Sentences with phrase «legal education initiatives»

The Quebec Bar Association has shown itself to be quite ambitious and innovative in recent years when it comes to public legal education initiatives.

She has also led or taught on practical legal education initiatives in law schools in Asia, Australia and the US.

Not exact matches

The California Lawyers for the Arts offers artists education, representation and dispute resolution and also are involved with the United States Patent and Trade Office national pro bono legal initiative.

But while denominational schools thus gained legal security, no legal decision could return to the churches the initiative in setting the patterns for education in the culture.

Several legal initiatives have been rushed through Parliament without due debate, ranging from the extension of religious education classes and the conversion of secular state schools into Islamic institutions, to harsh limitations on the sale and consumption of alcohol.

As part of this initiative and its participation in Governor Andrew Cuomo's Liberty Defense Project, the State Bar Association will continue to offer continuing legal education (CLE) programs for attorneys seeking to represent immigrants in civil detention, administrative and removal proceedings.

For the purposes of this initiative the social sciences are defined as inclusive of the subjects of economics, economic and social history, political science, socio - legal studies, education, psychology, cognitive studies, linguistics, management and business studies, human geography, environmental planning, international studies, area and development studies, social statistics, demography, social science computing, sociology, social anthropology, social policy and social work.

Gov. Gray Davis of California and civil rights groups announced a deal last Thursday to drop legal challenges to a 1994 voter - approved initiative that sought to end public services, including education, to illegal immigrants.

I am looking forward to continuing our work with the parent plaintiffs in PEJ's teacher quality cases, and to launching new initiatives with the 50CAN network that will expand the scope of legal strategies improving public education for kids all across the country.

«We expected a legal challenge when we drafted the measure,» said Lisa Macfarlane, state director for Democrats for Education Reform and one of the architects of the November 2012 charter initiative.

In case lawmakers balk, a ballot initiative is in the works, as is a legal move involving a prominent Boston firm that has filed a class - action suit to lift the charter cap, arguing that it unconstitutionally denies children access to an adequate education.

As a national support center, CLE developed enormous expertise about the legal rights and responsibilities of students and school personnel as well as about key education programs and initiatives, including Title I, vocational education programs and school to work systems, and special education for students with disabilities.

* Animal Advocates Alliance is a California 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting the humane treatment of animals through legal advocacy, humane education initiatives, and support of animal rescue and adoption.

Loretta Tam is a sustainability professional with experience in business and legal strategy consulting and a top graduate education to help create, communicate, and execute on strategic sustainability initiatives.

Since then, through its public education, direct advocacy, and law reform initiatives, CAMWL has endeavoured to help shape a legal profession that is responsive to our collective obligation to promote substantive justice and equality.

We can not understand why initiatives such as the Pre-Application Judicial Education (PAJE) course, which has seen considerable investment over a number of years from both the Bar Council and partners across the legal profession, including the Ministry of Justice, and indeed was a recommendation in the Lammy report, has been omitted from the Government's plan to address inequalities.

The Legal Education Foundation (LEF)- the charitable arm spun out of last year's sale of the College of Law - has formally launched with a series of six grants to initiatives supporting pro bono, social mobility and access to justice.

Engage in numerous additional initiatives to create public education and awareness to challenge current attitudes and behaviours; update health and physical education curriculum for students; develop tools and best practices to support compassionate response from law enforcement authorities; strengthen supports provided by hospitals; create a pilot program to provide free independent legal advice to sexual assault survivors whose cases are proceeding toward a criminal trial, and many other broad - based initiatives.

We also engage in law reform, public legal education and community development initiatives.

Delivering access to justice demands change and action on a very broad range of initiatives — pro bono work by the private bar, fair and adequate funding of legal aid, collaboration among all system participants (clients, lawyers, courts, agencies, NGO's), legal education (and its financing), e-filing and case data standards, court forms, court interfaces to self - represented litigants, unbundled legal services, virtual law practice, multistate practice, law practice ownership and investment, limited practice licenses, unauthorized practice of law rules, lawyer advertising rules, and lawyer discipline.

The initiative features three stages: a report discussing emerging trends in how social media and web 2.0 technologies can be used to provide legal education and information; a series of webinars exploring different models to provide access online to public legal education and information; and a national conference on technology and public legal education.

Just a Click Away is an initiative to enhance how technology can be used to deliver legal education and information to the public in Canada.

Zack also discusses his initiative to enhance civics education in U.S. schools, his Commission on Hispanic Legal Rights and Responsibilities, and other initiatives of his term as president.

Just A Click Away, a Canada - wide initiative on public legal education and information (PLEI) being coordinated by Courthouse Libraries BC, is organizing a two - day intensive conference in Vancouver, British Columbia on February 23 & 24, 2011.

This initiative is unique because it brings together justice sector institutions as partners in the creation of a large - scale online public legal education resource.

Online information can be the basis for public legal education and information initiatives that are particularly important with the growing number of self - represented litigants in the courts.

Besides providing innovative legal services to self - represented litigants with the support of the University of Calgary Faculty of Law through funding and articling students, Kyla Sandwith, executive director of the program, says the initiative will provide data and education to the Alberta bar on «what we're doing and how we're doing it.»

I promised at the beginning of this podcast that I want to talk about our member benefit initiative, just as voting and veterans and education are very basic, that's how we feel about member benefits, and we are going to be looking back to basics that the ABA does incredible things for access to justice for the legal community, for the court system, but we are going to also do incredible things for our members and potential members.

The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System's initiative Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers works to align legal education with the needs of an evolving profession by facilitating, evaluating, and promoting law teaching methods designed to produce graduates who are employable and practice - ready; able to meet the needs of their employers, their clients, and society; and prepared to lead and respond to changes in the legal profession throughout their carLegal System's initiative Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers works to align legal education with the needs of an evolving profession by facilitating, evaluating, and promoting law teaching methods designed to produce graduates who are employable and practice - ready; able to meet the needs of their employers, their clients, and society; and prepared to lead and respond to changes in the legal profession throughout their carlegal education with the needs of an evolving profession by facilitating, evaluating, and promoting law teaching methods designed to produce graduates who are employable and practice - ready; able to meet the needs of their employers, their clients, and society; and prepared to lead and respond to changes in the legal profession throughout their carlegal profession throughout their careers.

Similarly, to view Call to Action # 28 as hived off from other Calls to Action in the TRC Report also could have the effect of isolating legal education from other integrated responses to the TRC (perhaps, for example, involving collaborative initiatives between courts, law societies and law schools).

Some initiatives build on or give new direction to existing programs, such as clinics and externships... Taken as a whole, the breadth and variety of these any efforts signal that law schools hear, take seriously, and are responding to criticisms being leveled at legal education.

Public legal education outreach and initiative will help residents of Kingston «avoid unnecessary and expensive legal interventions,» says Mills.

Prior to joining the legal academy, Aaron was the associate dean for law admissions at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he worked on a pipeline initiative that fostered diversity within legal education and the profession.

What I can say is that the law school that shows initiative in making these important changes is the type of law school that in the future can legitimately claim «that unless someone was an alumnus from this law school, their likelihood of becoming a successful future lawyer would be diminished and their investment in legal education was not worth it.»

The insurer outlined changes meant to have long - term positive impact on the legal representation rate among its clients, including resolving claims effectively and quickly «in a fair and reasonable manner» through streamlining determination of coverage and payment of benefits, implementing initiatives improving access to benefits and providing education to customers so they have more control over the claims process.

Clinics provide these services through a variety of methods, including traditional casework, summary advice, self help, public legal education, community development and law reform initiatives.

HALCO and other specialized clinics like it focus «both on front - line work, such as direct legal services for people, in addition to public legal education, law reform and community development initiatives,» Peck said.

Joshua participates in various legal education, access to justice, and legal technology initiatives, including Evolve Law, the previous Reinvent Law movement, and Legal Hackers initiatlegal education, access to justice, and legal technology initiatives, including Evolve Law, the previous Reinvent Law movement, and Legal Hackers initiatlegal technology initiatives, including Evolve Law, the previous Reinvent Law movement, and Legal Hackers initiatLegal Hackers initiatives.

PAIR received a 3 - year Special Initiatives Grant (totaling 100K) by the Barr Foundation for its work to protect vulnerable communities, promote human rights, and protect civil liberties in Massachusetts through legal services and community education.

CASAL's mission is to support and promote initiatives that value diversity and advancement of all South Asian lawyers and law students, within the legal profession throughout Canada; to provide a forum for professional networking and development of all South Asian lawyers, through continuing legal education, mentorship, advocacy, legal scholarship and greater community involvement; to foster excellence in the quality of legal services provided to all Canadians.

As an early initiative, LawConnect will host the annual conference of the Public Legal Education Association of Canada (PLEAC), the national association of PLEI providers, here in Toronto in the fall of 2016.

The Task Force recommends that participants in the legal education system, but particularly law schools, universities, the Section of Legal Education, the Association of American Law Schools, and state bar admission authorities, pursue or facilitate this increased diversification of law schools as they each develop plans and initiatives to address the current challenges in legal educalegal education system, but particularly law schools, universities, the Section of Legal Education, the Association of American Law Schools, and state bar admission authorities, pursue or facilitate this increased diversification of law schools as they each develop plans and initiatives to address the current challenges in legal eeducation system, but particularly law schools, universities, the Section of Legal Education, the Association of American Law Schools, and state bar admission authorities, pursue or facilitate this increased diversification of law schools as they each develop plans and initiatives to address the current challenges in legal educaLegal Education, the Association of American Law Schools, and state bar admission authorities, pursue or facilitate this increased diversification of law schools as they each develop plans and initiatives to address the current challenges in legal eEducation, the Association of American Law Schools, and state bar admission authorities, pursue or facilitate this increased diversification of law schools as they each develop plans and initiatives to address the current challenges in legal educalegal educationeducation.

A few major focus points for Morse are working on providing opportunities for students to gain hands - on legal experience, offering a range of clinical legal education programs, and getting students working in legal advice clinics and other similar initiatives.

The project of improving legal education, to deliver both public and private value, will require independent, yet coordinated, initiatives by all participants in the system.

The campaign, «Justice for All», is designed to increase the public's awareness and interest in justice issues and to connect them to local public legal education and access to justice initiatives.

In regards to policy development, there is a need for innovative public legal education and training initiatives for members of the public and online writers; and the development of more proportionate and relevant libel and privacy dispute resolution methods for small and individual publishers.

In addition to legal education and experience, growing lawyers also need exposure to other firm elements such as practice group admin, committee participation, marketing, client service initiatives, etc. if they are even going to be ready to advance.

Drew Jackson discusses two initiatives: (1) the Clicklaw website, which provides legal information and education for the public from 24 contributor organizations; and (2) Law Matters, a program intended to enhance the collections of legal information in libraries across the province.

For an example of a pro bono self - help site, check out the series of seven videos on the Small Claims Court by lawyer James Morton, part of an initiative by the Advancement of Legal Education and Research Trust (ALERT), the charitable arm of the Ontario Bar Association (OBA).

How do you bring the stakeholders (Court Administrators, AG's, Tax Authorities, Law Societies, Law Foundations, non-profit legal agencies, the profession and rich benefactors) to the table, without an initiative or proposal which outlines some common goals: reform and streamline, access and sustainability, shared responsibility and accountability (legal and fiscal) and better public education?