Sentences with phrase «organized bar associations»

If your program / organization is not affiliated an organized bar association or an approved legal assistance organization, you will have to apply to be approved by the Supreme Court to provide CLE credit.

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Benjamin spoke at a panel on the Constitutional Convention, organized by the State Bar Association and SUNY's Rockefeller Institute.

Working with organizations such as the NYC Bar Association Legal Committee Pertaining to Animals, Foster Parrots, Ltd., the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries, Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, and Tufts AAV Student Chapter, we organize special educational events, including film screenings, conferences, workshops, and webinars.

Inspired by the organizing efforts of a group of black Southern lawyers known as the «Greenville movement,» George H. Woodson, one of the NBA's co-founders, organized the first convention of what was then called the «Iowa Colored Bar Association» in 1924.

Bar associations can organize their members to fight for their interests.

And while NLG lawyers will demonstrate in Washington today, lawyers organized by the American Bar Association will march to the Supreme Court tomorrow in a separate demonstration.

State and local bar associations from across the country are organizing hundreds of events in their communities to engage and educate both students and adults.

And taking on a pro bono project organized by the local bar association can be a great way to meet practicing attorneys in areas of particular interest since they often volunteer to serve as mentors to newer volunteers.

The Commission is working with other bar associations and judges to organize local recognition events.

Shaun is also an active participant on the Diversity Committee of the Minnesota Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and has helped organize its annual event bringing together Minnesota's affinity bar organizations to foster an open conversation related to improving diversity and inclusion in the practice of lBar Association and has helped organize its annual event bringing together Minnesota's affinity bar organizations to foster an open conversation related to improving diversity and inclusion in the practice of lbar organizations to foster an open conversation related to improving diversity and inclusion in the practice of law.

[email protected] is organized in collaboration with the Young Bar Association of Montreal, the Canadian Bar Association, the Montreal Bar, LexUM and Slaw!

Jim Calloway draws on his experience organizing the annual Solo and Small Firm Conference of the Oklahoma Bar Association to suggest that a conference such as this «is a great opportunity» for small - firm lawyers «to enjoy CLE targeted to their needs.»

Through the guild, organized as a liberal alternative to the American Bar Association, one of Bingham's most important relationships was with fellow radical lawyer Paul Harris.

What if the Association of Corporate Counsel and / or the American Bar Association were to create a system by which users of legal services (clients) could report on their experiences with lawyers and law firms in an honest and organized fashion, via the Internet.

Michel - Adrien points out the Civil justice system reform underway in Ontario, and reading it I realize I've been a bit remiss in not reporting earlier on the success of the Into the Future Conference, organized by my workplace, the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice in partnership with the Canadian Bar Association, the Association of Canadian Court Administrators, and the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice.

The American Bar Association organized a Commission on the Future of Legal Services.

Law Day is an annual event organized by the Canadian Bar Association that is made possible through the volunteer efforts of hundreds of individuals across the country who donate their time to this worthwhile event.

The Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) is organizing a live «tweet chat» on Thursday, September 25 with Fred Headon, Past - President of the Canadian Bar Association and Chair of the CBA Legal Futures Initiative.

Brooks Kushman is a law firm partner in the Judicial Extern Program organized by the Wolverine Bar Association and the Eastern District of Michigan — through which first - year minority students are hired for a split - summer clerkship with Brooks Kushman and the Federal Bar.

The Commission works with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, bar associations and judges to organize state - wide as well as local recognition events.

In 1883 twenty members of the local Bar met and organized the first Bar Association in Pierce County.

The annual walk is organized by The Equal Justice Coalition, which is composed of the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association, and the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation, known as MLAC.»

It was November 1st, 1971 when ten of the leading criminal counsel in Ontario, recognizing the need for an organized voice to represent the criminal bar, formed The Ontario Criminal Lawyers Association.

Chair of the Marketing Practices Committee of the Canadian Bar Association Competition Law Section; in that role has organized and moderated several seminars, including with the American Bar Association and US Federal Trade Commission

The flash mob was part of a larger «Charter Party» organized by the Canadian Bar Association (CBA), which coordinated synchronized flash mobs across Canada.

In 2007, while he was president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, David White helped organize and moderated a Bench - Bar Symposium which was focused in large part on techniques for implementing expanded voir dire in civil cases.

The Canadian Bar Association Saskatchewan organizes an annual Mock Interview event for students at the College of Law.

Many were «all volunteer» coalitions, loosely organized around state and county bar associations.

This is the first Canadian event of its kind and the fact that the conference is organized by the Canadian Bar Association and has both law firm and in - house counsel speakers suggests that the idea of applying project management principles to legal services has broad support and interest across the profession.

She organized a statewide group of community organizations and local and minority bar associations that convinced the General Assembly to appropriate $ 2 million.

Additionally, there are plenty of alternatives outside the Law Society including other continuing legal education providers like, the Canadian Bar Association, in - house programs offered by law firms or even organized education discussion like the Manitoba Bar Association section meetings.

Two times a year, the Alternative Dispute Resolution section of the Indianapolis Bar Association organizes a Paternity Court Mediation Day where volunteer attorneys try to help fighting parents reach an agreement about the care of their children.

The Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) is organizing a live «tweet chat» on Thursday, September 25 with Fred Headon, Past - President of the Canadian Bar Association and Chair of the CBA Legal Futures Initiative.The live chat on Twitter will take place from 12 to 1PM EST and the topic will be «Does the CBA Futures Report provide opportunities for law librarians?»

I too am at the ABA TECHSHOW 2012 in Chicago organized by the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management Section.

To mark the 30th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms last Tuesday, the Canadian Bar Association organized events across Canada such as conferences, mock court sessions for high school students, and flash mobs:

Bar associations can play a major role helping or hindering the growth of the self - help law movement, and shlep hopes to cover developments within the organized bar that relate to achieving better access to justice and legal services for all Americans through self - help resourcBar associations can play a major role helping or hindering the growth of the self - help law movement, and shlep hopes to cover developments within the organized bar that relate to achieving better access to justice and legal services for all Americans through self - help resourcbar that relate to achieving better access to justice and legal services for all Americans through self - help resources.

Successfully organized and led fund raising campaigns and grant writing activities, securing funding from American Bar Association and other major law firms.

Mr. Traendly interned with the Legal Aid Society of the Orange County Bar Association and organized community outreach events including expungement events.

In the early days of divorce mediation, O.J. «Jim» Coogler, who was the founder of the Family Mediation Association (which started the national movement of mediation for divorce settlements in the 1970s), had to respond to charges by the organized Bar that mediation by lawyers was unethical, because it was a conflict of interest.