After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, in which dozens upon dozens of lawyers suffered everything from damage to their building to a total loss of their practice, David F. Bienvenu, a New Orleans lawyer and chair of
the ABA Special Committee on Disaster Response and Preparedness wrote in the ABA Journal that lawyers have «a responsibility to our clients to make sure we're adequately prepared to address possible emergencies.»
Not exact matches
The AAAS's commitment to engage issues involving scientific freedom, responsibility, and law has two historical beginnings marked by the establishment of a
Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, born as a special committee in 1970 and made permanent in 1976, and by the establishment of the AAAS - ABA National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists
Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, born as a
special committee in 1970 and made permanent in 1976, and by the establishment of the AAAS - ABA National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists
committee in 1970 and made permanent in 1976, and by the establishment of the AAAS -
ABA National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists in 1974.
On November 28, 2017, ELI, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., the American Bar Association (
ABA) Civil Rights & Social Justice's Environmental Justice
Committee, and the
ABA Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources
Special Committee on Environmental Justice held a special program, Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Threats and Opportunities, that featured U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D - NJ) as the keynote s
Special Committee on Environmental Justice held a
special program, Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Threats and Opportunities, that featured U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D - NJ) as the keynote s
special program, Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Threats and Opportunities, that featured U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D - NJ) as the keynote speaker.
In 2013, the American Bar Association appointed Stu as a member of the
Special Committee on Bioethics and the Law, which is part of the
ABA's Division for Public Services, an
ABA department dedicated to applying the knowledge and experience of the legal profession to promotion of the public good.
The
ABA addressed the need for change and to modernize ethics rules in 1969, when its
Special Committee on Evaluation of Ethical Standards issued the Model Code of Professional Responsibility.
«The Gideon decision was a huge unfunded mandate,» says Lefstein, a
special adviser to the
ABA's Standing
Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants and a past chair of the Criminal Justice Section.
Board of Trustees, National Conference of Bar Examiners Chairman, Wyoming Board of Law Examiners, 2017 Wyoming State Co-Chair, Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, 2017 NCBE National
Committee Member,
Special Committee on the Uniform Bar Exam, 2017 Wyoming Board of Law Examiners, 2014 - Present Wyoming State Bar Delegate to the
ABA House of Delegates, 2014 - Present NCBE National
Committee Member, Multistate Essay Exam / Multistate Performance Test, 2016 Editorial
Committee, Wyoming Lawyer Magazine, 2015 - present Fellow, American Bar Foundation, 2014 - present Volunteer Firefighter, Farson, Wyoming, 2007 - Present School Advisory Board, Farson, Wyoming, 2012 - Present Board of Directors, Central Wyoming College Foundation, 2006 - 2008
They've done a really great series of
special reports from the
ABA Meeting recently down in Houston, where they had 32 different interviews with leaders from the
ABA discussing their various divisions,
committees and programs.
Our team includes a founding member of the Health Fraud Task Force for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida, a former deputy to the DOJ
Special Counsel for Financial and Health Care Fraud, and two current co-chairs of the Health Care Fraud Sub-
Committee of the
ABA White Collar Crime
Committee.
Environmental and utilities lawyer Emilee Mooney Scott has been appointed to chair the
Special Committee on Young Lawyers of the
ABA's Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER) for the 2014 — 2015 year.
The
ABA had a
Special Committee on Law Lists for years.