Sentences with phrase «legal justice organization»

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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.

She has every right to go to the police or do what is needed to get justice, but if she goes onto public blogs like this one and starts posting names of people and organizations, it can get touchy if they decide to take legal action.

A 25 - page report issued Friday by the Justice Department follows up on President Donald Trump's repeated pledge to offer more legal protections for people — and organizations — of faith.

The city of Syracuse will join other cities, counties and national organizations in a legal brief that supports the city of Chicago's lawsuit challenging new regulations by the Justice Department that target sanctuary cities, Mayor Stephanie Miner's office announced.

According to Hamilton's office, the list of organizations involved in the Coalition includes the Vera Institute for Justice, the Northern Manhattan Immigration Coalition, the New York Immigration Coalition, The Black Institute, Brooklyn Legal Services, Urban Justice Center's Domestic Violence Project, Caribbean Women's Health, CAMBA Legal Services, American Friends Services Committee, MFY Legal Services and Central American Legal Assistance.

Justice Abba - Bello Muhammad told a whistleblower and lawyer, George Uboh, and his organization, George Uboh Whistleblower Network, that they lack the legal capacity to decide for the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, who to prosecute.

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.

«Advances to increase yield must be accompanied by stricter regulation and legal limits to the amount of land that can or should be devoted to palm oil,» says Jeff Conant, who directs the international forests programme for Friends of the Earth, an environmental - justice organization in San Francisco, California.

For the past decade, Mr. Bolick has helped lead the legal defense of vouchers as a vice president of the Institute for Justice, a libertarian legal organization based here.

The lawsuit is backed by the Institute for Justice, the Washington, D.C. - based legal organization that last June helped win the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the Cleveland voucher program.

The judiciary's role in social policymaking expanded broadly with the rights revolution of the 1960s, as the public's thirst for «total justice» combined with the courts» willingness to embrace new legal doctrines, increasingly long and complicated federal statutes, and the emergence of well - funded advocacy organizations to generate a surge of litigation across policy areas.

Mark McKechnie, MSW, is the executive director of Youth, Rights & Justice, a non-profit legal services organization serving children, youth and families in Portland.

www.muslimadvocates.org Muslim Advocates: A national legal advocacy and educational organization that works on the front lines of civil rights to guarantee freedom and justice for Americans of all faiths

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.

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.

The exhibition coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Innocence Project, a non-profit legal organization that works to reform the criminal justice system.

Last March, through numerous state open records requests, E&E Legal uncovered emails showing that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman formed a secret coalition of several other states» attorneys general (AGs) and prominent green activists to use the criminal justice system to target organizations that question the climate change agenda under fraud and racketeering laws.

WASHINGTON — As the Obama administration prepares to sign the Paris climate agreement, 350 environmental, social - justice, health and faith organizations filed a legal petition today urging President Barack Obama to declare a national climate emergency and end all U.S. crude oil exports.

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.

One legal organization that seeks to harness this global network of lawyers in furtherance of promoting online justice is InternetBar.org and its educational arm, the InternetBar.org Institute.

In June 2017, the ABS Working Group presented an interim report to Convocation outlining a proposal to enable lawyers and paralegals to deliver legal services through civil society organizations, such as charities, not for profit organizations and trade unions, to clients of such organizations in order to facilitate access to justice.

In that decision — which has been criticized by some as hostile to free speech rights and humanitarian efforts — the justices found that a Patriot Act provision that prohibits providing «material support» to designated foreign terrorist organizations could be applied to conflict - resolution advice and legal services provided by human rights organizations to groups such as Turkey's Kurdistan Workers» Party and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Third, and bringing together normative and pragmatic angles, not only has the Canadian legal profession in general, and many of the provincial self - regulatory organizations more particularly, opened up a policy - making space for considering how to reformulate the future of legal services to improve access to justice, but also, the provincial self - regulators all have an implicit and, sometimes, as in the case of Ontario, an explicit duty to facilitate access to justice in their regulatory activities.

«As legal organizations working on behalf of marginalized and historically disadvantaged groups, the members of the Coalition each have extensive experience with the obstacles faced by such groups in accessing justice and therefore in enforcing their constitutional rights and other legal entitlements.

«The Legal Reform Awards honor individuals and organizations whose outstanding work has contributed to making the U.S. civil justice system simpler, fairer, and more efficient for all,» said ILR President Lisa A. Rickard.

The Declaration on Free Access to Law affirms: that public legal information from all countries and international institutions is part of «the common heritage of humanity;» that maximizing access to this information promotes justice and the rule of law; that public legal information is «digital common property» and should be accessible to all on a non-profit basis and free of charge; and that organizations (such as legal information institutes) have the right to publish public legal information and the government bodies that create or control that information should provide access to it so that it can be published by other parties.

He is the current president of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has been active in fundraising efforts to assist various legal organizations as part of his commitment to improving access to civil justice for Alabama's most needy citizens.

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.

In addition to her legal practice, Melody is an active member of the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association (ADLA), an organization of more than 1000 attorneys dedicated to the defense of civil actions and the promotion of fairness and integrity in the civil justice system.

We support Georgetown University Law Center and other law schools in teaching their students to collaborate with access to justice organizations to build interactive, online expert systems that guide people through complex legal problems.

Finally, a global initiative hosted by the United Nations and led by high profile policymakers, including US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.»

We had a very successful 2016 - 2017 bar year, and I look forward to continuing to work with the Board and Officers of the organization to support the black legal community as we continue our mission towards advancing equality and excellence in the pursuit of justice.

Since 1986, the Montana Justice Foundation has distributed over $ 5 million to over forty legal aid organizations and access to justice initiatives throughout the state of MJustice Foundation has distributed over $ 5 million to over forty legal aid organizations and access to justice initiatives throughout the state of Mjustice initiatives throughout the state of Montana.

While cash contributions are always appreciated, Justice Unlocked's Legal Access Fund can benefit both our organization and you.

Fundraising efforts for legal services programs in Oregon are coordinated by The Campaign for Equal justice (CEJ), an Oregon non-profit organization.

LFW serves as a resource for legal aid organizations across the state to fulfill their missions of ensuring justice for all.

Washington State's legal aid network, known as the Alliance for Equal Justice, is comprised of statewide and specialty legal aid organizations that work collaboratively with 17 county - based volunteer attorney programs to provide low - income people with access to jJustice, is comprised of statewide and specialty legal aid organizations that work collaboratively with 17 county - based volunteer attorney programs to provide low - income people with access to justicejustice.

The more problematic component of objections from family law organizations and OCJ justices are that the proposed solution is to simply increase funding to legal aid.

There are many roads to enhancing access to justice across Canada and I have been fortunate to travel several of these via involvement with Manitoba organizations like Legal Aid Manitoba, Community Legal Education Association, Fort Garry Women's Resource Centre and Legal Help Centre of Winnipeg.

Within the past decade, banking and insurance companies have hired historical legal experts and spent a lot of time litigation over the US Federal Court system's power to issue equitable remedies such as the Mareva injunction and equitable liens to seize assets in federal litigation; the Alien Torts Act which has been used by international human rights organizations had its breadth restricted by use of 18th century views of the «law of nations» requiring recourse to historic writers like Hugo Grotius, and even administrative law has come under assault by dissents of Justice Thomas arguing that the «Chevron» doctrine of deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes should be set aside as being incompatible with the understanding of the American separation of powers doctrine as it was understood at the time of the country's founding.

The Civil Rights Appellate Clinic at The Dickinson School of Law at Penn State filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Thompson v. North American Stainless, LP on behalf of six national organizations — the National Employment Lawyers Association, American Association of Justice, AARP, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the Legal Aid Society of San Francisco Employment Law Center.

In fact, as part of my job with Pro Bono Net, a nonprofit that works with legal aid organizations, pro bono programs, and courts to improve access to justice through increasing volunteerism, collaboration, and effective use of technology, I've had the opportunity to work with Pro Bono Law Ontario and seen how adding technology to their service delivery (both as support for their programs and as information for the general public) has allowed them to be more effective and efficient in their work.

Migrant Workers Alliance for Change and our member organizations Justice for Migrant Workers, Migrante Ontario, Parkdale Community Legal Services, Social Planning Toronto, Unifor and Workers Action Centre presented to the Ontario Minimum Wage Panel on Friday, September 6th.

students worked with The Woman's Fund of Miami - Dade County, a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of local women and girls; the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a community organization championing the rights of Florida migrant farm workers; the ACLU of Florida; Legal Services of Greater Miami, which provides civil legal services for the poor in Miami - Dade and Monroe County; the Community Justice Project, a nonprofit organization comprised of community lawyers who collaborate with community organizers and low - income communities of color; Catholic Charities Legal Services, which provides immigration services to South Florida's refugee and immigrant community; and Catalyst Miami, an anti-poverty non-prLegal Services of Greater Miami, which provides civil legal services for the poor in Miami - Dade and Monroe County; the Community Justice Project, a nonprofit organization comprised of community lawyers who collaborate with community organizers and low - income communities of color; Catholic Charities Legal Services, which provides immigration services to South Florida's refugee and immigrant community; and Catalyst Miami, an anti-poverty non-prlegal services for the poor in Miami - Dade and Monroe County; the Community Justice Project, a nonprofit organization comprised of community lawyers who collaborate with community organizers and low - income communities of color; Catholic Charities Legal Services, which provides immigration services to South Florida's refugee and immigrant community; and Catalyst Miami, an anti-poverty non-prLegal Services, which provides immigration services to South Florida's refugee and immigrant community; and Catalyst Miami, an anti-poverty non-profit.

This acquisition is also an important step in Duke's continued efforts to bring together the judiciary, legal practitioners, educators and government organizations to advance the understanding of the judicial process and improve the complex processes in the administration of justice.»

``... The principle of fundamental justice which recognizes that the lawyer is required to keep the client's confidences — solicitor - client privilege» and «[a] client must be able to place «unrestricted and unbounded confidence» in his or her lawyer; that confidence which is at the core of the solicitor - client relationship is a part of the legal system itself, not merely ancillary to it» given these two statements in the case of an ABS does this mean that non-lawyer owners / managers would be restricted from accessing client files — in other words, who would «own» the information in a client file when a solicitor is working for an organization with non-lawyer ownership assuming that the solicitor - client privilege doesn't apply to the owner (s) or does this privilege apply to non-lawyer owners as well?

We go all over the country and consult in various types of organizations: non-profits, for - profits, higher ed, E-12, and certainly in this case, law firms and other legal venues around social justice and equity issues.

Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is an organization founded by and for immigrants to pursue migrant justice through legal advocacy and educaLegal del Pueblo is an organization founded by and for immigrants to pursue migrant justice through legal advocacy and educalegal advocacy and education.

A celebration event hosted by the LSUC on Thursday night kicked of the campaign with legal professionals and members of the organizations gathering to don their wacky dos and get their heads in the game of supporting the very serious issues surrounding access to justice.

Jamie Sutton is the vice-president of Justice Unlocked, a non-profit organization that provides low - cost legal services for clients unable to afford attorneys.