Sentences with phrase «legal education organizations»

While the path to the ivory towers of the nation's elite law schools is steep, teaching opportunities exist in paralegal schools and continuing legal education organizations.

Three of the leaders of the major legal education organizations will address the great questions facing legal education and the profession.

A key source is a core of dedicated non-profit public legal education organizations across the country.

There are public legal education organizations in every province and territory dedicated to informing people about the law and where they can obtain help.

Attorney Higgins is a frequent guest lecturer for the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education organization, The Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys and Suffolk University Law School.

Author: Gene Quinn is the founder of IPWatchdog.com and a patent bar review lecturer at the Practising Law Institute, a nonprofit continuing legal education organization.

The People's Law School is a public legal education organization in Vancouver that has special experience working with other community groups to create information on the law, offers its publications in multiple languages and formats, and allows bulk orders of its print material.

This partnership between Newfoundland and Labrador's only public legal education organization and sexual assault crisis centre is the first of its kind in Canada.

It's a legal education organization that mobilizes an army of volunteers each year.

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The curriculum will be developed in consultation with a number of prominent African American organizations and figures including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director - counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

Adopt a Unit's mission extends from partnering with veteran service organizations to hosting spouse support groups like Military Mondays, which provides veterans with pro bono legal assistance related to housing, education, employment, disability claims and healthcare issues.

At UniVoIP, we provide cloud - based collaborative solutions that drive performance, productivity and efficiency for organizations in a variety of industries including education, legal, finance, nonprofit, real estate and healthcare.

A nonprofit, tax - exempt institution for education with its legal charter in California, the TM organization grosses $ 6 million a year in income from fees alone.

Non-Orthodox organizations are not permitted to offer religious education and sometimes have trouble registering with the government for a legal identity.

An organization called the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund drew up a map of its own called the Unity Map, which looks drastically different from the current configuration in the borough.

The letter's signers included the Empire State Pride Agenda, Lambda Legal, the New York City Anti-Violence Project, the LGBT Community Center and the Brooklyn Community Pride Center, the Callen - Lorde Community Health Center, Gay Men's Health Crisis, the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, Immigration Equality, the Family Equality Council, SAGE (Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders), the GRIOT Circle: a gathering of elders, and several organizations advocating on behalf of LGBT young people, including FIERCE, the Hetrick - Martin Institute, and Streetwise and Safe.

NYSUT is pledging to defend New York's teacher tenure system in the face of a legal challenge backed by former CNN anchor Campbell Brown's education reform organization.

And the governor donated the more than $ 110,000 he received in campaign contributions from disgraced Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein to Women's Justice NOW, NOW - NYC's charitable partner organization that supports public education and outreach efforts and offers legal advocacy and referrals for women.

Today's decision in the Washington Alliance case demonstrates that this is not true,» says a statement by Dale Wilcox, executive director of the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), a nonprofit «public interest legal education and advocacy organization dedicated to advocating for the rights and interests of United States citizens in immigration - related matters,» according to its website.

The Strategic Partnership Programme is open on a rolling basis to applications involving strategic opportunities within all areas covered by SFI's legal remit where significant co-funding from a company, collection of companies, funding agency, charity, philanthropic organization or Higher Education Institute is available.

Several groups, led by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, filed suit in 1993 claiming that New York State was depriving New York City public school students of their constitutional rights to a «sound basic education,» a standard that had been prescribed in 1982 by the state's highest court (in New York, the Court of Appeals).

The organization works alongside the Ministry of Women's Affairs and the Ministry of Higher Education and carries out policy advocacy, counselling and legal support as well as mentorship programmes.

A legal - aid organization has filed a class action against the Chicago Board of Education and the Illinois Department of Education, charging that thousands of Chicago - area homeless children are being denied their right to a free public eEducation and the Illinois Department of Education, charging that thousands of Chicago - area homeless children are being denied their right to a free public eEducation, charging that thousands of Chicago - area homeless children are being denied their right to a free public educationeducation.

Previously, she was a policy advisor at EducationCounsel LLC, a national policy and legal consulting firm, where she provided assistance to clients at state education agencies, school districts, and national organizations to advance policy change.

Composed of leaders from finance, education, research, legal, nonprofit, and business communities, Committee for Children's Board of Directors serves as the governing body charged with providing oversight and counsel on matters related to the organization's mission, vision, strategic plan, and financial sustainability.

The organization aims to give Los Angeles kids a legal right to a high - quality public education.

The man who helped craft the state's parent trigger law and who founded Parent Revolution has launched a new organization that aims to put a kids - first agenda into practice and give LA Unified students and their parents legal rights in decisions about their education.

That question led to a list of 16 young men and women who are launching and leading organizations that will lead in the transformation of public education over the next decade, as well as people who are doing important research, legal, political, and policy work that will shape the future of education reform.

Lambda Legal A national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and everyone living with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.

Public Advocates Inc. is a nonprofit law firm and advocacy organization that challenges the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing and transit equity.

«The fact that she doesn't understand the basics about federal education law is just appalling,» says Denise Marshall, the executive director of the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA), a national organization that defends the legal and civil rights of students with disabilities.

He's served as Executive Director of Ayuda, a Washington, D.C. based organization that advocates for low - income immigrants through legal, social and language services, education and outreach.

Past presentations include the Legal One four - part Special Education Law Series, which she developed for the organization, Board Members» Roles and Responsibilities, the Basics of Special Education, Student Records and Confidentiality, Reducing the Costs of Special Education Litigation, Procedural Safeguards, Hot Topics in Special Education, Section 504: A Road Map to Compliance, I&RS: Effective Usage and Best Practices, Special Education for General Education Staff, Nursing Services In The School Setting, Legal and Effective IEPs, Understanding and Resolving Conflict, and Special Education and the Law.

Since then, more districts have joined in two other suits - the latest coming earlier this month led by one of the nation's most forceful civil rights organizations, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.

At a meeting for education organizations that was webcast last week, David Sapp, deputy policy director and assistant legal counsel for the State Board of Education, acknowledged that federal reviewers» questions and doubts had led staff to provide «more context» to the state's «minimalist» approach to writing education organizations that was webcast last week, David Sapp, deputy policy director and assistant legal counsel for the State Board of Education, acknowledged that federal reviewers» questions and doubts had led staff to provide «more context» to the state's «minimalist» approach to writing Education, acknowledged that federal reviewers» questions and doubts had led staff to provide «more context» to the state's «minimalist» approach to writing the plan.

In response to that meeting, several organizations, including the Advancement Project, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) and the Dignity in Schools Campaign issued statements imploring the Department to keep the guidance in place.

Charter schools can write and enforce discipline policies that make it possible to remove students who are needy or challenging, said Suzanne Greenfield of Advocates for Justice and Education, an organization that offers free legal assistance to students facing expulsion.

The Education Law Center in Newark, the advocacy organization that has led the Abbott v. Burke litigation, had Education Law Center Letter on Regulationsthreatened a legal challenge] asserting that the accountability measures were being put in place without required regulations.

Applicants must be licensed to practice law within the state and employed full time at a qualified organization aimed at providing legal services to the poor, law related education, or enhancement of the administration of justice.

Legal action is important but it has to go hand in hand with education, training, organization and mobilization.»

«The Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) is a 501 (c)(3) organization engaged in strategic litigation, policy research, and public education on important energy and environmental issues.

I've also been inspired by working with communities and organizations that are addressing the sustainability movement through various approaches, including community organizing, education, social justice, public health, the legal system, and ecopsychology.

Also covers the actions of Harvard's Citizen Media Law project, which provides «legal assistance, education, and resources for individuals and organizations involved in online and citizen media.

For those not familiar, «PLEI Connect is a project to help organizations across Canada identify and share technology tools to effectively deliver public legal education and information (PLEI) services.»

PLEI Connect is a project to help organizations across Canada identify and share technology tools to effectively deliver public legal education and information (PLEI) services.

She aspires to get involved with organizations like LEAF (Women's Legal Education and Action Fund) or Egale (Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere), and hopes to continue developing her career in legalLegal Education and Action Fund) or Egale (Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere), and hopes to continue developing her career in legallegal aid.

The Center for Accreditation and Education provides guidance and approval for a variety of organizations that educate legal professionals.

Our mission overlaps with those of many regional, state and national organizations to promote quality legal education, provide continuing legal education; promote competence, ethical conduct and professionalism; promote pro bono and public service; eliminate bias in the legal profession and the justice system; and to advance the Rule of Law and understanding of the legal process.

The Napa County Bar Association, a non-profit organization, connects lawyers with the community through service and by providing continuing legal education.

Collectively, lawyers are encouraged to enhance the profession through activities such as: (a) sharing knowledge and experience with colleagues and students informally in day - to - day practice as well as through contribution to professional journals and publications, support of law school projects and participation in panel discussions, legal education seminars, bar admission courses and university lectures; (b) participating in legal aid and community legal services programs or providing legal services on a pro bono basis; (c) filling elected and volunteer positions with the Society; (d) acting as directors, officers and members of local, provincial, national and international bar associations and their various committees and sections; and (e) acting as directors, officers and members of non-profit or charitable organizations.