Sentences with phrase «into high profile cases»

Working for the organization, he served as a hired gun stepping into high profile cases in which the NAACP believed that black suspects had been wrongly accused.

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The major driver for increased suspicion was found to be «high profile» cases of food fraud, such as the 2013 horsemeat scare, which saw horse meat make its way into food products that were marketed as beef throughout Europe.

PolitiFact has not looked into whether the state has also had an inordinate number of sex scandals, but two high profile cases come to mind: In 2008, New York Governor Elliot Spitzer resigned after revelations that he had hired a sex worker, and former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner is in prison for sexting a minor.

The public outcry and the criticism of social services which followed high profile cases of child abuse, such as those of Victoria Climbie and baby Peter Connelly, was reported to have resulted in increased numbers of children being taken into care as social workers erred on the side of caution.

An imperiled caribou herd in western Alberta province in Canada could become a high - profile test case for a controversial plan to save some of Canada's woodland caribou from extinction: herding them into pens enclosing 100 square kilometers or more and ringed with electric fences, and killing or removing every predator inside.

Elliott (James Franco), a once - successful novelist inflicted with writer's block and an Adderall addiction strives to escape his problems by delving into the world of a high - profile murder case.

Following a high - profile legal battle, the program was upheld by the Ohio Supreme Court in 1999, prompting opponents to take their case into federal court.

A few weeks ago, 40 states and the District of Columbia jumped into the high - profile education competition known as Race to the Top, submitting applications up to 1,000 pages long to make their case for a share of $ 4.35 billion in federal prize money...

But he also handles the occasional high profile murder case when it falls into his lap, like in Fatal Flaw.

After the high - profile failure of Copenhagen, governments have gone into Cancun, Durban, and Doha conveying low expectations, which in many cases I suspect was a deliberate public relations strategy so that at any hint of incremental progress they could reemerge proclaiming they met or exceeded those expectations.

Item has a long and checkered history of inserting itself into high - profile or controversial cases (O.J. Simpson, Scott Peterson, Roman Polanski, Tiger Woods) and — as events of this past week demonstrate — even at current long - in - the - tooth stage, item has lost none of its effectiveness at cheap publicity stunts.

Former Supreme Court Justice Ian Binnie is fighting back after New Zealand's minister of justice slammed his report into compensation for a man cleared in one of the country's highest - profile murder cases.

Mahmood Lone Qualified: 2004 Made partner: 2014 Key cases: Advising a leading global financial institution on high profile FX investigations pursued by multiple regulators, prosecutors and antitrust authorities across four continents; successfully represented a major financial institution on an FCA investigation into alleged market abuse in relation to trading on a securities market.

Benefit from a team comprised of practitioners with a sound legal and commercial understanding of the various complex issues involved in building and construction projects who have distinguished themselves in their successful handling of significant high profile cases, including the inquiry into Singapore's Nicoll Highway collapse.

I try to refrain from commenting publicly on the situations of individual law firms, but it is difficult for the mind not to wander to the high - profile case of DLA Piper when considering the issues around bringing in a senior external figure into a law firm, given that the # 1.2 bn turnover international firm is paying former Linklaters senior partner Tony Angel a reputed # 2m annually to come in as global co-chair and senior partner of the firm's international LLP.

There have been a couple of high profile air crashes recently and in at least one of those cases it seems that at present that airline sent a perfectly serviceable aircraft manned by a competent crew into the air and it fell out of the sky into the South Atlantic.

In a high - profile matter that came to light in 2006, Ellis had been caught on videotape attempting to pressure a 25 - year - old South Korean refugee claimant into having a sexual relationship with him in return for a favourable ruling through his role as an adjudicator in her case.

Police and medical crime and disciplinary work are his forte and he fits neatly into the high - profile case arena, having such cases as the prosecution of Professor Sir Roy Meadows under his belt.»

Tony Mauro of American Lawyer Media gave insights into the working of the Supreme Court, coverage of recent high - profile cases, and the best way to approach Tony on using our «insiders».

Before going into detail about past jobs in reverse chronological order, the writer in this case decided to highlight their most important career achievements working with Olympics, high profile celebrities and a popular sports station.

Moved into Social Security law and seek a high profile law practice that will utilize all training, education, and motivation to assist in client cases and win settlements.