Sentences with phrase «human lawyers more»

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In fact, as the boot camp was wrapping up, China was throwing more than 100 human rights lawyers and activists into prison on allegations of organizing illegal paid protests.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

Human rights lawyers are extremely concerned about Pakistan's new crackdown, and it's even more terrifying than you might think.

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«It should also be made quite clear that Gadhafi was no more of a Muslim leader than Slobodan Milosevic or Robert Mugabe should be considered to be Christian leaders,» said Arsalan Iftikhar, an international human rights lawyer and author of «Islamic Pacifism: Global Muslims in the Post-Osama Era.»

Heping was among more than 300 people arrested during a crackdown which began in July 2015 by Chinese authorities on human rights lawyers and activists.

A Sri Lankan human rights lawyer has been criticised by government officials and threatened with being... More

Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who was released from prison earlier this month is suffering... More

Well, that's because the Supreme Court doesn't much like it, determining more than 100 years ago that polygamy was «an offence against society» (Reynolds v. U.S.) and compared it to «murders sanctified by religious belief, such as human sacrifice or the burning of women on their husbands» funeral pyres,» or so writes lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer.

The government's lawyers are due to lay out their argument in more detail tomorrow but at an initial hearing earlier this month, they claimed that a first tier tribunal only has the power to identify that legislation is incompatible with the Human Rights Act - not to rule on a case on that basis.

Since taking over from the rather more liberal, Kenneth Clarke Grayling has attacked human rights as «political correctness», proposed dramatic restrictions to the right of individuals to challenge the state through judicial review, imposed significant restrictions on access to lawyers with no - win no - fee cases, moved the government back on to the course of building more (and bigger) prisons — despite the evidence against them — and is set on dramatically privatising up to 70 % of the probation service ceding state responsibility for offenders to commercial enterprises.

Jenifer Rajkumar, a human rights lawyer and an adjunct professor at CUNY, came in second, securing 19 percent of the vote with more than 1,600 ballots cast in her favor, in the six - way race.

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A former human rights lawyer and academic, Sardinian Claudia is an animal lover and, more than anything, a traveller who craves to see the world.

An Italian human rights lawyer, animal lover and academic, Claudia is more than anything a traveller who craves to see the world.

Although the amount of payments to the lawyers during this same period is more difficult to predict, a total of $ 13.75 billion seems a good ballpark estimate.6 The tobacco settlements will thus lead to the largest transfer of wealth resulting from litigation in the history of the human race!

I stepped in to remind my client of the goal of the site and all of the reasons they had decided to do this in the first place, including differentiating themselves, putting a more human face on the firm and its lawyers, and developing connections with clients with similar non-business interests.

But the more meaningful inquiries have not been asked: will human - AI collaboration advance the lawyer's counseling?

Discussions on artificial intelligence and law seek to find the diminishing demarcation between the human - only part of lawyering (multi-disciplinary integration, especially regarding strategy; «reading» the client; emotional intelligence) and those lawyering skills more efficiently accomplished by artificial intelligence (legal pattern recognition research for document and contract review).

If we break down a lawyer's tasks in a legal project from beginning to end, we will find that there is a technology that can handle the majority of these tasks far more quickly and accurately than a human lawyer.

For human rights lawyers, to be able to focus more time on their tactical approach in an increased number of cases may mean not just more wins, but furthering the push towards democracy and constitutional governance.

This change, more than any other I can envision, would transform how law is practiced by infusing lawyers and eventually judges, too, with the human compassion that invites clients» stories to be heard and their pain to be seen.

We can't afford the human and social costs of graduating even one more class of lawyers who have been taught to devalue their own spiritual and emotional intelligence — and yet hundreds of thousands more lawyers will be socialized in that way before widespread humanistic legal education becomes a reality.

Kudos for putting case results on your lawyer website at all (and not to say that a series of one - liners with six - figure settlements and judgments won't work), but the human story behind that case result is more likely to stick with an injured client, one who is deciding whether or not to call you.

I think the problems of bill - padding and double - billing likely pales in comparison to (1) the expense incurred by parties because of lawyers making overconfident recommendations to embark on misguided litigation where those recommendations happen to coincide with the interest of the attorney to bill more hours; and (2) the excessive billing caused by law - firm technological and human - resources inefficiencies that regularly result in the wheel being reinvented at client expense.

The third and current phase is the stage of disruption in which technology takes on more of the tasks historically done by intelligent human lawyers.

Luckily we have research showing that being a more human, compassionate, mindful and empathetic lawyer will not just reduce alcoholism and depression but will create better lawyers and provide better legal services.

If there is any debate at all, it tends to be between skeptics — who doubt AI will achieve capabilities equivalent to a human lawyer in anything like the near future — and those with more terrifying visions of grim disruption.

A lawyer may be much more familiar with the problem an Indigenous client is having — for example, a marital separation, a criminal charge, or a human rights complaint — than with the kind of person his or her client is.

Successfully deployed chatbots are proving to be a more quickly - responsive and cheaper option when compared against a traditional human - lawyer consultation.

AI programs are starting to not only do the job that an attorney or paralegal would, the AI is doing it better, faster, and more efficiently than any human lawyer ever could.

Client demands, a key point of stress for many lawyers in the study, can be met with more human first working patterns.

Adam is a provocative, at times irreverent, speaker who always gives thoughtful and engaging keynote speeches on a broad range of topics impacting the human condition and, more specifically, the lawyer human condition, if you accept the premise that lawyers are, in fact, human.

The media is more interested in talking about whether we can replace human lawyers with robots than in talking about what AI really means for law practice.

Large firms have not only more lawyers to turn to if you've got questions or problems but many have built - in support mechanisms, educational opportunities, and even accounting and human resource departments to do a lot of the basics.

[13] When read in the context that Professor St. Lewis had agreed to undertake a review of the SAC report which alleged systemic racism in the academic fraud process and that she was providing her evaluation of that report as a lawyer, law professor and expert in the field of Human Rights and Research, the words in their natural and ordinary meaning would more than likely be considered defamatory by the ordinary fair - minded individual.

The investigation had produced more than 30 million documents, including emails, spreadsheets and other materials, that had to be reviewed and sorted into privileged and non-privileged information, a task that would take a team of junior lawyers months to complete and potentially be prone to human error and inconsistencies.

Angela said: «As human rights law remains under political pressure; the skill, commitment and professionalism of human rights lawyers is needed more than ever.

And while some claims involved failing to know the law (which many lawyers still assume is the main cause of claims), the key finding was that many more claims were the result of «human» failings in lawyer / client communication (ranging from miscommunication, poor communication or no communication at all); time and file management mistakes (including missing deadlines or limitations and procrastination); and conflicts of interest (between current and / or past clients or involving lawyer self - interest).

Maybe it's time for lawyers to think less like lawyers and more like living, breathing, human beings who can recognize beauty.

Computers are not only able to handle this work much more efficiently than human lawyers, they also complete it more accurately.

«Combining human knowledge and skills with AI technology and tools can, and is proving to be, very successful in enhancing a firm's scope of services and ultimately revenue, making processes more efficient and helping lawyers and staff get things done faster, cheaper, better — for themselves and their clients,» he says.

If a lawyer chooses a career more orientated towards management and leadership, they receive additional training and work with other managers with expertise in disciplines such as finance, human resources, marketing, business development, change management or IT.

Lawyers tend to concentrate on points which win cases, rather than on first principles, and whilst human rights were a relevant consideration before the Act's passing (judgments of the European Court of Human Rights were persuasive but not binding), they amounted to little more human rights were a relevant consideration before the Act's passing (judgments of the European Court of Human Rights were persuasive but not binding), they amounted to little more Human Rights were persuasive but not binding), they amounted to little more that.

But while the new technologies may generate cost savings, in - house lawyers stress that their real power lies in reducing risk and helping to deploy human resources more effectively.

Stephen joined Whitten & Lublin Employment & Labour Lawyers in 2016 to continue his litigation practice, with a focus on the more complex employment law disputes, including sophisticated dismissal claims and human rights matters, particularly those that are not «slam dunks».

* We told you Amal Clooney just lost a big case, but did the AP lose even more when they tweeted about the case referring to the human rights lawyer as an «actor's wife»?

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Enhanced Role of Non-Lawyer Business Managers: Mid-size law firms will employ more sophisticated non-lawyer business managers with special expertise in areas of financial management and technology, human relations and administration to relieve lawyer management of most of their involvement in day to day administrative matters.