Sentences with phrase «public defender organizations»

Public defender organizations, whose budgets are an easy bipartisan target for cuts, could do likewise.

Also at 11 a.m., public defender organizations urge NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito to call for vote on Right to Know Act, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Criminal justice reforms that were left out of the state budget should be passed by lawmakers before the end of the legislative session in June, the city's five primary public defender organizations say.

The city's five primary public defender organizations have teamed up to put pressure on the state legislature to pass meaningful criminal justice reforms after the measures were left out of the state budget.

NYIFUP provides free legal counsel to immigrants facing deportation, per The Bronx Defenders, a public defenders organization in New York City that works with the program.

Not exact matches

(For public defenders) Be either full - time employees of a state or unit of local government (including tribal government) or full - time employees of a nonprofit organization operating under a contract with a state or unit of local government, who «provide legal representation to indigent persons in criminal or juvenile delinquency cases»

As I noted in The Same Thing Over and Over, «The debate over the sanctity of «schoolhouse leadership,» then, is really a debate between the defenders of early - twentieth - century management practices and those championing the management practices [favored] by leading public and private organizations in recent decades.»

be working full - time for a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, legal aid office, prosecutor, public defender, government agency, JAG Corps, or legislative office.

If you practice law as a prosecutor, public defender or provide advocacy on behalf of low - income communities at a nonprofit organization, you may have a portion of your federal student loans forgiven.

(For public defenders) Be either full - time employees of a state or unit of local government (including tribal government) or full - time employees of a nonprofit organization operating under a contract with a state or unit of local government, who «provide legal representation to indigent persons in criminal or juvenile delinquency cases»

To counter criticism of the business community from college campuses, business organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce should support scholars who will defend the free enterprise system, develop speakers and support speakers» bureaus that will counter the liberal rhetoric coming from college campuses, subject textbooks to ideological review, insist on equal time for speakers exposing the views of the business community for speakers on campuses, insist that college faculties be balanced by those who will defend the free enterprise system, request that graduate schools of business include courses that support the free enterprise system, encourage local chambers of commerce to provide the views of the business community in high schools, establish staff who work with the media to communicate to the general public the views of the business community, monitor and criticize television programs that unfairly criticize the free enterprise system and where appropriate file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, monitor radio and other media and pressure them to cover the views of defenders of the free enterprise system, support scholars who support the free enterprise system to publish in scholarly journals, establish incentives for scholars to publish defenses of free enterprise in books, papers, and pamphlets, spend more money on advertising that expressly supports the free market system.

Public interest work does not include: • Government work (even if unpaid), which includes clerking for a judge, or working for a district attorney's office, a public defender's office, or an administrative agency; • Work for a law firm (even if it represents a non-profit organization); • Solo practice (even if it encompasses non-profit work); • Pro bono work that is neither non-profit nor charitable in nPublic interest work does not include: • Government work (even if unpaid), which includes clerking for a judge, or working for a district attorney's office, a public defender's office, or an administrative agency; • Work for a law firm (even if it represents a non-profit organization); • Solo practice (even if it encompasses non-profit work); • Pro bono work that is neither non-profit nor charitable in npublic defender's office, or an administrative agency; • Work for a law firm (even if it represents a non-profit organization); • Solo practice (even if it encompasses non-profit work); • Pro bono work that is neither non-profit nor charitable in nature.

In collaboration with numerous local organizations, including the Knoxville Bar Association, Knoxville Barristers, Legal Aid of East Tennessee, the Knox County Public Defender's Office, and the University of Tennessee College of Law, London & Amburn attorney Spencer Fair has established a monthly Veterans Legal Clinic to serve the Knoxville community.

68 organizations from around the world working to exonerate unjustly convicted men and women, including independent nonprofits as well as organizations affiliated with law schools or other educational institutions, units of public defender offices, and pro bono sections of law firms.

The NLADA Insurance Program offers a wide array of coverages designed to address the special needs of legal services organizations, public defender agencies, law school clinics, pro bono programs, public interest organizations, contract defenders, assigned counsel, lawyer referral services, and others committed to ensuring the availability of high quality legal services for the poor and underprivileged.

We are the advocate and provider of quality professional liability insurance products for the full spectrum of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA) membership community — individual attorneys, legal aid organizations, public defenders, corporate pro bono law programs, law school clinics, individual clients and public interest groups.

Criminal lawyers, also known as criminal defense lawyers and public defenders, defend individuals, organizations, and entities that have been charged with a crime.

While at Columbia, Allen interned at a number of leading national public interest organizations, including the Human Rights Watch, the Southern Center for Human Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, the California Appellate Project, and the Bronx Defenders.

Staffed by the Immigrant Defense Project, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, the Defending Immigrants Partnership collaborates with public defender offices and criminal defense organizations on behalf of noncitizens facing criminal charges.

Besides BigLaw firms, smaller firms, public interest organizations and government agencies (like the Federal Public Defender's Office, the IRS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement) also recruit on cpublic interest organizations and government agencies (like the Federal Public Defender's Office, the IRS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement) also recruit on cPublic Defender's Office, the IRS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement) also recruit on campus.

A professional bar association founded in 1958, NACDL's approximately 9,200 direct members in 28 countries - and 90 state, provincial and local affiliate organizations totaling up to 40,000 attorneys — include private criminal defense lawyers, public defenders, active U.S. military defense counsel, law professors and judges committed to preserving fairness within America's criminal justice system.

In 2016, 84 law students received stipend awards for summer pro bono work serving as interns in judicial chambers, U.S. Attorney offices, governmental agencies, NGOs, non-profit legal aid organizations and federal public defender offices.

Public defenders, legal aid offices, and other legal services nonprofits are grossly inadequate to meet the leftover demand, not because there aren't enough lawyers to go around — on the contrary, this country has a glut of unemployed and underemployed lawyers — but because these organizations» limited resources severely restrict the number of staff they can hire and cases they can take on.