Sentences with phrase «legal educator on»

He is also often asked to serve as a media commentator and legal educator on a variety of legal issues relating to driving law and criminal law.

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School's Out: Home Education on the up in Wales (BBC, UK, 02-09-15)-- useful article on several home educators in Wales with legal information included.

Ironically, the expansion of student legal rights, rather than enhancing youth outcomes, has increased the extent to which schools have relied on authoritarian measures, decreased the moral authority of educators, and diminished the capacity of schools to socialize young people effectively.

The hope was that legal and political challenges to the legislation would eliminate or lessen the impact it had on their educators and administrators.

Advocacy Institute American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Civil Liberties Union American Federation of Teachers Autism National Committee (AutCom) Center for American Progress Action Fund Center for Law and Education Children's Defense Fund Collaboration to Promote Self - Determination (CPSD) Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, Inc. (COPPA) Democrats for Education Reform Easter Seals The Education Trust Educators for Excellence Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) The Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) Mental Health America NAACP NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc..

WASHINGTON — The approval by the Congress last month of the most comprehensive revision of U.S. policy on legal immigration in decades has left educators unsure about the bill's impact on schools, with some experts warning that certain districts could see a new mix of immigrant students they are ill - prepared to handle.

Immigrants» Rights FAQ - MALDEF The Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) offers an FAQ on immigrant rights for students, educators and social service providers.

If a student or his or her parent notifies the administration of the decision to transition during the school year, convene a meeting with the student and parents (if they are involved in the process) to discuss their preferences and any concerns to help find solutions that are in the best interest of the entire school community; develop a timeline for the transition in order to create conditions for a safe and supporting environment at the school; provide appropriate information and training for any educators that interact directly with the student on the transition plan, timelines for transition, and any relevant legal requirements; and develop a communications plan that outlines who needs to know what information, when, and how it will be communicated.

Legislation to protect Dreamers — including the 20,000 educators with DACA — that includes pathways to legal status or citizenship would not only increase the GDP, creating more revenue with which to improve public schools, but it would also mean that students and families across the country currently living in fear of deportation could focus on both their education and creating a better future for themselves and their communities.99

The brief contends that one legal dispute could mean hundreds of thousands of dollars expended on an unnecessary placement and legal fees and innumerable hours of professional educators» time spent in legal proceedings rather than the classroom.

As part of a legal change, the United States House of Representatives Committee on Education decided on a 90 - 10 rule that would allow for - profit educators to accept money from federal aid programs so long as 10 % of their students paid out of pocket.

Legal employers are not solely relying on educators to teach computer skills to paralegals; firms across the country are taking measures to train paralegals on a variety of legal technology applicatLegal employers are not solely relying on educators to teach computer skills to paralegals; firms across the country are taking measures to train paralegals on a variety of legal technology applicatlegal technology applications.

Is it that women lawyers and legal educators are not presenting their voices on blog platforms?

On this edition of The Paralegal Voice, host and paralegal mentor, Vicki Voisin will speak with noted legal writing educator Gary Kinder...

The program also features a new «Indigenous Legal Lodge,» a publicly accessible educational resource for engagement, debate, public education and partnership on Indigenous legal traditions and relationships between Indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous individuals including students, educators, businesses, governments and judges nationLegal Lodge,» a publicly accessible educational resource for engagement, debate, public education and partnership on Indigenous legal traditions and relationships between Indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous individuals including students, educators, businesses, governments and judges nationlegal traditions and relationships between Indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous individuals including students, educators, businesses, governments and judges nationwide.

Innovations that receive a lot of attention, such as Harvard's introduction of intensive skills training for first - year law students, or Northwestern's introduction of a two - year J.D. program, had in fact already been introduced in a number of other law schools.33 Social science studies of innovation in legal education would permit legal educators to focus more substantively on innovative changes regardless of the ranking of the school that is introducing them — and would thus permit educators across the country to learn from one another.34

Beginning in earnest in the 1990s and continuing apace to the present, legal educators of many stripes have commented extensively on the rapid globalization of law and the consequent need to globalize legal education.1 Their argument in favor of globalizing the law school curriculum has both empirical and normative dimensions.

Empirically, it is based on the rapid increase in transnational2 interaction (both business and personal) and the resulting development of increasingly complex and increasingly frequent legal problems that raise transnational legal issues as well.3 Normatively, it rests on the view that legal education has an affirmative obligation to expose students to other nations, cultures, and legal systems.4 Legal educators now widely agree that American law schools need to do more to bring international and foreign law prominently into the law school curriclegal problems that raise transnational legal issues as well.3 Normatively, it rests on the view that legal education has an affirmative obligation to expose students to other nations, cultures, and legal systems.4 Legal educators now widely agree that American law schools need to do more to bring international and foreign law prominently into the law school curriclegal issues as well.3 Normatively, it rests on the view that legal education has an affirmative obligation to expose students to other nations, cultures, and legal systems.4 Legal educators now widely agree that American law schools need to do more to bring international and foreign law prominently into the law school curriclegal education has an affirmative obligation to expose students to other nations, cultures, and legal systems.4 Legal educators now widely agree that American law schools need to do more to bring international and foreign law prominently into the law school curriclegal systems.4 Legal educators now widely agree that American law schools need to do more to bring international and foreign law prominently into the law school curricLegal educators now widely agree that American law schools need to do more to bring international and foreign law prominently into the law school curriculum.

She reported on how Dean Richard Matasar of the New York Law School (partnered with Harvard Law School) introduced a different discussion topic to a crowded classroom composed of 75 law school deans, legal educators and lawyers: the need to change U.S. legal education — and to do it now.

Recommendation 28 calls on us as legal educators to look at how the legacy of colonialism is integrated into legal learning at all law schools in Canada.

Volunteer attorneys can protect First Amendment rights and support juror rights education by assisting FIJA pro bono in securing injunctions against these types of legal arrests, representing juror rights educators who are falsely prosecuted for jury tampering, and so on.

PLEA's Request a Speaker program brings a wide range of volunteer lawyers, legal professionals, government personnel and educators into organizations, classrooms, and the community to speak on a variety of law - related topics.

Many legal educators, attorneys, parents, and even students35 themselves view the rise of and reliance on informal writing through clenched teeth, dreading and tracking anecdotally its impact on our ability to write more formally as is required by legal discourse.

Kris has spoken at numerous legal seminars, including speaking engagements concerning «Motions in Limine: Protecting the Story» (Panel Member, NELA - GA / ICLE Trying Your Best: Employment Law Goes to Court Seminar, 2017), «Reductions in Force» (Professional Association Of Georgia Educators, 2012), «Settlement Agreements and Keeping the Deal» (State Bar of Georgia, General Practice and Trial Section, 2011), «Update on Employment Law» (General Practice And Trial Law Section Institute, 2011), «Employment Law in the Trenches» (General Practice and Trial Law Institute 2009), EEOC Atlanta 2008 Technical Assistance Program Seminar, «Firing Public Employees: Lessons Learned from the Perspective of Plaintiff and Defense Counsel» (Liability of Local Governments Seminar 2007), «Busting the Cap on Damages in Employment Litigation» (Managing Damages in Employment Litigation Seminar 2007), «State Law and Other Non-Traditional Claims: Crash Course, Questions to Ask, and New Developments» (Employment Law for the General Practitioner and for the Pros).

In October, I'll present on the national project I've been working on for over a year to a room of legal educators, legal employers, and bar leaders from across the country.

In this episode, I speak with several legal educators and scholars on the topic of legal education in today's world.

A core group of lawyers, legal educators, allied professionals and corporate legal leaders (Shell, Cisco, Archer Daniels Midland)-- many of whom I know well via common beliefs on innovation and tech — believe that the best way forward is to create an independent organization that can coordinate the interests of law students, law schools, law firms, corporate legal departments, NewLaw service providers, and legal technology companies.

The program will draw on NCSC's decades of experience advancing legal education and training for justice sector professionals, legal educators, and students across the region.

Focused on clinical legal issues broadly defined — understanding lawyering skills, training students in them, and encountering the realities of the world of law practice — these workshops draw faculty from the many law schools of the New York metropolitan area to meet and discuss papers presented by clinical educators from around the country.

The Carnegie Foundation, long a leader in American higher education, released a comprehensive report on law school in March, and will follow up by partnering with legal educators in an effort to implement some of the ideas in its report.

As judicial educators, we focus on how to present important topics to the judiciary in ways that not only inform them, but also assist them in changing practices which at times are deeply ingrained in judicial tradition and legal practice.

Legal educators teaching Contracts, Administrative Law, Mediation and Dispute Resolution can not ignore the developments in their areas that rely on technology as a core tool to apply legal principles, to interact with the judiciary and the government, to parse through an accumulation of knowledge and to reshape legal processes and procedLegal educators teaching Contracts, Administrative Law, Mediation and Dispute Resolution can not ignore the developments in their areas that rely on technology as a core tool to apply legal principles, to interact with the judiciary and the government, to parse through an accumulation of knowledge and to reshape legal processes and procedlegal principles, to interact with the judiciary and the government, to parse through an accumulation of knowledge and to reshape legal processes and procedlegal processes and procedures.

Associate Membership is designed for persons engaged in legal education on a basis that is less than full - time (such as an adjunct or field placement supervisor in an externship program), law faculty (full - time or part - time) in countries outside of the U.S., and others interested in the furtherance of clinical legal education who are not full - time legal educators.

For those unfamiliar with the award, it «is presented periodically to an educator from a Michigan law school whose influence on lawyers has elevated the quality of legal practice in our state.»

By drawing on theoretical insights from the emerging field of critical emotion studies, I argue that a critical analysis of the role of moral anger in clinical legal education reveals its potential as an agent of transformation, but also signals a need for clinical educators to be wary of an uncritical understanding of this strong emotion.

drawn from and drawing on a diverse set of opinions, including these two groups, but also consumer organizations, access advocates, other professional groups that deal directly with the public's legal challenges (like doctors, educators, and accountants), and the academy.

Thus, clinical legal educators should be careful that feelings of «moral anger» on behalf of clients are not experienced as a means to simply «feel better» about injustice and to legitimize and fuel a sense of our own agency in achieving solutions to injustice.

Across the discipline of legal education and across law schools, and without the blessing of appointed and delegated leaders, legal educators should act on their power to define, advance, and implement their own visions of law and legal education, in ways that make the changing conditions of the legal profession and its existing institutions relevant but not determinative.

They weren't that keen when I did a review for Magic Circle firms on the LPC 10 years ago and one senior partner even told me...» We are lawyers, we lawyer... we are not legal educators» Interestingly, David Edmonds appears to have completely overlooked the fact that this route to qualification as a lawyer is well established through ILEX... but, be that as it may.

In addition to her practice, Stephanie is an adult educator, focusing on teaching parents about the legal aspects of separation and divorce (including Alberta Justice's Parenting After Separation course).

For information on how to support parents to make or update a Parenting Plan, download Your Parenting Plan: guidance notes for legal professionals, educators and others who work with parents and children.