election to fill the seat for a longer period, Christie said. Appointing a caretaker to the Senate means that Christie has not...

NAME — Samantha Power. AGE-BIRTH DATE — 42; Sept. 21, 1970. EXPERIENCE — Former special assistant to the president and senior director for multilateral affairs and human rights, 2009-2013; foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama, 2005-2006, 2008; previously a columnist and correspondent for various publications including Time magazine, U.S. News & World Report and The Economist; and a professor of U.S. foreign policy, human rights and...

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie named a longtime loyal colleague, state Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa, to temporarily fill the U.S. Senate seat Thursday that opened up this week after Frank Lautenberg's death. Chiesa, 47, has never held or run for political office and will not seek the office in an October special election to fill the seat for a longer period, Christie said. Appointing a caretaker to the Senate means that Christie has not anointed anyone the...

Harvey B. Steinberg, 82, who practiced divorce law in Montgomery County for more than 40 years, died Feb. 21 at his daughter's home in Derwood after a heart attack. He was a Rockville resident. A daughter, Pamela Mayer, confirmed the death. Mr. Steinberg was a senior partner of the Rockville law firm Miller, Steinberg & Hessler until 1999, when it closed. He then did divorce mediation for the Montgomery County Circuit Court before retiring in 2002. He was recognized twice by Washingtonian magazine as a top area...