Sentences with phrase «of civil lawyers»

Seeking a position of a civil lawyer with a well - established firm where I can not only create a position for myself but get a chance to show my skills and knowledge by handling civil legal cases

Seeking the role of a civil lawyer in your esteemed organization where I am allowed to utilize my skills and experience in dealing with civil law cases through which I can grow professionally and also contribute towards the organization

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Diplomat Dan Biers from the US embassy in Beijing was also shoved while expressing his concern about the arrest and detainment of civil rights lawyer Pu Zhiquiang.

At a recent Michigan State board of trustees meeting, a Larry Nassar victim came forth and accused the school's interim President John Engler of attempting to get her to agree to a payoff in a meeting without her lawyers so she would drop her civil lawsuit against the school.

FPG — Getty ImagesA portrait of American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson, circa 1925.

Krasner: I have — like a lot of civil rights lawyers, like a lot of activists — been beating my head against the wall of the DA's office and the [Philadelphia] police department for a long time because the DA's office in Philly was not enforcing the law against police.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

She'll try to address it by rounding out her ticket with Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a Harvard - educated former civil rights lawyer who's nonetheless got lunchbucket cred as the successful former governor of a Southern state.

With such lack of accountability it is not surprising that Alphabet contributed substantial funds to the tech lobbying groups who are opposing federal legislative efforts to give additional options to prosecutors and civil trial lawyers to fight websites like Backpage (child sex trafficking) and prevent them from flourishing.

Civil lawyers for Zachary Cruz accused the Broward Sheriff's Office, prosecutors and the courts of «torturing» the teen and violating his civil rights «and engaging in an extortive campaign of intimidation because of the identity of his brother,» according to a press relCivil lawyers for Zachary Cruz accused the Broward Sheriff's Office, prosecutors and the courts of «torturing» the teen and violating his civil rights «and engaging in an extortive campaign of intimidation because of the identity of his brother,» according to a press relcivil rights «and engaging in an extortive campaign of intimidation because of the identity of his brother,» according to a press release.

To participate effectively in a constitutive dialogue carried on in the venue of the courts, one must be a member of the priestly class of our civil religion: a lawyer or someone with a large measure of legal knowledge.

I am sure there are hundreds of civil liberties lawyers that would like to know...

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New York (CNN)- Civil rights lawyers filed papers in federal court Monday seeking to prohibit the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim communities when there is no evidence that they are linked to terrorism or other illegal activities.

CNN: Lawyers seek to limit New York police surveillance of Muslims Civil rights lawyers filed papers in federal court Monday seeking to prohibit the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim communities when there is no evidence that they are linked to terrorism or other illegal actiLawyers seek to limit New York police surveillance of Muslims Civil rights lawyers filed papers in federal court Monday seeking to prohibit the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim communities when there is no evidence that they are linked to terrorism or other illegal actilawyers filed papers in federal court Monday seeking to prohibit the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim communities when there is no evidence that they are linked to terrorism or other illegal activities.

so that its Professors are oblig'd to call for the help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one» (IV: 634) But we also hear of Luther Martin, Maryland's first lawyer and a leading antifederalist.

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

Dear David, my father a Presbyterian minister, was a Phi Beta Kappa English major at Yale, his father — lawyer, also Yale, his grandfather, a Congregational Minister (Yale too — which you know initially was founded to train ministers), who married the daughter of Henry Ward Beecher the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe whose Uncle Tom's Cabin Lincoln claimed started the Civil War.

These lawyers, pastors, journalists, and human rights leaders across China are trying out the strategies of the historic American civil rights movement, using litigation, media publicity, and nonviolent protests.

«I do a lot of civil - rights cases, so I've seen a lot of things that have gone through the mails, but this was the worst stuff I've ever read,» says Michael Avery, one of Olson's lawyers.

In most states in America, there is not and enforcement provision; however in the states that do have enforcement provisions outside of a lawyer and related to breastfeeding violations that are not an assault charge, you would normally typically have to go through the attorney general's office and do a civil claim.

Civil liberties lawyers urged a state judge to reverse Staten Island DA Dan Donovan's attempt to keep secret the grand jury testimony concerning the police chokehold death of Eric Garner, saying the public needs to reconcile a widely watched video of the arrest with the decision not to indict the officer involved.

[Civil liberties lawyers urged a state judge to reverse Staten Island DA Dan Donovan's attempt to keep secret the grand jury testimony concerning the police chokehold death of Eric Garner....]

Rowan Wilson, a low - key and self - effacing corporate lawyer specializing in antitrust and intellectual property, as well as civil rights law, appeared at a friendly hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Supporters of the bill said those attorney oversight systems are inadequate because they are geared more toward lawyers in civil practice.

A civil rights lawyer and advocate for racial and social justice, Ms. Wiley joined the de Blasio administration in early 2014 to focus on legal issues as well as on the mayor's efforts to address issues of inequality.

The police department's press office for decades shared such information willingly, but the administration's lawyers have decided an obscure section of New York State's 1976 Civil Rights Law makes those revelations improper and illegal — or, in de Blasio's phrase today, «a bureacratic error.»

The former minister first came under investigation in 2013 after a human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), wrote a petition against her for allegedly approving the purchase of two BMW vehicles worth N225m by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority in breach of the Public Procurement Act.

Kathy Zabinski, president of the Civil Service Employees Association, said last week that union lawyers were reading the plan to make sure it didn't constitute as age discrimination, but she didn't have any concerns about it.

She plans to defend the challenge in civil court, adding that it's been daunting to be sued by «lawyers of a very powerful machine,» referring to the Queens Democratic Party, who are supporting Moya.

Several veteran lawyers who have read Section 107.3 of the Civil Service Law, which prohibits state employees from allowing political donations in state facilities «occupied for any governmental purpose,» say they warn or would advise their political clients to stay off the track for fund - raising.

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.

But as well - known civil liberties lawyer and writer Harvey Silvergate has said, «Scrutiny and debate are more effective ways of combating hate speech than censorship.»

Other potential Clinton VP picks under discussion include: Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, former governors from the key state of Virginia; Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who represents both a more liberal wing of the party and a swing state; and Thomas E. Perez, President Obama's labor secretary and a Hispanic civil rights lawyer.

The group included some of the Nigeria's most influential civil society figures, including lawyer Femi Falana, political analyst Jibrin Ibrahim, and Transparency International Nigeria head Anwal Musa Rafsanjani.

Modernising the civil justice system Welcomed the Government review of claims management company regulation Delivering MedCo to bring rigour to personal injury claims Securing mandatory lawyers checks of a claimant's personal injury claims history

Flamboyant lawyer Richard Luthmann, who once famously sought to resolve a civil lawsuit through «trial by combat,» was arrested by the FBI on a slew of charges, including kidnapping, kidnapping conspiracy, money laundering, brandishing a firearm to commit a crime, aggravated identity theft and extortion conspiracy.

The coalition, comprises Lawyers Integrity Crusade Network (LICN), National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), National Youth Democratic Congress (NYDC) and other Civil Society Organizations.

In fact, when the current Ghana School of Law was set up in 1958 at Makola, the purpose was to train non-degreed civil servants to become lawyers.

On Friday, Assistant US Attorney Thomas Perez, head of the Civil Rights Division, sent a letter to lawyers for the NYS Senate Majority saying that... Continue reading →

«At the end of the day, it's pure and simple a rogue domestic surveillance operation,» said Christopher Dunn, a New York Civil Liberties Union lawyer involved in the convention lawsuit.

Despite getting flak from civil rights advocates over his decision to veto bills that would have legalized specific kinds of pocket knives and offering more state funds to compensate lawyers designated by the court to represent defendants who don't make enough money to afford a lawyer for defense in a criminal case, people roared in applause throughout Cuomo's speech.

According to a December 2014 report by the Center for NYC Neighborhoods and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, more than 42,000 homeowners have been conned out of $ 100 million nationwide.

The protest is just the latest headache for RBS which has been in the media spotlight for nearly two weeks now as the fine print of Sir Fred's pension is pored over by lawyers and civil servants.

«We would like to thank Team Schneiderman for producing an ad with a courtroom setting, which only serves to highlight that D.A. Donovan has spent the better part of the last 15 years prosecuting cases in actual courtrooms while State Senator Schneiderman was busy voting to raise taxes, proposing legislation to line trial lawyers» pockets, voting against civil confinement for sex offenders and cutting deals to keep Pedro Espada and Hiram Monserrate in the majority fold in Albany,» Shapiro said.

Some ecclesiastical lawyers argue that by allowing civil unions to take place the government will leave religious groups at the mercy of local authorities, who have a legal obligation to ensure equality in the provision of goods and services.

«She was a hard - working, substantive lawyer with deep roots in the community,» said Andrew G. Celli Jr., a founding partner at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady who served as the chief of the civil rights bureau from 1999 to 2003 under the former attorney general, Eliot Spitzer.

The Bar Association of Erie County Volunteer Lawyers Project Inc. (VLP) is a 501 (c)(3) not for profit corporation which provides free civil legal services to low income individuals and small not - for - profit groups in Erie County.

But in her motion challenging the EFCC's ex parte application, Mrs. Jonathan, through her lawyers, argued that the EFCC's «Ex parte Originating Summons» was not one of the modes of commencement of action under Order 3, Rule 1 of the Federal High Court (Civil Procedure Rules) 2009, and that it was not known or provided for by any law or rules of court.

Rose Clouston, national coordinator at Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said her Washington - D.C. - based group received hundreds of calls from New York independents who did not understand why they couldn't vote Tuesday.