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Kenneth Fredeen, general counsel of Deloitte Canada and one of the signatories of the Legal Leaders for Diversity program, discusses the role of general counsel, its potential, and its tendency to be misunderstood and sometimes undervalued within an...

In addition, Fredeen was a founding member of Legal Leaders for Diversity and Inclusion and is also a member of the board for the Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy.

This has led Wilkins to taking on the role as the new BC Regional Chair for Legal Leaders for Diversity and Inclusion, a national initiative launched by Canadian general counsel in May 2011.

Kennedy is also involved with mentoring programs through the Legal Leaders for Diversity and the University of Toronto,

This was demonstrated earlier this year when 16 leading firms collaborated with Legal Leaders for Diversity and Inclusion, a group whose chief aim is promoting inclusiveness in the legal profession.

«The LLD trust was established to provide funding to students with disabilities in order to provide a more level playing field in law school,» says Ken Fredeen, general counsel of Deloitte and a member of Legal Leaders for Diversity.

One year after it was launched, eight law students from across Canada have been chosen to each receive a $ 3,000 scholarship from the Legal Leaders for Diversity trust fund for the upcoming academic year.

The event is supported by various diversity associations including Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers Ontario, South Asian Bar Association, Canadian Association of Black Lawyers and Legal Leaders for Diversity.

I'm on the executive committee for Legal Leaders for Diversity.

Speaking at the fourth annual meeting of Legal Leaders for Diversity held June 25 in Toronto, Jeffrey Hewitt spoke about the need for the legal community to «listen» and take action in light of the release and recommendations of the TRC's report.

Bombardier Inc. senior vice president and general counsel Daniel Desjardins was the Legal Leaders for Diversity member who spearheaded the program.

Bloomberg Business: Legal Leaders for Diversity to Fund Scholarships for Law Students With Disabilities

In June 2014, we established the Legal Leaders for Diversity Trust Fund.

LEGAL LEADERS FOR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION (LLD) is a group of Canadian General Counsel from coast to coast who have declared their support and commitment for creating a more inclusive legal profession as well as supporting diversity initiatives within our organizations.

A big part of my discussion in Dublin will focus on the incredible success that Legal Leaders for Diversity has had on advancing diversity and inclusiveness within the in - house counsel and the legal profession in Canada.

Naveen Mehta is general counsel to UFCW Canada, a member of Legal Leaders for Diversity and Inclusiveness and board member of the International Commission of Jurists and Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy.

Legal Leaders for Diversity has established a trust fund to help disabled students studying law in Canada.

Working with Legal Leaders for Diversity and other general counsel, law departments, business leaders, and professional associations in their efforts to advance diversity and inclusion.

Not exact matches

Ms. Powell Jobs has become a leader in pushing for decade - old legislation known as the Dream Act, a measure that would provide legal status for immigrants who arrived in the country as young children.

Founded in 1999, CyberCoders is now a proven leader in recruiting and staffing services for the accounting, engineering, executive, finance, legal, marketing, operational, sales, scientific, and technology industries.

This lack of transparency could actually also be grounds for yet more legal action against Trump, in fact, since it looks very likely that it's a violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act to not hold these advisory meetings from business leaders open to the public, though the administration denies any of its actions have contravened this order.

Any new regulation of firearms represents a dramatic shift in position for the state's Republican leaders, who have spent decades easing the regulation of guns and giving legal protection to those who use firearms in self - defense.

Part of Benchmark's argument in legal filings has revolved around the search for a top leader, asserting that the board was impeded from choosing a successor by Kalanick's continuing negative influence.

For Putnam Europe Equity Fund, Global Equity Fund, Growth Opportunities Fund, International Equity Fund, International Growth Fund, Investors Fund, Research Fund, and Sustainable Leaders Fund, recent performance may have benefited from one or more legal settlements.

He is also the Tax Leader for PwC's Asia Pacific and America's network for firms, and forms part of the PwC Global Tax and legal leadership team.

Leader with deep understanding of business drivers Business designer - launched Polish, Russian and Ukrainian Legal Entity & CEE region - created 4 SSCs in Poland and Ukraine (functions: Global Customer Care, R&D, Regional Administration and Software Development dedicated to a project for gasoline stations); Built SSC Russia (Customer Care)- shaped pioneering business offers to market requirements — developed managed services for banking and retail industry Pioneer in implementing innovations corresponding to future market trends R&D - introduced biometric solutions integrated with mobile offer in Poland - started SSC idea in Poland (2005 — 2006), implemented expert pull (employees exchange between countries / projects)- launched software for ATM cash management optimizing clients» capital involvement in Poland (2008)

Just this month, two top American cardinals, Roger Mahony of Los Angeles and Timothy Dolan of New York, were called on to give legal testimony over lawsuits related to abuse of children, and the leader of Scotland's Catholic Church, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, resigned after allegations he had acted improperly toward four men studying for the priesthood decades ago.

Over the course of a few months, there would be legal wrangling, fines, and possibly jail terms for protesters and a few stalwart leaders who refuse to pay.

Let me wind up with the need for NGO Ombudsmen armed with legal powers to take action wherever human rights are vulnerable and violated and also to recommend cancellation of treaties entered into with oblique motives by suspect national leaders.

Tiffany Barrans, the legal director for the ACLJ, said this week that the church leaders in Iran were faced with a dilemma: They could avoid being witnesses, or they could testify in court and possibly face similar charges.

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

That is, that one of the main reasons for his attack on Darwinism is his conclusion that insufficiently critical adoption of evolutionary modes of thought by the majority of scientists, and also by educational (e.g., John Dewey) and legal (e.g., Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.) leaders, has led to a highly unsatisfactory cultural situation, and to many evil consequences.

For most evangelical leaders, today's discussion of the nationwide legalization of same - sex marriage revolves around how best to express their dissent amid the legal uncertainties for churches and pastoFor most evangelical leaders, today's discussion of the nationwide legalization of same - sex marriage revolves around how best to express their dissent amid the legal uncertainties for churches and pastofor churches and pastors.

CSW said the SEPC in El Haj Yousif was one of 25 churches earmarked for demolition in an official order signed in June 2016, and its leaders joined a legal challenge to prevent the government from confiscating and destroying their place of worship.

From the very beginning, India's leaders faced the problem of instituting a secular and democratic state before the conditions for it - anadequately large secular and egalitarianminded citizenry, and impartial legal institutions - had been met.

«As Christian leaders, we have a commitment to caring for the vulnerable in our churches while also supporting just, compassionate, and welcoming policies toward refugees and other immigrants,» the letter opens, going on to request legal protection for the Dreamers who entered the US as children, an increase in the admittance of refugees and persecuted Christians, and quicker priority for immigrants seeking to reunite with their families.

There we go again, shut up this hypocritical rightwingers.Only at election time do rear their ugly heads up to be seen and heard.It's time to unleash the CRACKKIN, the monster that the IRS people use on unruly religious groups, exemption is like a death sentence to these groups.Most of these religious leaders are wolves in sheeps clothing, selling their political poison to anyone in their flocks.They push the envelope on the seperation of church and state issue, seeing how far they can go.Pastors and ministers would never speak politics like this years ago, that was taaboo.Now people like Robertson, Graham, and the rest, flaunt their ideaology both religious and political at every event.They don't care about the legal consequences, they have LAWYERS, perishioners pay for that.

Without consulting other leaders or obtaining legal permission, Tutu called for a march.

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, March 24, 2016 / PRNewswire / — RiceBran Technologies (NASDAQ: RIBT and RIBTW)(the «Company» or «RBT»), a global leader in the production and marketing of value added products derived from rice bran, announced today that it has completed the legal process necessary for the release of the US$ 1.9 million that has been held in escrow at a San Francisco bank since the Company's acquisition of Irgovel in 2008.

The early leader in the state pro-marriage movement, Louisiana set off a national debate in August 1997 by enacting a law that permits «covenant marriages, «26 whereby couples promise to stay married for life and renounce their legal right to a no - fault divorce.

I'm not sure what the Labour Party constitution says about it, but there is certainly no legal requirement for the Prime Minister to be party leader.

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Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco opposes opening a one - year legal window to revive old cases for child sex abuse survivors — yet he supports the concept for other victims.

What promises to be a lengthy and sleep - inducing Senate debate over legal status for «Dreamers» got off to a rocky start, as Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer clashed with his Republican counterpart over the unrelated topic of sanctuary cities.

«I don't see a legal basis for doing so,» Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - East Northport) said.

UPDATE: Due to legal action, Jessica Ramos has dropped her bid for District leader.

Members of the NYC prison guards» union are demanding that the union stop paying for the legal defense bills of their troubled former leader, Norman Seabrook.

This raises a legal conundrum, namely, what is the legal status of a boastful Twitter confession by separatist leaders of a state - sponsored rebel group containing first - hand accounts and admissions of responsibility for shooting down a plane in the midst of a conflict?

«I think we have to figure out some of the motivations behind it, because if we specifically followed every step along the way — legal guidance — and did what other mayors and other leaders have done for years and years under the laws of this state, following the letter and spirit of the law,» de Blasio said.

Alban Bagbin has become the face of Ghanaian politics not for his 25 years so far in parliament and still counting, but for the extraordinary role he played as two terms Minority Leader, twice Majority Leader and Chairman of some strategic committees of Parliament such as Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Committee, which he chaired twice, Public Accounts and Appointments Committee.