Sentences with phrase «justice lawyers struggling»
But when it comes to the Guantanamo defendants now filing for habeas corpus in United States courts, the tables are turned, with Department of Justice lawyers struggling against an army of elite law firms and law professors who represent the detainees, according to the Wall Street Journal's editorial page:
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Even as the Judiciary Council, under the able leadership of the Chief Justice, Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood is struggling to purge the judiciary of «bad nuts» after Anas» recent inglorious revelation which shocked the conscience of the whole nation, court registrars and clerks have developed ingenious ways of milking litigants and lawyers dry, The aL - hAJJ's investigations have uncovered.
That's when ACLU lawyer David Cohen (Tim Blake Nelson) and Sam Conroy (Will Patton), a local criminal defender who knows all the players well, step into Dee's life and help her in her struggle for justice.
He has profiled petitioners and rights lawyers struggling for justice, and educational reformers striving to change the way Chinese think.
Set partly in a foreign country, Khura'in, where we follow Phoenix Wright's struggle through a court that really, really hates lawyers, and partly back home with relative newcomers Apollo Justice, Athena Cykes and Trucy Wright, Spirit Of Justice attempts to juggle a bunch of new ideas and concepts that occasionally work brilliantly but sometimes fall flat.
As a lawyer who has worked in small claims courts, my clients need for affordable access to justice is a problem I have struggled with.
Her name has undoubtedly become synonymous with the tireless struggle for universal human rights, with pioneering lawyer Benedict Birnberg stating that Gareth Peirce has «transformed the criminal justice scene in this country almost single - handedly.»
Unfortunately, claimants currently have two choices — pay thousands in legal fees to lawyers or paralegals, or struggle on their own without proper knowledge of the court system and hope that justice will prevail.
While the traditional legal education model has bred students to «Think like a lawyer,» the resulting outcome has left many graduating law students struggling to find employment that justifies the huge debt load many students take on and has created a huge access to justice gap that persist in low - income and rural communities.
Personally, I see this as an access to justice issue: the increases in upkeep costs of these publications (100 % to 200 % and more over the past four years is not unusual) eventually get passed on to lawyers» clients, who already struggle with the cost of legal representation.
Consider how increased involvement from in - house lawyers can improve the dialogue about legal services and access to justice (many of the things in - house counsel struggle with are barriers to justice for the average person), and start thinking about representation on your governing boards and how it might be restructured to better reflect the composition of those governed.
Lawyers who subject their feelings to a critical reading may thus find that clients do not seek rescuing, but, in fact, have actively resisted oppressive structures and have developed many tactics, goals, and alliances with larger communities that can be engaged in the struggle for social justice.