Sentences with phrase «black lawyers for»

The New York Sun quoted Lisa E. Davis in an article about support among black lawyers for Senator Obama.

There is one black lawyer for every 750 members of the black community, one for every 627 South Asians, and one for every 755 members of the Chinese community.

Not exact matches

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Harrison Jacobs: The top line headline about you, in the New York Times and other outlets is that you've sued the police 75 times, you are the lawyer for Black Lives Matter, Occupy, and every other major activist group.

Though a lawyer for will.i.am has sent cease - and - desist letters to Williams, he denies his client has filed his own lawsuit, insisting the Black Eyed Pea hopes to settle acrimoniously.

It's bottled up anger for a black young lawyer and «community organizer» (only in the republican party where community organizer is a derogatory word) who was able to reach new heights and be the leader of the white house.

The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, a black minister of the American Baptist Church and longtime Harvard chaplain, wrote in the Boston Globe: «When lawyers, the courts, and the media all seem complicit in the cycle of vengeance and blood and no closure short of decapitation seems acceptable, then we have reason to worry about the climate for justice, mercy, and charity; and Salem in 1692 seems not so far removed in moral climate from Boston in 2002.»

«We have a dynamic role model in the White House, a black woman who gets the idea that she can go to work, be a lawyer and still provide milk for her baby,» said Napiera Loveless, co-founder of MamaTotoMatema, a Cincinnati - based organization committed to educating and encouraging leaders and health care professionals to adopt different approaches to promoting breastfeeding in African American families.

Nearly a year after the federal Justice Department declined to bring civil rights charges against a white police officer who fatally shot a black college student in Pleasantville, Westchester County in 2010, the victim's family has agreed to a $ 6 million settlement, a lawyer for the family announced.

Sponsors include 32BJ SEIU, ALIGN New York, Black Lives Matter Greater New York, Center for Popular Democracy, Desis Rising Up & Moving, Labor for Palestine, Make the Road New York, Muslim Democratic Club, National Lawyers Guild Labor and Employment Law Committee, New York Communities for Change, New York Immigration Fund, New York Immigration Coalition, New York Progressive Action Committee, New York Taxi Workers Alliance, New York Worker Center Federation, New York Working Families Party and Strong Economy for All.

Lawyers for the parents, who filed three separate lawsuits in Albany County Supreme Court this month, argued that State Education Commissioner David Steiner erred in granting Black a waiver from a requirement that she possess a master's degree — something they said he doesn't have the power to do.

Esq., New York City Bar Association Diana Wong, Asian Americans for Equality Elba Galvan, Esq., National Lawyers Guild, New York City Chapter Josh Silber, New York State Trial Lawyers Association Juan Gonzalez, Hispanic Bar Association Kenny Louis, Women's City Club Kersuze Morancy, Metropolitan Black Bar Association Lesley Horton Campbell, Esq., NAACP, Mid Manhattan Branch Marea L. Wachsman, Esq., Women's Trial Lawyer Caucus Meredith Miller, The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York (Le - Gal) Merium Malik, Esq., Muslim Bar Association of New York City Micahel A. Mosberg, Esq., American Academy of Matrimonial Law Nial MacGiollabhui, Esq., Brehon Law Society Shu'aib Abdur - Raheem, Fortune Society Susan Bender, New York Women's Bar Association Dai Wai Chin Feman Trina Moore Brenda Gill

Jones brought his lawyers - Jim Morgan and Sheila Galvin of Delmar - along with Howard Aubin of Black Brook who, for years, had been helping him with his case.

«The waiver is supposed to be a process for candidates who have some of the criteria but fall short on maybe one,» said Barron, who plans to hold a meeting with lawyers Monday to decide whether to file a temporary restraining order preventing Black from taking office as well as additional legal action.

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Dean Martin had his final leading role in this obscure drama about a San Francisco lawyer defending a black militant (Thalmus Rasulala) on trial for murder.

The good news is that Kevin Costner does some of the finest, most deeply felt work of his career as a widower lawyer fighting for custody of his biracial granddaughter in Mike Binder's Black and White.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

They stumble, and leave it to the more confrontational of the black soldiers to intone the universally known words that conclude the speech — a cunning inversion, perhaps, of Spielberg's Amistad, in which white lawyers spoke for a group of black Africans seeking their freedom.

Even the Jewish guy at the passport place has to spell it out when he apologetically acknowledges that Jewish lawyers have better contacts than black lawyers «for systemic reasons.»

«This is the history Mississippi wants to walk away from,» said Alvin O. Chambliss Jr., the lawyer for a group of black residents who sued the state in 1975 over racial disparities in its public colleges and universities.

Washington — School districts that were once racially segregated by law should remain bound by court desegregation orders until every wrong caused by the separation of races is cured, a lawyer for black schoolchildren in Oklahoma City told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.

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Klein, a former antitrust lawyer for the U.S. Justice Department, will be replaced by publishing executive Cathleen Black.

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We meet fearless D.C. lawyer Ben Corbett, regarded with suspicion for his willingness to take black clients.

We have heard the story on a walking tour which has also taken us past the office where Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo became the country's first black lawyers and which is now a «sidewalk museum» with window displays telling the story of the anti-apartheid struggle; the replica mineshaft head, a reminder of the gold on which the city was founded; the Rand Club where Kipling first recited If; and Gandhi Square with its statue of the man who was later to lead the fight for India's independence.

Flashing brightly for a few seconds at a time, the black - and - white mugshot of an unnamed African - American male loomed against the Chicago skyline, interrupting the mundane ads — for sandwiches, lawyers, Hondas — that shared space on the same digital billboard.

Heavy Electricity Transmission Losses Officials» arguments that the dams are needed to improve living standards and meet energy demands around the country are rebutted by lawyer Yakup Okumuşoğlu, who points out that all the dams planned for the Black Sea region would produce only 2 to 3 percent of the electricity needed in a country with an 18 percent loss rate in electricity transmission.

Rather than care for suffering workers, the coal industry has hired lawyers and doctors to deny Black Lung disease, rather than protecting its workforce and paying for the treatment they need.

Nicole Black and Carolyn Elefant, the co-authors of Social Media for Lawyers: The Next Frontier, seem to be wary about Groupon's use in legal practice.

Recent diversity figures from the Judicial Appointments (JAC) show there is a serious problem with the appointment of black and minority ethnic lawyers to the bench and underline the need for targeted support and training, the Bar Council has said.

The familiar yellow - and - black Dummies book series may be geared for dummies, but a Milwaukee, Wisconsin patent lawyer who's written five Dummies books, is anything but.

While Ms. Black believes that lawyers who use Groupon may cheapen their law firms in the public eye, Ms. Elefant doesn't see how lawyers can compete against restaurants and hotels on Groupon for repeat business.

Excerpted from Cloud Computing for Lawyers by Nicole Black.

In my mind, perhaps the biggest factor that accounts for under - representation of black lawyers at the court is the rise of Supreme Court specialists, a phenomenon described in this piece by Tony Mauro.

Some great pit stops include Enrico Schaefer's post discussing how the billable hour puts a lawyer's interests at odds with those of his client, a post at Techdirt on a recent decision forcing Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to pay legal fees for litigants it wrongly sued and Nicole Black's post mortem on the Duke lacrosse rape case, along with a video that sums up the case.

A host of leading UK law firms are weighing up introducing ethnic diversity targets for the first time, as addressing the dearth of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) lawyers rises up the agenda.

We have a number of diversity subcommittees, like Arcus — the LGBT subcommittee — as well as ones for Black and Latino and Asian and Pacific Islander lawyers.

Pittsburgh divorce lawyer and Pollock Begg Komar Glasser & Vertz LLC Partner Brian C. Vertz will lead an educational program on family tax law for the Massachusetts chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyer's black - letter - law seminar on September 23, 2016.

«This partnership is a new era for learning and sharing experience between black lawyers, Diasporas and African human rights lawyers for the advancement of human rights in Africa» Dieu - Donné Wedi Djamba, Executive Secretary for ACC.

On 25 January 2017, the Society of Black Lawyers (SBL), the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) and the Coalition for an Effective African Court on Human and Peoples» Rights (ACC) have joined hands in providing opportunities to African and Diaspora lawyers and law students to enrich their experience through internships in Africa, UK and tLawyers (SBL), the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) and the Coalition for an Effective African Court on Human and Peoples» Rights (ACC) have joined hands in providing opportunities to African and Diaspora lawyers and law students to enrich their experience through internships in Africa, UK and tLawyers Union (PALU) and the Coalition for an Effective African Court on Human and Peoples» Rights (ACC) have joined hands in providing opportunities to African and Diaspora lawyers and law students to enrich their experience through internships in Africa, UK and tlawyers and law students to enrich their experience through internships in Africa, UK and the USA.

And both cases give defense attorneys new ammunition for arguing for below - guideline sentences (in fact, Berman even suggested that lawyers for Michael Vick and Conrad Black postpone sentencing in their clients» respective cases, though his advice came too late for Vick, who's already gotten 23 months and Black, who received 6.5 years).

The magic circle firm has recruited three external coaches, known as «black belts» in efficiency, to lead training workshops to help the firm's lawyers identify inefficiencies in the way they work, mimicking cost - cutting initiatives developed for the manufacturing industry.

They have legal medical marijuana, and they have no marijuana attorneys because the restrictions are so onerous that you don't need a lawyer for it because everything is so black and white.

A Chicago divorce lawyer who put up billboards around Chicago showing her in skimpy black lingerie and who then posed nude and wrote a legal advice column for Playboy is now suing Playboy for sexual harassment.

Among them are Niki Black, legal tech writer and speaker; Carolyn Elefant, founder of MyShingle; Joan Feldman, editor - in - chief of Attorney at Work; Mary Juetten and Jules Miller, the women who cofounded Evolve Law before selling it this year to Above the Law; Sarah Glassmeyer, project manager specialist at the ABA Center for Innovation; Ivy B. Grey, author of American Legal Style for PerfectIt, a proofreading and editing software for lawyers, and a frequent contributor to Law Technology Today; Margaret Hagan, director of the Legal Design Lab at Stanford Law School; Susan Hackett, CEO of Legal Executive Leadership; Lisa Needham, editor at Lawyerist; Jean O'Grady, blogger at Dewey B Strategic; Lisa Salazar of 3 Geeks and a Law Blog; and Nicolle Schippers, legal industry advocate at ARAG North America.

I was finally spurred to do so by Nicole Black's column last week at Above the Law in which she featured a lawyer, Scott Bassett, for whom the Digital Paper is «his tablet of choice.»

But the language raised concerns for several ABA entities because comments may not be enforced in the same way as black - letter rules, and because the language is not broad enough to adequately address discriminatory behavior by lawyers in the context of law practice.