Sentences with phrase «funds in a legal way»

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• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

Earlier this year Governor Jay Inslee signed HB 2023 into law making equity Crowdfunding legal in Washington State and giving startups an innovative new way to raise funds.

«Universities Superannuation Scheme, the largest private pension fund in the United Kingdom, diligently prosecuted this case as lead plaintiff to assist in securing a fantastic recovery for defrauded investors as well as achieving some key legal rulings along the way.

«This $ 10 million in state funding for immigrant legal defense will go a long way towards ensuring that the immigration process is fair to all parties involved and that New York welcomes and values its immigrant communities.»

Owens» and Hogg's comments come as six police and crime commissioners today threatened the home secretary Theresa May with legal action over her planned changes to the way the police are funded in England and Wales.

And I think $ 21 million in the legal defense fund is a great way to start.»

There has to be some legal recourse for using funds in other than marketed ways, and that's what they've done here: used funds solicited for the production of a Wii U game to develop an xbox / playstaion game... False advertising at the very least.

It may come when opponents play games with a school's transportation or funding, or when legal barriers are tossed in the way, or when false information about charter schools is widely disseminated.

A wide array of civil rights and minority groups appreciate the help they receive from the NEA, including the NAACP ($ 25,000), Congressional Black Caucus Foundation ($ 170,000), the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund ($ 10,000), the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network ($ 7,500), the National Women's Law Center ($ 10,000), Rainbow PUSH Coalition ($ 5,000), People for the American Way ($ 128,000), National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Education Fund ($ 12,500), National Black Caucus of State Legislators ($ 5,500), National Association for Multicultural Education ($ 5,000), National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education ($ 17,500), and something called the Hip Hop Caucus Education Fund ($ 10,000).

Enter Washington state, where an ongoing legal battle over school funding and the pending ESSA plan has collided in a way that could lead to fundamental changes to the Evergreen State's power structure for the coming years.

To protect fund assets in the event of a creditor dispute, and prevent costly legal action to prove who owns them, assets should be recorded in a way that:

Unless fraud has been committed and proven in placing money into a 401 (k) plan, there is no other legal way a bankruptcy judge can force a debtor to use these types of retirement funds to pay a debt.

If the only way for the necessary funds to be raised is the sale of your home, then the trustee may do this, meaning that you give up legal ownership of the property if you own it in entirety in the first place.

Through IOLTA dollars, donations, and grants the Foundation is able to fund legal services and law related education in a variety of ways.

Class actions in Australia can be funded in many ways including by a class member or members, lawyers, legal aid, commercial third party funders, regulatory agencies or insurers.

If I'm aware that the source of the funds is a parent, I often insist that he or she receive independent legal advice on whether the purchase, money, gift or loan should be documented in any way, and if so, whether it should be registered on title as a mortgage in favour of the parent.

He also attended the secret January 2016 #ExxonKnew meeting at the Rockefeller Family Fund offices where activists strategized ways to «establish in the public's mind that Exxon is a corrupt institution» and discussed «avenues for legal actions» against the company.

I'm running out of words to express my gratitude for all your support in my legal troubles, and in particular your generous patronage of our new SteynOnline gift certificates, which may yet have to fund us all the way to the Supreme Court.

It will make tiny houses legal in a way they've never been before and will very likely open up funding options, insurance, and much more.

Mari Margil of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund discusses why we need a fundamental change in the way we use law to protect nature.

In this way, once up and running, a CLAF would fund litigation for those who don't have the resources to achieve it and wouldn't qualify for legal aid.

In a commercial context, funding may simply be an effective way for a business to manage its legal risks.

We are also concerned that changes to the way in which the fund is administered do not have negative consequences for junior lawyers, particularly in terms of ensuring that sponsored training contracts and other mechanisms designed to ensure quality supervision and career progression for legal aid lawyers do not fall by the way side.

Dawson says there's a «clear disparity» in the way funding is allocated to different parts of the criminal justice system in Alberta, such as policing, corrections, courts services, prosecution services and Legal Aid services.

Although the restoration project has reached its half way mark, funding and support is crucial, and Peter is now calling for all those interested in supporting the project, to reach out and help be a part of this tremendously inspiring project, by way of funding, legal services and awareness, in order to recreate history for the future.

While litigation funders provide equity style investments in a case by way of payment for legal fees in return for a share of the proceeds of a case, TheJudge is an insurance broker that doesn't actually fund or insure the cases itself.

Their consensus was that, (a) even after two years, there was no evidence to date that the public will ever benefit from ABS in the ways naively claimed, and (b) the main (in the sense of virtually only) «benefit» has been that ABS allows access to outside capital to fund consolidations in the legal market place.

While funding from local United Way Programs and the introduction of federally funded programs in the mid 1960's enabled legal assistance to the poor to expand, the need continued to far exceed the available assistance.

Nextlaw Ventures, the global legal technology - focused venture capital fund, today announced its investment in Apperio, a legal tech startup that is changing the way law firms handle matter management.

Community Legal Aid Services, Inc. is funded in part by the Legal Services Corporation and United Way

The only known way to address access to justice for those of no and low means is legal aid in the form of pro bono, adequately funded non-profit programs, and other government funded programs.

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In this phase, the individual is creating and innovating, planning ways to hack the practice to better serve legal consumers, all while seeking funding or boot - strapping funds.

The best way to ensure that a practice has a firm grip on their trust accounting is to utilize legal accounting solutions that have safeguards in place that ensure that operating and retainers trusts are clearly differentiated to avoid any and all commingling, otherwise a strong firm can be easily taken down by compliance issues associated with client trust fund accounting errors.

In an effort to combat this trend, LASO has partnered with Pro Bono Net, with funding from Legal Services Corporation, to create an online program targeted at helping people expunge their criminal records and have a smoother transition to a normal way of life.»

The Frost Brown Todd Diversity Scholarship Fund is one of many unique ways the firm promotes building a pipeline of diverse attorneys in our local legal community.

Could highly selective, well - branded, and technologically integrated networks with well - funded centralized management become the preferred legal delivery structure in the coming years by offering more client - centric, efficient ways to procure legal services than mega-firms or the Big Four?

DWDC argued that doctors can not allow their personal or religious beliefs to stand in the way of their patients» access to care, including access to medical assistance in dying which is a legal, publicly funded, health care service.

In this lecture, Legal Logik founder and attorney Jamie Benizri explores 5 little - known ways to secure funding for your...

It's all a very compelling package, but what is especially striking is the way they have avoided the need to gain traditional external investment, at least in the form of handing over a big chunk of equity to a VC fund, or even a law firm that wants to dabble with legal tech ownership and development and fancies a piece of legal AI action.»

The roundtable agreed litigation funding could benefit the Canadian legal market in several ways:

LePage has said he will block expansion until the state can find a way to fund it, setting up a potential legal fight once voter initiative formally becomes law in mid-February.

-- Reuters picWASHINGTON, March 22 — Tech start - ups that issue digital tokens to raise funds are falling in line with US securities laws or seeking legal ways to skirt them after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it planned to regulate the market.

Ultimately, Ripple does not provide a cryptographic solution to the trust problem, and keeping fraudulent gateways under control will have to be done by more traditional mechanisms instead — clear, industry standard, expectations on gateways» security, in a similar spirit to all major Bitcoin exchanges» policy of keeping over 80 % of customer funds stored in an offline location where there is no way to access them without manual assistance, and outright fraud will have to be met with the help of the good old - fashioned legal system.

Community Legal Aid Services, Inc. is funded in part by the Legal Services Corporation and United Way

Unfortunately «ridiculous» also describes CREA trying to fight a legal battle against an opponent with bottomless pockets especially when those opponents» pockets are our own as taxpayers CREA, the provincial organizations, and now it seems the boards appear to be more interested in finding new ways to extract funds from REALTORS ® as our membership shrinks, with the goal of self preservation rather than providing value and constraint instep with the financial challenges the average agent faces in today's markets.