Sentences with phrase «rights attorney who»

An employee rights attorney who reviews a severance situation will have a mental checklist of such laws to consider.

«Charter schools are straddling the fence, on both sides, to make sure they have an advantageous legal position where it is harder to get them,» sad Evan Lange, a Dallas workers» rights attorney who recently lost a case to an area charter school.

Kyle Rosenkrans is the former CEO of the Northeast Charter Schools Network, and a former civil rights attorney who has represented hundreds of parents and children.

«I would say to my clients: «You have to protect yourself... by using the water that is appropriated,»» said John McClow, a prominent water rights attorney who represented the state on the Upper Colorado River Commission, the interstate water management coalition, and now serves on the Colorado Water Conservation Board.

Consider contacting an experienced fathers» rights attorney who can help you protect your right to custody, prevent interference with your parenting rights and make sure you are involved in decisions regarding your child.

That's why after you experience a loss or accident, it is important for you to find an experienced Charleston personal injury firm as soon as you can without compromising on finding the right attorney who will fight for you, giving you and your case the respect and time you deserve.

Wang knew some of the human rights attorneys who were swept up by the Chinese government in a July 2015 crackdown.

Finding the right attorney who is experienced and dedicated to your case is the first step to protecting your rights.

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Stengel is joined on stage by Doug Ellenoff, a corporate and securities attorney with a specialty in business transactions and corporate financing who has been actively involved in working with federal government agencies as the rules are being rewritten, and Pelli Wang (on the right end of the couch), the venture director at SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform and early - stage VC fund.

Keeping Gitmo open was a move that would foster support from the U.S. Military and Attorney General Eric Holder, who came the President's aid after he was blasted by various civil rights organizations.

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

Attorneys who safeguard privacy issues for citizens should look into how California's Department of Developmental Services is violating individual service provider's rights by demanding unnannounced visits to their homes.

Hotels» liability can depend on whether they're sufficiently aggressive in responding to allegations from employees and on the policies they have in place to prevent harassment in the first place, said civil rights attorney Debra Katz, a partner at Katz, Marshall & Banks who represents employees in harassment cases.

Mark Cuban, who founded Broadcast.com, said via email that the company was venturing into uncharted legal waters, and «while other attorneys were afraid of what they did not understand, Belinda dove right in.

Before reporting an incident of sexual harassment to a higher authority, Gillian Thomas, who is a senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union Women's Rights Project, says it's always best to speak with the person affected by the incident first.

«One of the most important things to get right is starting pay,» Sara Bowen, an attorney who leads Starbucks Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility team, said in a statement.

After the sweeping Republican election victory on Nov. 9, 2016, transgender people «are concerned for their safety, survival and legal rights in the coming years,» said Chase Strangio, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who often works on transgender issues.

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

So can satan cultist graffiti artists spray paint curses on the graves of the Phelps» graves, or are their graves now special because 14 out of 16 Phelps family members are attorneys who know how to argue any point, right or wrong, to win in a court of law?

«Before we even got behind a lot of policy changes, what we did was we went around the country and just visited prisons and visited state legislatures and visited with district attorneys and police officers and survivors of crime, all these folks who have a stake in the system right now, and we tried to listen and amplify voices that may not have been heard as much,» he explains.

If the government was to step out of the marriage business entirely and leave people to the same property and power of attorney rights that are already available to anybody now, as he suggests, people who previously held protections based on their status of being married would soon find out just how much more difficult it is to gain those rights outside of marriage.

Churches can marry people in the religious sense and as far as the secular world is concerned we can all go to having the kinds of community property and power of attorney rights that are already available to anybody who wants them now.»

He was a «brilliant» civil rights attorney in the 1960s who would take on racial discrimination cases that no other lawyers would touch, say longtime African - American civic leaders in Topeka.

We also oppose provisions of the bill that expand the immigration detention system and erode the basic rights afforded to immigrants, including the provisions that allow for the indefinite detention of individuals who can not be deported to their home countries; that expedite removal proceedings or automatically imprison immigrants without providing them access to attorneys or judges; that increase detention capacity by an additional 20,000 beds to house immigrants awaiting their day in court; and that diminish the checks and balances of judicial review over immigration decisions.

The human rights attorney, who had defended some 100 churches damaged by a campaign to demolish crosses in Zhejiang province, was arrested just before a meeting with the US ambassador for international religious freedom, David Saperstein.

«Essentially they kicked him out without giving him his rights,» Kerry Sutton, the Durham - based attorney who has represented Felton, said during a brief interview on Thursday.

He is Vic Yannacone (right), fiery attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund, the nation's most militant conservation group, and he hauls into court those who wantonly defile our habitat

, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

If you decide to work with an attorney for private adoption, speak to a few to find the right fit, suggests Suzanne Nichols, a New York attorney who specializes in adoption.

As your surrogacy agency, we refer you to an attorney who specializes in family formation law to ensure that your parental rights are affirmed and safeguarded.

«She has no right to spend millions of dollars without letting residents vote on it,» said Hadac, 34, an attorney who was a Berwyn Park District commissioner before she moved to Grayslake three years ago.

Bruce Provda is a veteran New York family law attorney and fathers» rights advocate who has been practicing for more than four decades at his NYC office — nydivorcefirm.com.

The decision comes after a reported disagreement over the language between Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a major opponent of the LGTB rights movement, and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who is said to support LGBT rights and had to sign off on the move.

«And we wish the attorney general well, but in a situation where he chose not to serve any longer or couldn't serve any longer, we have someone to come right off the bench who has been an executive and could step right in and lead the state as I've tried to for the last two - and - a-half years.»

She's a Manhattan attorney who serves as counsel to the Judicial Confirmation Network and led the right's opposition to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor back in 2009 when the Bronx native was tapped by President Obama to be the first Latina to sit on the nation's highest court.

Turner, one of three Republicans who will face off in the June 26 primary for the right to run on Row B against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand this fall, is making his first return upstate since last month's GOP convention in Rochester when he, attorney Wendy Long and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos were all voted onto the ballot.

«I have no doubt that Eric Schneiderman will be an outstanding Attorney General who will fight to protect the rights of all New Yorkers.»

Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney who was fired by Trump, had a reserved seat at the Comey hearing right behind the witness table.

Obama has given all of us clearance to do what we know is the right thing to do — back a person who can be both a good Executive and can beat Guiliana — and that is Attorney General Cuomo.

Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli, who opposes abortion rights and so - called sanctuary cities, trailed with 30 percent, while pastor Greg Edwards had 25 percent.

Until Monday night, Eric Schneiderman was regarded as a model progressive in the #MeToo era — a powerful Democrat who, as New York's attorney general, sued Harvey Weinstein for civil and human rights violations over the movie mogul's alleged abuse of women.

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«Americans have a right to know who is acting in the United States to influence the U.S. government or public on behalf of foreign principals,» said acting Assistant Attorney General Dana Boente.

The people of New York need an attorney general who will do what's right for them, not what is politically right for himself.

«Because Jack Martins believes we need to protect the rights of the men and women in uniform who fight for us every day, his attorneys filed a notice of appeal,» said Martins spokesman E. O'Brien Murray.

Facing off against Cancel on Tuesday will be Yuh - Line Niou, a former aide to Queens Assemblyman Ron Kim who narrowly lost to Cancel in April; businessman Don Lee; civil rights attorney Jenifer Rajkumar; former Community Board Chairwoman Gigi Li, and Paul Newell, a community activist who unsuccessfully challenged Silver in a 2008 Democratic primary.

Saffran, also an attorney, ran an organization called Citizens for the Community Interest, which fights what it considers the excesses of civil rights advocacy, and promotes anti-loitering laws and civil confinement of mentally ill homeless people who threaten passers - by.

«When the previous Government consulted on this matter, the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve), who was then the shadow Secretary of State for Justice and is now the Attorney - General, described the prospect of giving prisoners the vote as «ludicrous».

«Eric Schneiderman will be a smart, progressive Attorney General who will always stand up for what's right.»