Sentences with phrase «lawyers in the public interest»

As for those opportunities, a lot of work comes through New York Lawyers in the Public Interest (NYLPI) and the Urban Justice Center.

Furthermore, it adds financial stress to already indebted students in a way that will reduce diversity in the legal profession and restrict access to justice and lawyering in the public interest.

The self - governance of lawyers in the public interest must be protected and prioritized.

Consistency between jurisprudence touching on lawyer's ethical duties and professional rules of conduct set by those who regulate lawyers in the public interest is important.

Not exact matches

«Business owners are allowed to deduct credit - card interest on business purchases, but consumers can't deduct personal interest charges,» explains Richard M. Colombik, a lawyer and certified public accountant based in Schaumburg, Ill..

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.

«Based on the extensive public comments and evidence garnered during that process, the department determined that such conflicts of interest are widespread and could cost investors in individual retirement accounts (in one segment of the market alone) between $ 95 billion and $ 189 billion over the next 10 years,» wrote the Justice Department lawyers.

Texas eminent domain lawyer Luke Ellis, told the Houston Chronicle: «The public interest question surrounding exports provides an opening to challenge land takings in court, and is almost certainly on the minds of pipeline executives.»

clearly the Gay Gestapo is working overtime... they pulled out because they do nt want to be bullied in the court of public opinion and abused by the Gestapo lawyers... I personally have no respect for, sympathy for or interest in the Gay issues..

The author, an overworked public interest lawyer, wrote about her experience at a five - day cooking and meditation retreat at a Zen Center in California.

Bruce Silverglade, the lawyer who now represents BPI but for many years was chief counsel for Center for Science in the Public Interest

«It's substantively not the most critical health issue, yet it was framed in such a way that the public outcry actually changed food policy in a matter of weeks,» said Sarah Klein, a lawyer at the Center for Science in the Public Intpublic outcry actually changed food policy in a matter of weeks,» said Sarah Klein, a lawyer at the Center for Science in the Public IntPublic Interest.

The states «have a substantial interest in avoiding the vast disruption in state and local labor relations that would occur if the Court were now to overrule Abood's approval of public sector collective bargaining arrangements utilizing agency - fee rules,» lawyers for the states argue.

Other top lobbying spenders have consistently been on the list in recent years, including health care interests, the trial lawyers, and public worker unions.

«I'm confident of the fact that we handled everything legally and ethically; that we did the things I wish more people would do in public service, we sought guidance from an ethics board,» de Blasio said at an unrelated Queens press conference, adding that he sought legal advice from lawyers and opinions from the Conflicts of Interest Board.

The Lawyers in an official letter addressed to members of the 5 - member ad - hoc committee tasked to investigate the alleged scandal, said: «we have been instructed by our client to convey to you, which we hereby do, his desire to appear before your committee to be heard on the above allegation and to provide evidence that would assist your Committee to reach a fair and true conclusion on this substantially important matter of public interest.»

The public at large, not just lawyers and politicians, are interested in rights and freedoms.»

While in law school, he served as a student advocate at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, an intern at Cardozo Beth Tzedek Legal Service.

Public lawyers and ACL students @bhamlaw might be interested in this post on recent parliamentary reforms http://t.co/YE4pcPbs5m

Krissy's lawyer's time would have been more in the public interest if she had tried to stop Shelly Silver from spending taxpayers money to pay off a sexual harasssment case against one of the biggest slugs in the legislature, Vito Lopez.

In his opening remarks, Paladino's lawyer Dennis Vacco said Paladino was protecting the public's interest by publicly disclosing secret information from the School Board's closed - door meeting about contract talks with the teacher's union.

While the reform alliance provided data showing trial lawyers» campaign contributions were tops among influence blocs, the New York Public Interest Research Group put teacher unions far in the lead in combined lobbying and campaign donations.

In a statement, a coalition of good government groups and civic groups including Reinvent Albany, the Sunlight Foundation, and New York Lawyers for the Public Interest praised the website, which they said could save taxpayers $ 12 million a year in reduced FOIL processing fees when fully implemented by all city agencieIn a statement, a coalition of good government groups and civic groups including Reinvent Albany, the Sunlight Foundation, and New York Lawyers for the Public Interest praised the website, which they said could save taxpayers $ 12 million a year in reduced FOIL processing fees when fully implemented by all city agenciein reduced FOIL processing fees when fully implemented by all city agencies.

Schneiderman grew up on the Upper West Side, graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Law School and worked as a public - interest lawyer before successfully running for the Legislature in 1998.

In 2007, the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, acting on behalf of the Bronx Committee for Toxic Free Schools, a coalition of parents, neighborhood residents and community organizations, successfully sued the School Construction Authority and the Department of Education for violating the Public Authorities Law and the State Environmental Quality Review Act by not disclosing a Site Management Plan.

«The U.S. attorney in Manhattan generally believes Albany is corrupt and that the politicians are not acting in the public interest, so that's the area where he is going to focus,» said lawyer Bradley Simon, a former federal prosecutor who represented ex-state Controller Alan Hevesi on corruption charges.

He plays Jim Grant, a public - interest lawyer and single father, who lives a quiet life in a suburb of Albany, New York.

«The Company You Keep» follows Jim Grant (Redford), a public interest lawyer and single father raising his daughter in the suburbs of Albany, New York.

After law school, Ryan clerked for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, and then worked in Newark, N.J. as a public interest lawyer before entering into teaching.

Then, as conceptions of youth rights began to shift, and as institutions that provided support for the expansion of these rights emerged, students and parents, with the support of public - interest lawyers, began to question and challenge school disciplinary practices in court.

The appointees, each an expert and prominent voice in the field, included current and former education officials from all levels of government, academic and policy researchers, civil rights leaders, the presidents of the national teachers» unions, education policy advocates and associations, and public interest lawyers.

Public interest lawyers working for legal services and other nonprofit organizations ensure that these interests have access to representation in our legal system.

But Mark Stephens, an art lawyer with Finers Stephens Innocent, said that doing so was not in the public interest.

Two groups of the «general public» that have not failed to be interested in a changing climate are the insurance industry and lawyers.

Zuzana Čaputová, Slovakia: A public interest lawyer and mother of two, Zuzana Čaputová spearheaded a successful campaign that shut down a toxic waste dump that was poisoning the land, air and water in her community, setting a precedent for public participation in post-communist Slovakia.

Players in this «CRD» movement include state attorneys general, comptrollers and treasurers, and lawmakers combining with public pension funds, interest groups and, of course, contingency - fee lawyers.

In a response, a lawyer for the port stated that doing so would violate a confidentiality agreement and «would result in the greatest harm to the public interest which can be imagined — a loss of jobs in our community.&raquIn a response, a lawyer for the port stated that doing so would violate a confidentiality agreement and «would result in the greatest harm to the public interest which can be imagined — a loss of jobs in our community.&raquin the greatest harm to the public interest which can be imagined — a loss of jobs in our community.&raquin our community.»

The Federation of Law Societies of Canada's Model Code of Professional Conduct identifies lawyers» responsibility to exercise power in the public interest.

We built the membership last September to include fair representation from the judiciary, lawyers in private and public sector practice, the Courts Administration Service, a few other areas and a journalist to represent the interests of the Canadian public.

Ultimately, awarding federal QCs to deserving federal government lawyers is in the interests of the public service, the Department of Justice, the legal profession and of the government of the day.

Lawyers provide the services, and Susskind says a survey of the public indicates they are at least as interested in getting legal services from a bank or supermarket as from a law firm.

Claiming he was motivated by a desire to share knowledge with «interested members of the bar and public» after being so «struck by the evidence» on display during the trial, the lawyer said he thought that «it would be helpful for individuals not in court to see and thereby gain a better understanding of the evidence.»

«Recent law grad over $ 250,000 in debt blogs about trying to make it as a small practice public interest lawyer — all within the context of broader changes happening within the legal profession.»

But as you also allude to — it is also in the combined interests of the public and the profession not to have lawyers governed by «government.»

The overall argument made by the press lawyer - which convinced the judge and the court - is that if the third client's name is given to the court as sealed information, it should be public, according to the 1st Amendment and in the public interest.

In the best interest of lawyers and the public.

Its 1994 Role Statement recognized the obligation to govern the profession in the public interest to ensure that the people of Ontario are served by lawyers who meet high standards of learning and competence.

«As lawyers in Ontario, we need to be concerned with what is legal work,» he says, and whether the public interest is being served by who is performing it.

While I have a less favourable view of ABS etc. than Mr. Mercer (though it seems to be working out okay in England, with the Clementi report that got the ball rolling produced by a non-lawyer), I do appreciate his focus on the disjunction (actual or potential) between lawyers» and paralegals» interests, and the public's interests.

of the Legal Prof. 283, at pp. 296 - 298, I suggested that we should regard lawyer independence as a public trust and that we should meld non-governmental oversight and the public trust as the way to deal with lawyer regulators who breach their fiduciary duty to regulate in the public interest.