Sentences with phrase «know public interest lawyers»

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Sue — I know that some provincial governments have looked at forgiving a portion of student loan debt for lawyers who end up practicing in public interest areas.

At that time, OHLS was not at York University in the northern portion of the Greater Toronto Area (the GTA), but instead in downtown Toronto — it was the law society's law school (the Law Society of Upper Canada (the LSUC), which, in the public interest of people finding it and its website, should change its name to the Law Society of Ontario, given that half the people in Toronto weren't born in Canada, and therefore are likely to think the LSUC is a law society for lawyers whose offices are north of the 60th parallel of latitude where Canada's territories area, rather than know that «Upper Canada» was Ontario's name when it was a British Colony, prior to Confederation in 1867).

I'm lucky that PLTC did focus on those areas (and as a result I finally know how to draft a contract), but there was very little substantive information that will be useful to me as a public interest lawyer, and a great deal that won't.

Lawyers, in my opinion, are more afraid of the law socities than they are served by them (and I know the socities govern in the public interest).

Since then, lawyers» interest in i - LIS has become very high and there is also a demand from the public to know more.

She is one of the smartest, hardest working, most courageous and effective children's rights advocates and public interest lawyers that I know,» Bauer wrote.

[3] A lawyer with a client under a disability should appreciate that if the disability of the client is such that the client no longer has the legal capacity to manage their legal affairs, the lawyer may need to take steps to have a lawfully authorized representative appointed, for example, a litigation guardian, or to obtain the assistance of the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee or the Office of the Children's Lawyer to protect the interests of the client.

Mr. Greathead is well - known as an international human rights advocate and a founder of several prominent public interest organizations, including New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and Human Rights public interest organizations, including New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and Human Rightinterest organizations, including New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and Human Rights Public Interest and Human RightInterest and Human Rights First.

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.

No where does the Act suggest that the «interests of lawyers» coincides with the «public interest», in fact they may be at odds with each other — all the more reason for benchers to be barred from reading aloud letters from other lawyers at Convocation, and certainly barred from suggesting that «I have spoken with my local lawyers association and they all want articling to continue.»

It seems an appropriate time for those lawyers, ethics committees, bar associations and legal regulators who have an interest in how the cloud will serve the public interest as well as the needs of lawyers, clients and cloud developers to get involved and start looking at clouds from both sides now, both up and down, as it seems that, at this early point in its development, we really don't know the ethics of clouds at all...

Even before law school, Taylor Healy knew she wanted to be a public interest lawyer.