Sentences with phrase «from legal organizations»
Increasing diversity within the judiciary requires more than just statements from legal organizations that there is a need for a bench that better reflects the makeup of its community, says Jennifer Chow, a Vancouver lawyer and past president of the provincial branch of the Canadian Bar Association.
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The challenge for Legere to start with was to shift the organization's control away from legal and HR and towards employees — breaking the company's old rules along the way.
From my experience most larger organizations move very slowly, and whilst it may feel like a deal is moving ahead like a freight train, rest assured it will be slowed down the minute it hits the legal department.
Taking her cue from the legal concept of «wilful blindness,» which assigns culpability to those who could have and should have known something that they chose not to see, journalist Heffernan asks why individuals and organizations are so often unwilling to recognize the truths in front of them.
Then what usually ends up happening in most organizations, is someone from Marketing, Accounting or Legal suggests: «While sales executives are speaking with the customer, they should gather that information.»
Bruno - Manser - Fonds, a not - for - profit organization dedicated to preserving the Malaysian rainforest, launched a legal bid seeking financial records from RBC, TD Bank, Manulife Financial, and Deloitte
Among the special programs from these stores is Military Mondays, a collaboration between local veteran service organizations and Starbucks that offers pro bono legal support and other veteran and military spouse services at the company's stores.
Adopt a Unit's mission extends from partnering with veteran service organizations to hosting spouse support groups like Military Mondays, which provides veterans with pro bono legal assistance related to housing, education, employment, disability claims and healthcare issues.
Your organization and board will need to seek independent legal advice on the process required for your organization to legally expand its corporate responsibilities, and how to handle any additional risk to the corporation and directors that may arise from doing so.
In addition to the acknowledgement, the humanitarian organization may face legal and financial consequences from Britain and Haiti.
Early lawsuits against the healthcare law came from Christian organizations that have shown eagerness to engage in political and legal debates.
The Christian Legal Society (CLS) chapter at the University of California school, Ginsburg wrote, «seeks not parity with other organizations, but a preferential exemption from Hastings» policy.»
They anticipate how other organizations, from adoption agencies to churches, could risk similar legal threats.
A nonprofit, tax - exempt institution for education with its legal charter in California, the TM organization grosses $ 6 million a year in income from fees alone.
The National Press Club event will mark the latest in the complicated dance of distance and embrace between the nation's premier conservative legal organization and a man who professionally benefited from his association with the group but then used his considerable cachet to further a cause opposed by many of its members.
Just a friendly update from California that I have now spent my fifth day working on contacting all of the big free speech legal advocates in Canada and the United States (and those important organizations in Europe as well) about this story and the entire issue of Free Speech (which these public figure pastors in the U.S. who are nationally known want to silence).
His sermon was part of a national campaign by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal organization that has organized Pulpit Freedom Sunday since 2008, encouraging pastors to flout the Johnson Amendment with political endorsements from the pulpit.
By entering the Promotion, each entrant releases and discharges the Sponsor, judging organization (if applicable), and any other party associated with the development or administration of this Promotion, their parent, subsidiary, and affiliated entities, and each of their respective officers, directors, members, shareholders, employees, independent contractors, agents, representatives, successors and assigns (collectively, «Sponsor Entities»), from any and all liability whatsoever in connection with this Promotion, including without limitation legal claims, costs, injuries, losses or damages, demands or actions of any kind (including without limitation personal injuries, death, damage to, loss or destruction or property, rights of publicity or privacy, defamation, or portrayal in a false light)(collectively, «Claims»).
The policy must ensure that each athlete of the organization is familiar with and has a copy of the policy and has a signed written copy from the parent or legal guardian of the athlete.
As April is Child Abuse Prevention month, California non-profit organization Advokids, which provides the only free telephone hotline to offer legal information for foster children in the state, is running a campaign to prevent child abuse reports from being ignored... Read More
From the legal perspective, the Hearings Officer also has concerns that having the State rely upon a private organization to archive data could run afoul of the State's public records laws...
Despite these clear legal obligations, Palmer said, «Our organizations have received many complaints and questions from parenting employees and students who do not know their lactation rights, have faced difficulties when they need to pump milk on the job or during the school day, and do not know who to turn to within the school community for help.»
The NAACP and many other other advocacy organizations like the Asian American Legal Defense continually push for district lines to be drawn to maximize the electability of a candidate from a select ethnic background, but this is an inherently problematic endeavor.
An organization called the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund drew up a map of its own called the Unity Map, which looks drastically different from the current configuration in the borough.
While Graham and others questioned the PSC's ability to arbitrate environmental rather than utility issues, the commission's lawyers questioned whether the plaintiffs had legal standing since the organizations fighting the subsidy were mostly from the lower Hudson Valley, which is some four hours away from the nuclear plants.
Currently, New York law blocks organizations or individuals from being able to sue banks for securities fraud, and only allows legal action against them to be taken by the State Attorney General's office, union officials said.
Dweck said that V15 got help from Yuval Diskin, a former Shin Bet chief, and that Lubetsky's pro-peace nonprofit One Voice offered legal advice and helped build the social network group into a proper campaign organization.
Lawyers from the Central American Refugee Center, a Long Island immigrant legal services organization commonly known as Carecen, and the Hofstra Law Clinic filed suit against Nassau County in state Supreme Court, saying that the county police department was cooperating with ICE in ways that break state law.
Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif called the Bruno donations «absolutely 100 % legal» and dismissed the complaint as «a desperate attempt to distract people from the fact that the entire Senate Democratic campaign organization is in disarray.»
In the overall circumstances surrounding the organization of the Ghana Expatriate Business Awards, whilst the proponent of the motion could not justify his use of the word «levy» from a legal - technical point of view, it can not be denied that, from the evidence on record, the Ministry of Trade and Industry played a pre-eminent role in the determination of the amounts «solicited» by the MEF.
Non-profits, including 501 (c)(4) organizations deemed as «social welfare» groups, are funneling millions into political ads, despite legal strictures prohibiting them from aggressively engaging in politics.
And the governor donated the more than $ 110,000 he received in campaign contributions from disgraced Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein to Women's Justice NOW, NOW - NYC's charitable partner organization that supports public education and outreach efforts and offers legal advocacy and referrals for women.
Angela Fernandez, executive director of the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights, said her organization has received hundreds of calls a day from immigrants seeking legal assistance.
GenConnect is a searchable alphabetical listing of over 300 organizations worldwide that are involved in setting policy regarding the legal, ethical, and social issues that stem from human genetic research.
Such external pressure comes inter alia from lawmakers and consumer organizations in different countries, legal mechanisms and institutions in different countries that effectively require legal compliance, as well as market reactions to problematic software license agreements.
The Strategic Partnership Programme is open on a rolling basis to applications involving strategic opportunities within all areas covered by SFI's legal remit where significant co-funding from a company, collection of companies, funding agency, charity, philanthropic organization or Higher Education Institute is available.
Today, global collaborations among research organizations, research initiatives, and biobanks enhance the trust of countries and organizations that help to protect biodiversity, and provide legal and transparent access to these samples for research — with clear agreements ensuring that the countries providing the samples will gain some benefit from the genomics research.
Entrants agree to release and hold harmless the Bloggin» Mamas, Heather Lopez Enterprises, LLC, Florida Prepaid, Moore Communications, Twitter, and any other organizations responsible for sponsoring, fulfilling, administering, advertising or promoting this giveaway, and their respective parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates and each of their respective officers, directors, members, employees, agents and subcontractors (collectively the «Released Parties») from and against any and all claims, expenses, and liability, including but not limited to negligence and damages of any kind to persons and property, including but not limited to invasion of privacy (under appropriation, intrusion, public disclosure of private facts, false light in the public eye or other legal theory), defamation, slander, libel, violation of right of publicity, infringement of trademark, copyright or other intellectual property rights, property damage, or death or personal injury arising out of or relating to a participant's entry, creation of an entry or submission of an entry, participation in this giveaway, acceptance or use or misuse of prize.
The «Digital Piracy» brief incorrectly identified the organization that has taken legal action against people who have illegally downloaded music from the Internet.
Composed of leaders from finance, education, research, legal, nonprofit, and business communities, Committee for Children's Board of Directors serves as the governing body charged with providing oversight and counsel on matters related to the organization's mission, vision, strategic plan, and financial sustainability.
Beere directed the UHSAA from 1987 to 1994 and ushered in an era of new organization for the association, said UHSAA legal counselor Mark Van Wagoner, who worked with Beere during his time as director.
The essence of the Humble Bundle campaign with Harpercollins is that customers can pay what they want for a collection of digital literary works from bestselling authors, like Neil Gaiman and James Rollins, while helping support the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America Emergency Medical Fund, a non-profit organization for authors of science fiction and related genres, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, dedicated to the protection of the First Amendment rights of the comics art form and its community.
Pending support from both memberships, completion of legal review, and the positive resolution of specific details, the goal is to combine the two organizations by January (2017).
Blocking the information will not prevent SageStream from releasing your credit report or score to organizations that have a legal right to receive it, but it will prevent the specific information that you believe is related to identity theft from being included in the report.
A form of business organization created under provincial or federal statutes which has a legal identity separate from its owners.
We work with thousands of legal services, government and private attorneys, as well as community groups and organizations, from all states who represent low - income and elderly individuals on consumer issues.
The program is designed to supplement the low salaries paid to legal aid attorneys by allowing qualified applicants to obtain forgivable loans from the Foundation to assist them in paying their law school student loans while employed by such organizations.
Some organization will hire legal help while others may reach out asking for advice from other groups.
I agree to release the Rabbit Advocates, a non-profit organization, and its officers and directors, from any and all injuries, loss, damage, liability, claims, cost, and expense including legal fees incurred during my participation as a volunteer with the Rabbit Advocates.
The framework of assessment they have described to us includes important concerns such as opportunity costs, supporting the animal advocacy movement, and alignment with Open Cages» overall strategy.132 Their assessment process also involves asking important questions related to measuring success and failure, such as how they plan to evaluate the program, how long they plan to pilot it, and whether they already have data indicating that they should rethink their strategy.133 Metrics that they use to help evaluate specific programs include the number of restaurants that agree to provide vegan meals in response to their restaurant outreach, as well as the amount and overall sentiment of right - wing press discussion of their legal initiatives.134, 135 These metrics provide useful information, but we think an organization prioritizing among many different interventions could benefit from the use of metrics that are more directly related to their ultimate goals, rough estimates though they may be.