Sentences with phrase «most public lawyers»

The challenge was not taken seriously by most public lawyers when it was first mooted.

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Big Idea: Having gone from helping a couple of students incorporate their company to Sillicon Valley's most powerful lawyer, Drummond has a front - row seat to history, overseeing the search giant's corporate deals as well as the public - policy issues embroiling the search giant around privacy and national security.

«It's substantively not the most critical health issue, yet it was framed in such a way that the public outcry actually changed food policy in a matter of weeks,» said Sarah Klein, a lawyer at the Center for Science in the Public Intpublic outcry actually changed food policy in a matter of weeks,» said Sarah Klein, a lawyer at the Center for Science in the Public IntPublic Interest.

In his early academic career he excelled in degrees in law, politics and economics and passed several of the most competitive exams for recruitment in Franco's Public Administration before becoming a professor of state theory, a lawyer to the Congress and a diplomat.

Though Oyegun has assaulted democracy in a most public and vulgar way, this lawyer's prolific pen will remain stilled.

So legislators who are also lawyers that practice at a firm, but who do not work directly for clients, will most likely still operate outside of the public's scrutiny.

Federal court records unsealed on Monday at the sentencing of the last of the Emperor's Club V.I.P. defendants and a defense lawyer's comments afterward provided the most detailed public account to date of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's involvement with the ring's prostitutes.

Public opinion about the judiciary is apparently that many, if not most judges are corrupt and even members of the inner bar are on record suggesting that the bar, especially senior lawyers are perpetually engaged in compromising judges!

Sussman is a 1978 Honors Graduate of Harvard Law School and has been one of the Hudson Valley's most prominent civil rights and trial lawyers since the 1980's when, as lead counsel for the Yonkers Branch of the NAACP, he helped end racial segregation in the City of Yonkers public schools.

Antonacci stressed his background as a certified public account and lawyer as well as county comptroller, which he said makes him the most qualified comptroller candidate.Cahill also cited Cuomo's Moreland Commission, which was charged with ferreting out corruption in Albany.

Public servants, teachers, doctors, lawyers, and nurses seem to see the most assistance from their employers.

Like most professions, there is a financial incentive for lawyers to spend a few years practicing in public service or government offices in order to have some portion of their law school loan forgiven.

«Instead of thanking, lauding of just plain paying West and Zampella for giving Activision the most successful entertainment product ever offered to the public, last month Activision hired lawyers to conduct a pretextual «investigation» into unstated and unsubstantiated charges of «insubordination» and «breach of duty».

Instead of thanking, lauding, or just plain paying Jason and Vince for giving Activision the most successful entertainment product ever offered to the public, last month Activision hired lawyers to conduct a pretextual «investigation» into unstated and unsubstantiated charges of «insubordination» and «breach of fiduciary duty,» which then became the grounds for their termination on Monday, March 1st.»

If she were a Republican, hiring a lawyer would be seen as a clear sign that she's most likely hiding something from the public, and could lead to speculation that she is probably hiding something.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa437.pdf The settlement of the tobacco litigation, in November 1998, was a legal and public policy debacle of truly historic proportions.5 The tobacco companies agreed to abide by a new set of regulatory constraints and to make multibillion - dollar payments annually to the states (and the trial lawyers from private practice who were hired to represent most of them) in perpetuity.

Today, many of the senior government lawyers who provided legal advice supporting the nation's most important counterterrorism policies have been subjected to relentless public criticism.

Although the article says that criminal lawyers are the most despised ones in the minds of the public, I think personal injury / tort lawyers have this label because they impose costs on society and business such as hefty insurance premiums (somebody has to pay for that award money), and reduce personal freedom due to the banning of certain activities due to fears of litigation.

As well, in the case of the RCMP, it is relying on advice from federal Department of Justice lawyers, most of which the government then maintains is privileged and inaccessible to the public, notes Fraser.

I think there's a happy medium for most lawyers, between the extreme of what many regard as soul-less Biglaw on one hand and impoverished public interest on the other.

That is, the most credible and easily understood standards against which the public can evaluate a lawyer's competence is essentially binary: licensed or not licensed.

The Americans have made quite a mess of their legal system -LRB-(1) far too many lawyers per capita, (2) far too much useless and immeasurably costly and roiling litigation, and (3) allowing the «dysfunctional» and «invidious» title insurance industry to rip away, through grossly unfair business practices, most of the conveyancing work from the real estate bar to the great cost of the public and great harm to the title system), but on the issue of rejecting ABS, they have got it right.

As a lawyer, one of the most valuable services I provide to clients is in helping them to expunge previous criminal convictions from their public record.

Lawyers are called upon, but in most jurisdictions, including Illinois, are not required to volunteer their training, skills and experience to provide service in the public interest.

Places like CANLII (paid for by lawyers, btw) do a pretty good job of making the «law» accessible to the public to allow for a «basic understanding» — and to the extent they do not, obtaining general legal advice is not a massive burden for most Canadians.

The Top 25 Most Influential 2014 Always the most - read story of the year in Canadian Lawyer, the 2014 iteration celebrated some amazing lawyers in five categories: corporate - commercial law; changemakers; criminal and human rights law; government, associations, and non-profits including public inquiries and officers of Parliament; and the all - new world stMost Influential 2014 Always the most - read story of the year in Canadian Lawyer, the 2014 iteration celebrated some amazing lawyers in five categories: corporate - commercial law; changemakers; criminal and human rights law; government, associations, and non-profits including public inquiries and officers of Parliament; and the all - new world stmost - read story of the year in Canadian Lawyer, the 2014 iteration celebrated some amazing lawyers in five categories: corporate - commercial law; changemakers; criminal and human rights law; government, associations, and non-profits including public inquiries and officers of Parliament; and the all - new world stage.

While most Facebook profiles and postings are public by default, it is private profiles that cause consternation among lawyers and judges alike.

I suggest that a notary public who refused his or her services to someone on religious grounds would be subject to discipline (if anyone in Canada actually disciplined notaries — lawyer - notaries are exempt from regulation of any kind with respect to their notarial function in most of the country, so far as I know, BC being an exception.)

Nearly one quarter of the 85 leading family lawyers taking part in the survey said their most pressing issue was litigants in person, which are increasingly common due to cuts in legal aid and public funding for advice centres.

Allowing lawyers and future judges to be taught in a university that is most well known for discrimination that would not be permitted in any public institution is a clear breach of that duty.

Depositions are a matter of public record, and as such, most lawyers never think to shield videotaped deposition testimony from public disclosure except in cases involving highly sensitive or proprietary information.

The note, clearly aimed at tyros in the social media scene (which will likely include most lawyers, whether there or here, I'd guess), begins by asserting that social media offer the professional benefits of marketing, interaction with clients, networking, and public education, and present risks such as «the blurring of the boundaries» between professional and personal lives.

I've found most lawyers struggle to even be average in terms of being confident and effective public speakers.

For lawyers, whether in Maine or not, PTLA's site is most useful for its collection of links to legal services, legal aid, pro bono and public - interest sites -LSB-...]

This 31 - lawyer firm represents clients in most areas of the Canadian economy including construction, forestry, marine transportation, mining, health care, post-secondary education, retail, public transportation, utilities and the municipal sector.

For lawyers, whether in Maine or not, PTLA's site is most useful for its collection of links to legal services, legal aid, pro bono and public - interest sites throughout the world.

Last week seemingly most of the British public and probably all family lawyers tuned in to watch the first episode of The Split, the much - discussed new divorce drama on BBC One.

The other issue, in my opinion, is that most court - appointed lawyers become too dependent on the public dole.

That these resources, sustained by law societies for lawyer use, have been made available to the public is perhaps the most meaningful and least acknowledged access - to - justice initiative there is.

However, lawyers in public - service jobs who made the least money, like public defenders or Legal Aid attorneys, were most likely to report being happy.

The views of the SRA stakeholders — the lawyers we regulate, trainees, students, education and training providers, other professionals, and most importantly, the public whom we serve — are critical to the development of our plans.

The opponents raise many valid concerns that warrant further exploration, most significantly the risk to the public interest if a lawyer's duty to the client and her ethical obligations could be comprised by... [more]

Garo's work has already won him a number of honors, including Boston University School of Law's first Victor J. Garo Public Service Award and selection by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly as one of the 35 most influential Massachusetts lawyers and judges of the last 35Lawyers Weekly as one of the 35 most influential Massachusetts lawyers and judges of the last 35lawyers and judges of the last 35 years.

LAO lawyers are also the most racially diverse group of public sector lawyers in the province.

Family lawyers have already had to cope with huge changes in 2013, including the withdrawal of public funding (legal aid) for most family law cases and the closure of several local courts.

Nathalie Des Rosiers served as law clerk to Supreme Court of Canada Justice Julien Chouinard and worked in private practice.She was named one of Canada's 25 most influential lawyers in 2011 and in 2012 by the Canadian Lawyers Magazine; One of Canada's 10 Nation Builders in 2010 by the Globe & Mail; she received the Order of Ontario in 2012; the Médaille de l'Université Paris X in 2007; the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada (APEX) Partnership Award in 2004; the Medal of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1999; and the Order of Merit from AJEFO ilawyers in 2011 and in 2012 by the Canadian Lawyers Magazine; One of Canada's 10 Nation Builders in 2010 by the Globe & Mail; she received the Order of Ontario in 2012; the Médaille de l'Université Paris X in 2007; the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada (APEX) Partnership Award in 2004; the Medal of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1999; and the Order of Merit from AJEFO iLawyers Magazine; One of Canada's 10 Nation Builders in 2010 by the Globe & Mail; she received the Order of Ontario in 2012; the Médaille de l'Université Paris X in 2007; the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada (APEX) Partnership Award in 2004; the Medal of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1999; and the Order of Merit from AJEFO in 2000.

So why shouldn't lawyers and judges have «to adapt to changes in technology in order to continue to provide their particular service... Why should we be able to expect that treating courts like some kind of fossilized Jurassic will enable them to continue to provide a most needed service to the public in a way the public respects?

For another the book would never get published in England as Sir Paul's libel lawyers would pounce on anything but the most anodyne descriptions of domestic bliss, which the British public wouldn't pay tuppence for.

The ultra-dubious so - called benefits of the online will scheme do not justify taking away from local, mostly small - firm lawyers a major aspect of their practices — an area in which the costs to the public are among the lowest - cost, most cost - effective legal services available.

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