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The Committee is also committed to addressing employment law focused issues of professionalism, ethics and the in house / outside counsel relationship.

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«I generally think that as far as privacy laws go the security breach disclosure ones are not a bad thing — they're focused, they only kick in when there's actually a problem, and so on,» Singleton says, but they can sometimes focus attention on the errant business rather than on systematic security issues.

The questioning of uBeam has focused on two issues: the argument that the technology violates laws of physics and isn't actually possible, and the fear that the technology is unsafe and could cause health risks for people.

«Sarbanes - Oxley did a lot to codify protections for whistleblowers, but it didn't really change the general culture or behavior at companies,» says Andrew Sherman, a partner at Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky, a Washington - based law firm focused on small - business issues.

«People who do private - equity investments right are very shrewd and very driven to focus on key issues like investment return and exit strategies,» says Gary Simon, a partner at the New York City - based law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist Parker Chapin.

Groklaw began as a standard law blog in 2003, when Jones began focusing on legal issues around the open - source community.

Almost everyone I've seen as an in house labor and employment attorney has done similar work for a law firm but most have not focused on this aspect of law in school or have a theoretical grounding in labor and employment issues.

From my perspective the focus of the abortion debate should be sentience; however, even if we are at some point able to determine definitively when during pregnancy fetal sentience begins, we would still be faced with dealing with the ethical issue of law denying women autonomy.

The final two panels (seven and eight) focused on «Contemporary Human Rights Issues» from the viewpoint of international law.

Whether one deems this cluster of questions the third part of an expanded just war tradition or an extension of «right intention,» one of the classic deontological ad bellum criteria, this is obviously an area in which considerable criticism of the Iraq War has been focused» whether the issue at hand involves the scandals at Abu Ghraib prison, interrogation methods, de-Baathification policies, counterinsurgency strategies and tactics, or the provisions of the new Iraqi constitution with respect to religious freedom and the role of Islamic law in post-Saddam Iraq.

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She attended Northeastern University Law School with a focus on social justice issues.

After many years as a litigator, and seeing the negative impact on clients and their families of the adversarial approach, Attorney Guthrie opened her own practice focused on the non-adversarial approaches to resolving family law issues.

And despite the fact that the vast majority of young people, including those in riot - hit areas, are law abiding citizens, there is no doubt that the unrest we saw in August will shape debates we have from now on on youth provision, youth services and — the issue I'm going to focus on today - youth justice.

While more Americans lose their jobs every day, the Obama Administration is blatantly ignoring the law of the land for a political stunt, and I hope the Administration will reconsider this wrong decision and focus on strengthening the economy and creating jobs, the number one issue the majority of Western New Yorkers care about.»

Setting aside the many, many issues involved in this Senate letter affair, it is interesting to see the complete focus in the larger media debate on American constitutional requirements for treaties, largely with complete disregard to international law.

Silver champions fair elections Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Election Law Committee Chairman Michael Cusick have introduced legislation to bring fair elections to New York by reforming the state's antiquated campaign finance laws and creating a public financing system for all state offices, shifting the focus of elections to the substance of the issues and -LSB-...]

«As I said during the campaign, I intend to focus on important fiscal and environmental issues, and to make sure we're doing all we can to have safer schools and sensible gun reform laws,» Clements added.

The 52 - year - old Takoma Park resident, who is a professor at American University Washington College of Law, has focused his energy on a number of civil rights and constitutional issues in both the academic and legislative arenas, including marijuana legalization, campaign finance, and voting rights.

Senate Republicans have focused primarily on issues of police safety and have pushed to give law enforcement more money for body armor.

Doyle, the Senate chairman of the legislature's general law committee, noted his focus on consumer issues and has called for preserving small business programs.

Silver champions fair elections Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Election Law Committee Chairman Michael Cusick have introduced legislation to bring fair elections to New York by reforming the state's antiquated campaign finance laws and creating a public financing system for all state offices, shifting the focus of elections to the substance of the issues and candidates — not the money used to fund them.

In a departure from previous years, Malloy released budget details on Monday and his speech focused largely on other issues, including calls for stronger gun laws, early voting, an increase in the minimum wage and addressing the gender wage gap.

De Blasio's commission is expected to focus on campaign finance reforms, while the council is looking to examine «a wide swath of issues — including a more transparent budgeting process, more robust community engagement in land use, and a more independent Law Department,» according to Council Speaker Corey Johnson.

Senator Amedore's four - pronged approach to addressing the addiction issues in our communities focuses on prevention, treatment, recovery services, and giving law enforcement the resources they need to get high level drug dealers off the streets.

Lasher said his campaign will focus on issues like housing, strengthening rent laws and protecting tenants, building «a new generation of Mitchell - Lama - style housing» and ending state income tax for public school teachers.

Timothy Wu, a Columbia University law professor, is running against Hochul and is teamed up with Teachout in a campaign focused on what they contend have been Cuomo's failures to follow through on pledges to deal with corruption and campaign finance reform, among other issues.

REBNY has traditionally focused its lobbying efforts — and dollars — on candidates for state office rather than in New York City, for two main reasons, Lerner said: First, the city's relatively stringent campaign finance laws have historically made it harder for special interest groups to gain as much influence here; and second, although many key issues — such as 421a tax abatements — affect only New York City, they are decided at the state level.

LaValle said in the remaining weeks of session, the Senate GOP will «focus» on issues including renewal of New York City's rent laws, and changes to the controversial Common Core learning standards and related standardized tests.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Association of Erie County Governments urgently asks Governor Andrew M. Cuomo & the Legislative leaders to suspend this law as soon as possible and to look at all of the aspects of gun control using the proper legal procedure to bring about a law that will address gun control in a more logical manner, focusing on the real issues related to gun control — a law that will strengthen the effect on public safety and not infringe upon our constitutional rights.

The party is intended to focus on women's issues, but Ms. Teachout argued that Mr. Cuomo's former tacit support for a Republican - run State Senate prevented the passage of the Women's Equality Act — which would enshrine the right to an abortion and a slew of anti-sexual harassment and discrimination laws.

The 80 minutes of occasionally spirited argument at the high court this morning focused on the two main issues in the greenhouse gas litigation: For the case to go forward, the plaintiffs must prove that the case has legal standing (they must show that the court is the right venue for resolving this dispute), and that the common law definition of nuisance can support suits over greenhouse gases.

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The Lex - Warrier: Online Law Journal which seeks to focus on the burning issues in the legal scenario and to promote legal awareness not only among legal professionals but also among layman.

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This lesson focuses on the ethical theories of Situation Ethics and Natural Law and how they can be applied to the moral issue of family planning as it appears in Christianity.

In the first five years of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, much attention has been focused on implementation issues — from how to manage the increasing number of schools and districts «in need of improvement» or in «corrective action,» to problems with testing programs, adequate - yearly - progress reporting, and the law's highly - qualified - teacher requirements.

In addition, the plan's mental health recommendations focus on helping educators recognize children who may need help and connecting school districts with law enforcement, mental health agencies, and other local organizations to help ensure that students with mental health or behavioral issues receive the services they need.

Mills» observations focused on one of the key issues of a case, in which Beatriz Vergara and eight other students are challenging state laws that govern teachers.

The focus of this course is the examination of the issues of education, law and morality and ways in which the law, by its very nature, can not be separated from ethics and morality.

This reporter will cover the state legislature in Harrisburg and will focus on issues of importance to residents of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia — from abortion laws to education funding, from the environment to the minimum wage.

While much of the ensuing discussion rightly only focuses on certain areas of Title I funding (required by the law on assessment issues) and language on whether to supplement or supplant funding, NAESP is working in tandem with these efforts to influence the USED's actions on Title II funding related to comprehensive state and local support for principals.

«Clients should hand those bad credit issues to a credit repair company focused specifically on credit repair issues with experience and knowledge of the consumer protection laws surrounding the process,» explains Heath.

In the age of complicated legal matters, many lawyers are increasingly specialized and you'll get better services from someone with a practice focus in a particular area of the law than a generalist who deals with a broad spectrum of legal issues.

Our activities primarily focused on raising awareness of animal protection issues among other law students.

Fortunately, national animal groups and research - focused organizations conduct studies and share results on important topics like the public's knowledge of companion animal issues, support for stricter laws and perceptions of spay / neuter and other issues.

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