Sentences with phrase «black lawyers in»
The Research Group's co-directors — Robert Nelson, David Wilkins, and Ronit Dinovitzer — are all centrally involved in After the JD, the ABF's national study of lawyers» careers, and have published seminal research including «Why Are There So Few Black Lawyers in Corporate Law Firms?»
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Professor David Wilkins of Harvard Law School and G. Mitu Gulati of Duke University, in their study titled, «Why Are There So Few Black Lawyers in Corporate Law Firms?»
Already, she has created a task force to compile oral and written histories of black lawyers in Florida, says another report.
Established in 1950, the Barristers» Association of Philadelphia, Inc.'s purpose, then and now, has been to address the professional needs and development of Black lawyers in the City of Philadelphia through programs such as seminars, cultural events and publications.
The story of the professional achievements of black lawyers in South Africa — indeed their very survival — provides an example of the triumph of individuals and, ultimately, of the law.
The lawsuit also names as defendants Eric S. Buchanan, who is a lawyer for the W. Harold Flowers Law Society in Little Rock, an association of black lawyers in Arkansas; the society itself; and the local chapter of the Black Law Students Association.
«When the Florida Bar was formed in 1950, there were less than 25 black lawyers in the state,» the plaque reads.
The number of Black lawyers in these firms doubled since 1975, to over 4 percent.
Jenkins also helped found the National Conference of Black Lawyers in 1968.
Second, White judges who matriculated in some of the nation's finest law schools could not, in good conscience, suggest that Black lawyers in segregated schools received «equal» legal training.
The case was also one of many firsts, as Goodman notes, including the first presence of a black lawyer in a supreme court.
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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.
Matthew Leib, a former New Yorker intern, and Lauren Ballinger, who worked at W Magazine, are represented by the same lawyers in both the Black Swan suit against Fox Entertainment and former interns at Hearst's Harpers» Bazaar and Cosmopolitan.
«A promotional album from a band may in fact be encouraging someone to listen to further U2 music, or whatever it is,» says Ryan Black, a lawyer and co-chair of information technology at McMillan.
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.
I recall quiet Saturday mornings, walking with my father block to block, as he pointed out the landmarks no one else knew: the spot where the Third Avenue El of old stopped (he pointed out the supports hidden beneath the black asphalt); the apartment house where another close - knit family lived in cramped quarters, the three boys studying in dim lights under their mother's watchful eye to become a lawyer, a doctor, and a priest (and later a bishop); and the double spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the place of my parents» wedding and the baptisms of their three boys.
Maybe justice and the good society are brought about precisely by lawyers and judges sending the jury out of the courtroom while they decide whether to admit the testimony of an old black woman who has been listening in on the whole trial of her son.
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.»
Black also recommends the reinstatement of mutual consent laws in order to slow down the process of divorce and give the reluctant partner (who is often also the custodial parent) more bargaining power in a process often driven not by justice but by whoever can afford the more skillful lawyer.
«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.
Porn star Stormy Daniels turned a hotly anticipated court appearance by President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen into a three - ring circus on Monday, creating a media frenzy when she rolled up to the hallowed hall of justice in black stiletto heels.
The findings of the investigation by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office of the fatal Troy police shooting of a 37 - year - old black man could undermine jurors» confidence in officers testifying in future cases, defense lawyers said.
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.
A lawyer, Vara became the first black or Asian Tory shadow minister when he was appointed shadow deputy leader of the Commons in 2006.
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.
TROY — The findings of the investigation by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office of the fatal Troy police shooting of a 37 - year - old black man could undermine jurors» confidence in officers testifying in future cases, defense lawyers said.
Fresh faced, wearing metal - rimmed glasses and a silky black dress cinched at the waist, she resembles more a neighborhood volunteer than a politician — an identity born out of her upbringing in the Glen Oaks section of Eastern Queens, where she was raised by a father who was a labor organizer and a mother who was a tenant lawyer.
Darren Williams - former employee of PCS union Ann Black - former party chairwoman Johanna Baxter - highly active grassroots campaigner Christine Shawcroft - ex leader of Labour group in Tower Hamlets Ellie Reeves - trade union lawyer Pete Willsman - active in Labour machine since 1980s and «enjoys a good disco»
Matthew Smalls, a Staten Island lawyer, said months ago that he would run, in the wake of the Eric Garner case — in which a grand jury impaneled by Mr. Donovan opted not to indict a white police officer in the unarmed black man's death.
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.
When a black man (Sterling K. Brown) is wrongfully accused by a white woman, a black lawyer named Thurgood Marshall (played by Chadwick Boseman) steps in to defend him.
The Open Roads - distributed Marshall takes place 14 years before the lawyer's barrier breaking Brown v. Board of Education case, with Boseman's Marshall in Connecticut trying to defend a black chauffeur accused of raping his white employer.
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.
SYNOPSIS: In 1941, African - American lawyer Thurgood Marshall defends a black chauffeur accused of raping and attempting to murder his socialite employer.
The role was based on Grisham's early years as a Southern lawyer, so he turned down all the young A-listers in favor of the virtual unknown McConaughey, who he believed best embodied the spirit of the young lawyer defending a black man accused of murder.
Blue Iguana, meanwhile, is a black comedy that revolves around ex-jailbirds Eddie (Rockwell) and Paul (Schwartz), on parole and working in a New York diner, They are enlisted by and English lawyer Katherine Rookwood (Fox) to go to London and steal a gem called the Blue Iguana.
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Issa Rae cocreated and stars in the story of the personal and professional tribulations of a nonprofit worker named Issa (Rae) and her best friend, Molly (Yvonne Orji), a lawyer in this show inspired by Rae's YouTube series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl.
Now that the franchise is behind him, Radcliffe has been busy working on his post Potter career with recent roles as a lawyer in «The Woman in Black», the Mullet kid in «Robot Chicken», the TV series «A Young Doctor's Notebook», and more recently «Kill Your Darlings» that is currently in circulation at the Sundance Film Festival.
«The Current War» is one of two movies that centre around the feud between Edison and Westinghouse, as Black Bear Pictures is currently developing «The Last Days of Night» which will star Eddie Redmayne as the lawyer caught in the middle of the patent battle that ensued following Edison's discovery of the electrical current.
WASHINGTON — The State of Mississippi has a duty to eliminate the vestiges of segregation in its higher - education system that continue to hamper the college choices of its black high - school graduates, lawyers representing the Bush Administration and a group of black residents told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.
The Warren Court's belief that black students could not learn in the absence of whites ignored the countless numbers of segregated African - American schools that had produced the black business people, lawyers, doctors, writers, artists, farmers, and craftpersons who built vibrant communities despite being fettered by Jim Crow.
«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.
One - third of all black and Hispanic students in the city's deeply segregated system are on the waiting list to get into this program to attend the same successful schools that doctors» kids and lawyers» kids traditionally enjoy.
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The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (RH / Vintage; Blackstone Audio) is a classic ghost story about a lawyer who travels to remote English village and finds the ghost of a scorned woman terrorizing the locals — and ties in into the gothic horror movie remake, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Janet McTeer, which opens February 3.
Los Angeles Detective Harry Bosch tackles a cold case unlike any he's ever worked, in the new legal thriller from the bestselling author of THE LINCOLN LAWYER and THE BLACK ECHO, Michael Connelly.