Sentences with phrase «public legal education program»

The LCC Public Legal Education program provides general education and information about law and the legal system for people without legal training.

The Circles of Learning Indigenous Awareness Workshops are a new offering by Portage College Public Legal Education Program and are aimed at creating safe learning environments for participants to gain understanding of the historical and contemporary contexts of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

At its heart, West Coast LEAF's public legal education program is about engaging people in conversation.

We also encourage you to get in touch with Alana if you are a student or employee at a college or university in BC and would like to get involved with Only Yes Means Yes or learn more about West Coast LEAF's public legal education programs.

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Prior to AYPF, Jesse worked as a junior associate in the enrollment office at DC Public Schools, as part of their Urban Education Leaders Internship Program, and as an intern in the Housing Unit at Greater Boston Legal Services.

In 1965, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District in Virginia found in Griffin v. State Board of Education that vouchers from the state's tuition grant program could not lawfully be used to fund schools that discriminate based on race.27 While not citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a legal basis for its ruling, the court nonetheless relied on the law's definition of a public school — any institution that was «operated wholly or predominantly from or through the use of governmental funds or property.»

COSA supports school attorneys and provides leadership in legal advocacy for public schools; its 22 - member Board of Directors oversees its continuing legal education programming and working groups for its more than 3,000 members across the United States and Canada.

During his tenure, he spearheaded significant educational reforms, pioneering a new model of multidisciplinary legal studies, enlarging the clinical education program, revamping to foster a public service ethos, and developing the international law program to support a growing emphasis on globalization in legal practice.

«Those who really want to end public education as we have it now are now poised to move on different state legislatures with ESA laws similar to Nevada,» said David Sciarra, the executive director of the Education Law Center, a New Jersey group that advocates for equitable school funding and helped organize the legal case against Nevada's vouchereducation as we have it now are now poised to move on different state legislatures with ESA laws similar to Nevada,» said David Sciarra, the executive director of the Education Law Center, a New Jersey group that advocates for equitable school funding and helped organize the legal case against Nevada's voucherEducation Law Center, a New Jersey group that advocates for equitable school funding and helped organize the legal case against Nevada's voucher program.

As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.

The Program has two goals: (1) to lessen the degree to which financing the cost of a legal education limits career options, and (2) to encourage graduates to choose public interest careers.

The Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP) program greatly reduces the degree to which financing the cost of a legal education limits career options and opens the door to public service careers by providing a path for total loan forgiProgram (LRAP) program greatly reduces the degree to which financing the cost of a legal education limits career options and opens the door to public service careers by providing a path for total loan forgiprogram greatly reduces the degree to which financing the cost of a legal education limits career options and opens the door to public service careers by providing a path for total loan forgiveness.

constant and deep access and conversations related to public health management, epidemiology and the nature of medical evidence... That experience and on - the - job education has been invaluable as I've read through health studies and reviews related to wind power from around the world... which led to recognition of my expertise... I'm pleased to say that my material is helping to shape legal defences of wind energy, advocacy programs and investments in several countries.

Those qualifying services include public interest legal services and public education, both of which are relevant for attorneys hoping to fall under the program.

«The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Indian Legal Program of Arizona State University was established in 1988 to provide legal education, scholarship, and public service to tribal governmLegal Program of Arizona State University was established in 1988 to provide legal education, scholarship, and public service to tribal governmlegal education, scholarship, and public service to tribal governments.

Engage in numerous additional initiatives to create public education and awareness to challenge current attitudes and behaviours; update health and physical education curriculum for students; develop tools and best practices to support compassionate response from law enforcement authorities; strengthen supports provided by hospitals; create a pilot program to provide free independent legal advice to sexual assault survivors whose cases are proceeding toward a criminal trial, and many other broad - based initiatives.

In 2007, Fred spearheaded a powerful innovation in post-graduate legal education known as the «legal incubator» movement by launching the first - ever incubator program, a unique public / private partnership providing a network of support and resources for recent CUNY law graduates committed to increasing access to justice through their solo and small firm practices.

The mandate of the NCA is to help Canada's law societies protect the public interest by assessing the legal education and professional experience of individuals who obtained their credentials outside of Canada or in a Canadian civil law program.

Rather than making an open call to the general public to submit information on European legal education programs, researchers tapped into the legal expertise of the academic network to provide concise, accurate, and updated information.

Law for Life's program in public legal education is an effort to help people understand and address their legal problems and thereby diminish consequences such as a loss of income and stress.

The strongest recommendation from the Legal Education Committee was to adopt a paralegal licensing program, providing an expanded role for paralegals that would give the public greater access and allow attorneys to focus on more complicated issues.

«As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.»

The program also features a new «Indigenous Legal Lodge,» a publicly accessible educational resource for engagement, debate, public education and partnership on Indigenous legal traditions and relationships between Indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous individuals including students, educators, businesses, governments and judges nationLegal Lodge,» a publicly accessible educational resource for engagement, debate, public education and partnership on Indigenous legal traditions and relationships between Indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous individuals including students, educators, businesses, governments and judges nationlegal traditions and relationships between Indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous individuals including students, educators, businesses, governments and judges nationwide.

Legal aid programs do not enjoy the same public profile as government - run health care or education programs.

This may lead to further development of legal education programs intended for the public.

Two prominent programs are the Legal Education Program and the Oral Histories Program, which both help practitioners showcase their unique skills to clients and the public.

With a subscription to the program, your office will receive a high - quality, leather - look portfolio for your reception area which holds our publications and proclaims your support for public legal education.

There had been attempts in our province in the late seventies to establish a legal education program for the public.

At present, this work falls into two categories: public legal education sessions and our satellite clinic program.

Credit students also participate in our community outreach program, attending satellite clinics and working on public legal education materials and / or presentations.

In addition to the clinic's client services program, clinic staff conduct public legal education workshops, seminars and training sessions on topics related to the BC Human Rights Code.

Across Canada, at 21 chapters and their associated law schools, PBSC programs engage over 1,500 law students seeking to combine their legal education with public service.

The Medicine Hat Public Library provides Public Legal Education sessions through their Law at the Library program.

Darin sits on the board of the Justice Education Society, a Vancouver - based organization that carries out public legal education and information activities, justice reform and capacity building programs in British Columbia and in several jurisdictions outsidEducation Society, a Vancouver - based organization that carries out public legal education and information activities, justice reform and capacity building programs in British Columbia and in several jurisdictions outsideducation and information activities, justice reform and capacity building programs in British Columbia and in several jurisdictions outside Canada.

The program in Bosnia and Herzegovina recognizes the critical role that legal educators and legal education play in promoting a fair and effective justice system that is trusted by the public.

First set up the «MOOC - CLE» programs you suggested in that earlier article, get the law students some practical education, and then start considering having them contribute further to public legal education.

LawCentral Alberta is a program of the Centre for Public Legal Education Alberta (CPLEA).

Drew Jackson discusses two initiatives: (1) the Clicklaw website, which provides legal information and education for the public from 24 contributor organizations; and (2) Law Matters, a program intended to enhance the collections of legal information in libraries across the province.

[vii] Alternative legal services (ALSs) are, for example: clinics offering advice, self - help webpages, phone - in services, paralegal and law student programs, family mediation services, social justice tribunals, and court procedures simplification projects, public legal education information services, programs for targeted (unbundled) limited retainer legal services (as distinguished from a full retainer to provide the whole legal service), pro bono (free) legal services for short and simple cases, and the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, the purpose of which is to help self - represented litigants to be better litigants without lawyers.

[6] Alternative legal services (ALSs) are, for example: clinics of various types; self - help webpages; phone - in services; paralegal and law student programs; family mediation services; social justice tribunals; and court procedures simplification projects; arbitration and mediation for dispute resolution; public legal education information services; programs for targeted (unbundled) limited retainer legal services (as distinguished from a full retainer to provide the whole legal service); pro bono (free) legal services for short and simple cases; and, the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, the purpose of which is to help self - represented litigants to be better litigants without lawyers.

[iii] Alternative legal services (ALSs) are, for example: clinics of various types, self - help webpages, phone - in services, paralegal and law student programs, family mediation services, social justice tribunals, court procedures simplification projects, arbitration and mediation for dispute resolution, public legal education information services, programs for targeted (unbundled) limited retainer legal services (as distinguished from a full retainer to provide all of the legal services necessary), pro bono (free) legal services for short and simple cases, and the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, the purpose of which is to help self - represented litigants to be more effective self - represented litigants.

And at the same time, nonprofit agencies that offer public legal education and information are beginning to develop programs specifically for SRLs.

Over that time, MLAC has also formed close partnerships with the private bar, the judiciary, the legislature, the attorney general's office, regional civil legal aid programs and other stakeholders to maximize available resources for low - income individuals and families facing potentially life - changing civil legal issues related to housing, employment, education, domestic violence, and access to public benefits.

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Letters are from: (1) Dr. Adrienne Barnett, Lecturer in Law, Director of Undergraduate Admissions, Brunel Law School; (2) Pamela Brown, Esq., Director, Bi-National Project on Family Violence, Legal Services Corporation and Joan Meier, Esq., Founder and Legal Director, Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project (DV LEAP); (3) Carol S. Bruch, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California Davis School of Law» (4) Jacquelyn Graham (Abbott), the taking (protective) parent in Abbott v. Abbott, in which the United States Supreme Court held that a ne exeat order establishes rights of custody; (5) Paula Lucas, Founder and Executive Director, Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center; (6) Lynn Hecht Schafran, Esq., Director, National Judicial Education Program, Legal Momentum; (7) Sudha Shetty, Esq., Assistant Dean for International Partnerships, Director, Hague DV Project, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California Berkeley and Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D., Dean and Harry & Riva Specht Chair in Publicly Supported Social Services, School of Social Welfare, University of California Berkeley; and (8) Merle H. Weiner, Esq., Philip H. Knight Professor of Law, University of Oregon School of Law.

«A Board rule requiring that Board Members attend, on at least a biennial basis, a continuing education program comprised of not more than six (6) cumulative hours of instruction with respect to Board or Member practices that might result in a significant legal vulnerability and possible liability to the Board and its Members, such as violations of anti-trust laws, agency laws, civil rights laws, the Code of Ethics of the National Association, or other similar public policies is not an inequitable limitation upon membership.»