Sentences with phrase «public interest law firm»

The following resumes of our attorneys demonstrate the depth and breadth of our involvement in meaningful organizations and causes, from public interest law firms to hospital charities and scholarship programs.

This event serves as the nation's largest public interest career fair with over 180 nonprofit organizations, government agencies and public interest law firms participating.

A new public interest law firm representing 9/11 victims commemorated 11 community leaders on Friday, Nov. 4 at Albert Shanker Hall, at 52 Broadway.

Legal aid for civil cases — from domestic violence to housing to health to debt to immigration matters — is provided by a patchwork of public interest law firms and community and charitable clinics, many of which are funded by the Legal Services Corporation.

Public Justice is a national public interest law firm supported by a not - for - profit organization, the Public Justice Foundation.

Trial Lawyers for Public Justice National, public interest law firm with online database of over 2,300 contacts for public interest advocates.

Long before the founding of Christian public interest law firms, such as the Liberty Fund, The Becket Fund, and the ACLJ [American Center for Law and Justice], the Jehovah's Witnesses were using the courts to establish liberties.

The Center, funded by donations from over 300,000 citizens across the nation, quickly grew into one of America's most successful and innovative public interest law firms.

``... A review of his record shows that Mr. Cuomo made the attorney general's office one of the most effective public interest law firms in the country.

«Tish James embodies the vision of the attorney general's office to be the largest public interest law firm.»

«This case came to us as the result of the activism of an ill - informed faction on a school board, aided by a national public interest law firm eager to find a constitutional test case on ID.»

But Jim Angell, lead attorney for the Oakland, Calif. — based public interest law firm Earthjustice, which represents a host of environmental groups suing the BLM, says this 1 percent stipulation is «an accounting trick.

West Orange, N.J. — Kessler Foundation received a 2011 Ann Klein Advocate Award from The Community Health Law Project (CHLP), a New Jersey nonprofit public interest law firm that provides legal aid services to more than 5,000 clients each year.

However, as the need grew for legal defense of emerging school choice programs, Bolick turned his attention to it and co-founded the libertarian, public interest law firm Institute for Justice in 1991 with seed money from David and Charles Koch.

Several parents represented by the Institute for Justice public interest law firm objected to this rule and filed a lawsuit.

The Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm that has defended many school choice programs in court, comes to a similar, if more optimistic, conclusion in a comprehensive study of state constitutions and legal precedent.

The existing bouquet of international internships at JGLS include the leading US international law firm, White & Case at their London and Abu Dhabi offices, the Supreme Court of State of Hawaii in Honululu (US) and Zhicheng Public Interest Law Firm in Beijing, China.

The «innovation in new models» award went to ClientEarth, Europe's first public interest law firm, which is organised as a charity, led by founder James Thornton.

Public Counsel, the world's largest pro bono public interest law firm, and OneJustice, an innovation lab on legal services, work together to increase access to legal services for those in need across California.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of AAE and eight California public school teachers by The Center for Individual Rights (CIR), the same non-profit public interest law firm that represented Rebecca Friedrichs and other California teachers in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, which was heard by the United States Supreme Court last year.

As the state's oldest and largest non-profit, public interest law firm with offices statewide; Legal Aid helps ensure justice and fairness for all by providing civil legal aid to the most vulnerable in our society.

A project of the public interest law firm Frank Bold.

The country is $ 70 billion in debt, schools are closing by the hundreds, and infrastructural services — like the overburdened electricity system — have been overlooked in order to make way for debt payments to Wall Street creditors, according to Juan Cartagena, President and General Counsel of LatinoJustice PRLDEF, a public interest law firm.

He is also on the Board of Directors of the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm based in Washington, D.C.

With the help of the public interest law firm Advocates for Justice and the organization's attorney Arthur Schwartz, a 60 - page document was filed in federal court on Tuesday, August 7.

Eleven prisoners died of cancer from 2010 through 2013, and six others have been diagnosed with cancer at the State Correctional Institution Fayette, said the report, released by the Abolitionist Law Center, a public interest law firm based in Pittsburgh, and the Human Rights Coalition, a national prison reform group.

Strong chapters on school desegregation, bilingual education, education for the disabled, and school finance all support Davies's argument that «in the 1970s, reform often emanated from... within the federal bureaucracy, from the lower federal courts, and through the energetic efforts of congressional staffers, lobbyists, and public interest law firms.»

CDF grew out of the Civil Rights Movement, following Edelman's work in Washington Research Project — a public interest law firm she founded that monitored federal programs for low - income families.

«The threats are twofold: loss of funding and resources for students in district schools and segregation of students by disability, ELL status and race,» said David Sciarra, executive director of the Education Law Center, a public interest law firm.

This is the space that I know the most about and the area that I've studied and worked on over my career, starting from a public interest law firm experience at the Institute for Justice, [then] the Heritage Foundation, the White House, and the U.S. Department of Education running the Office of Innovation and Improvement.

Over 1 in 5 of California's charter schools have restrictive admissions requirements or other exclusionary practices that keep out many students with the greatest academic needs, a report released Monday by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California and the public interest law firm Public Advocates alleges.

Terry Pell, president of the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm representing Rebecca Friedrichs and her co-plaintiffs, was upbeat after the Harris ruling was announced.

After the 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of vouchers in Cleveland, the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm, and Maine families again asked a Maine court to overturn the 1981 law, but the exclusion of religious options was upheld.

The Institute for Justice is a public interest law firm that advances a rule of law under which individuals can control their destinies as free and responsible members of society.

The speaker will be Prof. Rick Esenberg, who is an adjunct law professor at Marquette Law School and President and General Counsel of the public interest law firm, Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty.

In business for over 25 years, Public Justice is dedicated to upholding its vision of building America's public interest law firm.

It is one of the nation's oldest, continuously operating, public interest law firms, and it provides free legal assistance to needy Milwaukee County residents with civil legal problems.

Our pro bono program has received numerous awards from legal service organizations, including Pro Bono Project, California Lawyers for the Arts, Public Interest Law Firm and the Santa Clara County Bar Association.

At the other end of the political spectrum (at least from the perspective of tort reform) from CCAF, is Public Justice, an organization founded by leading trial lawyers that describes itself as «America's public interest law firm.»

Dawn is an attorney for KidsVoice, a non-profit, public interest law firm that provides advocacy and legal representation for youth in the child welfare system in Allegheny County

The Institute describes itself as a public interest law firm representing people in civil rights cases.