Sentences with phrase «special committee on»

He currently serves on the Committee on Finance; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee; Committee on Veterans» Affairs; the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee; and the Special Committee on Aging.

Divorce Mediation Readings, Washington, D. C.: American Bar Association Special Committee on Dispute Resolution and Family Law Section, 1985.

In April, SEC head Mary Schapiro suggested in a letter to Congress» Special Committee on Aging that life - settlement transactions may soon require SEC registration.

After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, in which dozens upon dozens of lawyers suffered everything from damage to their building to a total loss of their practice, David F. Bienvenu, a New Orleans lawyer and chair of the ABA Special Committee on Disaster Response and Preparedness wrote in the ABA Journal that lawyers have «a responsibility to our clients to make sure we're adequately prepared to address possible emergencies.»

Member, House of Delegates (1997 - 1998), Special Committee on the Future of the Legal Profession (1996 - 1997), Council of the Section of Torts and Insurance Practice (1982 - 1986), American Bar Association

Pannu is a member of the TBA's Special Committee on Law Practice by Foreign Lawyers.

Adriana Linares: And I think PRI is going to be a great practice resource, the Practice Resource Institute that your group initiated and worked in conjunction with the special committee on technology and tools.

Member; Standing Committee on Legal Ethics, 2004 - 2010; Special Committee on the Future of Law Practice, 2014 - 2015; Task Force on Legal Writing, 2013; Task Force on Emergency Legal Services, 2007 - 2012; Special Committee to Review Procedural Rules Governing Bar Disciplinary Proceedings, 2000 - 2002; The Joint Virginia State Bar and Virginia Bar Association Commission on Multidisciplinary Practice, 2000 - 2002; Member, 1994 - 2000; Reporter 1996 - 2000, Special Committee to Study the Virginia Code of Professional Responsibility; Faculty, Course on Professionalism, 1996 - 1999; Chair, Committee on Publications / Public Information, 1996 - 2001, Virginia State Bar

Harry Arthurs and Brendan O'Brien were the Ontario members of the Special Committee on Legal Ethics that reported in 1973 as to a proposed new CBA code saying:

It did so again in 1983 [v] when the Special Committee on Numbers of Lawyers reported the majority view that «in the present circumstances more lawyers are engaged in private practice than are needed to provide proper legal services to the public».

Legalize and Regulate Marijuana WHEREAS, despite almost a century of prohibition, millions of Canadians today regularly consume marijuana and other cannabis products; WHEREAS the failed prohibition of marijuana has exhausted countless billions of dollars spent on ineffective or incomplete enforcement and has resulted in unnecessarily dangerous and expensive congestion in our judicial system; WHEREAS various marijuana decriminalization or legalization policy prescriptions have been recommended by the 1969 - 72 Commission of Enquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, the 2002 Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, and the 2002 House of Commons Special Committee on the Non-Medical Use of Drugs; WHEREAS the legal status quo for the criminal regulation of marijuana continues to endanger Canadians by generating significant resources for gang - related violent criminal activity and weapons smuggling — a reality which could be very easily confronted by the regulation and legitimization of Canada's marijuana industry; BE IT RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will legalize marijuana and ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution, and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, illegal importation and exportation, and impaired driving; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will invest significant resources in prevention and education programs designed to promote awareness of the health risks and consequences of marijuana use and dependency, especially amongst youth; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will extend amnesty to all Canadians previously convicted of simple and minimal marijuana possession, and ensure the elimination of all criminal records related thereto; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will work with the provinces and local governments of Canada on a coordinated regulatory approach to marijuana which maintains significant federal responsibility for marijuana control while respecting provincial health jurisdiction and particular regional concerns and practices.

The 1965 Clement Report to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta disseminated the findings of this review (Legislative Assembly, Report of the Special Committee on Boards and Tribunals (Chair: Carlton W. Clement)-RRB-.

She was recruited to serve on the following special committees of the Law Society: the committee that re-drafted the Code of Professional Conduct; the Independence of the Legal Profession, Communications Committee, Access Stakeholders, Elections, and Representative Capacity, Special Committee on Ethic Regulation, Special Committee on Communications, the Justicia Project.

The ABA had a Special Committee on Law Lists for years.

Environmental and utilities lawyer Emilee Mooney Scott has been appointed to chair the Special Committee on Young Lawyers of the ABA's Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER) for the 2014 — 2015 year.

That year, he was appointed to serve on the Illinois Supreme Court's Special Committee on Civility, which eventually blossomed into the Commission that it is today.

A Guide To Purchasing Lawyer's Professional Liability Insurance In Virginia (Word doc) presented by the Virginia State Bar's Special Committee on Lawyer Malpractice Insurance to assist lawyers in purchasing professional liability insurance.

The Frankie Muse Freeman Organizational Pro Bono Award was established by the Special Committee on Access to Legal Services of the Virginia State Bar in 2016 to honor organizations that have made outstanding contributions in the area of pro bono legal services for the poor.

Established by the bar's Special Committee on Access to Legal Services, the award is presented at a luncheon for interested members of the legal aid and pro bono communities.

Board of Trustees, National Conference of Bar Examiners Chairman, Wyoming Board of Law Examiners, 2017 Wyoming State Co-Chair, Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, 2017 NCBE National Committee Member, Special Committee on the Uniform Bar Exam, 2017 Wyoming Board of Law Examiners, 2014 - Present Wyoming State Bar Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates, 2014 - Present NCBE National Committee Member, Multistate Essay Exam / Multistate Performance Test, 2016 Editorial Committee, Wyoming Lawyer Magazine, 2015 - present Fellow, American Bar Foundation, 2014 - present Volunteer Firefighter, Farson, Wyoming, 2007 - Present School Advisory Board, Farson, Wyoming, 2012 - Present Board of Directors, Central Wyoming College Foundation, 2006 - 2008

He has served on the Fairfax Bar Association's Special Committee on Legal Services and is currently a Member of the Lawyer Referral Information Service Committee.

He also noted that the Special Committee on Law School Graduates for the bar has spent two years putting the program together.

The evidence in front of the court in Rodriguez in 1993 and in front of the Senate Special Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in June 1995, was taken to demonstrate that: medical associations around the world were opposed to decriminalising assisted suicide; palliative care was threatened by decriminalisation; and descents down the slippery slope from voluntary to non-voluntary and even involuntary euthanasia follow decriminalisation.

The 2002 report of the Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs noted that there was little debate surrounding this addition to the criminal law at the time; as such, the precise motivation for doing so remains unclear.»

In 1990 he wrote a Master's thesis on the bureaucratic efforts to undermine the Commons Special Committee on Indian Self - Government, and later wrote a doctoral dissertation on the testimony of First Nations lea ders before a succession of joint Senate - Commons Committees on the Constitution during the decade before patriation, part of which was published in 2006 under the title Speaking with Authority: The Emergence of the Vocabulary of First Nations Self - Government (Routledge).

The NYSBA's Special Committee on Balanced Lives in the Law, chaired by Syracuse lawyer M. Catherine Richardson, spent nearly three years on the report, meeting with lawyers in all corners of the state, in all types of practices, of all ages, genders and ethnicities.

These decisions led to the formation of the Joint Legislative Council Special Committee on Judicial Discipline and Recusal («Special Committee») to study the two issues and recommend legislation to the full Legislature.

Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution.

I wonder if B. Kendall has read the Report of the Special Committee on Hate Propaganda, circa 1966 - 67, appointed by L.B. Pearson, chaired, I think, by Maxwell Cohen and co-starring Pierre Trudeau, Mark MacGuigan and, I think, another.

The ABA addressed the need for change and to modernize ethics rules in 1969, when its Special Committee on Evaluation of Ethical Standards issued the Model Code of Professional Responsibility.

Author: Members of the New York State Bar Association's Special Committee on Lawyers in Transition.

In 2013, the American Bar Association appointed Stu as a member of the Special Committee on Bioethics and the Law, which is part of the ABA's Division for Public Services, an ABA department dedicated to applying the knowledge and experience of the legal profession to promotion of the public good.

Over forty years ago, the Canadian Bar Association Special Committee on Legal Ethics delivered its Preliminary Report on the Code of Professional Conduct.

On November 28, 2017, ELI, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., the American Bar Association (ABA) Civil Rights & Social Justice's Environmental Justice Committee, and the ABA Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources Special Committee on Environmental Justice held a special program, Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Threats and Opportunities, that featured U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D - NJ) as the keynote speaker.

Subsequently she worked in the United States Senate on the Special Committee on Aging with Senator Grassley and as an executive assistant in government affairs for many years before returning to her love of animals.

Certainly, during the 2008 - 2009 Great Recession, Target Date 2010 fund performance varied dramatically from participant expectations, triggering hearings in the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, and expert testimony to the Department of Labor, the Securities & Exchange Commission, plus representatives from the Senate Special Committee on Aging, June 18, 2009.

However, by doing minor tweaks & changes to the Social Security system, the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging report said social security benefits could be enough to pay out for the next 75 years.

Also noteworthy was Mayes's selection to serve on the important Assembly Rules Committee, which serves as the administrative body governing the Assembly, and to the Special Committee on Legislative Ethics.

This view is consistent with the recommendations of a special Committee on the Teaching of Educational Psychology, created by Division 15 of the American Psychological Association, who advocated that future teachers use a psychological perspective on learning to create a coherent framework of ideas about student learning (Anderson, Blumenfeld, Pintrich, Clark, Marx, & Peterson, 1995).

Robin Steans of «Advance Illinois» and R. Eden Martin, at the time chairman of the «Education Committee of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago,» were two of the official «school reform» witnesses to testify at the hearings on December 17, 2010, before the Illinois House special committee on education reform.

To bypass the Education Committee, chaired by Cunningham, the coalition held hearings for the proposal in Hoskins's Special Committee on Urban Issues, the only House committee chaired by a Democrat.

Yesterday, a Spark Networks special committee on the offer unanimously rejected the proposal from Great Hill Equity Partners.

In Asia, the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries announced in late June that it was suspending approval of Bt crops for agricutural purposes, pending the establishment of criteria by a special committee on genetically modified organisms.

The AAAS Board charged the new special Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, chaired by Allen V. Astin, former director of the National Bureau of Standards,» (i) to study and report on the general conditions required for scientific freedom and responsibility; (ii) to develop suitable criteria and procedures for the objective and impartial study of these problems; and (iii) to recommend mechanisms to enable the Association to review specific instances in which scientific freedom is alleged to have been abridged or otherwise endangered, or responsible scientific conduct is alleged to have been violated.»

[BOX 6] Board of Directors, Old Photographs of Board of Directors meeting, April 1982 Behavioral Sciences, 1958 Bicentennial, 1972 - 1976 Biological Warfare, 1976 - 1977 Blacklisting (Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare) Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1963 - 1972 Civil Defense, 1951 - 1952 Civil Liberties, (See Security; Condon, E.U.), 1952, 1973 Civil Liberties (See Security; Condon, E.U.), 1947 - 1951 Civil Liberties (Report of the Special Committee on the Civil Liberties of Scientist AAAS Executive Committee), 1948 Computer, 1972 - 1983 Condon, E.U. (See Meyerhoff), 1948 - 1951 DNA, 1977 Fluoridation, 1954 - 1984 Government Relations, 1955 - 1978 Import Duties - Scientific Equipment, 1955 - 1959 Resolutions (Correspondence), 1952 - 1974 Security (AAAS Membership), 1954 Security Regulations - Oppenheimer, Midway 9 - 9604 and 2 - 4602 Social Sciences, 1981 - 1982 Society for Social Responsibility in Science, 1960 SST - Concorde AAAS Donations, 1982 - 1983 Complaints - re: membership or subscriptions Dues, 1967 - 1975 Election of Fellows, 1975 - 1982 Insurance, 1960 - 1985 Membership (AAAS Life), 1967 - 1982 Retirement Plan (AAAS), 1950 - 1976 Correspondence with Section Officers, 1976 - 1977 Section W Stamps, 1961 - 1983

Franken told reporters Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid also told him he will serve on the Senate Committee of Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and the Senate Special Committee on Aging.

Meanwhile Eva Joly, a French MEP and vice-chair of the European parliament's special committee on tax rulings, has said she wants Osborne to answer questions about the «very bad deal».

The Nye Committee — officially the Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry — was an anomaly.

Springfield City Council President James Ferrera, who named the members of the Special Committee on School Safety on Monday, said he expects the panel will delve deeply into the subject and issue periodic reports and recommendations.

In June 2016, the House of Commons of Canada Special Committee on Electoral Reform was formed to examine potential changes to the voting system with MMP being one of the options examined.