Sentences with phrase «justice project attorneys»

• Create 15 new staffed civil legal aid attorneys; • Increase the capacity of pro bono programs across the state; • Invest in research and training for legal aid and pro bono attorneys; and, • Provide Northwest Justice Project attorneys with long overdue cost of living and salary adjustments.

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For Acting on a Moment's Notice, Going to JFK Airport to Help Those Affected by the Muslim Ban — Mark Doss, Esq., Supervising Attorney, International Refugee Assistance Project at The Urban Justice Center; Yasmine Farhang, Esq., Immigration Attorney, Make the Road New York; Camille J. Mackler, Esq..

Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has begun contempt proceedings against the Federal Government, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), Attorney - General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, and Alhaji Ahmed Idris Accountant - General of the Federation «for failing to comply with the judgment ordering publication of the spending of recovered stolen funds since return of democracy in 1999.»

Also at 6 p.m., the League of Women Voters of NYC and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams present «JUSTICE DENIED: Putting An End To Wrongful Convictions,» Innocence Project Staff Attorney Jane Pucher and Jabbar Collins, an exonerated victim of a wrongful conviction are scheduled to attend, Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon St., Brooklyn.

Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) a pressure group called on President Muhammadu Buhari to «instruct the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation Mr Abubakar Malami SAN and Minister of Finance Ms Kemi Adeosun to publish more details on the alleged stealing.

On Friday, attorneys for the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center fired off a letter to City Planning Director Marisa Lago.

Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project on Sunday urged the Attorney - General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, to institute legal action to recover over an alleged N40bn earned in double payment, by former Nigerian state governors, who are now either senators or ministers.

Epstein, an attorney, leads the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center.

«This is bittersweet vindication,» says attorney Joel Kupferman of the New York Environmental Law and Justice Project, who is representing affected residents, workers, and students in the World Trade Center area.

Recognized as a national expert, her contribution to the Greenhaven Prison Program at Vassar College, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, Vera Institute of Justice, Kings County District Attorney»s Office, Interfaith Justice Project at The Riverside Church, Open Society Institute» «s After Prison Initiative, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School, Boston University»s Prison Education Program, Department of Justice» «s Norval Morris Project, and Truth Commission on Conscience in War has facilitated work with numerous schools and prisons in various states for the last 25 years.

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N.C. Policy Watch is project under the N.C. Justice Center, but no attorneys involved with the lawsuit participated in the writing and reporting of this article.)

In Summer 2011, Education Secretary Duncan and Attorney General Holder announced the launch of a collaborative project — the Supportive School Discipline Initiative (Initiative)-- between the U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Justice (DOJ) to support the use of school discipline practices that foster safe, supportive, and productive learning environments while keeping students in school.

Past member of the Commission on Women in the Profession; Task Force on Attorney Client Privilege; Task Force on Building Public Trust in the American Justice System; the council of the ABA Center on Diversity; and the ABA's World Justice Project Committee.

She's a staff attorney with the Northwest Justice Project, a publicly funded...

It is the principal project of the Public Justice Foundation, a non-profit membership organization that can call on a nationwide network of 3,500 attorneys.

For example, according to attorney Yvette War Bonnet of the Northwest Justice Project, difficulty in restoring a driver's license suspended for nonpayment of a traffic ticket complicates transportation, making it difficult to find or hold onto a job.

In reality many attorneys work for as low as $ 50 an hour or offer alternative billing options, volunteer in pro bono roles like the King County Bar Association's Housing Justice Project, or take Moderate Means cases.

Integrated Justice Project: In the late 1990s, the Ministry of the Attorney General and a consortium of private sector partners, headed by IBM, announced the creation of the Integrated Justice Project (IJP), a project designed to place the Ontario court system at the forefront of electronic technology worProject: In the late 1990s, the Ministry of the Attorney General and a consortium of private sector partners, headed by IBM, announced the creation of the Integrated Justice Project (IJP), a project designed to place the Ontario court system at the forefront of electronic technology worProject (IJP), a project designed to place the Ontario court system at the forefront of electronic technology worproject designed to place the Ontario court system at the forefront of electronic technology worldwide.

Justice Bonkalo recommended that «The Ministry of the Attorney General and LAO should ensure continued funding to enable student programs like Pro Bono Students Canada's Family Law Project and the student legal aid services societies to continue to operate and possibly even expand.»

Federal Crown attorneys, who have been hamstrung from doing volunteer legal work, now are also able to participate in three pilot projects that will allow them to volunteer for approved activities (screened by the Department of Justice to minimize conflicts) at legal clinics in Vancouver, Edmonton, and Ottawa.

So far, the Project has screened more than 30,000 inmate requests and submitted more than 1,100 clemency petitions, while more than 11,816 petitions are still awaiting a decision from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of the Pardon Attorney.

They contract with Northwest Justice Project to provide screening through CLEAR and then provide attorneys to help seniors on the phone or in - person within Kitsap County.

See Coulter A. Osborne, Civil Justice Reform Project: A Summary of Findings and Recommendations (Toronto: Ontario Attorney General, 2007).

Battered Women's Justice Project c / o National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women 125 South 9th Street, Suite 302 Philadelphia, PA 19107 TOLL - FREE: 800-903-0111 ext. 3 Phone: [phone] FAX: [phone] National Clearinghouse is a national resource and advocacy center providing assistance to women defendants, their defense attorneys, and other members of their defense teams in an effort to insure justice for battered women charged with Justice Project c / o National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women 125 South 9th Street, Suite 302 Philadelphia, PA 19107 TOLL - FREE: 800-903-0111 ext. 3 Phone: [phone] FAX: [phone] National Clearinghouse is a national resource and advocacy center providing assistance to women defendants, their defense attorneys, and other members of their defense teams in an effort to insure justice for battered women charged with justice for battered women charged with crimes.

However, past disruption of asbestos containing materials during renovations and other projects may have exposed Dallas County Criminal Justice employees, inmates, attorneys, and visitors at risk of exposure to asbestos.

British Columbia, Administrative Justice Project, On Balance: Guiding Principles for Administrative Justice Reform in British Columbia (Victoria: Ministry of the Attorney General, 2402) at page 3

CCVLP board member, Karen Campbell, Attorney with Northwest Justice Project said with a chuckle, «Susan once told me she is «always selling».

Volunteer Lawyers Project Volunteer Lawyers Project partners with attorneys in the private bar to increase access to justice by delivering high - quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the Greater Boston area.

October 2, 1:00 - 5:00, Wake Forest University, Three panel discussions featuring Mark Rabil, Director of the Wake Forest Innocence and Justice Clinic; Maddy DeLone, Executive Director of the Innocence Project; Greg Newburn, of Families Against Mandatory Minimums; and Wakeforest Prof. Kami Chavis, former US Attorney.

No attorney - client relationship is created or assumed to exist between Northwest Justice Project and persons who seek legal help through email.

Attorney Chelsea Hicks with the Northwest Justice Project represents Fiscus and other clients in the same situation.

This year's Law Foundation Lecture, presented by the Temple University Beasley School of Law and co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania Innocence Project (PaIP), featured noted civil rights attorney and social justice advocate -LSB-...]

We are elated to have corrected this injustice and to be able to bring Bill justice after two long decades,» said Tara Thompson, staff attorney at the Exoneration Project.

Patrick Pleas, an attorney with the Northwest Justice Project, believes they were left out of the loop because many of the workers didn't speak English.

In support of Montana Legal Services Association, Martin worked on a project to implement an online limited scope advice portal, the Montana Online Justice portal, modeled after a program in Tennessee, which allows attorneys to respond securely and remotely to vetted questions posted by low - income clients.

In 2006, at the request of the Attorney General of Ontario, Mr. Osborne led the Civil Justice Review project.

The Justice & Diversity Center's (JDC) Community Organization Representation Project (CORP) recently conducted a legal - financial clinic for nonprofit organizations with volunteer attorneys and accountants from Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton;...

The Equal Justice Works Fellowship program funds hundreds of public interest attorneys annually, each assisting vulnerable populations through a project of their own creation.

Peter Komlos - Hrobsky, Managing Attorney, Colorado Legal Services, Denver, CO, and Claudia Trupp, Supervising Attorney, Director of Justice First Project, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York, NY

Job Title: Equal Justice Works Crime Victims Justice Corps Legal Fellow Supervisor: Immigrant Youth Advocacy Project Supervising Attorney Deadline for applications: Interested applicants are encouraged to submit their applications by May 14, 2018; however, applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

For example, in response to the foreclosure crisis LFW oversaw a $ 13 million Home Justice project made possible by a grant from the Attorney General's office.

Qualifying projects under Elder Justice AmeriCorps program include support for attorneys on civil legal aid cases involving elder abuse, or on civil legal cases for other indigent clients.

The amendments followed the release of the report of the former Associate Chief Justice of Ontario, the Honourable Coulter A. Osborne, Q.C., entitled Civil Justice Reform Project: Summary of Findings and Recommendations (Toronto: Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General, 2007).

The Barrett Social Justice Fellowship honors the legacy of renowned Nashville civil rights attorney George Barrett ’57 by enabling a Vanderbilt Law graduate to carry out a one - year public interest project under the supervision and sponsorship of a host organization.

Family Court judges should consider the impact of violence on families when making decisions about child custody and visitation, according to Kristine Lizdas, a managing attorney at the Battered Women's Justice Project.

The Federal Attorney General's Department provided funding to undertake a short research project examining the issues affecting Indigenous young people with a cognitive disability and / or mental health issue in the juvenile justice system.

Given the successes and amount of time and goodwill that both the community and Department of Justice and the Commonwealth Attorney - General's Department have invested so far, it is crucial that this project continues as a way of addressing lateral violence.

2.2 That the Standing Committee of Attorneys General Working Party identify justice reinvestment as a priority issue under the National Indigenous Law and Justice Framework, with the aim of conducting pilot projects in targeted communities in the shorjustice reinvestment as a priority issue under the National Indigenous Law and Justice Framework, with the aim of conducting pilot projects in targeted communities in the shorJustice Framework, with the aim of conducting pilot projects in targeted communities in the short term.

Recommendation 2: That the Standing Committee of Attorneys General Working Party identify justice reinvestment as a priority issue under the National Indigenous Law and Justice Framework, with the aim of conducting pilot projects in targeted communities in the shorjustice reinvestment as a priority issue under the National Indigenous Law and Justice Framework, with the aim of conducting pilot projects in targeted communities in the shorJustice Framework, with the aim of conducting pilot projects in targeted communities in the short term.