Sentences with phrase «of my legal career on»

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

2016: The Intake Bridge Is Bruised 2017: Add ICE Having focused the last 6 years of my legal career on the Intake process, and the last two as an Intake Consultant for law firms throughout the country, I learned one tremendous lesson and many smaller ones.

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

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Over the course of his 25 - year legal career, he has tenaciously fought for the rights of consumers, concentrating his practice on consumer lending and consumer fraud class actions.

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.

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.

She earned her law degree from the Southwestern University School of Law and graduated Cum Laude, was an Associate Editor for the Law Review, and on the Dean's List, and began her legal career as a law clerk for Magistrate Judge Margaret A. Nagle, United States District Court, Los Angeles, and as an associate at the prestigious law firm of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison LLP.

Chana's story is one of the unspoken impacts of the legal aid cuts: the draining of specialist talent from the legal sector as experts on male violence against women and girls can no longer sustain careers as solicitors.

Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum wage, the living wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection at age 11 damaged education for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).

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.

Additional participants in the Jamaica Now Planning Initiative include: 165th Street Business Improvement District, 180th Street Business Improvement District, Jamaica Center Business Improvement District and Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District, A Better Jamaica, A Better Way Family & Community Center, Addisleigh Park Civic Association, Alliance of South Asian American Laborers, America Works, Antioch Baptist Church, Brinkerhoff Action Associates, Inc., Center for Integration & Advancement for New Americans, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Chhaya Community Development Corporation, Citizens Housing & Planning Council, Community Healthcare Network of New York City, Cultural Collaborative Jamaica, Damian Family Care Center, Edge School of the Art, Exploring the Metropolis, Farmers Boulevard Community Development Corporation, First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Fortune Society, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & New Northern New Jersey, Greater Allen Development Corporation, Greater Triangular Civic Association, Indo Caribbean Alliance, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica Hospital, Jamaica Muslim Center; Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Jamaica YMCA, King Manor, LaGuardia Community College Adult & Continuing Education, Mutual Housing Association of New York, Neighborhood Housing Services Jamaica, New York Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Queens College, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens Economic Development Corporation, Queens Hospital, Queens Legal Services, Queens Library; Queens Workforce1 Center, SelfHelp, Sikh Cultural Society, Sunnyside Community Services, Inc., The Jamaica Young Professionals, The Jamaica Youth Leaders, The Tate Group, Upwardly Global, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and Y - Roads.

«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.

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.»

DeMarco responded that his campaign literature focused on his experience as a prosecutor because that's how he has spent the bulk of his legal career.

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.

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

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.

Paulina, the daughter of an eminent left - wing judge, suspends her legal education and the prospects of a promising political career to travel to an indigenous community of extreme poverty on Argentina's border with Paraguay and Brazil.

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.

Witherspoon returns to once again impose her forced grin on every scene as Elle Woods, the fluffy pink ball of sick last seen graduating from Harvard Law School and heading off into the sunset to launch her own legal career.

The film takes a straightforward approach, hitting the highlights of her legal career, providing revelations into her private life and marriage, delving into her reputation as a dissenting voice on the bench, and celebrating her longevity and influence.

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.

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.

It wasn't her day job that led Hoffman to a career change, but her membership in the New York City Bar, as the founder and leader of the Bar's Committee on Legal Issues Pertaining to Animals.

by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in USA Today Another week of the Trump presidency, another bout of fevered reporting on claims promoted by the career (and holdover) federal employee «resistance.»

There are a lot of peculiarities to the legal industry, but chief amongst those is the fact that your career may occasionally depend on your ability to demonstrate — in writing — what it is you told someone else.

As part of Lawyer Monthly's new series on law school, recruitment and careers in the legal sector, John Oxley, Barrister at Vardags relays an educational piece below on the journey from paralegal to managing partner, and everything in between.

Based on that data, ALM Intelligence plans to create new kinds of career - focused analytics in Legal Compass that could show, as an example, that a lawyer who graduates from X law school typically takes X years to make partner.

Lawyer Monthly hears from Jonathan on the challenges and complexities involved in heading up the legal team at Bosch, how the internet and advent of technology is changing the landscape of said challenges, and on the future goals and prospects of his legal career.

But more than that, my career path helps me on the «human» part of the business; working closely with IP in modern technology companies makes it easier to understand the technical part of the issues and makes one a better person to talk to in relation to blockchain developers and understand the content of product, which is surely the core part of the whole legal structure of the ICO.

The problem is that a large number of law school career services offices spend little time focusing on creating career - savvy legal professionals.

If you only limit yourself to taking the cases with which you feel entirely comfortable, you will be stuck working on a few simple types of cases for your entire career — never developing the legal experience necessary for your career to progress.

Here Kenneth Cutshaw, President and CEO of GCG, continues Lawyer Monthly's series on law school and legal careers by discussing the global - based steps each budding international lawyer should consider alongside their legal specialization.

Deciding on the area of law you should practice can mean the difference between loving and hating your legal career.

I am led to believe that, not in huge numbers but visibly so, legal and professional publishers welcome incoming staff with publishing qualifications and that people with legal and similar backgrounds are studying on publishing courses in order to advance or create their careers in those branches of the industry.

I must admit that I had some reservations at first over the concept of the book, which is in essence an overview of the legal career — both as a legal scholar and a judge — of José Luís Da Cruz Vilaça, on the basis of a series of articles on different topics written over the course of two decades.

Morgan & Morgan founder John Morgan said in a statement on the hiring that Boylan «had a legal career filled with millions of dollars» worth of courtroom victories.»

As part of Lawyer Monthly's new series on law school, recruitment and careers in the legal sector, Jo Mercer, HR...

Before becoming a Supreme Court Justice, Ginsburg spent most of her legal career working on the advancement of women's rights as a constitutional right.

Sheri Qualters reports in The National Law Journal on a new Association of Corporate Counsel survey that finds 85 percent of chief legal officers find their careers to be rewarding.

I will be writing on a variety of subjects covering all kinds of legal work that I do to support my alternative career ambitions.

http://www.slaw.ca/2016/08/09/a2j-unaffordable-legal-services-concepts-and-solutions/ We must change law societies» management structure substantially, or get rid of them, or go on serving out the rest of our careers in a very seriously depressed profession — a profession that is rapidly losing its size, power, purpose, and prestige to, inter alia, the commercial world of LegalX and LegalZoom, and to law society - sponsored «alternative legal services,» which are charity instead of affordable lawyers provided in exchange for that majority's paying for the justice system whereat benchers earn a very good living.

If you aren't planning on a legal career, it may still be that some options are more likely to be of use than others.

Lately, between the recession's impact on legal careers and studies saying that as many as 50 percent of lawyers would have chosen another field if they had their lives to live over, I have the urge to immediately caution anyone who's considering law school to think long and hard before acting on that impulse.

For a laundry list of lawyers who have pursued alternative legal careers (typically ones that leverage a treasured, but long dormant talent), more fulfilling angles within the law, or stress - relieving pasttimes, head on over to JD Bliss (starting with a post last week on alternative careers pursued by several women lawyers).

A shareholder in the Casualty Department, Mark has spent his legal career defending insurance carriers, self - insured companies and individuals on a broad array of matters including products liability, premises liability, motor vehicle accidents and medical malpractice cases.

Kim & Chang offers a rewarding career for highly motivated individuals who want to work on cutting - edge projects with some of the most impressive legal talent anywhere.

Throughout his career, Bob has lectured extensively to both public and private sector audiences, and at legal seminars, on a wide range of coverage and litigation related topics.

In fact, the Carnegie Report's recommendation to this effect acknowledges that it is «building on the work already underway in several law schools...» 49 And based on these experiences, a robust literature has developed extolling the virtues of integrating writing with doctrine.50 In reviewing this literature, a number of themes emerge: integration sends the right institutional message to students about the importance of writing in their legal careers and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about it.