Sentences with phrase «concerns about a lawyer»

«The public needs to be confident that lawyers are acting in their best interests and that if they have serious, justifiable concerns about a lawyer's conduct, the law society will investigate,» Bond said.

Self - represented applicants at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario have raised the issue of bias directly or indirectly through expressed concerns about lawyers on the Tribunal's practice advisory committee appearing for respondents: see Guilmoutdinov v. Ontario College of Teachers (2009 HRTO 2130), for example, where the adjudicator noted that advisory committees were frequently used by tribunals to promote responsiveness to the communities they serve and concluded that membership on the committee did not create a reasonable apprehension of bias.

For this reason, firms may want to put in place processes to create an accessible and safe avenue for concerns about a lawyer's mental competence to be raised.

Not exact matches

Diplomat Dan Biers from the US embassy in Beijing was also shoved while expressing his concern about the arrest and detainment of civil rights lawyer Pu Zhiquiang.

National Security Council staff brought the proposal to the attention of the agency's lawyers, five people said, because they were concerned about the plan and how it was being advanced.

The Treasury Department wrote a letter Monday to lawyers involved in the deal expressing concern about Chinese competitors in 5G network development, which raises national security concerns over the Broadcom - Qualcomm merger.

Top executives didn't have any involvement in the alleged misleading of advertising, the Journal found, but a lawyer for Outcome told the Journal three employees were put on paid leave while concerns about conduct were reviewed.

The women took issue with the company's statement that «no current or former Fox News employee ever took advantage of the 21st Century Fox hotline to raise a concern about Bill O'Reilly» The lawsuit said that Ms. Mackris and Ms. Diamond raised complaints through their lawyers but that no investigation was conducted in either case.

European privacy campaigner and lawyer Max Schrems — a long time critic of Facebook — was actually raising concerns about the Facebook's lax attitude to data protection and app permissions as long ago as 2011.

If you have any doubts or concerns about the legality of being an Abra Teller in your area we encourage you to talk to a lawyer who is knowledgeable about your local laws concerning p2p bitcoin sales.

Human rights lawyers are extremely concerned about Pakistan's new crackdown, and it's even more terrifying than you might think.

«In particular, we express our deep concern about the whereabouts and well - being of lawyer Zhang Kai.

As the seminar returned to the original briefs in Roe v. Wade, seeing them now through the lens of our concern about conservative jurisprudence, something now sprang out: The lawyers for the state of Texas had set forth in their brief an even richer form of the essay produced earlier by Paul Ramsey.

After meeting with Atlanta lawyer and judge William Hill to discuss concerns about Ferry's comments, Gearon Jr. emails Levenson and calls for the owner to fire the general manager or force his resignation, according to Chris Vivlamore of the Atlanta Journal - Constitution.

A judge overseeing thousands of NFL concussion - linked lawsuits says lawyers are still working to address her concerns about a proposed $ 765 million fund.

Be sure to ask your lawyer about any concerns you have.

Justice Dery's lawyers raised concerns about the decision and proceeded to the Supreme Court to cite her for bias.

Kavanagh joined City Councilmember Rory Lancman, Congressmember Hakeem Jeffries, Jarret Berg of the New York Democratic Lawyers Council, and other public officials and organizations concerned about voting rights, to call upon New Yorkers, especially attorneys, to help ensure that all eligible voters can cast their ballots without the kind of intimidation and voter suppression activities that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been inciting in recent days.

While Percoco insisted that everything he did had been cleared by lawyers, Lacewell recalled, Cuomo expressed concern about work Percoco did on behalf of a Syracuse developer and another firm, both campaign donors, that lobbyist Todd Howe paid for with checks to Percoco's wife.

Kathy Zabinski, president of the Civil Service Employees Association, said last week that union lawyers were reading the plan to make sure it didn't constitute as age discrimination, but she didn't have any concerns about it.

Halloran's lawyer, Vinoo Verghese, said his client had been in «purgatory» since he was accused in April of last year and was concerned about the delay and cost of a retrial.

Ndukwe said in the statement on Monday that Fani - Kayode's family and his lawyers had raised concerns about his health when he was re-arrested by the anti-graft agency on Friday, but their concerns were ignored.

The brazen assertion by one of Trump's lawyers that a president can not be found guilty of obstruction of justice signaled a controversial defense strategy in the wide - ranging Russia probe, as the president's political advisers are increasingly concerned about the legal advice he is receiving.

For one thing, lawmakers are allowed to hold part - time jobs, and a number of them work as lawyers, an arrangement that has prompted concerns about possible conflicts of interest.

The DCCC memo also makes reference to the fact that several Justice Department lawyers in the voting rights division had serious concerns about the redrawn map, a revelation first reported in a blockbuster story by the Post's own Dan Eggen.

Lawyers for all four defendants questioned Brewster on cross-examination, picking apart the government's documents for potential inaccuracies and raising concerns about the way investigators and prosecutors chose to present the data.

«Yes, America has a legitimate concern about cyber hacking and trade secrets theft,» says Brian Sun, a trial lawyer with Jones Day in Los Angeles, California, who represented Lee in a successful civil suit against the U.S. government.

Craig Roberts, a lawyer working for the ITS, says concerns about privacy must be balanced against the potential benefits.

Several months after voicing our concern about Dr. Sen's detention, one of us traveled to Chhattisgarh; met government officials; consulted Dr. Sen's family, lawyers, and colleagues; visited his remote clinic to learn more about his selfless work with the Adivasis; and, after a few days and many hours spent waiting in the Raipur prison yard, finally met with Dr. Sen himself in the presence of the prison warden.

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Married for many years, Gerri and Tom have a comfortable, nurturing relationship, diligently raising vegetables together in their allotment in the local communal garden and sharing parental concern about their 30 year - old son Joe (Oliver Maltman), a lawyer who's aware that most of his friends are settling into marriage.

But the movie makes better use of new additions Morgan Freeman (parodying his saintly airs as a storied civil rights lawyer) and Liam Neeson (as a grocery shopper with some most unusual concerns about Trix cereal).

On one side are Bradlee and virtually every other journalist in the newsroom; on the other are the business - side «suits» — the lawyers, the board members — with their tut - tutting concerns about the paper's IPO and, you know, that little detail about everyone possibly going to prison.

Unfortunately, the podcast conflates the question of ethics with more basic concerns about quality marketing and thereby misses an opportunity to educate lawyers about the proper management of professional writing services for practice marketing — a perfectly legitimate method of building an online legal presence.

Helen Sedwick, an experienced business lawyer, has put out a blog to help indie authors deal with their most common concerns about contracts, copyrights, and other legal snafus.

«If you're concerned about mismanagement of funds, make sure your parents include a clause in their POA document that requires the decision maker to submit periodic financial statements to your parents» accountant, adviser or lawyer,» says Andreana.

If you're concerned about expenses, you can hire a lawyer for a specific number of hours or to perform particular tasks only.

If you are concerned about whether your situation is an asset or non asset case, your bankruptcy lawyer can help you determine which is the circumstance.

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Divorce lawyers offer these pieces of advice for people about to divorce who are concerned with reward points and miles:

Santa Cruz and San Francisco may be legitimately concerned about the effects of climate change on their communities, but their concern is being co-opted by money - hungry lawyers and environmental activists seeking to eliminate fossil fuel companies.

The journal's lawyer, who is based in England (as was Lewandowsky by that time), was very concerned about the journal being sued for libel.

But that doesn't necessarily mean that unscrupulous lawyers, shyster politicians and green NGOs won't go ahead and seize this flimsy excuse to intensify their war on capitalism in the guise of concern about the environment.

Now Jeff is not a lawyer, he's an aeronautical engineer by trade, but he was concerned about the legal implications of posting personal emails.

«The Union of Concerned Scientists and the Climate Accountability Institute brought together about two dozen leading scientists, lawyers and legal scholars, historians, social scientists, and public opinion experts for a June 14 − 15, 2012, workshop at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA.»

The House of Representatives Science Committee is deeply concerned about this corruption of science, its potential impacts on US regulatory decisions, and the use of IARC rulings by predatory lawyers who are suing glyphosate manufacturers.

«[T] he science to me — and I have been involved, not as a scientist but as a lawyer — the science to me suggests, in the ten years I've been involved in it, that there is no basis, no mechanism that anybody can point to or look at to say that more CO2 in the air is going to lead to catastrophic global warming or apocalyptic global warming, as opposed to some mild warming, which is nothing to be concerned about at all.

«Glyphosate's days are numbered,» said Paul Achitoff, a lawyer for Earthjustice, an environmental law firm that is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture in part over concerns about heavy glyphosate use.

(I'm going to bracket technical concerns about the implementation of the Recommendation, which really reduce to drafting matters — e.g., presumably the statement of principles will be drafted in such a way that it does not conflict with lawyers» duties to their clients (for example, presumably a criminal defence lawyer will not be put in a position where their representation of a client charged with or convicted of a hate crime is somehow a breach of the statement of principles).)