Sentences with phrase «staff attorney on»

Daniel is a Senior Staff Attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's intellectual property team, focusing on patent reform.

In his early years as a lawyer, he traveled to South Dakota where he was a staff attorney on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian Reservations.

Ms. Starkey is an attorney of twenty five years» experience in the areas of complex commercial litigation, appellate practice and eDiscovery, including experience with a large AMLAW 200 law firm and work as a staff attorney on the Arizona Court of Appeals.

It seems that temporary or «contract» attorneys are commonly supervised by staff attorneys on the massive document reviews and other projects they take on for BigLaw, and some temporary attorneys are not - so - secretly pleased at the recent turn of events.

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Sen. Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, subsequently turned the floor over to the attorney general, who went on to say that he had consulted with senior Justice Department staff prior to his testimony about what he called a «longstanding policy» regarding communications with the president.

A former assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York, Hendon is a partner at Spears & Imes, a boutique firm focusing on white - collar criminal defense and civil litigation that has a staff of just 14 attorneys, according to its website.

Unknown to Quintero and others on staff, one of those attorneys transferred all his documents, photos and data from his laptop to his new iPhone, failing to back up the content onto a separate hard drive in the process.

Persis Yu is a staff attorney at NCLC and works in the Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project and on other consumer advocacy issues.

The plaintiffs» attorney cited a lack of training on the part of the staff which caused them to over use the pepper spray instead of employing other intervention methods.

Cara Wilking, Senior Staff Attorney at the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University points out that the Sugar Association, the trade association for producers of cane and beet sugar, is right on top of this issue.

Chris Amato, a staff attorney for Earth Justice and former official with the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, said his organization has experienced delays at that agency and the Public Service Commission that have made it difficult to weigh in on policy proposals.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- New York Attorney General - elect Eric Schneiderman named six lawyers to join his legal staff, including a top trial lawyer as his chief deputy, when he becomes the new «Sheriff of Wall Street» on January 1.

We are satisfied to note that the Chief of Staff asked for a legal opinion from the Attorney - General, not on whether or not Ghana had committed to acquire that 24 % stake (which would be false), but on whether the government could issue the directive to SSNIT as demanded by Woyome.

A letter directing SSNIT to «strictly» comply and take 24 % shares in the bizarre SEZ project was signed by Ambassador William Ntow Boahene, a presidential staffer, on behalf of the Chief of Staff on October 4, 2016, and had said it was being done following the Attorney General's advice.

She's been publicly silent on reports that Cuomo and his staff interfered with the Commission, but its been reported that Rice and other Commission members have told U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's investigators that Cuomo and his staff «intervened...» in a manner that, at times, led them to question the independence» of the panel.»

W.H. AIDE CONSIDERED SPYING ON CO-WORKERS: The Daily Beast's Spencer Ackerman reports that Ezra Cohen - Watnick, «a former National Security Council official now working for Attorney General Jeff Sessions explored ways to surreptitiously monitor the communications of White House staff for leaks or perceived political disloyalty to Donald Trump.»

Under withering questioning from Percoco's attorney Barry Bohrer, Howe on Wednesday claimed that Cuomo's staff often asked the lobbyist to shift to private email to discuss state business.

After graduating from law school, Paterson worked in the District Attorney's office of Queens County, New York, and on the staff of Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the same federal prosecutor who brought down the leaders of the legislature, has been investigating, and on Friday evening Governor Cuomo revealed that subpoenas had been issued to a former top member of his staff, and a lobbyist who used to work for the governor when Cuomo was at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Abdus - Salaam, a Washington, D.C., native and 1974 graduate of Barnard College, graduated from Columbia University Law School in 1977 and started a career as a staff attorney at East Brooklyn Legal Services Corp., according to her profile on the state Office of Court Administration's website.

The message was sent directly to Elana Leopold, a mayoral «special assistant» who's now on leave working for his re-election campaign, and cc'd to aides including Avi Fink, now deputy chief of staff, and Amy Spitalnick, who left City Hall in October to become press secretary for state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

The briefing took place in the office of the President on 23 rd December 2011 in the presence of the then Chief of Staff, Mr. Newman, at which I produced a copy of the approval letter dated 9th December 2010 by the Attorney General addressed to the Minister of Finance.

After I had given the President and the Chief of Staff the update and was leaving his office on the 23 rd December, 2011, the Minister of Finance who was going in to have a discussion with the President while I was leaving the President's office, held my hands and pulled me back to the President's office for the President to confirm to me that it was he who first reported to the President about his misgivings concerning paying the money to Woyome when the Attorney General first submitted her approval for payment.

Prosecutors on U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's staff noted that at least 14 New York State legislators have been convicted of federal corruption - related crimes in the past ten years.

«This takes an emotional toll on the kids, and puts them even further behind their peers,» said Susan J. Horwitz, Senior Staff Attorney at The Legal Aid Society, which represents several of the families involved in the suit.

On December 1st, Bronx Chronicle staff Kathleen Canzoniero and I had the opportunity to interview Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson.

«While the persistent attacks on my integrity and that of my staff have been distressing and distracting, the important work of the District Attorney's office continues,» he said.

The coalition, which is being coordinated by the state Business Council, has spent $ 125,000 on «digital advertising» with the Global Strategy Group and $ 45,000 in consulting fees with Metropolitan Public Strategies, the company founded by former chief of staff to Attorney Generla Eric Schneiderman Neal Kwatra.

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's counsel assigned staff to deal with issue and on June 4, staff attorney Anne Tommaney provided technical language to be included in the final agreement.

Madeline Singas awarded nearly $ 800,000 in pay raises to 180 nonunion staff members on Jan. 1, the day she took over as Nassau County district attorney, according to new county payroll data.

Hoefer says the legislature chose private law firms even though the Senate and Assembly have dozens of attorneys on staff.

After the report drew the interest of Moreland Commission staff in their investigation of legislative corruption that was later picked up by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, both former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Majority Leader Dean Skelos were indicted on federal corruption charges brought by Bharara's office.

«This is a scheme by landlords to evade the rent laws,» said Legal Aid staff attorney Kathleen Brennan, who brought the case on behalf of a group of homeless occupants at 60 Clarkson Ave.

The Attorney General has submitted her report to the Chief of Staff on the controversial GHc3.6 million expended on re-branding the 116 Buses.

His funding has enabled us to have a safe, secure and efficient environment for our staff as they work to prosecute crimes committed on Rikers Island,» said Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark.

The case is assigned to Michael Maiman, an assistant U.S. Attorney on Bharara's staff.

They include Audrey Gelman, his former press secretary; Micah Lasher, attorney general Eric Schneiderman's former chief of staff and a candidate for State Senate on the Upper West Side; Amy Rutkin, Rep. Jerry Nadler's chief of staff; and Camille Joseph, deputy comptroller for public affairs and Anthony Weiner's former campaign manager.

The chairman of the board of Bronx Human Services was a special assistant on Espada's Senate staff; Green Eco Energy was incorporated by Espada's own attorney.

«Of all the candidates running, only District Attorney Rice has the experience and the record of directing a large staff of attorneys to take on large corporations and defend the public's right to fair wages, safe working conditions and fraud - free public spending.

The article recaps how both a U.S. attorney and later the Brooklyn district attorney were on the verge of indicting the first - term congressman for allegedly forcing his Assembly staff to work on his congressional campaign while still on the state payroll.

Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan, who served as special prosecutor for the case, wrote in a statement released on Wednesday morning that his investigation did not find Lopez's alleged harassment of two female staff members rose to the level of a criminal offense.

But as Gene Russianoff, staff attorney for the Straphangers Campaign, points out, whether Cuomo and his successors will continue to make good on their promise isn't clear.

Cuomo, after receiving a warning letter from US Attorney Bharara last week, has said he will no longer comment on the specifics of the federal probe, but the governor does say he personally has not been asked to speak to federal prosecutors, but he's told his staff to provide the US Attorney with any thing that Bharara wants to know.

And I had Mike Norris on my staff, an attorney and former elections commissioner,» he added.

We reject Klein's preposterous assertion that the defense prepared by his attorneys based on interviews with his staff qualifies as «an investigation» of Ms. Vladimer's account of her experience of sexual assault at the hands of the senator.

As admitted on the public record by the Budget and Appropriations Chair and staff, the additions and deletions were not even discussed with the Budget Director, County Attorney or affected Commissioners.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's staff executed a search warrant at the SUNY Poly office on Thursday, the source confirmed.

I immediately engaged senior staff including the County Attorney and the Personnel Commissioner, who was and still is in the United Kingdom on vacation, in reviewing the allegation and to examine relevant county personnel policies.

If staff members were campaigning on the public dime, it would fall to the Attorney General's Office to investigate.

«I immediately engaged senior staff, including the county attorney and the personnel commissioner — who was and still is in the United Kingdom on vacation — in reviewing the allegation and to examine relevant county personnel policies,» said Poloncarz.