We understand the world is an uncertain place and
the legal needs of a community are not one size fits all.
«We really leave it to the community and to the organizations that know
the legal needs of the communities to tell us what needs to happen and what projects are beneficial to the community,» says Kirsti Mathers McHenry, director, policy and programs with The Law Foundation of Ontario.
The program started its inaugural class with four participants, each with their own unique backgrounds, diverse career paths, and a strong commitment to serving
the legal needs of their community.
* setting up, contracting with and funding community law centres * providing or funding law related education and legal information * undertaking or funding research into: * existing or proposed schemes and community legal services * the unmet
legal needs of communities and how they may be met..
Not exact matches
Mr. Garrity's
legal experience, his love
of the arts, and his commitment to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have prepared him to lead Shine MDS, Inc., and face the challenges
of a
community in
need of healing.
From a spiritual perspective, since gay marriage is
legal in all 50 states, our
communities have plenty
of gay couples who, just like the rest
of us,
need marriage support and parenting help and Christian
community.
In similar fashion, he
needed at least an elementary knowledge
of law, for as the educated person
of the
community he was called upon to give
legal advice, draft
legal documents, and frequently adjudicate
legal disputes.
Allergy Law Project was the brainchild
of Laurel Francoeur who approached Homa Woodrum and I two years ago about the
need for reliable
legal information in the food allergy
community.
Ian Brownlie and Tom Franck made such arguments (though Anthea Roberts has written an essay disagreeing) It may be argued that providing advance
legal authorization is more likely to encourage such action whereas what we want is to be very restrictive with regard to permissible uses
of force but that in cases
of genuine
need the international
community will excuse and not condemn action.
Other commission members were Scott P. Campbell, executive director
of the Elton John AIDS Foundation; Rose Harvey, commissioner
of the State Office
of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; Thomas Krever, CEO
of the Hetrick - Martin Institute; Kelsey Louie, CEO
of Gay Men's Health Crisis; Christine Quinn, the former City Council speaker who is now CEO
of Women in
Need; Melissa Sklarz, development director at the Transgender
Legal Defense and Education Fund; and Glennda Testone, executive director
of the LGBT
Community Center.
Dan Quart is a member
of Community Board 8, an attorney, formerly with
Legal Aid Society, and then in private practice — who is receptive to 504 Democratic Club's agenda, but may
need some more experience before finding elective office.
At 11 a.m., supporters
of a «Campaign 4 NY / NY Housing» coalition
of more than 130
community, disabilities, family, homeless, housing,
legal, mental health, minority, social services and youth organizations call for city and state officials to expand supportive housing for residents with disabilities and other special
needs; steps, City Hall, Manhattan.
Second, while they generally leave the
community to it's own devices, and the government
of the city - states / provinces to the
community elected moderators, occasionally they
need to interfere for whatever reason (
legal, nobody can agree, etc).
Albany, NY — Members
of the Independent Democratic Conference delivered for all New Yorkers in this year's state budget — with a measure to Raise the Age
of criminal responsibility to end the cycle
of mass incarceration
of 16 - and 17 - year - olds and meeting the urgent
need of New York's immigrant
communities with a historic $ 10 million commitment to
legal services.
«In it we create a historic $ 10 million immigrant
legal aid fund to meet the urgent
need of our immigrant
communities.
This board, led by Catherine Schweitzer with representatives from the cultural, financial,
legal and other
communities, has been tasked with scrutinizing every application so we may make decisions on who is worthy
of public dollars based on
need and merit alone.
Their Mission is to grow as a successful
legal website and cater to the
needs of the
legal community.
The kind
of data schools are likely to collect, and therefore
need to be wary
of, include personal data on members
of the school
community, including names, addresses, contact details,
legal guardianship contact details, disciplinary records; academic data such as class lists, progress reports; professional records
of employment history, taxation, national insurance records and appraisal records.
Amanda Howard from the
Community Transport Association summarises some
of the important
legal issues you will
need to consider when using minibuses to provide transport for pupils
««By teaching to the test, we are depriving a generation
of youth, particularly youth
of color growing up in low - income
communities, from developing the critical thinking skills they
need, and our country
needs, to be competitive in this global economy,» added Matt Cregor, Assistant Counsel at the NAACP
Legal Defense and Education Fund.
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.
We're currently six people nationally, so the resources that we produce are really around education and then we try and work with intermediaries like financial counsellors and
community legal centres to give them the tools that they
need to be able to run that kind
of education on the ground in
communities.
The
Legal Advocacy Program has two
Legal Advocacy Workers, one at Abbotsford
Community Services and the other at Progressive Inter-cultural
Community Services to address the unique
needs of the seasonal worker
communities in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley Regions.
Call on parties to the U.N.F.C.C.C. to also consider and address the health, human rights and security implications
of climate change, including the
need to prepare
communities for relocation, to protect persons displaced across borders due to climate change - related impacts, and the
need to create a
legal framework to protect the human rights
of those left stateless as a result
of climate change.
So, these vulnerable nations are urging all Parties to the UNFCCC to «consider and address the health, human rights and security implications
of climate change, including the
need to prepare
communities for relocation, to protect persons displaced across borders due to climate change - related impacts, and the
need to create a
legal framework to protect the human rights
of those left stateless as a result
of climate change.»
I am looking for tiny home
communities willing to share the guts
of their
community — paperwork
needed, town issues,
legal issues, paperwork, guidelines, how their
communities work, people who choose to move in.
Mari Margil
of the
Community Environmental
Legal Defense Fund discusses why we
need a fundamental change in the way we use law to protect nature.
«We now have access to hard data that can be used to identify the civil
legal needs of Ontario's low - and middle - income
communities, as well as the distribution
of legal service providers available to meet those
needs.
Legal professionals in the rural
communities tend to have more unique
needs that may require a higher level
of customization in their marketing strategies.
Nonetheless, this is awful, and I realized I
needed to read more content from women authors, thinkers, and members
of the
legal community.
«In particular, we are concerned that this amalgamation does not reflect a model
of community lawyering that responds to the
needs of low - income people,» said the Law Union
of Ontario in a recent letter to
Legal Aid Ontario chief executive officer Bob Ward and the Ministry
of the Attorney General.
Well, then you
need The International Wine Law Association (Association Internationale des Juristes du Droit de la Vigne et du Vin) which was founded in 1985 to provide an international forum for the study and discussion
of legal issues concerning the viticultural
community and the wine trade — world wide.
More information like this
needs to be out in the hands
of the
legal community.
At the root
of the problem though, is always the same thing: The people in your
community who
need legal help don't know who you are.
For
legal professionals to be competitive here, you
need an understanding
of what makes each
community unique, and what marketing methods are most effective to bring more clients into your firm.
The Riverside County Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service (LRS) is the only lawyer referral service exclusively dedicated to serving the
legal needs of the Riverside County
community.
The Chapter on
Community Needs and Funding is, however, clearly directed at government and is largely a protest against planned Commonwealth cuts to community legal centre budgets of 30 per cent due
Community Needs and Funding is, however, clearly directed at government and is largely a protest against planned Commonwealth cuts to
community legal centre budgets of 30 per cent due
community legal centre budgets
of 30 per cent due in July.
We do this by leveraging the time, talent, and expertise
of an attorney volunteer network that provides pro bono civil
legal services, including
legal advice and representation, to those most in
need in our
community.
In addition to direct
legal representation, we support tenant rights across the entire spectrum
of community needs including:
The Academy's core functions include training and regulating lawyers, publishing Court law reports and academic literature, providing free
legal advice for people in
need through the region's first Pro Bono Programme, and hosting events for the development
of the
legal system and the professional
community.
The EJC attended and testified during
community hearings on the proposed budget and met with Councilmembers (and their staff) to discuss the collaborative delivery system
of the King County
legal aid providers that works to ensure the
needs of low - income people are met in a timely and effective manner and to illustrate the
need for restoring and expanding funding for
legal aid.
When Ray McNeal,
Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida board member and volunteer, saw a need to bring legal aid to the homeless he connected his church, First United Methodist's Family Life Center, and our nonprofit law firm to accomplish the
Legal Services
of Mid-Florida board member and volunteer, saw a
need to bring
legal aid to the homeless he connected his church, First United Methodist's Family Life Center, and our nonprofit law firm to accomplish the
legal aid to the homeless he connected his church, First United Methodist's Family Life Center, and our nonprofit law firm to accomplish the task.
I agree that the small law publishers in Canada, which provide personal service and customised resources, remain important and relevant to the information
needs of the
legal community.
Alaska has a strong,
community - focused network
of resource providers across
legal aid groups, domestic violence advocates, public libraries, elder advocacy programs, Alaska Native law institutions, among others, that has been born
of the
need to address gaps in coverage and direct access to
legal assistance.
GLC is a much
needed addition to the City
of Calgary and Canada as a whole, especially in a time where the
need to innovate within the
legal community, business industry and economy is at an all - time high.
Special Services Units: Addressing particular
legal problems or the needs of specific vulnerable communities — Foreclosure Prevention Unit, Foreclosure Consequences Advocacy Team, Medical Legal Partnerships, Veterans Project, Reentry Initiated through Services and Education (RISE) Project, Integrated Rural Legal Assistance Project, Farm Worker Unit, and Native American
legal problems or the
needs of specific vulnerable
communities — Foreclosure Prevention Unit, Foreclosure Consequences Advocacy Team, Medical
Legal Partnerships, Veterans Project, Reentry Initiated through Services and Education (RISE) Project, Integrated Rural Legal Assistance Project, Farm Worker Unit, and Native American
Legal Partnerships, Veterans Project, Reentry Initiated through Services and Education (RISE) Project, Integrated Rural
Legal Assistance Project, Farm Worker Unit, and Native American
Legal Assistance Project, Farm Worker Unit, and Native American Unit.
LegalOut differs from other
legal document sites, according to today's announcement, in that its materials «reflect the specific concerns and
needs of the LGBT
community and are designed to protect -LSB-...]
The change is also a step towards moving into new markets, Pollak said, «including both the business - to - business advertising market and, increasingly, as a provider
of legal news to non-lawyers in the business
community with a
need for the kind
of information and perspective that we offer.»
The first full budget handed down by British Columbia's New Democratic Party will provide much -
needed injections
of funds to the province's ailing
legal community, but at the same time it draws blood from larger corporations and the real estate industry with new tax levies.
Particularly in the aftermath
of the Grenfell Tower disaster (see «LASPO: why it's time to listen and review») and if Corbyn is indeed right about the change in public opinion, the time is ripe for reassessing the
need for access to
legal services for poor and marginalised
communities.