Sentences with phrase «at lawyers committee»

She has taught at Columbia Law School and Columbia University and has interned with the International Refugee Program at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First) and with the Palestinian Ministry of Economy and Trade.

Rose Clouston, national coordinator at Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said her Washington - D.C. - based group received hundreds of calls from New York independents who did not understand why they couldn't vote Tuesday.

Not exact matches

«Following discussions between the committee's staff and his lawyers, Mr. Pearson looks forward to testifying at the hearing,» said Tom Orewyler, a spokesman for Debevoise & Plimpton.

The lawyers, led by an official at the Prime Minister's office, tried to turn natural resource provision upside down in favour of the vessel owners, but to its credit the parliamentary committee in charge restored the original language of the clause proposed by the Constitutional Council.

Rowan Wilson, a low - key and self - effacing corporate lawyer specializing in antitrust and intellectual property, as well as civil rights law, appeared at a friendly hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

[156] As part of his role at the publisher, Crone had served as the News of the World's chief lawyer and gave evidence before parliamentary committees, that he had uncovered no evidence of phone hacking beyond the criminal offences committed by the royal editor Clive Goodman.

An official at the National Republican Congressional Committee on Tuesday confirmed a report that Jones, a former executive and top lawyer at The Go Daddy Group, will meet with the organization this week in Washington about a possible campaign against Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema in Arizona's 9th District.

Mr. Afoko's lawyer, Martin Kpebu, arrived at the embattled chairman's office moments after the party's National Council upheld an earlier decision by National Executive Committee that indefinitely suspended Mr Afoko, tv3network.com has gathered.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Questioned intently by a Senate committee, President Donald Trump's son struck a firmly unapologetic tone, deflected many queries and said he didn't think there was anything wrong with meeting a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in hopes of election - season dirt on Hillary Clinton, according to transcripts released Wednesday.

It added that, «the senior to mentor him shall lodge periodic reports on him [lawyer Sosu] to the General Legal Council's Disciplinary Committee at the end of the every month during the mentorship period.»

The astute lawyer has gone on to make strides at CAF where is an Executive Committee member and also a member of the new FIFA Council.

«The lawyers are looking at that right now,» said Democratic Westchester Assemblyman Gary Pretlow, who chairs the Assembly's Racing and Wagering committee.

Lawyers for Shaun McCutcheon, an Alabama electrical engineer and conservative political activist, argued that the per - donor caps — which currently stand at $ 48,600 to candidate committees and $ 74,600 in contributions to PACs and party committees in each two - year cycle — burden his First Amendment rights while doing little to protect public officials from corruption.

But interviews with Cuomo, law - enforcement officials, FBI agents, Cuomo's campaign committee, Cuomo's former law partners, and the lawyers who were present at the congressional hearing suggest that none of these leads turns into anything substantial.

Gillibrand was a hardworking lawyer (partner in David Boies» law firm); elected TWICE in a heavily Republican district; serves on the Armed Services Committee; ranks among the top ten fundraisers in the House; was hired by President Clinton to work at HUD; fought for the rights of abused women; is a genuine working Mom who gave birth to her second child just last March, making her only the sixth woman in the House to do so while serving in office; she has voted in every single election (unlike Kennedy who has missed even GENERAL elections); magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth... Need I say more?

Saujani, a Manhattan lawyer who previously worked on Wall Street, has hammered Maloney with fliers that accuse the longtime congresswoman of taking campaign funds from special interests as well as holding a fund - raiser with members of political action committees at an event where musicians James Taylor and Carole King played.

Legislators sent back to committee a plan to borrow $ 100 million for a new emergency room and major mechanical replacements, while some legal complexities are looked at by the lawyers and the Poloncarz Administration grapples with how to pay an unexpected $ 18 million in additional subsidy to the hospital.

Rep. Charlie Rangel's lawyers are firing back at the House ethics committee, saying the panel was «wrong on the facts and unsupported by the law.»

Rowan Wilson, a low - key and self - effacing corporate lawyer specializing in anti-trust and intellectual property, among other things, as well as civil rights law, appeared at a friendly hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The 36 - year - old Orthodox Jewish lawyer, who formerly practiced corporate law at Rosenman & Colin, considers himself politically moderate and, in the context of the committee, very much a middleman between conflicting interests.

Company lawyer Robert Knoer was at the committee meeting but declined to say anything during the discussion.

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Washington — The parents of a learning - disabled child had no right under federal law to unilaterally move their son from a public school to a private school at a local school system's expense, even though the private school was subsequently found to be the appropriate placement for the child, a lawyer for a Massachusetts school committee told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.

In fact, a majority of school districts with ninth - graders in the two counties appear to rely on at least some subjective placement, according to the study issued by the Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, which compiled previous studies and district data.

«Alarmingly, the percentage of teachers of color in BPS is basically what it was 24 years ago, when the final judgment in Boston's desegregation case was signed,» said Matt Cregor, Education Project Director at the Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice.

The Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, was formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to involve the private bar in providing legal services to address racial discrimination.

Instead, the Department of Education must retain its school discipline guidance and focus on building the positive, nurturing school climates that will ultimately lead to safer schools for all students,» said Brenda Shum, director of the Educational Opportunities Project at the Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

The 2011 Advisory Committee members were: Erin Donnelly, Special Projects Consultant for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Exhibition Coordinator and Curator for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA) Art & Law Residency Program; David Brooks, 2009 EAF recipient; Dan Byers, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art; Scott Zieher, published poet and co-owner and director of ZieherSmith gallery.

«Several years ago, I started researching common sense ways to address climate change at the local level and decided to focus on food,» says Radow, a lawyer, professor of Sustainability Action at Manhattanville College and member of the Mamaroneck Sustainability Collaborative, a volunteer committee created to advise the Town on environmental issues.

«The president's decision to treat the Paris agreement as an executive agreement instead of a treaty is just his latest use of executive power to achieve an end that he knows full well would not pass congressional muster,» Steven Groves, a lawyer who is an expert on treaties at The Heritage Foundation, testified Tuesday before a congressional committee...

«The committee acknowledges that new technologies «have altered how lawyers communicate» and «may raise unexpected practical questions,»» says Ellen Murphy, who teaches professional responsibility at the Wake Forest University School of Law.

Democrats Can Restore Some Delegates from Michigan and Florida: In a 38 - page memo, lawyers for the Democratic National Committee advised that the Democrats can seat some of the delegates from Michigan and Florida at the nominating convention in August, reports the Associated Press.

Jacob «Jack» C. Landau, a lawyer and journalist who helped found the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in 1970 and was its executive director from 1974 to 1985, died this week at the age of 74.

Therefore, lawyers acting in the capacity of counsellors for professional support groups will not be called by the Society or by any investigation committee to testify at any conduct, capacity or competence hearing without the consent of the lawyer from whom the information was received.

You can't go into a business class lounge at the international terminals at Dulles Airport without running into at least one lawyer headed to Europe or Asia to conduct an internal investigation of a possible bribe or kickback for a corporate audit committee.

As Christopher Carney, chairman of the hiring committee at Brouse McDowell explained, at this time, «there's no reason to hire entry level lawyers» with so many associates on the market.

Lisa Stiver, Chair of the TDS Law Articling Students Committee, says: «We at TDS are very pleased to welcome these bright new lawyers to the firm.

You can join me today at 1 p.m. for «How to Conduct Free Legal Research Online,» a webinar sponsored by the American Bar Association, Center for Professional Development, Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division, and the Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress.

Peter Showler is a co-chair of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers» Advocacy Committee, the former director of the Refugee Forum at the University of Ottawa and former chair of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.

Justice Smith has been extensively involved for several years in the education of lawyers and judges, is a member of the Superior Court of Ontario Judicial Education Committee, a faculty member of the National Judicial Institute and past instructor at the Ontario Bar Admission Programme.

Indianapolis brain injury lawyer Dan Chamberlain is an Executive Committee Member - at - Large of the 2013 BIAI Board of Directors.

She is a member of the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division and served as Liaison and Advisory Board Member to the Commission on Youth at Risk and Vice Chair of the Women in the Profession Committee.

At the Chicago office of Perkins Coie, partners recently unveiled a «happiness committee,» offering candy apples and milkshakes to brighten the long and wearying days of its lawyers.

Aaron Street: Yeah, so I am on the ABA's law practice division Legal Futures Initiative, which is kind of a gathering of a bunch of innovators in the profession talking about the future of law and the future of law practice, and at the meeting in Miami last week we all got there and realized that, setting aside the future of law practice, there were some more pressing issues in law that needed some innovators to work on — namely the travel ban, immigration ban, Executive Order from President Trump — and so our committee spent a couple of hours thinking about how we, as a group, could help lawyers solve that issue.

Aaron Street: Yep, and so, in this case, rather than having a month's long committee process to decide what we could build, and how to do it, and who should do it — a group of lawyers without the help of non-lawyers — was able to knock out a project in a day, and a couple days later ABA President Linda Klein highlighted it both for its innovation work, but also because of the importance of the substantive issues at play.

The Committee then listed six different situations where lawyers might consider a more secure communication method than email, including when: 1) communicating highly sensitive or confidential information via email or unencrypted email connections, 2) sending an email to or from an account that the email sender or recipient shares with others, 3) sending an email to a client when it is possible that a third person (such as a spouse in a divorce case) knows the password to the email account, or to an individual client at that client's work email account, especially if the email relates to a client's employment dispute with his employer 4) sending an email from a public computer or a borrowed computer or where the lawyer knows that the emails may be read on a public or borrowed computer or on an unsecure network, 5) sending an email if the lawyer knows that the recipient may access it on devices that are potentially accessible to third persons or are not protected by a password, or 6) sending an email if the lawyer is concerned that the NSA or other law enforcement agency may read the email, with or without a warrant.

Author: Among the contributors to this ABA Law Student Division blog: Lauren Ritter is the ABA Law Student Division liaison to the Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel and a student at the University of Richmond School of Law; Sheevani Patel is the Executive Governor of the American Bar Association Law Student Division's First Circuit and a student att New England Law Boston; Karen Munoz Karen Munoz is a personal injury attorney at Dolan Law in Chicago; Berkman Bottger Newman & Rodd LLP is a boutique New York City divorce law firm; Merri Bame is an Ohio - based communications coach; Stephanie Dube Dwilson is an attorney and reporter for Heavy.com; Grover E. Cleveland is a Seattle lawyer, speaker and author of Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks: The Essential Guide to Thriving as a New Lawyer.

Farhana is an experienced, dedicated and professional lawyer and one who joins the Committee at a vital time, I know she is committed to playing her part in transforming the family justice system in England and Wales.»

Resources for lawyers looking to volunteer their time are available at ambar.org/DisasterRelief, hosted by the ABA's Committee on Disaster Response and Preparedness.

On March 2, 2000, at the request of First Canadian Title, the Ethics Committee met to consider whether a lawyer in BC could properly witness a document via live interactive videoconferencing.