Sentences with phrase «of legal careers in»

Finally, as legal departments within organizations have increased, contrary to the past, it is expected that we will see more general counsel who have spent most if not all of their legal careers in - house, rather than the current model where they are derived in large part from private practice.

This image is further boosted by the portrayal of legal careers in the media as exciting, glamorous, fast - paced and desired.

Our Tokyo professionals are fluent in Japanese and deeply knowledgeable about both U.S. law and the Japanese business environment, having either started in Tokyo or spent the majority of their legal careers in Japan.

Abolish law societies or force them to change because you don't want to serve out the rest of your legal career in a severely financially - depressed legal profession.

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Smith said Crawford took pride in advancing the careers of women in the legal profession and established a team - based, client - focused culture that continues to be the style at Osler.

After graduating in 2009, Feden started her legal career as a clerk for Hon. Garrett D. Page, a Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas judge.

Jennifer Lopez may have built a career around her famous backside, but that booty may have landed her in some serious legal trouble after a televised concert in Morocco drew the ire of Islamist members of the ruling Justice and Development Party and at least one educational group.

During his legal career, Mr. Richels also served, on loan from Bennett Jones, as an officer of the XV Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee in Calgary.

But Frances suffered from severe bouts of depression, and eventually allowed the two agents who guided her daughter's career — a husband - and - wife team, now deceased, named the Rosses — to become Patty's legal guardians and, in effect, her new parents.

To those that say «he's still a murderer»; if you feel that the judge did not pass adequate judgement and that this man's life is better spent in the grave also, then perhaps you should start pursuing a legal career to ensure harsher punishments more frequently instead of just inciting reaction on CNN's blog.

Now, as a solo mom with 3 college kids and a busy legal career in Los Angeles, I am making my way back to my precious food memories in the late night hours with a little a lot of help from friends and family by authoring «Bake This Cake» and «Bake This Bread» in order to bring life to historic cake and bread recipes.

Rider has had more than his share of problems in his career, including numerous legal scrapes, but a lack of self - esteem has never been one of them.

«Whilst single dads have the same rights as single mums in terms of the legal right to request flexible working, many feel that there is a stigma attached to asking to go part time and that it will irreparably damage their careers.

He began his professional legal career as a law clerk for Circle Surrogacy in 2004, where he assisted in all aspects of client legal work including drafting surrogate agreements and attending adoption hearings.

After a lengthy career, Abdus - Salaam had reached the top of New York's legal system when Cuomo appointed her to the Court of Appeals in 2013.

The House of Representatives has voted in favor of Buffalo's new Federal Courthouse for Robert H. Jackson, highlighting one of the more remarkable legal careers in the nation's history.

«We think the structure that the mayor has put in place today will enable us to make the kind of progress we need to for clients,» said Mr. Banks, who spent his legal career suing the city to force it to provide more services to the homeless.

He began his legal career as a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society of NYC in legal career as a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society of NYC in Legal Aid Society of NYC in 1973.

«Throughout her career, Professor Rivera has worked to defend the legal rights of all New Yorkers and make our state a fairer, more just place to live,» Cuomo said in a statement.

Abdus - Salaam, a Washington, D.C., native and 1974 graduate of Barnard College, graduated from Columbia University Law School in 1977 and started a career as a staff attorney at East Brooklyn Legal Services Corp., according to her profile on the state Office of Court Administration's website.

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In New Labour's first term Falconer was appointed to so many ministerial committees that one colleague called him «the eyes and ears of the Prime Minister», and when Blair resigned a decade later Falconer followed suit, quitting front line politics and returning to his legal career.

«As far as assumption goes, he was to me, at the time of his contact, still employed by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies; he never informed me that he had moved on to become a Judge of any court in Nigeria, and I had never throughout my own career as a legal practitioner or public functionary ever appeared in any case before any judge whatsoever at the National Industrial Court, or attended any function of the National Industrial Court, that would have put me on notice that the Agbadu - Fishim I used to know had become a judge of the National Industrial CLegal Studies; he never informed me that he had moved on to become a Judge of any court in Nigeria, and I had never throughout my own career as a legal practitioner or public functionary ever appeared in any case before any judge whatsoever at the National Industrial Court, or attended any function of the National Industrial Court, that would have put me on notice that the Agbadu - Fishim I used to know had become a judge of the National Industrial Clegal practitioner or public functionary ever appeared in any case before any judge whatsoever at the National Industrial Court, or attended any function of the National Industrial Court, that would have put me on notice that the Agbadu - Fishim I used to know had become a judge of the National Industrial Court.

«They put it down, in a very middle - class way, to youthful indiscretion, while other fellow citizens end up criminalised and their careers blighted as a result of taking a substance that is less dangerous than substances that are entirely legal.»

An acclaimed trauma surgeon who apparently committed suicide by plunging a knife into his chest was in the middle of a legal battle with a former Giants running back who says the doctor ruined his career.

«She's been a prosecutor her whole career, has an amazing record of success in important and difficult legal cases, cases involving sexual predators, drunk drivers, public corruption..

«Levi has dedicated nearly two decades of his career in legal services ensuring his clients» needs are met while navigating difficult bureaucracies,» Murphy said in a statement provided by the Sanders campaign.

The e-mail is also a fundraising appeal that asks supporters to help Rice keep the spot on the air by contributing and warns rather ominously that she will be the subject of attacks in the coming weeks «by career politicians and wealthy political insiders who will stop at nothing to make sure that our state's next lawyer is a politician, rather than a career legal advocate.»

Ms. James said that echoes of her run for attorney general can be found in her political and legal career.

Andrew Cohen (D)- D11 - Kingsbridge, Riverdale, Woodlawn, Norwood, and parts of Bedford Park, Wakefield, and Bronx Park East - Cohen, a Riverdale attorney, has had a long career in law, including several years as a court attorney to a Bronx Supreme Court Justice, legal counsel to State Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz, and a stint as an assistant adjunct at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

The governor also said he had no knowledge of the various legal and financial woes that Mr. Howe faced over the past decade or so, even as he parlayed his experiences alongside the Cuomo family and other political figures into a lucrative lobbying career in Albany, New York and Washington.

Most of them have gone on to successful legal careers, high - powered PhD programs, and one (paradoxically a «devout Pastafarian») is getting his Master's in Divinity at Harvard.

And although earning a Juris Doctorate — a law degree — is a fundamental step in pursuing a legal career, it is absolutely possible to be a valued member of a patent team without having «J.D.» stenciled after your name.

Acting pro se (as his own lawyer), Canovas says, in both court documents and e-mails to Science Careers, that he could neither get satisfactory resolution of his issues through university channels nor afford to hire legal counsel.

In the meantime, stem cell research and the careers of stem cell researchers hang on a legal roller coaster.

I began practicing law in 1988 and have focused a large part of my legal career on protecting renters» rights.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

Pearce's character is a particularly intriguing study in Hollywood amorality and ambition, a strait - laced «hero» (and son of a departmental legend) whose career goals outweigh all other moral, ethical, and legal considerations.

His ego perversely inflated by the invitation (he thought he was embarking on a career as an amateur criminologist), Broomfield learned practically on the stand that he was only there to tie a loose end involving Wuornos's ex-lawyer Steve Glazer (a.k.a. «Dr. Legal»), the centre of attention in Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer.

McConaughey returns to the slick lawyer roles he played in the pre-walking-punchline stage of his career with The Lincoln Lawyer, a new legal thriller based on a Michael Connelly novel in the time - and airport - tested tradition of John Grisham.

«Marshall,» director Reginald Hudlin's legal drama about a key early success in the career of future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, will open the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival Oct. 12.

Her legal opponent David Irving (Timothy Spall), the plaintiff in the case, has made a career of picking apart the specifics of the Holocaust, using any conflicting accounts or pseudoscientific analysis as a way to undermine agreed - upon history.

Bersin, Colvin tells us, the son of «Russian immigrants» (better described as Eastern European Jews) in Brooklyn, had «benefited from a rigorous public school education» (though there is no mention of his attending one of New York City's examination high schools); gone on to Harvard, Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar, in the same class as Bill Clinton), and Yale Law School; and enjoyed a successful legal career culminating in service as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California.

A friend in the legal profession shares stories of a boss telling women associates not to mess up their career prospects by getting pregnant; a friend in medicine tells a story of a doctor saying, in an aside, that a young Hispanic girl should have graduated from high school instead of «having a litter»; a friend in business shares a story of colleagues mixing up the name of two African American associates, then saying «Well, they're basically the same person.»

As the first Black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Miss.; worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as counsel for his Poor People's Campaign; and dedicated her early career to defending the civil liberties of people struggling to overcome poverty and discrimination.

When talking about this time in his life and career, Ticchi, who also oversees the ethics program as a special assistant to the president of the Legal Sea Foods Corporation, gets misty.

NSBA is working with federal policy makers, legal scholars, opinion leaders, members of the education community, business leaders, and the media to shape public education so students graduating this year and in the future, are ready for college, career, and life.

Bob Schulman has represented Texas charter schools since the very beginning of the movement in Texas and Joe Hoffer has represented Texas charter schools for his entire legal career.

Throughout her more than twenty - year legal career, Romney has represented and advised clients in numerous industries on a wide range of matters, including: acquisitions, dispositions, reorganizations, commercial transactions and corporate governance.

Roger is licenced to practice in multiple jurisdictions of New Jersey and New York and he has built up experience from handling thousands of bankruptcy cases over the course of his legal career.