Sentences with phrase «from issue briefs»

Lead legal research and writing projects: varying in scope from issue briefs and white papers to large - scale collaborative research and writing projects

We are the main publisher in the field, with over 50 titles ranging from issue briefs to lengthy books (see our guidelines for authors if you are interested in writing for us).

Not exact matches

In addition, every issue of the ABF Journal includes timely cover stories and articles authored by industry specialists, plus our regular features encompassing briefs of the top industry related news stories, exclusive interviews with industry leaders, notable ABL transaction summaries and commentary from our team of contributing writers on turnaround management, legal topics and case studies and other relevant insights from ABL industry practitioners.

With support from MetLife Foundation, the Afterschool Alliance is proud to present this compendium of four issue briefs examining critical issues facing middle school youth, schools and communities, and the vital role afterschool programs play in addressing these issues.

With support from MetLife Foundation, the Afterschool Alliance is proud to present this compilation of four issue briefs examining critical issues facing children, schools and communities, and the vital role afterschool programs play in addressing these issues.

The DC Collaborative synthesized third - party evaluations and developed case studies and issue briefs about the AEI work so that others could benefit from identified best practices and lessons learned.

This collection of briefs from the National Education Policy Center examines important policy issues (including the impacts of school choice and housing policy on school segregation), and identifies policies with a strong research base that can be used to combat identified problems.

This series of issue briefs, funded in part by Youthprise, is designed to help people understand, connect and champion social and emotional learning in a variety of settings and from a variety of perspectives.

Randall G. Bennett is the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Tennessee School Boards Association where he provides general legal opinions to local boards of education, superintendents and TSBA staff on school governanace issues, organizes and presents at seminars and training events, prepares and files amicus briefs in appellate cases affecting public schools, monitors current litigation and changes in state and federal law, and supervises the Association's Policy Department, A former school board member and police officer, Mr. Bennett obtained his law degree from Nashville School of Law.

On May 12, Stakeholders Day, Friends of the Earth staff almost ran out of copies of the four TPP issue briefs, and talked in a more public setting to negotiators from Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Malaysia, and the U.S.

A judge may copy extensively from the briefs in setting out the facts, the legal principles and the arguments, and still assess all the issues and arguments comprehensively and impartially.

Other activities may include engaging with and responding to enquiries from the public, developing materials for the public on ongoing advocacy campaigns and current issues, organizing events, and assisting in the development of advocacy letters, legislative briefs and litigation materials.

So far, only three published studies have analyzed the association between brief readability and case outcome, 50 and no studies have analyzed that association in the trial courts, where most lawyers practice.51 Long and Christensen sampled 882 appellate briefs from the Supreme Court, federal appellate courts, and state supreme courts.52 Their dependent variable was the outcome of the appeal (affirmed or reversed), while their independent variable was readability measured by the Flesch Reading Ease score as calculated by Microsoft Word.53 For federal appellate and state supreme court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for federal or state court, standard of review, presence of a dissenting opinion, and readability of the opinion deciding the appeal.54 For United States Supreme Court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for constitutional issue, criminal or civil case, presence of a dissenting opinion, and opinion readability.55 They found no statistically significant correlation between readability and outcome in the briefs in their study.56

From «quick and dirty» summaries of legal issues to complex appellate briefs, I provide legal research and writing services to solo and small - firm attorneys on a per - case basis.

In justifying this approach, the court pointed to several considerations that SCOTUS identified as benefits to merits - first: the importance and frequency of the constitutional issue, the need of police departments for guidance on the issue, the purely legal, non-fact-bound nature of the issue, and the quality of the briefing (with amicus briefs from several advocacy organizations, a group of First Amendment professors, and DOJ's Civil Rights Division).

The author compared briefs and decisions with an issue of first impression from a decade before computers entered the practice of law and again, a decade when computers have become ubiquitous.

We do not litigate or become involved in class action lawsuits though we may file «amicus» briefs where a court or regulator may benefit from hearing an investor perspective on issues in a trial or administrative hearing.

UNDP, Fremont, NH, Mar 2010 — Present Project Assistant • Coordinate activities between projects • Distribute project information to various departments • Prepare material for information on projects • Assist with production of project briefs • Assist with coordination of project events • Research and collect financial and statistical data from multiple sources • Review applications and issue permits for project related activities