Sentences with phrase «legal society member»

Adminstration Minor in Forensic Science Member of Pre - Legal Society Member of Yoga Club Member of Zumba Club

Member, Texas Young Lawyers Association Member, Houston Bar Association Minorities in the Legal Profession Committee and Litigation Section Member, Houston Bar Association Communities in Schools Committee Member, Association of Women Attorneys — Houston Member, Middle Eastern Lawyers Association Member, Christian Legal Society Member, Women's Energy Network of Houston Member, Trademark Committee, State Bar of Texas Co-Chair, Houston Young Lawyers Association Diversity Committee

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In an email sent to its members, the Performing Rights Society for Music (PRS for Music) announced that it felt it has «no alternative but to commence legal proceedings,» following «five years of unsuccessful negotiations.»

Guardians (in this case guardians of legal minors) are those whose responsibility it is to provide care and protection for the members of society who can not care for themselves.

When a religion ceases to have any direct legal authority over its members of society, then isn't it really just a philosophy at the point?

The Law society, in other words, has given «guidance» to its members as to how to draft wills in a way which circumvents English legal principles as they have always been accepted: and it envisages that this might even mean taking on the English law in court to see if their wily little legal tricks have been successful: a perfect example of an attempt to make the letter of the law prevail over its spirit: Christians will remember that, according to St Paul (2 Corinthians 3:6), «the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life».

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Lawyers for the Christian Legal Society argued that group members should have the discretion to hold their own views.

Significantly, alongside this theological development the term person had also evolved in the secular sphere, and had come to be applied to all members of society with civil and legal rights, to all who could be designated as actors in the drama of public life.

The issue of abortion is not about the right of privacy but rather the extent of the human community and whether we will afford legal protection to the most vulnerable members of our society.

In England and Wales, members of literally dozens of religions from Scientology to Methodism and from all the denominations of Judaism to the Spiritualists and the Aetherius Society can all have a legal marriage in the place most special to them, conducted by one who shares their beliefs, and in the form that embodies their most deeply held beliefs and values.

Also at 11 a.m., the Legal Aid Society, Coalition For The Homeless, Picture the Homeless, Brooklyn Defender Services, Bronx Defenders, VOCAL - NY, Communities United for Police Reform, NYC Council members and others call on de Blasio and the NYPD to stop homeless shelter warrant sweeps, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

As a member of the Legal Aid Society's junior board of directors and recent recipient of their Outstanding Advocacy in Defense of the Accused award, Zellnor cares deeply for the reform of our criminal justice system.

Dan Quart is a member of Community Board 8, an attorney, formerly with Legal Aid Society, and then in private practice — who is receptive to 504 Democratic Club's agenda, but may need some more experience before finding elective office.

«On behalf of my 1,140 members employed at The Legal Aid Society, The Legal Aid Society of Nassau County, The Legal Aid Society of Orange County, and The Federal Defenders of the Eastern and Southern Districts, we are proud to partner with Assembly Member Hevesi to combat the homelessness crisis overwhelming New York State, and especially the City.

Perhaps to that end, in addition to criminal justice reform types — members of the Board of Correction, the Legal Aid Society, the Vera Institute for Justice — the commission includes MaryAnne Gilmartin, president of real estate development firm Forest City Ratner, and Partnership for New York City President Katherine Wylde.

Jacques David, an attorney for The Legal Aid Society and member of the Brooklyn Voters Alliance, pointed out in a letter to The Suffolk Times last summer that New York ranks 41st out of 50 states in voter participation.

These were just a few of the questions raised in an open meeting on 10 October 2002 in Washington, D.C. Within the ornate halls of the National Academy of Sciences building, members of the scientific and legal communities, ethicists, and representatives from funding agencies and professional societies discussed a recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Integrity in Scientific Research: Creating an Environment That Promotes Responsible Conduct.

A generational movement consisting of creative consumers who modify proprietary offerings, and of members of society who in turn use their developments, all without any moral and legal considerations.

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She also served as a member of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES) Board of Directors (1999 - 2001), as IGES president - elect, president and past president (2006 - 2008) and as chair of the IGES Ethical, Legal and Social Issues committee.

These include the preparation of regional reports on the status of civil society (1994); publication and global distribution of Citizens - Strengthening Global Civil Society (1995), the organisation's first world report on the state of civil society; regional consultations of members; two World Assemblies (Mexico City in 1995 and Budapest in 1997) of members and allies; an expanding membership (400 by end of 1997) of organisations and individuals across the world; a growing publications record and groundbreaking work by three special Task Forces in 1996 and 1997 on increasing the understanding and visibility of the sector, the legal principles necessary for the sector's empowerment and enhancing the sector's resourcsociety (1994); publication and global distribution of Citizens - Strengthening Global Civil Society (1995), the organisation's first world report on the state of civil society; regional consultations of members; two World Assemblies (Mexico City in 1995 and Budapest in 1997) of members and allies; an expanding membership (400 by end of 1997) of organisations and individuals across the world; a growing publications record and groundbreaking work by three special Task Forces in 1996 and 1997 on increasing the understanding and visibility of the sector, the legal principles necessary for the sector's empowerment and enhancing the sector's resourcSociety (1995), the organisation's first world report on the state of civil society; regional consultations of members; two World Assemblies (Mexico City in 1995 and Budapest in 1997) of members and allies; an expanding membership (400 by end of 1997) of organisations and individuals across the world; a growing publications record and groundbreaking work by three special Task Forces in 1996 and 1997 on increasing the understanding and visibility of the sector, the legal principles necessary for the sector's empowerment and enhancing the sector's resourcsociety; regional consultations of members; two World Assemblies (Mexico City in 1995 and Budapest in 1997) of members and allies; an expanding membership (400 by end of 1997) of organisations and individuals across the world; a growing publications record and groundbreaking work by three special Task Forces in 1996 and 1997 on increasing the understanding and visibility of the sector, the legal principles necessary for the sector's empowerment and enhancing the sector's resource base.

She became a member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi while at the University of Texas at Austin and of the International Legal Honor Society of Phi Delta Phi while at University of Houston.

I also know that justice isn't blind and that our current legal system and society presume guilt not innocence with an arrest (if you're arrested you must have done something wrong), so I'd also hope that I'd be able to get the best defense possible to ensure that said family member receives a fair trial.

The monitoring body, which could include members of civil society, parliamentarians and international legal experts, could also oversee the implementation of the Commission's recommendations.

She is a member of the BC Access to Justice Committee, Coordinator of the BC Family Justice Innovation Lab, a Board member of the Courthouse Library Society of BC, a knowledge engineer with the Civil Resolution Tribunal and Project Manager of Mediate BC's «Family Unbundled Legal Services project».

However, remarkable emphasis is put on the «particular values of the legal order of the Member State» to judge whether a «threat to the calm and physical security of the population» is at stake (para 29); this can be contrasted with the economic and social danger for society at large referred to in Tsakouridis.

As barristers return to man the metaphorical barricades to protest the latest round of legal aid cuts and the solicitors» professional body gloomily predict «extinction» for its ageing members (according to Law Society research, the average age of duty solicitors is 47 years), few lawyers would take issue with the oft - repeated assertion in the legal Twittersphere: #TheLawIsBroken.

Like all professional regulators, the Law Society has two central mandates; ensuring that members of the legal professions are competent and ensuring that members conduct themselves properly.

In many other ways, he has been at the forefront of these issues and a leader in the profession of law: He is a founding director of the Centre for the Legal Profession and has been a member of the steering committee of Ontario's joint civil legal needs study, and served as research director for the Law Society of Upper Canada's task force on the independence of theLegal Profession and has been a member of the steering committee of Ontario's joint civil legal needs study, and served as research director for the Law Society of Upper Canada's task force on the independence of thelegal needs study, and served as research director for the Law Society of Upper Canada's task force on the independence of the bar.

Digital Journal reports that more than 5,200 international «researchers, professors, postdocs, [and] seismologists» have signed a petition supporting the seven defendants and the Seismological Society of America has denounced the charges as an «unprecedented legal action against members of the seismological community.»

They were there under the auspices of the John Carroll Society, a Roman Catholic charitable organization whose members come mostly from the legal and business communities.

(7) a conflict of interest between the law society's duty to regulate the legal profession so as to make legal services adequately available, and its duty to represent the interests of lawyers, i.e., law societies» regulatory powers conflict with their representative powers, and being elected by their lawyer - members, benchers deal with the problems and complaints of those who elect them;

Honors / Awards: Million Dollar Advocates Forum — Life Member «Top 100 Trial Lawyers» in New Jersey — The National Trial Lawyers «Top 100 Litigation Lawyers» in New Jersey — American Society of Legal Advocates Best Attorneys of America, Lifetime Charter Member — Rue Ratings Super Lawyers, Rising Star — 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Super Lawyers, Personal Injury — 2016 «Top 10» personal injury attorneys under 40 in New Jersey — National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys «Top 40 under 40» litigation attorneys in New Jersey — American Society of Legal Advocates «Top 40 under 40» trial lawyers in New Jersey — The National Trial Lawyers

David participates with the Christian Legal Society where he has served at President (2012 - 2013), Vice President (2010 — 2012), Secretary (2008 — 2010), and a member of the Board of Directors for the local San Diego Christian Legal Society Chapter.

He previously served as a board member of the Orange County Bar Association Legal Aid Society, the Orange County Bar Foundation and he chaired the Orange County Bar Association Judicial Relations Committee.

The law societies that denied Trinity Western its accreditation, especially those that did it on the basis of referenda, put their members» political agenda ahead of the public interest in having reasonably - educated (as all concede Trinity Western's graduates will be) lawyers competing to provide legal services.

At Michigan State, he was a member of the Intellectual Property Law Society and the Christian Legal Society and served as a participant in the Intellectual Property Moot Court Team in 2014 and 2015.

For example, the Law Society of England & Wales, which is the representative body for solicitors, has acted as a promoter for the use of new legal AI technology, frequently holding conferences on the subject and generally showing its members that AI is a force for good.

Ian Brady: the legal challenge by Moors murderer Ian Brady to legal aid rules preventing his solicitor — who is not a member of the Law Society's mental health panel — from representing him before the Mental Health Review Tribunal was unsuccessful.

We are also members of the Law Society which means that clients have the protection and comfort of dealing with a UK firm of Solicitors, with all the regulation that comes with it, even though their legal issue may be outside of the UK.

In law school, Frank was an active member of a legal journal, several student organizations, and litigation student - groups, including the Alabama Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review, the Alabama Federalist Society, and the Alabama Law Republicans.

Ashleigh is a member of The Order of Barristers, a United States national honor society which recognizes individuals who have excelled in oral advocacy and service to the legal profession.

Members from the MTS team will attend the prestigious Law Society Excellence Awards at the Hilton Hotel, on Park Lane, on October 19th, where the best work in the legal profession will be celebrated.

Patrick is a member of the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA), authoring several articles for its award - winning Legal Management magazine, and the Professional Pricing Society (PPS).

In fulfilling their mandates to protect the public, law societies have implemented an anti-money-laundering regime for members of the Canadian legal profession that respects the fundamental rights of all Canadians as affirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada.»

Collectively, lawyers are encouraged to enhance the profession through activities such as: (a) sharing knowledge and experience with colleagues and students informally in day - to - day practice as well as through contribution to professional journals and publications, support of law school projects and participation in panel discussions, legal education seminars, bar admission courses and university lectures; (b) participating in legal aid and community legal services programs or providing legal services on a pro bono basis; (c) filling elected and volunteer positions with the Society; (d) acting as directors, officers and members of local, provincial, national and international bar associations and their various committees and sections; and (e) acting as directors, officers and members of non-profit or charitable organizations.

«Law societies have been at the forefront of the fight against money laundering for more than 15 years, putting in place a regime that prohibits members of the legal profession from accepting cash from clients and requires them to comply with strict know - your - client rules.

Throughout it all, Marilyn served as the point person between the Society, and the many authors, publishers and members of the legal community who were part of the process.

@Gary P. Rodrigues: «My understanding is that the decision to continue to offer the Ontario Reports in print is in response to feedback received directly from members of the legal profession who see the Ontario Reports as a mechanism for creating a sense of community among members of the legal profession as well as the primary means whereby the Law Society communicates with the profession.