Sentences with phrase «even public lawyers»
In the discussion groups in which I took part, even public lawyers (i.e., lawyers who are not driven by the profit motive) felt that business acumen was the key to efficient service.
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Consultants, lawyers, designers, public - relations specialists, and even bankers see not only more upside reward via equity but also a chance to make their work more varied and relationship - based.
Users in these groups would share «best practices» from bombarding borrowers with frequent phone calls to posting public notices around their homes or even swarming them with «beggars,» practices that a Chinese lawyer told The Paper could veer into illegal territory.
The commission committee that approved this proposal on a 6 - 1 vote in January heard well - founded criticisms from defense lawyers, public defenders and even the Police Chiefs Association.
The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.
As public health lawyers, that got us wondering, who's making sure even these minimal commitments are being kept?
Today, those same lawyers and social commentators argue that a judge may sit on a case, rise up whilst the case is pending or impending, and make a Public Comment on the case, even to journalists.
Ms. Lamptey who is a lawyer by profession with 29 years public prosecutorial experience indicated that she first inform the appointing authority about the situation, saying «I may even go to whoever it is to at least inform him that I've realized that I'm not working».
Public opinion about the judiciary is apparently that many, if not most judges are corrupt and even members of the inner bar are on record suggesting that the bar, especially senior lawyers are perpetually engaged in compromising judges!
Indeed, if a lawyer, a member of the public, or even a politician genuinely believes that the Supreme Court has strayed from the path of constitutional and legal rectitude, then not only is it the right of that person publicly to say so, but it becomes their solemn duty so to do, particularly if one is a lawyer pledged to uphold the law.
It revealed how officials of BoG, have helped Menzgold lawyers to even issue disclaimers in some selected newspapers to reiterate the fact that it is not into the collection of deposits from the public as being speculated.
Assembly officials have said the confidentiality clauses were sought by the women who said they had been harassed, but the report disputes that claim, and says that even after the matter became public, Mr. Collins, the senior Assembly lawyer, called a lawyer for two of the complainants to remind her of the secrecy clause.
Moskowitz's lawyers have already informed city officials they would not submit to city oversight even though her privately run Success Academy network seeks about $ 10,000 in public funds for each of its 72 pre-K students.
Moskowitz's lawyers have informed city officials they will not sign a mandatory contract allowing the Education Department to oversee the charter's pre-K program, officials said — even though her privately run Success Academy network seeks thousands of dollars in public funds for each student.
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.
She came from a «very socially engaged family» of public servants, teachers, social workers and pro bono lawyers, she said, and was «given books that helped define my future life, even though I was too young to realize that they would.»
Over the last 30 years, it has spent more than $ 60 million on a battalion of lawyers, lobbyists and public relations consultants in an effort to stall or even derail the cleanup.
Where perhaps not even the finest lawyers bought by Tom Steyer / George Soros money could hide this revelation from the public?
But for others, please read on to find out how a lawyer / journalist caused a public official to stop a double - dipping scheme before it even got started.
From the perspective of a client, I like that: I don't want my lawyers talking about stuff they've worked on for me, even if it IS public.
New lawyers may find themselves particularly uncomfortable in public speaking settings, but even seasoned lawyers likely have some bad speaking habits that have crept in over the years.
Even if economies of scale could be found, the savings would go to the profit - seeking outside investors, not to the lawyers, not to the public.
What a difference it would make if even only a small part of the efforts of the law societies» CPD program lawyers directed just a small part of their attention to the development of such resources for the public.
Because the hearing was scheduled on an emergency basis, in front of judges located in different locations, the court conducted the hearing through a conference call without any lawyers or judges even appearing in a public courtroom.
Even if you are, you probably will get your own lawyer because public defenders are usually very overloaded with cases and are not able to put a lot of time and attention into one specific case.
While certainly some lawyers go to law school with the intention of pursuing a career in public interest law, even those lawyers do not go to law school with the intention (let alone the ability) to work for free.
In my ABA Journal article, New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman makes this very point: «Even with whatever success we've had with public funding of legal services and pro bono work by lawyers, there is still a gaping hole in our system of providing legal services to the poor and people of limited means.»
I've found most lawyers struggle to even be average in terms of being confident and effective public speakers.
But I am pointing out that lawyers are timid beasts much of the time when it comes to public statements about the quality of judges and their judging; some won't even criticize rulings in print for fear that they'll create grudges.
But I know that a lot of them that work or are working with John Q. Public, the expectations with people in general have changed to the point where there's another lawyer lined up for them to call, even ones that you're getting word of mouth referrals.
But these messenger apps give you the feeling that it's private, but especially when you're talking about lawyers» communications, it's better to always assume that it's public and it's not going away, even when you're on these dark social messenger apps, in my opinion.
Even in cases whose pleadings are open to the public for lawyers, there is usually a small fee for accessing court documents in a case.
This doesn't even begin to touch all the Latin terms that lawyers still use that mean nothing to the general public.
I realize, though, that for many if not most lawyers, «going public» with a written thought, even a fairly anodyne one, is a step made only after hesitation and careful consideration: clients, law societies, colleagues, senior partners, judges — anyone who matters might read what you've written and have a negative reaction; the risk, though slight, can make commenting publicly a game not worth the candle.
Convocation is the board of directors of the law society and is supposed to act in the best interests of the public (not lawyers)-- even where that is at odds with the wishes / nostalgic dreams of lawyers.
In contrast, as a group, the monkey - selfie posts seemed more like a group of lawyers talking and perhaps even arguing at an IP workshop over who should get the photo — the photographer, the monkey, or the public?
He got out because of a dedicated team of pro bono lawyers and public defenders that fought for justice, even though their client appeared to be guilty of a heinous crime.
Indeed, taking this duel into the public arena of litigation could expose each side to a level of scrutiny that neither wants to endure, or even amplify the allegations, lawyers say.
In fact, even with the lawyer from our ABA Government Affairs office that was involved in the years before Public Service Loan Forgiveness even became a law.
As such, if you really want to improve public access to justice in Surrey, the solution is not to flood the Lower Mainland (a market in which law students already have a very difficult time finding articles - yes, even in Surrey) with junior lawyers but to build a new courthouse on the Surrey side of the river.
Yet when it comes to supporting the legal needs of the public, lawyers aren't even close to filling the chairs that exist, much less the new ones added each day.
Even if he was, it does not detract from the fact that this occurred in a public forum, with other lawyers and members of the public present.
The public has always been wary of lawyers, even 400 years ago when William Shakespeare wrote: «The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.»
Though money was the main public focus of the lawyers» contract demands (a pay increase of 10 per cent over four years, the same conditions an arbitrator awarded Quebec's 450 Crown counsel), Dion says the real driver that triggered the civil lawyers» strike on Oct. 24, 2016 — and fuelled their desire to stay out even after the LANEQ's war chest was depleted and many members were in dire personal financial straits — was their indignation over the government's refusal to grant them the same right to a binding arbitration process in exchange for the right to strike as they did to the province's 450 - member Crown attorneys» union (the Association des procureurs aux poursuites criminelles et pénales).
The president of the ABA is pushing to better serve the public, even if it costs lawyers jobs.
Members of the public view legal problems with detachment — it is something that will happen to someone else and, even if should it arise, it will be handled by a lawyer.
Something I've spoken out a little bit about was I think that there's a place for a regulator, even relating that activity to the public interest and protecting of the public interest to say provide more proactive of a device on Cloud services and maybe even approved configurations of equipment and encryption tools that lawyers could practically take off the shelf and use.
I don't believe anyone can seriously argue that any harm to the public will arise from a not - for - profit organization offering legal services, even if they are not owned by lawyers, and even if the services themselves are not provided by lawyers.
Practicing U.S. attorneys who wish to be better prepared to address emerging and novel issues such as equity investment, public - private conduct and regulatory compliance, which have taken on importance and even centrality in these areas or lawyers looking to redirect their careers;
• It should provide a speedy and cheap method to stop lawsuits if those suits were brought for an improper purpose, namely to harass or intimidate the defendants; • It should put the onus on plaintiffs to prove that their lawsuits were not improper; • It should help rebalance an inequality of financial resources between the parties, possibly by an order that the plaintiff should pay the defendants» costs at the outset of the litigation; • It should provide stronger legal protection for citizens engaged in public participation, such as through special defences; • It should deter people from bringing such suits in the first place, by exposing plaintiffs, and possibly their directors and officers, and lawyers, to awards of damages or even punitive damages.