Sentences with phrase «early legal defense»

Our skilled lawyers have achieved success in many cases by heading off indictments with early legal defense intervention, and are well - practiced at negotiating with federal prosecutors to keep cases at the state level, where penalties are lighter.

An indictment could be headed off with an early legal defense intervention 2.

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Mark - Viverito and Queens Councilman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, requested the funding for immigrant legal defense services in the response they released earlier this month.

He returned in 2003 to the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, which he founded in the early 1970s, and remained there until 2010.

That meant that when the Glenwood donations to his legal defense fund arrived in the wake of his indictment in early 2009, Bruno was a private citizen.

Rep. Elise StefanikElise Marie StefanikYoung GOP lawmakers push for fresh approach GOP lawmakers back discharge petition to force immigration votes House Republicans reserve millions in early air time MORE (R - N.Y.) is calling on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittHillicon Valley: Facebook, Google struggle to block terrorist content Cambridge Analytica declares bankruptcy in US Company exposed phone location data Apple starts paying back taxes to Ireland Overnight Energy: Pruitt taps man behind «lock her up» chant for EPA office Watchdog to review EPA email policies Three Republicans join climate caucus Six steps Pruitt must take on his legal defense fund to avoid another scandal MORE to resign.

With a background as a civil rights activist and as an early leader of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Perales would be a plus with Latinos, one of the fastest - growing groups of New Yorkers.

As the first Black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Miss.; worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as counsel for his Poor People's Campaign; and dedicated her early career to defending the civil liberties of people struggling to overcome poverty and discrimination.

Since then, more districts have joined in two other suits - the latest coming earlier this month led by one of the nation's most forceful civil rights organizations, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.

It demands close attention to factual details that matter; a winnowing out of details that don't matter; a reliance on concrete facts coupled with a disavowal of breezy generalizations and characterizations; a building up of facts into step - by - step arguments from which conclusions naturally follow; the marshaling of reasons that will earn the respect even of an opposing audience; a dialectical approach in which countervailing facts and counterarguments are carefully disarmed; a defense not of the first positions you might take, but of the best ones; and, at least in your early development as a legal writer, a stripped - down style that contains not a whiff of ornate embellishment.

John Payton, President and Director - Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, released this statement earlier today:

High - profile attorney Tina Tchen, longtime chief of staff to Michelle Obama, is spearheading the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund, which had raised more than $ 19.5 million by early February to help victims of sexual assault.

Joyce litigated some of the Animal Legal Defense Fund's earliest cases, including a 1981 lawsuit that halted the U.S. Navy's plan to kill 5,000 feral burros, and a 1988 challenge to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's rule allowing the patenting of genetically altered animals.