Sentences with phrase «providing community legal education»

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The National Association of Teachers of RE accuses a third of community schools and over a third of academies in England of failing to meet their legal or contractual agreements to provide religious education for this key age group.

CSBA provides policy resources and training to members, and represents the statewide interests of public education through legal, political legislative, community and media advocacy.

Composed of leaders from finance, education, research, legal, nonprofit, and business communities, Committee for Children's Board of Directors serves as the governing body charged with providing oversight and counsel on matters related to the organization's mission, vision, strategic plan, and financial sustainability.

Your Rights, Your Language Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) provides a multilingual legal rights support hotLegal Education Ontario (CLEO) provides a multilingual legal rights support hotlegal rights support hotline.

As we grew, we added to the legal support and education services we provide the climate science community.

The Napa County Bar Association, a non-profit organization, connects lawyers with the community through service and by providing continuing legal education.

DLA Piper has also developed a legal empowerment programme that involves providing legal education modules to people from disadvantaged communities on areas of the law such as police stop and search powers and neighbourhood housing disputes, helping to improve individuals» knowledge of the law and their rights.

Collectively, lawyers are encouraged to enhance the profession through activities such as: (a) sharing knowledge and experience with colleagues and students informally in day - to - day practice as well as through contribution to professional journals and publications, support of law school projects and participation in panel discussions, legal education seminars, bar admission courses and university lectures; (b) participating in legal aid and community legal services programs or providing legal services on a pro bono basis; (c) filling elected and volunteer positions with the Society; (d) acting as directors, officers and members of local, provincial, national and international bar associations and their various committees and sections; and (e) acting as directors, officers and members of non-profit or charitable organizations.

Could law schools also partner with legal organizations in communities to provide practical, on - the - ground and contextually - appropriate legal training for law students to supplement their distance education?

Her goal is to reform the entire legal system by helping as many people as possible to understand their general rights, encouraging individuals to be proactive about legal issues, increasing access to justice for low and middle income individuals, and providing education to the community so that re-entering individuals can have seamless and successful returns to the community.

TexasLawyer.com now offers expanded news, features and analysis related to national and international energy, legal education and the business of law, as well as new features such as Around the Nation, covering relevant news from across the ALM network and Professional Announcements & On The Move, providing news about personnel changes in the Texas legal community.

We provide legal representation, advocacy, conflict resolution, and community education options to meet the legal needs of our Native American and non-Native clients and our community.

Since 1999, Julie Mathews has served as the Executive Director of CLEO, an organization that provides legal rights information and education to communities across Ontario that face barriers to participating in the justice system due to low income, language, literacy, disability, isolation, and other disadvantages.

We are Tennessee's largest nonprofit law firm that takes a comprehensive approach to providing high quality, free, civil legal services and community education for people to protect their livelihoods, their health, and their families.

Members of the firm often speak at meetings and conferences as well as at client sites in order to provide general legal education and legal support for the community.

We also have a civil legal education program providing legal presentations on topics of interest to all residents of Kitsap County to become aware of the rights and responsibilities of everyone to create a more harmonious community.

Clinics provide these services through a variety of methods, including traditional casework, summary advice, self help, public legal education, community development and law reform initiatives.

«clinic law services» means legal and other services provided under the Act, in clinic law areas, and includes legal representation and advice, community development and organising, law reform, and public legal education;

MCLE aims to keep raising the caliber of lawyers» professional and ethical service to their clients and communities, by providing comprehensive and practical continuing legal education of the highest quality to the broadest possible audience.

NALS of Pennsylvania provides the opportunity to further the knowledge and enhance the ethical standards and professional attainment of our members; to conduct programs of continuing legal education for members and others in the legal profession; to promote fellowship and cooperation among members and with the legal community.

In addition to providing direct legal services, we empower the communities we serve through public legal education.

Student Legal Services provides volunteers with the opportunity to both enhance their legal education and make a positive contribution to the community by helping your fellow U of A students and people living in povLegal Services provides volunteers with the opportunity to both enhance their legal education and make a positive contribution to the community by helping your fellow U of A students and people living in povlegal education and make a positive contribution to the community by helping your fellow U of A students and people living in poverty.

CASAL's mission is to support and promote initiatives that value diversity and advancement of all South Asian lawyers and law students, within the legal profession throughout Canada; to provide a forum for professional networking and development of all South Asian lawyers, through continuing legal education, mentorship, advocacy, legal scholarship and greater community involvement; to foster excellence in the quality of legal services provided to all Canadians.

The Refugee Legal Assistance Project (RLAP), shortlisted in the Times Higher Education Awards for its outstanding contribution to the local community, has been running for a number of years and allows students to work alongside legal practitioners and gain valuable practical skills, whilst providing precious assistance to people in Legal Assistance Project (RLAP), shortlisted in the Times Higher Education Awards for its outstanding contribution to the local community, has been running for a number of years and allows students to work alongside legal practitioners and gain valuable practical skills, whilst providing precious assistance to people in legal practitioners and gain valuable practical skills, whilst providing precious assistance to people in need.

Our mission is to enable University of Alberta law students to provide free legal information and assistance to the low income community in Edmonton and to contribute to legal reform and legal education efforts as they impact on poverty law issues.

ALA provides the low income and the Asian and Pacific Islander community equal access to the legal justice system through direct legal services and community education in the areas of immigration and citizenship, public benefits, domestic violence, consumer rights, housing, and civil rights.

The Central Alberta Community Legal Centre offers a number of in - house programs that provide on - going legal representation, advice, legal education and supLegal Centre offers a number of in - house programs that provide on - going legal representation, advice, legal education and suplegal representation, advice, legal education and suplegal education and support.

Providing a broad array of legal responses including legal advice and referral, representation in individual cases, law reform, community organizing and development, and public legal education using a wide range of staff including intake workers, community legal workers, lawyers, policy analysts, social workers, administrative staff and volunteers.

In keeping with Yale Law School's tradition of providing students with a legal education of outstanding breadth and depth, the librarians of the Lillian Goldman Library offer a series of research workshops, online tutorials and courses designed to teach members of the law school community how to research and analyze complex legal problems.

Working in partnership with the community, Legal Help Centre is working to increase access to legal and social service systems for lower income residents in Winnipeg by providing referrals, legal help and public legal education and informaLegal Help Centre is working to increase access to legal and social service systems for lower income residents in Winnipeg by providing referrals, legal help and public legal education and informalegal and social service systems for lower income residents in Winnipeg by providing referrals, legal help and public legal education and informalegal help and public legal education and informalegal education and information.

It helps community groups understand and use legal tools to advance their concerns; works with policy - makers at all levels of government to create better processes for making environmental decisions; and provides free advice and education to people who have questions about a broad range of topics including pesticide use and conserving greenspace in cities, impacts of gravel pits, saving agricultural land or addressing the impacts of the oilsands.

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These Fellows provide services for veterans and their families that include direct representation and community education programs in addition to recruiting pro bono volunteers to increase the availability of much - needed legal services.

Our experienced staff provide training, organization legal education seminars, and distribute legal information to help low - income people, community members, service providers, and justice - system stakeholders understand the rights of vulnerable people.

Founded in 1984, NWIRP is a leading force in our state's legal aid community and provides an impressive array of direct legal services, community education, and policy leadership to protect and advance the rights of immigrant families and individuals.

June 23, 2014 — «The Legal Aid Foundation has announced a new program: Thunderdome Tallahassee, a hands - on legal group training program to provide education, camaraderie, networking, leadership and recognition to a new generation of lawyers serving the commuLegal Aid Foundation has announced a new program: Thunderdome Tallahassee, a hands - on legal group training program to provide education, camaraderie, networking, leadership and recognition to a new generation of lawyers serving the commulegal group training program to provide education, camaraderie, networking, leadership and recognition to a new generation of lawyers serving the community.

Related to these programs» longstanding nature is their focus on serving underserved communities; my law school, for example, is said to have started, as a night school, in order to provide legal education to Catholics and Jews, who were excluded from the then - existing law schools in southern California.

The Edmonton Community Legal Centre provides free legal information, referral, education, and advice to low income peLegal Centre provides free legal information, referral, education, and advice to low income pelegal information, referral, education, and advice to low income people.

The Board Orientation Committee exists to provide new board members with the information, resources and training necessary to provide governance and oversight to CLEA and to be effective ambassadors on behalf of the clinical legal education community.

* setting up, contracting with and funding community law centres * providing or funding law related education and legal information * undertaking or funding research into: * existing or proposed schemes and community legal services * the unmet legal needs of communities and how they may be met..

Community Legal Education Association's Community Legal Intermediary training course provides legal information on a range of topics over the course of a ten - week, 20 - hour program and an Advanced Community Legal Intermediary course provides a further 14 hours of traiLegal Education Association's Community Legal Intermediary training course provides legal information on a range of topics over the course of a ten - week, 20 - hour program and an Advanced Community Legal Intermediary course provides a further 14 hours of traiLegal Intermediary training course provides legal information on a range of topics over the course of a ten - week, 20 - hour program and an Advanced Community Legal Intermediary course provides a further 14 hours of trailegal information on a range of topics over the course of a ten - week, 20 - hour program and an Advanced Community Legal Intermediary course provides a further 14 hours of traiLegal Intermediary course provides a further 14 hours of training.

This site provides access to family law information available through the Ministry of the Attorney General, Department of Justice, Legal Aid Ontario, Community Legal Education Ontario and other organizations.

The mission of Legal Aid Society of Orange County and Community Legal Services of southeast Los Angeles County is to provide civil legal services to seniors and low - income individuals and to promote equal access to the justice system through advocacy, legal counseling, innovative self - help services, in - depth legal representation, economic development and community educaLegal Aid Society of Orange County and Community Legal Services of southeast Los Angeles County is to provide civil legal services to seniors and low - income individuals and to promote equal access to the justice system through advocacy, legal counseling, innovative self - help services, in - depth legal representation, economic development and community eCommunity Legal Services of southeast Los Angeles County is to provide civil legal services to seniors and low - income individuals and to promote equal access to the justice system through advocacy, legal counseling, innovative self - help services, in - depth legal representation, economic development and community educaLegal Services of southeast Los Angeles County is to provide civil legal services to seniors and low - income individuals and to promote equal access to the justice system through advocacy, legal counseling, innovative self - help services, in - depth legal representation, economic development and community educalegal services to seniors and low - income individuals and to promote equal access to the justice system through advocacy, legal counseling, innovative self - help services, in - depth legal representation, economic development and community educalegal counseling, innovative self - help services, in - depth legal representation, economic development and community educalegal representation, economic development and community ecommunity education.

We also offer a range of professional development short courses, which provide opportunities for professionals to further enhance their skills in the community, welfare, education and legal sectors.

Composed of leaders from finance, education, research, legal, nonprofit, and business communities, Committee for Children's board of directors serves as the governing body charged with providing oversight and counsel on matters related to the organization's mission, vision, strategic plan and financial sustainability.

Legal Aid Commission of Tasmania provides legal advice, representation, family dispute resolution services and legal education to the Tasmanian commuLegal Aid Commission of Tasmania provides legal advice, representation, family dispute resolution services and legal education to the Tasmanian commulegal advice, representation, family dispute resolution services and legal education to the Tasmanian commulegal education to the Tasmanian community.

In 2002, Ms Gilbert, who had been a teacher prior to pursuing her legal career, used her teaching skills to develop a series of education programs about divorce that were provided through community schools and other organizations.

WLS NSW is a community legal centre providing women with a range of free community legal services, including legal advice and information, education, training and resources across metropolitan and regional areas of NSW.

We provide legal advice, representation, family dispute resolution services and legal education to the Tasmanian community.

We provide information about legal issues and referral to support services, legal advice, casework, community legal education and law reform advocacy.