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NCSC Inducts Six New Members into Warren E. Burger SocietyWilliamsburg, VA ( November 16, 2007) – The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) recently inducted six new members into the Warren E. Burger Society. The Burger Society honors individuals who have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to improving the administration of justice through extraordinary contributions of service and support to the NCSC. This year’s honorees are David K. Byers, Administrative Director of the Courts, Arizona Supreme Court; Elizabeth Cabraser, a founding partner of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein; Robert D. G. and Jacqueline Lewis; Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard, Indiana Supreme Court; and Stephen D. Susman, founding partner of Susman Godfrey. South Carolina Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal, chair of the NCSC Board of Directors and president of the Conference of Chief Justices, inducted the new members into the Burger Society at the NCSC Annual Recognition Luncheon in Washington, D.C. Inductees to the Burger Society are selected by a committee that is chaired by Texas attorney Charles M. Noteboom, who commissioned the original portrait of Chief Justice Burger that hangs in NCSC headquarters. Each new Burger Society member receives a limited edition print of the portrait, which is signed and numbered by the artist, Fran Di Giacomo. Chief Justice Burger’s children own the first two prints, and the late Chief Justice Rehnquist owned the last print, numbered 1986, the year Chief Justice Burger retired and Chief Justice Rehnquist took office. The NCSC, headquartered in Williamsburg, Va., is a non-profit court reform organization dedicated to improving the administration of justice by providing leadership and service to the state courts. The NCSC, founded in 1971 by the Conference of Chief Justices and Chief Justice of the United States Warren E. Burger, provides education, training, and technology, management, and research services to the nation’s state courts. The NCSC also is taking the lead on several key issues facing the justice system. For example, it has established a major civil justice initiative, a multiyear project that is examining best practices in civil case management and how complex litigation procedures can be improved. Other national initiatives being driven by the NCSC include judicial selection reform and increasing citizen participation in jury service. ###
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