Sentences with phrase «legal needs of their community»

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 dueCommunity 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 duecommunity 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.