Sentences with phrase «for federal government lawyers»

For federal government lawyers Lisa Hitch and James Brender, who worked on the Air India ex gratia team, the challenges and the lessons learned were very different.

For federal government lawyers, they waited for an announcement that never came.

Not exact matches

And Mr. Cohen is under federal investigation for bank fraud, raising concerns in the president's inner circle that Mr. Trump's longtime personal lawyer will cooperate with the government.

Unlike the lawyers Trump retained in New York, lawyers who work for the federal government aren't his employees and can't automatically cover for him when questions arise.

The federal government has said that the tax changes it has proposed are aimed at people who fall into the smallest - of - the - small category: many of them professionals such as doctors or lawyers — who incorporated their practices and are eligible for tax benefits available to small businesses.

Another of Ramirez's lawyers, Mark Rosenbaum of the legal advocacy group Public Counsel, characterized the DACA program as a promise from the federal government's executive branch that DACA recipients would not be targeted for deportation and said he hoped that promise would not be broken.

My father, trained as a lawyer, was working for the federal government,...

In the motion filed by federal government lawyer, Mr. Oladipo Opeseyi (SAN), the applicant also applied for an order to permit the witnesses to be addressed with Pseudo names in the cause of the trial of the Ex-NSA.

Lawyers for Silver, the former New York State Assembly speaker, said in a statement the McDonnell decision «makes clear that the federal government has gone too far in prosecuting state officials for conduct that is part of the everyday functioning of those in elected office.»

Rep. Chris Collins is pushing his business partner's brother, John L. Sinatra Jr., for federal judgeship, stunning good government advocates and raising concerns among women lawyers because he would take the seat that the Obama administration wanted to fill with Buffalo's first - ever female district court judge.

He pledged the city will ensure women get the healthcare and family planning assistance if there are cuts to federal funding for Planned Parenthood, and will provide any undocumented New Yorkers with lawyers to protect them and their families if the federal government attempts to round them up and remove them.

In fact, Rattner was also being advised by his lawyers to make himself a lower - profile target for federal and state investigators who were probing whether he had paid off a middleman to win a lucrative contract from New York's pension system while he worked on Wall Street, a government source said Wednesday.

And Mr. Cohen is under federal investigation for bank fraud, raising concerns in the president's inner circle that Mr. Trump's longtime personal lawyer will cooperate with the government.

Ace lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana has slammed the federal government for parading all Nigerians as jokers.

Trump has picked several current and former Jones Day lawyers for top federal government positions.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today told the state's top judge that he believe the day is approaching when government will guarantee all citizens a lawyer in civil court cases — but said that the funding for the attorneys will have to come from the federal level.

During the White Plains federal corruption trial of Halloran (R - Queens), defense lawyer Vinoo Varghese tried to shoot down the government's claims that the pol in 2012 offered to dole out $ 80,000 in no - show city consulting work on a Queens YMCA to the wire - wearing undercover agent in exchange for funds to boost what would be a failed congressional run by Halloran.

For now, the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs has maintained its position, saying the increasing need for lawyers in light of recent federal government actions pertaining to immigration policy have forced the city to reevaluate and prioritize how the allocations are fundFor now, the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs has maintained its position, saying the increasing need for lawyers in light of recent federal government actions pertaining to immigration policy have forced the city to reevaluate and prioritize how the allocations are fundfor lawyers in light of recent federal government actions pertaining to immigration policy have forced the city to reevaluate and prioritize how the allocations are funded.

Tompolo, who is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for an alleged N49.5 bn fraud, sued the Federal Government through his lawyer, Mr. Ebun - Olu Adegboruwa.

When contacted on Friday, a senior lawyer in the CAU of the Federal Ministry of Justice, Mr. Pius Akutah, confirmed that following the judgment of the Court of Appeal setting aside the rulings from the courts in Lagos, the extradition suit would be refiled as soon and the US government sent a fresh request for the senator.

Jegede and another international lawyer, Mr. Charles Adeogun - Philips, have been engaged by the Federal Government to prosecute all the judges it lined up for trial.

«Nowhere will a new lawyer be challenged with greater responsibilities and have the opportunity to do more for the public good than working for the federal government.

Any lawyer working full - time at any position for a city, county, state or federal government agency is eligible.

Our Children's Trust is currently supporting lawyers representing youth plaintiffs in several U.S. states, and a new federal case against the U.S. government is planned for filing later this month.

Last year, in response to a lawsuit filed by Ecojustice lawyers on behalf of Équiterre and the David Suzuki Foundation, the federal government agreed to review the approval of 383 pesticide products containing 23 active ingredients — including difenoconazole — already banned for use in European countries.

CSAS, Inc. provides an overhead - free mechanism to support our work (including travel, computers, copiers), with, by far, the greatest expense being the legal costs we cover for Our Children's Trust lawyers, specifically for Dan Galpern, who is working with me in preparation of testimony and briefs for the case (Juliana et al v. United States) against the Federal government and several other cases.

The federal government disputed all of MacDermid Lamarsh's claim except $ 22,476 in fees for work done under s. 13.02 of the IRSSA, which held that the government agreed to pay lawyers who attended the negotiations for time spent up to the settlement at their normal hourly rate.

It seems the federal government has pissed lawyers off again, this time over who's applying for spots on the federal bench.

Before that, St. Anne's survivors faced hearings for compensation under the settlement agreement's Independent Assessment Process where federal government lawyers denied the existence of documented evidence of abuse at the school.

A retired tax lawyer for the federal government sued his former employer because he alleges the government failed to fulfil its duty of care in regard to giving him complete and accurate information about his pension options.

Canada is under increasing international pressure to include lawyers in its anti-money-laundering and terrorist - financing system, setting the stage for a new confrontation between the federal government and Canada's law societies in coming months.

When the federal government proposed changes on tax policies for private corporations last summer, some lawyers expressed significant concerns.

That means there should be more education for all Canadians about legal issues, greater investment in legal aid from the federal government, and more commitment from lawyers to provide legal aid in the future.

The federal government released a draft of its planned legal limits for drivers under the influence of drugs, but criminal lawyer Kyla Lee has doubts about how well the legislation will hold up against constitutional challenges.

Finally, where an Ontario lawyer seeks to represent a client in accessing a remedy prescribed under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement agreement announced by the federal government in 2006, he or she is expected to comply with the Law Society's «Guidelines for Lawyers acting in aboriginal Residential School Cases.»

The Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers (CARL) applauds the Ontario government for agreeing to temporarily fill the gap left by the federal government's abdication of responsibility to meet the most basic health care needs of vulnerable refugees and refugee claimants.

The Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, together with Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care and two individual patients who were severely impacted by last year's changes, have asked the Federal Court of Canada to declare that the federal government cuts to refugee health care are unconstitutional and iFederal Court of Canada to declare that the federal government cuts to refugee health care are unconstitutional and ifederal government cuts to refugee health care are unconstitutional and illegal.

An office created by Congress in 2007 to provide policy guidance and mediation services for Freedom of Information Act activities throughout the federal government finally has a director — a lawyer with substantial experience in promoting open government.

A lawyer for Trans Mountain, a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Canada, told a judge at hearings on the injunction application that the protesters» goal was to cause so much financial harm through delays that the company would be forced to abandon the $ 7.4 - billion project, which has been approved by the National Energy Board and the federal government.

The federal government compiles national, regional, and local employment and salary data for lawyers (and hundreds of other occupations).

News that the federal government appears to be poised to legalize recreational marijuana use by July 1, 2018 is having an impact on the markets — and a welcome development for lawyers who work with clients involved in related businesses.

Toronto criminal lawyer Annamaria Enenajor is launching a new initiative called the Campaign for Cannabis Amnesty to urge the federal government to immediately pardon all... Read more

«Judges Press C.I.A. Lawyer Over Withheld Documents»: The New York Times today contains an article that begins, «A federal appeals court panel in Manhattan questioned a lawyer for the federal government yesterday as to whether the Central Intelligence Agency had a legitimate national security interest in refusing to confirm or deny the existence of documents authorizing it to detain and interrogate terrorism suspects overseas.»

Judges, law firm partners and local and federal government attorneys are among the 11 lawyers vying for a seat on the D.C. Court of Appeals.

Fitzgerald strongly recommends the federal government as a destination for ambitious young lawyers.

It has also been difficult for government lawyers to rule out potential conflicts of interests, due to the enormous scope of legal cases involving the federal government.

The jury verdict against Collins crosses the Rubicon in terms of the federal government's willingness to prosecute an outside deal lawyer for merely advising a client in regard to structuring transactions that are not intrinsically illegal.

A federal prosecutor is also a government lawyer who does the same thing for the federal Department of Justice.

Our nationwide class action and MDL lawyers have been helping victims and their families fight back against government negligence through federal torts for years.

He was the only private practice lawyer on the Federal Government's Consultative Working Group on Cyber Safety for seven years.