Sentences with phrase «of volunteer judges»

Selections are made by a senior panel of independent game makers and the voting power of our volunteer judges.

Stories featured on CASW Showcase are selected by a panel of volunteer judges from work recognized by recent awards given by scholarly and professional organizations.

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Submissions will be judged by Barbara Corcoran, Noah Breslow, OnDeck CEO, and David Bobbitt, the President of SCORE, a non-profit organization comprised of 11,000 business executives who volunteer to provide free and confidential advice to small businesses.

Each award category has an individual committee made up of industry professionals who volunteer their time to oversee the policies, procedures, and selection of judges for their respective Awards program.

Shawn has been a volunteer in Colombia to teach and evaluate cuppers for Coffee Corps, participates as a lead judge in the annual Cupping for Quality for the Rainforest Alliance, and has been a judge for Cup of Excellence.

A voter data feedback loop lets you constantly judge the state of different segments of the electorate, allow you to focus on the voters you absolutely need to reach and helping you use your ad dollars and volunteer time as efficiently as possible.

Together with Judge Russell's leadership, the VA's participation and the contributions of volunteer Veteran mentors, the Buffalo Veterans Treatment Court Program has successfully graduated dozens of veterans who have steered their lives away from the traps that many others before them have fallen into in the absence of such a program.

Fortunately, the transition to Judge Saltarelli will be seamless, as Mark is a former Acting City Court Judge and has been serving the community for years in a wide range of volunteer activities.

Young asked each of 20 volunteers to judge 24 scenarios that involved morally questionable behavior.

Volunteers who saw close - up shots of rude people they disagreed with were more likely to judge the opinions being expressed as illegitimate.

Michael Barnett - Cowan at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, and colleagues showed 15 volunteers an image of an object tilted to the right and asked them to judge whether it was about to topple.

We called on veteran judges and members of the Managing Committee — all of them senior science journalists — to help winnow the huge number of entries prior to submitting them to review for scientific accuracy by the Washington - area scientists who volunteer to help out.

«I was one of eight alumni in 2000, the first year of the alumni volunteer program, and I worked as a moderator and science judge,» said Jens.

Community volunteers can provide an extra set of hands on a fieldtrip, or help judge a science fair, andmuch more.

I am very pleased to advise all of you, who have generously helped and volunteered your time and thoughts, that Judge Roger D. McDonough just issued the attached decision finding that Sheri does indeed have standing to challenge her growth score of 1 out of 20 points.

Volunteers from Goldman, Sachs judge early rounds of the competition, and the entire gathering will hear from academic, activist, policy and government notables.

A Wake County Superior Court three judge panel justly pronounced in July that the State Board of Education (SBE), a body of part - time volunteer appointees, is subservient on policy matters to the people's elected General -LSB-...]

He's also served as chairman of the Save the Salt Coalition, is an advisor to the Austin Hatcher Foundation for Pediatric Cancer, and has volunteered as a judge for the annual SEMA Show Launch Pad competition.

Not only is she newsletter editor for the ALCS, she's also non-fiction editor for The Bookseller (the trade paper of the British book trade), chair of literary festival events, book award judge, and a respected author — and she still finds time to volunteer in the local community, choreographing a fabulous Book Week for one lucky primary school in the neighbourhood.

These judges have several years» experience writing and working with RMFW writers, and are well - qualified volunteers who want the best for not only RMFW as a whole, but all of the individual members.

But others have said feedback has been less helpful, and as the judges are volunteers from the chapters, they have varying levels of experience and even tact.

Another gem of this story included the young woman who stated she was more qualified to judge the actions of the local veterinarian, simply because she was a volunteer for an animal rescue.

WRM is fortunate enough to have an attorney and judge for the State of Missouri that volunteers over the legal aspect of rescue - this helps to ensure that both family and pet are given the legal security in knowing we are there for them.

I was particularly impressed with the Volunteering category the high standard and detail of every entry was extraordinary this year and as a result made the judging very challenging.

TV actor Mark Frost (Poldark, Silent Witness) played the role of the judge, and the jury was made up of volunteers.

Their clients and volunteers include judges, lawyers, articling students, paralegals, legal assistants, support staff and other members of the legal community.

At some point, the case that Judge Posner adjudicated in the Northern District of Illinois was also pending in Wisconsin — until Judge Crabb gladly passed it on to Judge Posner, who had volunteered to handle it.

Ms. Rich is a member and a volunteer with a number of different community, legal, and charitable organizations, including the Illinois Judicial Ethics Committee, the Illinois Judges Foundation Auxiliary Committee, the Make - A-Wish Foundation of Illinois, the Chicago Inn of Court, the Lawyers Club of Chicago, and the ABA's Center for Professional Responsibility.

Some of Canada's top litigators volunteer their time to act as judges:

T.C. has been a volunteer at the Widener School of Law in Delaware as a Moot Court judge, at Penn State University, and with the Alzheimer's Association.

My volunteer activities have ranged from volunteering at a music festival, and acting as a moot court judge for a law school, to being on the board of various volunteer organizations such... [more]

LAWPRO is also a supporter of OLAP, The Ontario Lawyers Assistance Program — www.olap.ca --(formerly OBAP, the Ontario Bar Assistance Plan) which provides one - on - one ongoing volunteer peer support and professional counselling to lawyers, judges and law students who suffer from alcohol, drug or other addictions, eating disorders, stress, burnout or mental illness.

He volunteers annually as a judge for the Marshall - Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project, which includes an appellate advocacy competition for high school students, and as a judge at Drexel University Thomas E. Kline School of Law for first - year oral arguments in Legal Methods.

Also, while in law school, Bogdan furthered his litigation and trial advocacy skills by volunteering at Community Legal Aid and interning for a prominent judge at the Third Judicial Circuit of Michigan.

Hundreds of attorneys, judges, teachers, and other community leaders volunteer their time to instruct students about the judicial system and the trial process through this educational program.

With the encouragement of his Chief Judge, Thomson began working with the Kingston community to develop a Family Court Clinic to assess children and their families, an observation and detention home, a juvenile diversion program, a volunteer probation service, a shelter for abused women, a youth crisis centre and several new community - based group homes for youth.

Kyle also volunteers as a Teen Court Judge and is an elected member of the Collin County Bail Bond Board.

The 140 mentors are more experienced volunteer lawyers and also come from all fields of practice, including several local judges.

With the commitment of 1200 + volunteers, including judges from all levels of the courts, members of the bar, court staff, legal aid clinics, law schools, teachers, and community representatives, OJEN reaches over 200,000 youth across the province each year.

Nominations were judged by a select group of business leaders and executives, volunteering their time and expertise to score submissions and provide feedback.

[3A] This rule shall not apply to a Judge who is a member of the Judges and Lawyers Assistance Committee (the «Committee») of the Arkansas Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program (JLAP) or a volunteer serving pursuant to Rule 4 of the Rules of JLAP regarding information received in his or her capacity as a Committee member or volunteer.

In counties throughout South Carolina, leading lawyers, judges and court administration worked in cooperation to found legal aid organizations for recruitment of volunteers, paid staff and to build support.

However, the «duty to report» outlined in Rule 2.15 above is reinstated if, in good faith, the JLAP committee member or volunteer has: reason to believe that an attorney or judge participating in the JLAP program is failing to cooperate with said program; is engaged in criminal behavior or the threat thereof; or, is otherwise in violation of Rule 2.15 which is beyond or succeeds the behavior upon which the judge's participation in JLAP was initially based.

The judge wrote: «Since the parties were not able to point me to any case which had considered the issue of the existence of a duty of care by a volunteer in circumstances where the volunteer's act allegedly had caused, or contributed to, damage to the property of the person to whom he was volunteering his services, I conclude that the question of law raised by this case is a novel one, or at least one in which the case law has not been fully settled.»

The trial judge held that there was a material change in Sandra's circumstances on two bases: 1) Stanley's new employment and 2) the fact that their daughter was 19, had left college to pursue a volunteer placement abroad in Finland, and was no longer a child of the marriage.

In this program, a panel of federal judges and practitioners will review the local rule, discuss reasons why you should volunteer to accept a pro bono appointment in Connecticut's US District Court, and offer practical advice for handling these cases.

Prior to his judicial career, Judge Fleming was assistant Christian County attorney from 1998 to 2006 and served as the director of Christian County Juvenile Services and as a volunteer for Christian County Juvenile Drug Court from 2000 to 2006.

The BC Provincial Court's 2015/16 Annual Report highlights several of their innovations: the use of video technology to save transports for prisoners» preliminary court appearances, an active website and social media presence for more open communication, improvement in caseload management, an open and accountable complaint process, and volunteer activities by the Court's Judges, Judicial Justices and staff.

Through mentoring by senior lawyers and judges, young lawyers can be directed toward choices that will support a future judicial application, whether in respect of political, volunteer and community involvements, job opportunities or other life choices.

She is active in her community; Judge Minot has been the president of the Southwest Colorado Bar Association, the president of the Colorado County Judges Association, is currently a member of the Judicial Discipline Committee and is involved in numerous civic activities in her jurisdiction, including being a hospice volunteer and training advocates for a crisis telephone service.