Sentences with phrase «expanded legal efforts»

Malliotakis» plan calls for action in several categories, including expanded legal efforts to compel hospitalization via use of «Kendra's Law,» review expiring orders of protection, scrutinize mentally ill inmates before release, expand mental health courts and psychiatric capacity of hospitals, support relevant non-profit agencies and greatly expand the number of supportive housing units.

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The company will be using the funds it raised to further its legal efforts in Switzerland and continue to expand its marketing efforts.

The FBI's seizure of records from Michael Cohen reportedly rattled the president and renewed his effort to expand his depleted legal team.

Speaking Monday at a City Hall press conference, Malliotakis outlined a twelve point plan, available on her campaign website, which includes extensive legal efforts at locating and mandating treatment of mentally ill persons, building 30,000 units of supportive housing and expanding the psychiatric bed capacity in City hospitals.

Rodríguez also referenced efforts to expand legal services to protect tenants, noting that $ 2 million in Council funding has bolstered agencies such as Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation, Manhattan Legal Services and Legal Aid Soclegal services to protect tenants, noting that $ 2 million in Council funding has bolstered agencies such as Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation, Manhattan Legal Services and Legal Aid SocLegal Services and Legal Aid SocLegal Aid Society.

His Senate has blocked Cuomo's attempts to expand abortion rights to protect late - term abortions, as well as efforts to make sure federal protections would continue if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion legal nationwide.

Seven weeks after he withdrew a controversial application to expand the United Riverhead Terminal in Northville, owner John Catsimatidis is now exploring legal options to revive his efforts — and residents are once again up in arms.

In 2014, the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona, filed a legal petition asking the US Fish and Wildlife Service to expand its grizzly recovery efforts into new territory in several western states, including California.

Officials at the Department of Education's office for civil rights have expanded a controversial draft guide outlining the proper use of high - stakes tests in an effort to better detail the legal principles involved and ways in which such issues will affect students.

«COSA's new slate of officers and directors, experienced and committed law practitioners from across the country, will play a pivotal role in both strengthening and expanding our legal advocacy efforts in the coming year.»

«It is an important part of the ABA's efforts to expand access to legal services to low - income communities.

However, in the past three decades, the organization has greatly expanded its scope, concentrating its efforts on providing substantive programming for its membership, their attorneys and the broader legal community.

In her new role as executive director of Volunteer Legal Services, Cortez — an attorney herself — will focus on expanding the organization to serve even more low - income clients in need of legal services through raising more money, improving outreach efforts, and expanding the staff to address the growing needs in Central TLegal Services, Cortez — an attorney herself — will focus on expanding the organization to serve even more low - income clients in need of legal services through raising more money, improving outreach efforts, and expanding the staff to address the growing needs in Central Tlegal services through raising more money, improving outreach efforts, and expanding the staff to address the growing needs in Central Texas.

I don't feel that the fact that we are public has changed the effort and thinking we put in to the legal advice we provide — whether we take on a case, whether we recommend to a client to settle a case, but it has meant that we can service more clients and that we've expanded a lot outside personal injury law.

In an effort to expand the reach and efficiency of the grant, we're seeking out partnerships with other aid organizations in the area so that we can connect with the men and women they serve to offer on - site legal consultations at no - cost.

More funding for civil legal services, increased support for pro bono efforts, and an expanded role for nonlawyers are a few of the recommendations in the report.

Stating the obvious, the Report stresses that legal aid and pro bono efforts must be expanded, fully funded, and better promoted.

Finding A: Despite our efforts to expand access to justice, the public has significant unmet legal needs.

Recommendation 10: Resources should be vastly expanded to support long - standing efforts that have proven successful in addressing the public's unmet needs for legal services.

The commission presented three main findings: «(A) despite sustained efforts to expand the public's access to legal services, significant unmet needs persist; (B) advancements in technology and other innovations continue to change how legal services can be accessed and delivered; and (C) public trust and confidence in obtaining justice and in accessing legal services is compromised by bias, discrimination, complexity, and lack of resources.»

Having recently joined 6 Pump Court Chambers in London, this month's guest barrister is eager to expand his boundaries in the legal sector, and make efforts to raise the bar, both in terms of standards of service, and in the relationships 6 Pump Court and its team cultivates with its clients.

Such programs and models include expanding community service efforts to include a legal component, collaborating with other legal departments, working with nonprofits and community development organizations, and creating organization - wide, impactful projects.

Singerman said that in early 2010, Ruden brought in legal consultancy Altman Weil to help expand the firm's efforts to find a merger partner, according to the DBR.

The Texas Access to Justice Commission serves as the statewide umbrella organization for all efforts to expand access and reduce barriers to justice in civil legal matters for the poor.

Worth reading: I've been reporting here on efforts by Fastcase to expand its library of secondary legal materials.

ACCESS TO CIVIL JUSTICE FOR POOR AND LOW - INCOME NEW YORKERS: I formed a Task Force to Expand Access to Civil Legal Services in New York... The Task Force found that we are meeting, at best, 20 percent of the civil legal needs of the poor and working poor in New York, and recommended that we include $ 25 million for civil legal services in the Judiciary Budget for the coming fiscal year, as part of a four - year effort to increase civil legal services funding in this State by 50 percenLegal Services in New York... The Task Force found that we are meeting, at best, 20 percent of the civil legal needs of the poor and working poor in New York, and recommended that we include $ 25 million for civil legal services in the Judiciary Budget for the coming fiscal year, as part of a four - year effort to increase civil legal services funding in this State by 50 percenlegal needs of the poor and working poor in New York, and recommended that we include $ 25 million for civil legal services in the Judiciary Budget for the coming fiscal year, as part of a four - year effort to increase civil legal services funding in this State by 50 percenlegal services in the Judiciary Budget for the coming fiscal year, as part of a four - year effort to increase civil legal services funding in this State by 50 percenlegal services funding in this State by 50 percent....

Developed the legal infrastructure for the Delaware Blockchain Initiative, an effort to expand the use of distributed ledger and smart contract technologies by Delaware - incorporated businesses

Other efforts by SLS to expand its link to the community included a program set up by Legal Reform that saw SLS workers visiting the Youth Emergency Shelter and the Youth Development Shelter on a weekly basis.

The conference formed part of a general effort by SLS that year to expand its public legal education offerings.

It was not only an effort to expand the horizons of these students, but it was also an exercise in changing the relationship between the legal profession and the minority community.

In conceiving of the LCC with ABA Executive Director Jack Rives, Pam recognized that it was important to involve more association members in expanding the ABA's work in the career space, centralizing the efforts of ABA entities in enhancing legal careers, and growing the ABA Career Center job board.

Under the leadership of its board, LTF has long taken responsibility for launching and funding innovative efforts to expand the capacity and reach of Illinois» legal aid system.

However, these solutions will do little to expand legal access to those most marginalized without intentional efforts to form private / public partnerships or collaborations with legal organizations whose mission is to serve the poor.

Cambridge, Mass. (May 9, 2010)-- As the first annual National Preservation Week begins, the Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archive is pleased to announce that its digital preservation efforts are expanding with the addition of a new partner library, the Harvard Law

In response to new educational and professional challenges, law schools and the legal profession must join in a concerted effort to integrate social justice teaching into the classroom and expand social justice throughout the community.

While it is likely right to be sceptical about efforts by existing practitioners to protect lucrative turf, it is also at least questionable whether it would be worth permitting ABS if the practical effect was primarily to partly consolidate the existing personal injury market rather to than expand the legal services that are provided in other areas.

The ISBA has put a great deal of effort into expanding the content of IllinoisBarDocs to make its members more effective and productive, allowing them to spend more time with clients and less time drafting legal documents.»

We have invested, and intend to continue to invest, in expanding our subscription services for small businesses and consumers, including continuing to develop technology and infrastructure to support our legal plans and attorney network and expanding our sales and marketing efforts, particularly to promote legal plans and our brand.