Sentences with phrase «creative public lawyers»

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The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

Writers include Anne Pasternak (director of public arts fund Creative Time) and civil rights lawyer Tony Serra.

10:43 p.m. Updated The Center for Biological Diversity is known for creative public relations stunts, like deploying one of its lawyers in a polar bear suit at climate talks in Copenhagen last December:

While there is absolutely nothing wrong with using outside and creative talent to craft a blog, a lawyer that uses a «ghost blogger» without a disclaimer, to publicly advertise the lawyer's engagement with and competence in a particular area, violates Rule 7.1's prohibition against misleading statements or claims in public communications about the lawyer or the lawyer's services.

The video below produced by the personal injury law firm of Trolman, Glaser & Lichtman in New York is a good example of a law firm video that is refreshingly creative and innovative - essentially, the video pokes fun at personal injury lawyers by acknowledging - «tongue in cheek» - the public's perception that personal injury lawyers commence lawsuits on the flimsiest grounds (in the video, a prospective client is claiming he suffered «pain and suffering» when power was lost during a stellar performance on his favorite video game; he now wants to sue the utility).

He suggests that creative solutions are necessary in order to provide the public with better information about the quality of lawyers and the legal services that they provide.

There is also a need for more clarification and creative thinking about the roles of different stakeholders: is this a funding issue requiring greater public sector intervention, an education and training issue requiring greater collaboration between lawyers, law schools and other disciplines, or solely a regulatory issue?

After practicing as a lawyer for nine years in New York, Kaplan has become a public speaker and career advisor for law students and legal professionals and most recently authored The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development (Thomson - West, 2008).

Vancouver litigator Reidar Mogerman, one of the lawyers involved in the foam litigation, says, «We were trying to be creative and aggressive in reaching out to the public.»

Our Creative Commons license meets many needs, but with the able assistance of Jon Festinger QC — a media lawyer with unique credentials for this sort of thing — we are now looking to craft a custom set of policies (terms of service, copyright policy, and Creative Commons licensing) along with better communication around open licensing, expectations, and best practices for open licensing in the public legal education and information (PLEI) sector.

In the United States, the promise of a large contingent fee can incentivize an entrepreneurial lawyer with a creative legal theory to pursue class action litigation even in the absence of widespread public awareness of a perceived wrong.

CPM's Mission is to promote the non-adversarial resolution of conflicts; to promote Collaborative Practice, encouraging parties to reach agreements in a creative and respectful manner in which lawyers do not litigate and in which a multi-disciplinary professional approach to problem solving is employed; and to educate the public and the professional community about the process and value of CP.