Sentences with phrase «legal aid department»
The Department of Justice set up a Mediation Steering Committee with membership consisting of the Secretary for Justice (as Chair) and members from representatives of the Judiciary, HKMC, Law Society, Bar Association, Law Schools, Legal Aid Department, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre & major mediation stakeholders.
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I would like to acknowledge what is a long list: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Office of the New York Attorney General, the New York State Department of Financial Services, the New York Legal Assistance Group, Staten Island Legal Services, the Legal Aid Society, MFY Legal Services, various bar associations, New York City Department of Small Business Services, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Housing Services of Staten Island and the Northfield Local Community Development Corporation.
Mr. Banks, who made his bones at the Legal Aid Society suing the departments he now leads, will now oversee both the HRA and the Department of Homeless Services.
Not - for - profit law firm, MFY Legal Services, wants a judge to force the state Department of Health to reveal how it approved the Allure Group's purchase of Rivington House, a nursing home for AIDS patients in the Lower East Side and CABS Nursing Home in Brooklyn, papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court reveal.
There are major savings that can be made, in legal aid, in central staffing and in the bureaucratic NOMS empire, but a quarter of the department's budget is spent on prisons, and this scale of savings can only be realised if prison numbers are less than expected in 2015, so jails can actually be closed, or not built in the first place.
On Sunday, the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, who is helping refugees find legal aid, requested a list of people in custody and pressed the Department of Homeland Security to comply with the stay.
A legal - aid organization has filed a class action against the Chicago Board of Education and the Illinois Department of Education, charging that thousands of Chicago - area homeless children are being denied their right to a free public education.
In 2014, the Community Legal Aid Society and the American Civil Liberties Union brought a complaint to the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights that asserted that the charter schools of Delaware were resegregating the state's schools by race and by disability.
Jon is a former public defender at New York's Legal Aid Society, as well as a former Senior Civil Rights Attorney at the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
Maria Morelli - Wolfe, a lawyer with Greater Hartford Legal Aid Inc., which last year filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights on behalf of children with disabilities at the public charter school, said that very often those students spend too many hours out of the classroom — suspended in school or out of school — because of behaviors they weren't necessarily able to control.
Legal Aid Coalition Comments to the Department of Education re: Proposed Borrower Defense Application Form, Oct. 27, 2016
Law societies across Canada are considering a shift from a regulatory system that focuses on individual lawyers to one that looks at the collective lawyers work in, whether that's a law firm, an in - house legal department, or a legal aid organization Unlike the current regulatory model, which takes reactionary steps whenever lawyers engage in wrongdoing, regulators are considering a more proactive model that should help prevent transgressions in the first place.
Focused on collecting stories from Nova Scotians about their experiences with legal services and the justice system, the project brings together NSBS, the Nova Scotia Department of Justice, the Courts of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Legal Aid, the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie, the Nova Scotia branch of the Canadian Bar Association and a public representalegal services and the justice system, the project brings together NSBS, the Nova Scotia Department of Justice, the Courts of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Legal Aid, the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie, the Nova Scotia branch of the Canadian Bar Association and a public representaLegal Aid, the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie, the Nova Scotia branch of the Canadian Bar Association and a public representative.
Formally titled White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable Civil Legal Aid Research Workshop Report, this Report represents a major milestone in one of the [U.S. Department of Justice Office for Access to Justice's] most important initiatives.
Even with a large surplus and an annual provincial budget of $ 46 billion, the CBA has been told by the government there is no new money for legal aid, because each department must balance its own budget, says Shorten.
With clients nationwide, ranging from sole practitioners to large city practices, and separate departments for privately and publically funded matters, Sterling Costs is one of the relatively few firms to offer a full service in relation to Legal Aid costs (including submission to the Legal Aid Agency via CCMS).
Not surprisingly, the panel had some disheartening statistics on access to justice, with Gulotta noting the United States ranks a dismal 94th of 113 nations surveyed on access to justice, Minow adding that 15 - 30 percent of legal services lawyers have been laid off over the last eight years, and Justice Goodwyn citing US Department of Justice data indicating that more than half of those qualified for civil legal aid had to be turned away — and that wasn't even considering the many people who didn't even know where to go.
First, the Department of Justice and the White House Domestic Policy Council released the Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable Toolkit, which is:
And user adoption is aided by the simplicity of rolling out Passport Office Companion to additional users — IT reviews and installs the module once, then legal department administrators control access as they would any Passport feature, without the need to involve IT when someone new is onboarded.
On August 31, 2016, the Health & Human Services Committee of the King County Council reviewed a proposal developed by the King County Department of Community and Human Services to create a new funding allocation methodology for civil legal aid.
For years these legal departments had been supporting litigation efforts that created a trail of information — information that, if mined correctly, could aid them in controlling their costs.
LSS also established in 2010 a new community engagement department to ensure legal aid services meet local needs particularly in rural and remote communities.»
The United States Department of Justice, «Civil Legal Aid 101» (Washington DC, 2016), online: U.S. Department of Justice < https://www.justice.gov/lair/civil-legal-aid-101 >.
[2] The United States Department of Justice describes civil legal aid as a program that offers «free legal advocacy and legal information for low - and middle - income people to help address the civil legal problems they may face.»
«The Canadian HIV / AIDS Legal Network («Legal Network») welcomes this opportunity to provide submissions to the Department of Justice on how the Canadian criminal law should be transformed.
Ab Currie, currently Chief Research Advisor and Principal Researcher: Legal Aid and Access to Justice, in the Federal Department of Justice, is leaving the Government of Canada to join the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ) as the Senior Research Fellow.
More accurate information on court cases will aid in litigation financing as well as corporate legal departments assessing their own risk and liability.
The Private Client Department represents High Net Worth Individuals at all stages of the criminal justice process and Tuckers has experienced police station representatives, solicitors and an advocacy team also working under public funding arrangements (legal aid).
These reports include the Federal Department of Justice report on Legal Service Provision in Northern Canada, The Canadian Bar Association paper entitled «Moving Forward on Legal Aid» and the Law Society of Upper Canada's Report of the Ontario Civil Legal Needs Project.
«Following a media release by the Department earlier this week, Legal Aid Alberta sought clarification regarding the proposed funding of these orders as it was not aware of the Department's position on that point,» Cranna said in a statement last Friday.
The website is the result of a collaborative effort involving the Nova Scotia Department of Justice, the Executive Office of the Nova Scotia Judiciary, the Nova Scotia Barrister's Society, the Legal Information Society of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Legal Aid, the Department of Community Services, the Canadian Bar Association — Nova Scotia Branch, and the Capital District Health Authority (Mental Health Program).
Currently a «legal entity» is defined as a lawyer or group that carries out work that is supervised by a lawyer, whether the work is done by a lawyer or non-lawyer, including but not limited to law firms, in - house counsel and department / team, government lawyer and department / team, and Legallegal entity» is defined as a lawyer or group that carries out work that is supervised by a lawyer, whether the work is done by a lawyer or non-lawyer, including but not limited to law firms, in - house counsel and department / team, government lawyer and department / team, and LegalLegal Aid.
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To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what assessment the Government have made of the effect on those (a) affected by domestic violence and (b) on low incomes of the proposed changes to legal aid arrangements; and if she will make a statement.
Harry Cohen: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what assessment the Government have made of the effect on those (a) affected by domestic violence and (b) on low incomes of the proposed changes to legal aid arrangements; and if she will make a statement.
In 1990, she went on to found a sucessful Immigration Department within a large established Legal Aid firm in Newham taking quality specialist immigration advice and assistance to a deprived London Borough with a growing immigrant and refugee population.
Because of the cost of legal services, all consumers of legal services, from legal aid organizations to corporate legal departments, are using data and artificial intelligence to improve legal - service delivery.
Students are trained in established business concepts and study them with partners, including: legal aid organizations, solo practitioners, corporate legal departments, law firms, courts, and entire justice systems.
I do not want my department and the legal aid market to face months if not years of continuing uncertainty, and expensive litigation, while it is heard».
October 3, 2014 — «The authorities of Canada have pledged 9.76 million Canadian dollars ($ 8.6 million) to Ukraine within the Quality and Accessible Legal Aid program, Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development stated.
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Mark currently works with First Defense Legal Aid providing representation during arrest and investigations by the Chicago Police Department.
In response to growing awareness of elder abuse, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Corporation for National and Community Service announced the creation of the Elder Justice AmeriCorps grant program in September 2015 to provide elder abuse victims with legal aid and support services.
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VP Strategy and Operations at ROSS Intelligence, and as employee # 1 he co-ordinates efforts across the company to ensure that sole practitioners, legal aid groups, law firms, government agencies, corporate law departments, state bar associations and law faculties are able to benefit from cutting - edge developments in artificial intelligence research.
I hope to foster industry - wide dialogue about improving legal - service delivery, from legal aid and consumer legal services to legal departments and law firms.
The various sectors of the legal industry — from legal aid and courts to legal departments and law firms — face challenges that are similar in many ways.
Lawyers and other professionals leveraging people, process, data, and technology to improve legal - service delivery for everyone, from legal aid organizations, courts, and the consumer market to law firms and corporate legal departments.
September 1, 2013 — Twelve months ago, the Washington office of Skadden Arps, local legal aid groups, and three corporate legal departments started the Impact Project.
This provides the opportunity for law firms and legal departments to do well by doing good, partnering with law schools and legal aid organizations to improve legal - service delivery and access to legal services for everyone.