The result was keep. Black Kite (talk) 23:12, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
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WP:NOTINHERITED and WP:NOSALESMEN
The article is a WP:PROMO article and should be deleted per WP:NOTINHERITED and WP:NOSALESMEN. Subject does not meet notability test. I found trivial mentions of work in news searches, google searches, JSTOR, and others.
Working on high-profile litigation is not itself notable, especially when hundreds of attorneys can work on a case and perform minor supporting roles. For instance, just one nonprofit worked with at least 600 attorneys on Gitmo litigation as of 2008, but merely appearing on a legal team for a notable case does not meet notability guidelines. Many lawyers work on high-profile cases; Wikipedia does not list hundreds of thousands of lawyers merely because of that.
Additionally, fails WP:NOSALESMEN parts 4 and 5. Contributions are primarily a personal resume: the article consists solely of her relative's name, the names of her former clients, and her work filing an unsuccessful FOIA lawsuit. The only exception -- the article's statement that "Gorman and fellow habeas corpus attorney Anant Raut were two of the first people to dispute the Bush administration's charge that approximately 30 former Guantanamo detainees had returned to the battlefield, a claim later substantiated by researchers at Seton Hall Law School" -- is unsourced; the cited source (number 3) does not mention Mr. Raut's and Ms. Gorman's supposed stance. Moreover, it is not clear why disputing a Bush Administration stance (something half of Americans, if not more, did) is notable.
The article focuses on what her clients have done or been accused of, not what she has done, with the exception of an apparently losing effort to sue the government once (something hundreds of thousands of attorneys have done). Signing on to be part of a legal team is itself not notable. Yipee8f93k ( talk) 14:26, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
Due to in-depth coverage in multiple sources, I think Candace Gorman is Wikipedia-notable. But I am asking David Eppstein for his advice, because he knows more about policy than I do. HouseOfChange ( talk) 02:10, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
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Gorman, who practices alone, specializes in civil rights cases. She has been doing this for 25 years, simultaneously raising three kids, the youngest of whom is now in 11th grade...After majoring in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Candace Gorman followed in the footsteps of her brother and father by going to law school.
With the approval of a federal judge, Chicago attorney Candace Gorman has spent much of the last year combing through street files found in the basement of the old Wentworth Area headquarters, trying to match their contents with evidence that was disclosed by police and prosecutors at the time of trials long ago...Gorman and her small team of attorneys have spent hundreds of hours and tens of thousands of dollars tracking down prisoners whose murder cases were among the stack she was allowed to review.
'Thank you, Mr. al-Ghizzawi, I am officially your lawyer.' With that exchange of consent, Candace Gorman, a fiftyish civil rights lawyer from Chicago, mom of three teenagers, steps to the edge of a border, a low, long table separating her from a man the U.S. government calls among the 'worst of the worst.'
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Among Guantánamo attorneys, she is fondly referred to as the 'feisty Gitmo lawyer.' Gorman reaches a broad audience through speaking engagements, as well as periodic articles published in the Huffington Post and In These Times, a not-for-profit, independent news magazine... At her law clerk's suggestion and with his technological savvy, she maintains a blog ( http://gtmoblog.blogspot.com), and frequently posts articles, stories and artwork relating to issues at Guantánamo.
The result was keep. Black Kite (talk) 23:12, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
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WP:NOTINHERITED and WP:NOSALESMEN
The article is a WP:PROMO article and should be deleted per WP:NOTINHERITED and WP:NOSALESMEN. Subject does not meet notability test. I found trivial mentions of work in news searches, google searches, JSTOR, and others.
Working on high-profile litigation is not itself notable, especially when hundreds of attorneys can work on a case and perform minor supporting roles. For instance, just one nonprofit worked with at least 600 attorneys on Gitmo litigation as of 2008, but merely appearing on a legal team for a notable case does not meet notability guidelines. Many lawyers work on high-profile cases; Wikipedia does not list hundreds of thousands of lawyers merely because of that.
Additionally, fails WP:NOSALESMEN parts 4 and 5. Contributions are primarily a personal resume: the article consists solely of her relative's name, the names of her former clients, and her work filing an unsuccessful FOIA lawsuit. The only exception -- the article's statement that "Gorman and fellow habeas corpus attorney Anant Raut were two of the first people to dispute the Bush administration's charge that approximately 30 former Guantanamo detainees had returned to the battlefield, a claim later substantiated by researchers at Seton Hall Law School" -- is unsourced; the cited source (number 3) does not mention Mr. Raut's and Ms. Gorman's supposed stance. Moreover, it is not clear why disputing a Bush Administration stance (something half of Americans, if not more, did) is notable.
The article focuses on what her clients have done or been accused of, not what she has done, with the exception of an apparently losing effort to sue the government once (something hundreds of thousands of attorneys have done). Signing on to be part of a legal team is itself not notable. Yipee8f93k ( talk) 14:26, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
Due to in-depth coverage in multiple sources, I think Candace Gorman is Wikipedia-notable. But I am asking David Eppstein for his advice, because he knows more about policy than I do. HouseOfChange ( talk) 02:10, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
References
Gorman, who practices alone, specializes in civil rights cases. She has been doing this for 25 years, simultaneously raising three kids, the youngest of whom is now in 11th grade...After majoring in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Candace Gorman followed in the footsteps of her brother and father by going to law school.
With the approval of a federal judge, Chicago attorney Candace Gorman has spent much of the last year combing through street files found in the basement of the old Wentworth Area headquarters, trying to match their contents with evidence that was disclosed by police and prosecutors at the time of trials long ago...Gorman and her small team of attorneys have spent hundreds of hours and tens of thousands of dollars tracking down prisoners whose murder cases were among the stack she was allowed to review.
'Thank you, Mr. al-Ghizzawi, I am officially your lawyer.' With that exchange of consent, Candace Gorman, a fiftyish civil rights lawyer from Chicago, mom of three teenagers, steps to the edge of a border, a low, long table separating her from a man the U.S. government calls among the 'worst of the worst.'
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Among Guantánamo attorneys, she is fondly referred to as the 'feisty Gitmo lawyer.' Gorman reaches a broad audience through speaking engagements, as well as periodic articles published in the Huffington Post and In These Times, a not-for-profit, independent news magazine... At her law clerk's suggestion and with his technological savvy, she maintains a blog ( http://gtmoblog.blogspot.com), and frequently posts articles, stories and artwork relating to issues at Guantánamo.