Sentences with phrase «for public lawyering»

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... lawyers» work on behalf of clients positively requires — both for its justification and its successful functioning for the benefit of those same clients in the long run — that lawyers also help maintain and refresh the public sphere, the infrastructure of law and cultural convention that constitutes the cement of society.

Shortly after Mitt Romney's loss to Barack Obama that year, Trump had his lawyers trademark the slogan, «Make America Great Again» for «political action committee services, namely, promoting public awareness of political issues and fundraising in the field of politics,» The Washington Post reported last year.

Reshma Saujani is a former hedge fund lawyer, New York City deputy public advocate and the first Indian - American woman to run for Congress (she lost a primary race in 2010).

For several years, Cameco has tied compensation to environmental sustainability and worker safety, because «being in the uranium business, the company understands the importance of the social licence from the community,» says Nancy Hopkins, a lawyer who sits on several private - and public - sector boards, including Cameco's.

If both businesses and law enforcement give prompt, upfront disclosure of what technology is being used and in what manner, it will make it easier for startups to do business and help ease people's concerns, says Tamir Israel, a staff lawyer with the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic at the University of Ottawa.

Once again, it's curious that Trump's former lawyer would disclose this — but it creates an opportunity for Trump's current team to push back in the court of public opinion, trying to either force Mueller to agree to a limited interview, or else to wage a political war by trying to refuse.

A lawyer for President Trump orchestrated a $ 130,000 payment to a pornographic film actress in October 2016 to prevent her from going public with claims of a consensual sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

A board member and spokesman for the Quebec civil lawyers» and notaries» union — Les avocats et notaires de l'État québécois, or LANEQ — he tried in vain in May to find members who were willing to share their first - hand experiences on the picket lines during their historic four - month general strike, the longest in Canadian public service history.

Cruz» lawyer, public defender Joseph Kimok, argued that the half - a-million-dollar bond for a second - degree misdemeanor is «outrageous» and «20,000 times above the standard amount.»

To be clear, Warner's public call for Zuckerberg to speak, delivered earlier this morning by way of a Tweet, was not the first time that the Intel Committee has requested Zuckerberg to testify: it had also invited him to the original hearing in November of last year, where lawyers were sent instead.

Bonney's defence lawyer Ian Donaldson asked St. Pierre for a discharge or conditional sentence and said there was no similar breach of public trust case, because there was no bribery or theft.

Tokyo, May 4 (Jiji Press)-- Public prosecutors and private companies in Japan are making preparations for the introduction on June 1 of a plea - bargaining system in the country that may drastically change the way investigations, trials and lawyer activities are conducted.

And despite Trump's claim that plenty of lawyers and «top law firms» want to work for him, a growing number have passed on a chance to represent a client who contradicts them in public, changes his story repeatedly, expects them to lie and has a history of stiffing his employees.

Before joining Alston & Bird, Blake was general counsel for a manager and distributor of alternative investment products, including an externally managed, public, non-traded business development company, and a senior lawyer for a manager of hedge funds and separately managed accounts employing relative value and macro fixed income and equity strategies.

Mr Fretwell has been a lawyer for over 25 years, providing corporate finance and securities law advice to publicly traded companies and to private companies proposing to go public.

Cruz's public defenders said he should continue to be represented at taxpayer expense because he likely does not have the assets to pay a private lawyer for what will rapidly balloon into a multi-million dollar case.

Nikolas Cruz's public defender argued that the Florida school shooting suspect should be represented at the expense of taxpayers because he likely doesn't have the assets to pay a private lawyer for his death penalty case.

White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, along with lawyers Ty Cobb, John Dowd and Jay Sekulow, advised Trump to be cautious with his public responses, but they were a private sounding board for his grievances, advisers said.

Another of Ramirez's lawyers, Mark Rosenbaum of the legal advocacy group Public Counsel, characterized the DACA program as a promise from the federal government's executive branch that DACA recipients would not be targeted for deportation and said he hoped that promise would not be broken.

President Trump made a rare public comment about the Michael Cohen - Stormy Daniels case Thursday morning, playing down the lawyer's work for him and insisting that he didn't know about Cohen's business activities.

A certain tension is built into their official canons of ethics, e.g., «A lawyer is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system, and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice.»

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.

Whereas public schools are designed to produce workers for the market, higher education is designed to produce engineers, scientists, accountants, managers, consultants, and executives for corporations, as well as the teachers, doctors, and lawyers required for the market society.

clearly the Gay Gestapo is working overtime... they pulled out because they do nt want to be bullied in the court of public opinion and abused by the Gestapo lawyers... I personally have no respect for, sympathy for or interest in the Gay issues..

The lawyers for Texas understood that the law worked by closing down personal choice and replacing private freedom with a uniform public rule.

A lawyer representing the press can advocate for the public's right to keep the information unsealed.

Trial Lawyers for Public Justice named him Trial Lawyer of the Year in 1987.

Either way you get to court, you are going to go to court, you are going to have lawyer whether or not you assign a lawyer or a public defender is appointed for your child and the court process will then occur the charges will be brought and they will either go to trial on these charges or there will be some sort of a disposition.

That's the contention put forth by public health lawyer Michele Simon (Eat Drink Politics) and Susan Linn, Director of the Campaign for a Commercial - Free Childhood, in a recent article.

Bruce Silverglade, the lawyer who now represents BPI but for many years was chief counsel for Center for Science in the Public Interest

«This is the wrong location, the wrong construction, for the wrong cause,» said Herbert Caplan, a lawyer for the Committee to Keep Lincoln Park Public, who organized the meeting.

«It's substantively not the most critical health issue, yet it was framed in such a way that the public outcry actually changed food policy in a matter of weeks,» said Sarah Klein, a lawyer at the Center for Science in the Public Intpublic outcry actually changed food policy in a matter of weeks,» said Sarah Klein, a lawyer at the Center for Science in the Public IntPublic Interest.

As former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, gear up for sentencing in their respective public corruption convictions today, the elder Skelos has hired noted appeals lawyer Alexandra Shapiro to help him argue his way out of prison.

Mr. Nketia said: «The reason why we are calling for the arrest of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is that — I am not a lawyer — but I have heard people say that if you falsify public documents with the intention of deceiving people, our laws should have a way of dealing with you.»

When lawyers and social commentators descend to this level of deliberate distortion and misinterpretation for their own ends, they do not serve the public interest and should cease to be taken seriously.

Nixon is best known for her role as Miranda Hobbes, a lawyer in HBO's «Sex & the City,» but has also been involved in New York politics in recent years, calling for more funding of public education and stumping for Cuomo's frequent public sparring partner, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.

William Brewer, a lawyer for the NRA, in a statement accused Cuomo and Vullo of abusing the public's trust by «mounting a blacklisting campaign that seeks to deprive Second Amendment advocates of banking services and insurance coverage in the State of New York.»

The states «have a substantial interest in avoiding the vast disruption in state and local labor relations that would occur if the Court were now to overrule Abood's approval of public sector collective bargaining arrangements utilizing agency - fee rules,» lawyers for the states argue.

All told, the organization spent $ 38,619 on lawyers — a hefty toll, Pfundstein said, for public information.

In early May, a lawyer for the Campaign for One New York said the nonprofit would not comply with a subpoena from the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics, saying it was «blatantly political.»

The case of the missing public bench at Trump Tower moved toward its conclusion yesterday with a hearing at which the city requested a $ 10,000 fine and a lawyer for Trump offered no defense.

In his early academic career he excelled in degrees in law, politics and economics and passed several of the most competitive exams for recruitment in Franco's Public Administration before becoming a professor of state theory, a lawyer to the Congress and a diplomat.

Mr. Lally was Founding Chairman of the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies, Long Island chapter, and served as Founding Chairman of the New York State Republican Lawyers Association.

«Our concern is that [Harris] can't devote her full - time attention to her job as deputy mayor,» said Gene Russianoff, a senior lawyer for the New York Public Interest Research Group.

The rule can raises all sorts of questions: For instance, if a lawyer hires a public relations firm, or does so on behalf of a client, does lawyer - client confidentiality apply?

The about face was confirmed Thursday in the mumbles of a lawyer for the Empire State Development corporation and in a memo from that agency's president, Howard Zemsky, to the members of the Public Authorities Control Board.

I am in deep consultation with my lawyers, they have advised me that Under the Criminal Offenses Act 1960, for deceiving a public officer, I should petition the Attorney General for the case to be re-opened for Bawumia to come and prove to the nation that the Togolese register he presented is not a fake document»

«The reason why we are calling for the arrest of Mahamudu Bawumia is that, I am not a lawyer, but i have heard people say that if you fabricate public document, if you falsify public document with the intention of deceiving people, our laws should have a way of dealing with you.

«It will be embarrassing for the government if they file an application because the whole public will know that after all they didn't want to collect the money so their surrogates file it but the Attorney General's office was in court tele - guiding things unethical lawyers do,» he added.

But there's still no way for the public to see what clients might hire individual lawmakers, many of whom are lawyers.