Sentences with phrase «civil practice judge»

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The Illinois Appellate Court this week found that the judge in the McHenry civil case erred by raising the bar too high for state prosecutors seeking to ban Yvonne Cryns from practicing midwifery without a license.

Judge has developed an interest in the bizarre cultural practices and civil restrictions supposedly in play within North Korea's borders and predominantly reported to us by the tabloid press.

Such rules of civil practice include guidelines as to the type of information that is acceptable by a jury or judge, the method of presentation of the information, and by what standards of proof a judgment will be made based on the information.

-- authored by Circuit Judge Hurwitz [majority decision] and concurring opinion by Circuit Judge Reinhardt; discussed in our Oct. 10, 2015 post: District court in Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act case which substantially reduced fee request was reversed based upon its reliance on inapt practice area hourly rates, upon its discounts for plaintiff's attorneys not delegating tasks to associates given that only small firms prosecuted these type of cases, and upon its use of stale prior fee awards involving fee claimant's attorneys.

My long life falls naturally into four unequal parts: (1) Childhood, School, National Service and University; (2) Practice at the English Bar; (3) Service as a senior judge; and (4) Retirement (including a very active practice as a civil mediator and involvement in a leadership role in several different chaPractice at the English Bar; (3) Service as a senior judge; and (4) Retirement (including a very active practice as a civil mediator and involvement in a leadership role in several different chapractice as a civil mediator and involvement in a leadership role in several different charities).

That said, a review of the applications of the judges she named suggests that her appointments have been based on merit, not politics, and reflect a range of experience in criminal defense, criminal prosecution and civil practice.

Faculty member of the Connecticut Bar Association and Regional Bar Association's joint Symposium on Professionalism, Civil Practice forum on both occasions it was held in Stamford, which were moderated by state and federal judges and the Keynote speakers were then - Chief Justice William J. Sullivan and, in 2010, Chief Justice Chase Rogers.

We hear about this changing face of the practice incessantly: growing numbers of self reps; access to civil denied for financial reasons to ever - expanding sections of society; court lists and judges groaning under the weight of the extra time required to deal with these kind of cases.

In addition, the practice offers significant experience in class actions and complex commercial litigation, including civil and criminal cases before juries and judges in multiple jurisdictions, avoiding a full trial whenever possible — but successfully trying cases where necessary.

Prior to beginning his judicial career, Judge Riccuiuti practiced in both the private and public sector, including as a Partner at K&L Gates, an Assistant United States Attorney at the United States Attorney's Office in Boston, and as a trial attorney with the Employment Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, DC.

Judge Karem returned to private practice in 1993 as a partner in the firm of Sitlinger, McGincy, Theiler & Karem, a civil trial firm.

: An indispensable reference for any civil litigator, written for legal practitioners and reviewed by judges, legal officers and practice leaders, giving you the weight of authority when referencing it in court.

86 See Carl Tobias, Local Federal Civil Procedure for the Twenty - First Century, 77 Notre Dame L. Rev. 533, 533 (2002)(noting that «[l] awyers and parties face, and federal judges apply, a bewildering panorama of requirements,» including «[a] stunning array of local measures — including local rules; general, special, and scheduling orders; [and] individual - judge practices»).

Resource people have included judges, justices of the peace, counsel from the Crown Law Office — Criminal and the Crown Law Office — Civil as well as other lawyers in the Ministry of the Attorney General, lawyers in private practice, and representatives of various Aboriginal organizations.

Faculty for these workshops have included judges, justices of the peace, counsel from the Crown Law Office — Criminal and the Crown Law Office — Civil as well as other lawyers in the Ministry of the Attorney General, lawyers in private practice, and representatives of various Aboriginal organizations.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Walker clerked for the Honorable U.W. Clemon, the first black Federal Judge in the State of Alabama and a civil rights icon.

125 See Yoon, supra note 123, at 661 (reporting that federal judges hearing civil cases ranked intellectual property and commercial litigation attorneys as providing the highest quality representation and family and immigration law attorneys as providing the lowest quality representation, and noting that the rankings are roughly consistent with relative attorney salaries in those practice areas).

He began his legal career as a judicial law clerk to Judge Maurice Louik in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Civil Division, doing civil jury and nonjury trial work and general practice, including divorce work in the Family Divisions and Domestic Relations sections of Western PennsylvCivil Division, doing civil jury and nonjury trial work and general practice, including divorce work in the Family Divisions and Domestic Relations sections of Western Pennsylvcivil jury and nonjury trial work and general practice, including divorce work in the Family Divisions and Domestic Relations sections of Western Pennsylvania.

Throughout his career in private practice, Judge Shea maintained an active pro bono practice, receiving awards from both the Hartford County and Connecticut Bar Associations for his work on behalf of indigent persons in criminal and civil cases.

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, pursuant to the foregoing enabling act and to the matters recited in the foregoing preface, that the annexed rules be and the same hereby are adopted for the regulation of original and appellate civil practice and procedure in judicial proceedings in the district courts of the State of Nevada, and the forms annexed thereto approved; that the same shall be effective on January 1, 1953; that publication thereof be made by the mailing of a printed copy by the clerk of this court to each member of the State Bar of Nevada according to the clerk's official list of membership of such Bar (which will include all district judges and district attorneys), and that the certificate of the clerk of this court as to such mailing, not less than sixty days prior to January 1, 1953, shall be conclusive evidence of the adoption and publication of said rules in accordance with the provisions of said enabling act.

Given that the judges want electronic documents (see, for example the Court of Appeal Practice Direction Concerning Civil Appeals in the Court of Appeal, at s. 10.7 «Use of Technology»), I agree there really should be an easier way to do this.

A judge who had been a labour lawyer once remarked in my presence (so this is the only citation you get)-- in exactly this context of the potential threat to lawyers» practices from ADR in civil litigation — that the practice of labour law showed how lawyers could make a good living resolving a lot of disputes quickly, rather than through the traditional civil litigation model of mining a few cases deeply over a long period.

So, the civil law is by definition foreign to the common law, and equally foreign, in practice, to many common law judges.

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The discriminatory practices of judges, attorneys and juries have been documented as contributing to the disproportionate representation of African - Americans in the justice system (e.g. Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, 2000).