Sentences with phrase «public interest lawyers who»

LRAP Minnesota helps reduce the education debt burden experienced by dedicated public interest lawyers who represent low income clients seeking legal services to secure essential needs like food, shelter and safety, and fundamental rights like equal access to justice.

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Bruce Silverglade, the lawyer who now represents BPI but for many years was chief counsel for Center for Science in the Public Interest

Silver's lawyers went on to quote a key staffer who said that Silver «acted with integrity and exhibited a deep, consistent commitment to issues that he felt best served the public interest.»

Aonghus Kelly of Public Interest Lawyers, the firm representing Mr Mousa's family, told politics.co.uk the independent inquiry was a chance to find out «how someone who was taken away and had done nothing wrong ended up dead».

«The U.S. attorney in Manhattan generally believes Albany is corrupt and that the politicians are not acting in the public interest, so that's the area where he is going to focus,» said lawyer Bradley Simon, a former federal prosecutor who represented ex-state Controller Alan Hevesi on corruption charges.

He plays Jim Grant, a public - interest lawyer and single father, who lives a quiet life in a suburb of Albany, New York.

That's certainly an issue that rings true for many new lawyers, who profess to yearn for public interest jobs, but march off to Biglaw to repay loans.

Its 1994 Role Statement recognized the obligation to govern the profession in the public interest to ensure that the people of Ontario are served by lawyers who meet high standards of learning and competence.

«As lawyers in Ontario, we need to be concerned with what is legal work,» he says, and whether the public interest is being served by who is performing it.

of the Legal Prof. 283, at pp. 296 - 298, I suggested that we should regard lawyer independence as a public trust and that we should meld non-governmental oversight and the public trust as the way to deal with lawyer regulators who breach their fiduciary duty to regulate in the public interest.

Unlike the more familiar divorce proceedings where parties hire gunslinger lawyers and have their dirty laundry aired in public courthouses, these women each retained a collaboratively - trained attorney (Ellen Ware and myself) who are experienced in respectful and interest - based negotiations.

I would have thought that the ban on referral fees is also motivated by a desire to ensure that legal services are offered honestly and without conflict of interest and that the public has a full choice of lawyers (or licensees) to choose from, since lawyers are not «buying» their clients from those who refer them.

Recommendation 8: The Law Society's Trust Regulation Department, and the Professional Conduct and Investigation Department, when dealing with investigations involving a lawyer who uses cloud computing, should identify circumstances in which the approach proposed in this report is failing to protect the public interest, in the event modifications to the policy and rules is necessary for the Law Society to fulfill its public interest mandate.

A decision by the Supreme Court of Canada reflects a trend toward expanding the circumstances where tribunals will grant public interest standing to people who don't have a direct private interest in the matter, according to a Toronto lawyer.

These are senior lawyers who have made important contributions to public life while building outstanding private or public - interest practices.

So as the public interest in the race starts to climb, lawyers may find themselves asked (in particular by friends and family who fall into that middle - of - the - political - spectrum undecided group that determines the outcome of every election) to shed some light on the issues of the day.

(One can look to the role of the lawyer / lobbyists who created those tax policies, of course: do they really serve the public interest?)

Lawyers who do work sane schedules, such as those in public interest venues and academia, often trade high salaries for a better work - life balance.

Sue — I know that some provincial governments have looked at forgiving a portion of student loan debt for lawyers who end up practicing in public interest areas.

So as Benchers ignore their obligation to regulate in the public interest, choosing instead to side with the personal interests of the lawyers who elected them, Canadians are left with a justice system that steadily grows farther and farther out of reach.

Unfortunately, fear, coupled with the fact that Benchers continually act in the self interest of the lawyers who elected them, rather than acting in the public interest, is a deadly combination for access to justice in Canada.

The cuts to refugee health care are also being challenged by two public interest groups who bring additional expertise and resources to the fight: Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care, a group of doctors who treat refugees across the country, and the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, a national organization of lawyers and academics who are concerned with refugee law and Lawyers, a national organization of lawyers and academics who are concerned with refugee law and lawyers and academics who are concerned with refugee law and policy.

Phil Shiner of Public Interest Lawyers, who acted for the claimants, says: «[The court] has found that the Ministry of Defence have not complied with international and domestic law requiring there to be proper public scrutiny of these cases and the systemic issues arising from them.&Public Interest Lawyers, who acted for the claimants, says: «[The court] has found that the Ministry of Defence have not complied with international and domestic law requiring there to be proper public scrutiny of these cases and the systemic issues arising from them.&public scrutiny of these cases and the systemic issues arising from them.»

My own experience as a regulator is that lawyer regulators, who are expected to be people of the highest integrity, have no problem ensuring they act only in the public interest.

Lawyers working on public interest matters who are interested in the EPIC program can contact Everchron at [email protected].

In concept, it is a great idea for lawyers to have a place where they can share documents and research, discuss legal issues, and network with others who have shared interests, without having to worry about the ethical landmines of doing that sort of stuff in a public - facing site.

The award recognizes the trial lawyer or lawyers who have made the greatest contribution to the public interest each year by trying or settling a precedent - setting case or group of cases.

New York County Lawyers offers opportunities to our Members who want to serve the public interest.

The Conference is aimed at both practitioners (lawyers and NGOs) who are engaged in public interest litigation and scholars who study and analyze the impact of these cases, all of whom seek to ensure that public interest litigation has the maximum social impact possible.

For public interest lawyers like Mirenda and myself who went to law school, after it cost about $ 8 million, things can get a little disheartening.

«The real interest has to be in lawyers who are servicing public companies and doing public offerings and trying to meet their disclosure obligations.»

Examples include teaching young people about the law through the Edward J. Lewis Lawyers in the Classroom or Street Law programs, or mentoring law students who are interested in legal aid and public service careers.

Our barristers act for individuals who believe their rights have been violated and for leading human rights organisations such as Liberty, the Public Law Project and Public Interest Lawyers.

I think of a lawyer who assists a state legislator in drafting a reform to consumer protection as undertaking law in the public interest.

If you wouldn't, then what you're claiming is that there's something about the relationship between lawyers and paralegals that makes it necessary for us to conclude that, at least as a group — therefore necessarily individually in some cases — the people who make up the Benchers will put self - interest (meaning the interest of lawyers) ahead of the public interest (whatever that means).

The capacity of agencies offering services pro bono could be significantly increased by bringing on board competent non lawyers, who I suggest (speaking from personal experience) might be especially interested in and committed to public interest issues.

The number of lawyers taking up human rights cases now, not to mention those who take up the less sensitive public interest cases, has grown to a few hundred, if not a thousand.

This effort will be most effective if it includes a cross section of stakeholder groups, particularly: (1) clients and former clients, (2) public interest advocates who work with populations that routinely experience civil legal needs, (3) private and corporate lawyers, particularly those that have experience working with legal services programs pro bono, and (4) law students and law school faculty.

The Equal Justice Works National Advisory Committee is comprised of public interest law students and professionals who provide guidance and advice to the organization and help us achieve our goal of expanding public interest opportunities for law students and lawyers.

Second, the analysis here also calls into question the assumption advanced via the «lawyer - judge bias» theory that judges, by virtue of being former lawyers, are inherently deficient regulators of lawyers who will inevitably favour the interests of their former colleagues at every turn.2 To the contrary, a close and careful look at judicial regulation reveals that measures taken by Canadian courts have repeatedly promoted the public interest over the interests of the profession.

[i] «Benchers» are the lawyer - members of a law society elected by its lawyer - members to be the law society's managers for a fixed term, plus a small number of lay benchers who allegedly adequately represent the public interest.

Craft, a descendant of Manitoba Métis Louis Riel who practises at the Public Interest Law Centre in Winnipeg, notes aboriginal law has come a long way in recent years: until the early 1950s, the Indian Act banned First Nations from hiring lawyers to pursue land claims.

Consistency between jurisprudence touching on lawyer's ethical duties and professional rules of conduct set by those who regulate lawyers in the public interest is important.

and one of the lawyers who acted for the public interest group in the prostitution challenge case, says it clearly met all the tests for standing before a court.

Benchers are to govern in the public interest, not in the interests of lawyers who elect them, nor in the interests of other legal services stakeholders.

But assuming being aimed at professionals makes a difference, would you be content if e.g. LSUC charged everyone (including lawyers and paralegals and any member of the public who was interested) $ 1500 for copies of the Rules of Professional Conduct and $ 500 for each bylaw?

It seems an appropriate time for those lawyers, ethics committees, bar associations and legal regulators who have an interest in how the cloud will serve the public interest as well as the needs of lawyers, clients and cloud developers to get involved and start looking at clouds from both sides now, both up and down, as it seems that, at this early point in its development, we really don't know the ethics of clouds at all...

Labeling those who value and defend bar independence as restrictive may permit some to gloss over the consequences of lawyers offering services to the public while controlled, not by client instructions, but rather by the interests of silent business partners, be they shareholders, private investors, or holding companies with other business units.

We are committed to making legal assistance available to those who need it most by expanding public interest law opportunities for students and lawyers.

But it is instructive to note how the decision to nix the court representation scheme came about, because it highlights yet again the tension among the self - interest of the profession, their gatekeeping power (it is lawyers who decide what DPs do), and the public interest.