Sentences with phrase «most members of the legal community»

Rather, it is a refusal by most members of the legal community to recognize that our practices, language, and institutional structures maintain and perpetuate racial boundaries.

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The issue of abortion is not about the right of privacy but rather the extent of the human community and whether we will afford legal protection to the most vulnerable members of our society.

Wiener, who is gay, said having a member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in one of the state's most powerful positions will ensure that issues they face don't take a backseat now that same - sex marriage is legal.

This month's Canadian Lawyer has its annual Top 25 Most Influential in the justice system and legal profession ranking, and I'm delighted to announce that three members of the Slaw community, Malcolm Mercer, Colin Lachance and Adam Dodek have been honoured.

A prominent member of the Texas legal community, Gibson was most recently a name partner with a Houston - based law firm.

Author: Washington State Bar Association members and members of the Washington legal community contribute most content.

In fact, most of these practices are still largely exclusive to members of the legal community who are visibly identified as physically different on the basis of ethnicity, national origin or race.

Most of our members pay over $ 700 a year for bar licensing fees, and so I do think that it would be really nice if we could have a levelheaded national conversation in the legal community about moving not just to the UBE, but to a 50 state solution.

The Association of Corporate Counsel, with over 30,000 members, is, in my view, the most influential and effective association established for in - house counsel; therefore, its initiatives should be taken seriously by all members of the legal community.

The proposed recommendations for change across the legal system will help empower the most vulnerable and disadvantaged members of our communities in a substantive, timely manner, said the groups.

Each of the four MLC clinics provide free legal services to the most vulnerable populations — including people with disabilities and chronic illness, members of the LGBTQ community, undocumented immigrants and refugees, children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, and people involved with the criminal justice system.

The teaching members are specialists in most areas of English law as well as legal philosophy, criminology, the laws of other nations, European Community law, public and private international law, the history of English law and Roman law.

In each of the Member States, the Community shall enjoy the most extensive legal capacity accorded to legal persons under their laws; it may, in particular, acquire or dispose of movable and immovable property and may be a party to legal proceedings.

But the most vulnerable members of our communities can't afford the legal help they need in life - changing situations.

While Ontario is investigating the claims of child abuse and neglect for those community members in Chatham, they have no legal recourse against the families that have fled to Guatemala, some of whom had the most serious allegations leveled against them.

The most recent Senate report on access to justice published in 2009, for example, concluded that «the legal system is not sufficiently providing members of the Australian community with access to justice'i and in its first recommendation proposed that the various tiers of government fund «a comprehensive national survey of demand and unmet need for legal assistance services in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.