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Shareholder Hugh A. McCabe, Inducted Into the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
Neil Dymott congratulates Shareholder, Hugh A. McCabe on his admission to the American Board of Trial Advocates.
On Thursday, February 28, 2008, Hugh McCabe was introduced as a member of the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). Mr. McCabe was formally inducted into ABOTA in October of 2007.
Membership in this organization is by invitation only to trial attorneys who have demonstrated excellent trial skills while maintaining the highest levels of professionalism, integrity, honor, and courtesy. Members shall have at least five years of active experience as a trial lawyer and shall have tried a minimum of twenty civil jury trials to a verdict in a court of general jurisdiction or a federal court.
In 1958, a group of attorneys created the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) with the hopes of preserving the United States Constitution's Seventh Amendment guarantee; the right to trial by jury. There are more than 6,300 lawyers and judges spread among 93 Chapters in all 50 States and the District of Columbia.
For more information on this organization, visit their website www.abota.org