Sentences with phrase «help public interest lawyers»

Our Friends at Equal Justice Works have some news they wanted us to pass along about their new resources to help public interest lawyers tackle their student debt:

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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.

LRAP Minnesota helps reduce the education debt burden experienced by dedicated public interest lawyers who represent low income clients seeking legal services to secure essential needs like food, shelter and safety, and fundamental rights like equal access to justice.

The goal of Richmond family law lawyer James H. Wilson, Jr., is to help you make informed decisions, serve your best interests in resolving your family law issues, and represent you to the fullest extent of the laws and ethics, while avoiding the unnecessary public exposure of private issues.

Others among the several blogs honored here are Above the Law as Best New Law Blog, Overlawyered for Best Blawg Theme, Likelihood of Confusion for Best Law Blog Name, Antitrust Review and PHOSITA sharing the award for Best Group Blog, TalkLeft for Best Politicio Blog by Lawyers, Althouse for Best Personal Blog by a legally oriented female blogger, SHLEP: the Self - Help Law ExPress for Best Law Blog in the Public Interest, Online Guide to Mediation for Best Law Blog by a legal mediator, and Denise Howell as Blawg Diva for her blogging at Bag and Baggage, Between Lawyers and Lawgarithms.

Whether you are an investment company seeking help responding to the ever - changing regulations, a financial institution recently contacted by the SEC or FINRA, a public or private company interested in growth through acquisitions, or an organization concerned about protecting its intellectual property or contract rights, Stradley Ronon lawyers bring both legal ability and business acumen to bear in addressing the challenges you face.

wouldn't tell the public that the problem is not the Law Society's problem, as in effect it does; (15) LSUC's website wouldn't state that lay benchers «represent the public interest,» which is impossible now that we are well beyond the 19th century; (16) CanLII's services would be upgraded in kind and volume to be a true support service, able to have a substantial impact upon the problem, and several other developed support services, all provided at cost, would together, provide a complete solution; (17) LSUC's management would not be part - time management by amateurs - amateurs because benchers don't have the expertise to solve the problem, nor are they trying to get it, nor are they joining with Canada's other law societies to solve this national problem; (18) the Federation of Law Societies of Canada would not describe the problem as being one of mere «gaps in access to legal services» (see its Sept. 2012 text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authorities.

Professor Cohen is the Founding Executive Director of Lawyers for America, which she hopes will add an exciting alternative path in legal education and help legal nonprofits and government to meet the overwhelming need for public interest lawyering.

Following up on what my friend (hereafter referred to as «Lawfriend») told me yesterday about programs that help lawyers pay off school loans if they go into non-profit work: Check out Equal Justice Works (formerly the National Association for Public Interest Law, or NAPIL).

The Equal Justice Works National Advisory Committee is comprised of public interest law students and professionals who provide guidance and advice to the organization and help us achieve our goal of expanding public interest opportunities for law students and lawyers.

With Alecia Wheeler's story as a tragic reminder, Fraidin recognized the tremendous «bang legal services lawyers provide for every buck» and how public interest lawyers could help save lives.

No doubt some of this is due to commercial self - interest, but I think that many lawyers truly believe that using technology to equip the public for self - help is risky and unethical.