Sentences with phrase «rights lawyer at»

Typical of the trend we are seeing towards the development of new service and delivery business models aimed at SRLs is You Counsel, the brainchild of Amer Mustaq, a Toronto employment and human rights lawyer at Formative LLP.
If the technology comes into wider use, people could be identified as they go about their daily business, says Adam Schwartz, a civil rights lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco.
Victoria leads a team of employment rights lawyers at Thompsons Solicitors, working with them to ensure trade union members are provided with expert legal guidance and advice in all types of employment litigation.
Our staff is trained to assist you with finding the right lawyer at our firm.
«Given all the distrust that we heard about for four - and - a half years at the law society in this area, we've taken some relatively moderate steps and to run away from that a year later in the face of this backlash would be very damaging to the law society,» said Anand, a senior civil litigation, administrative and human rights lawyers at WeirFoulds LLP.

Not exact matches

If they had a lawyer working for them, at least the lawyer could have said (before they signed the mortgage) maybe this isn't right
«You can hire a lawyer to just look at the paperwork to find out if you are on the right track.
A lawyer representing Schrems, James Doherty, told the court that a referral to the European Court was «unnecessary or at least premature» as the Irish regulator had not fully investigated the complaint and had not used all tools in its power to restrict data flows where consumers» rights were threatened.
«I do think clarity is particularly important in this context, and right now there is a lack of clarity,» said Stephen Ascher, a lawyer at Jenner & Block who backs a broad definition.
«Mueller recognizes that Russian organized crime and sophisticated financial transactions involving them are going to be right at the center and Page is definitely a leading expert there,» Scott Horton, a US lawyer with experience working in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, told The Guardian.
The complaint, brought by Deason's lawyers at King and Spalding, alleges that the Fuji - Xerox joint venture contains a «crown jewel lock - up right that allows Fuji to control Xerox's intellectual property and manufacturing rights in the $ 36 billion Asia - Pacific market in the event Xerox were to sell to another suitor.»
«When you sign up for those terms of service and you click on the «I agree» button, you are also giving away rights to your big data,» said Brad Frazer, an Internet IP and IT lawyer at Hawley Troxell.
David Samson, right, arrives at federal court with his lawyer in Newark, N.J., on July 14, 2016.
The Senate bill right now is terrible,» said Scott Spector, a lawyer at Fenwick & West.
After persistently chipping away at Chile's amnesty law, human - rights lawyers secured over 250 convictions for human - rights violators of the Pinochet period.
«It taught me that if you have influence, money and power, you can buy lawyers to protect your interests at the expense of what is right
«Friday prayers bring all people of a society together at one time - rich or poor, man or woman, senior citizen or young child,» said Arsalan Iftikhar, an international human rights lawyer and founder of TheMuslimGuy.com.
These are (1) the right to have a lawyer present to advise him either prior to questioning or during it; (2) if he can not afford a lawyer, the right to have one appointed by the state to counsel with him prior to or during the making of a statement; (3) the right to remain silent and not make any statement at all, knowing that any statement he does make may be used against him at his trial.
Human rights lawyer Richard Spoor is filing a class action lawsuit against South African meat producer Tiger Brands after the South African Health Ministry confirmed the listeria outbreak started at...
But that's the rub, for me: I think people are reading that — at least the type like the person I know — and thinkin it's a parental right and no lawyer or cop is gonna stop them....
That's right, now that she had traded in her lawyer's cloak status to be at home with her child she proclaimed that she was now officially instantly stupid.
Now he flew into Washington, D.C., and with a Park District lawyer drove an hour or so into wealthy rural Virginia, past estate after estate, until the GPS told him he was at the right one.
We're both lawyers who changed careers in our 40s (though you do your current job in designer clothes and I often do mine in pajamas), we both have lawyer husbands (putting aside that yours is also leader of the free world) and we both have teenagers at home (not easy, right?).
Challenging the Supreme Court's order at the African Court on Human and People's Rights in Tanzania, the lawyers of Woyome said: «The contention of the applicant is that following from the earlier concurring opinion to the decision of the review bench, the court can not be said to have been impartial.»
David Buckel, 60, a prominent LGBT rights lawyer, died after setting himself on fire in Brooklyn's Prospect Park on Saturday to protest the world's usage of fossil fuels at the expense of the environment.
* A declaration that the detention of the applicant by EFCC on January 5, 2016 at an unknown location, without access to his lawyers, family and doctors, constitutes a flagrant violation of the applicant's fundamental rights guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Articles 4, 5, 6, 12, & 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and is ultra vires, null and void and unconstitutrights guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Articles 4, 5, 6, 12, & 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and is ultra vires, null and void and unconstitutRights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and is ultra vires, null and void and unconstitutional.
Rowan Wilson, a low - key and self - effacing corporate lawyer specializing in antitrust and intellectual property, as well as civil rights law, appeared at a friendly hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Speaking at the event, paramount chief of the area, Oblempong Nii Kojo Ababio, said the reason for honouring Nana Akufo - Addo with the stool was because of his sterling career as a human rights lawyer who stood for the rule of law and advocated for the rights of the ordinary Ghanaian.
Osinbajo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, said this on Monday at the opening ceremony of a two - day Stakeholder's Summit organized by the Lagos State Ministry of Justice at the Convention Centre of Eko Hotels and Suites in Lagos, as he urged judges, lawyers and others to change their attitudes and stand up for what is right.
Meanwhile, a statement issued by lawyers of the embattled Businessman indicates that his outfit had already advanced the case at the African Court on Human and People's Rights concerning some declarations made by the Supreme Court of Ghana.
There was a mild drama at the Ondo state High Court on Thursday as an Akure based lawyer and right activist, Femi Emmanuel - Emodamori accused Justice Aderemi...
At right is Syracuse lawyer Ken Moynihan.
Marc Agniflio, the lawyer for former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, jumped right in after the lunch break Tuesday, hitting hard at prosecution witness Frederick Mei's credibility — and culpability for accepting cash, trips and other bribes from restaurateur Harendra Singh.
If our mayoral candidate was a non-Muslim human rights lawyer, they would not be making any of these allegations at all.»
Just before the trial was to commence Wednesday morning at the Human Right Division of the High Court, the Electoral Commission made the request through its lawyers to be allowed to prove it was taking steps to implement the law.
The government's lawyers are due to lay out their argument in more detail tomorrow but at an initial hearing earlier this month, they claimed that a first tier tribunal only has the power to identify that legislation is incompatible with the Human Rights Act - not to rule on a case on that basis.
At noon, federal and state judges, lawyers and journalists explore the interplay of First Amendment rights when attending and reporting on criminal trials as well as the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial, New York State Bar Association, 1 Elk St., Albany.
The public at large, not just lawyers and politicians, are interested in rights and freedoms.»
Prominent Democratic donors gave at least $ 700,000 to women's rights lawyer Lisa Bloom in the final stretch of the 2016 race as she sought to publicize sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump.
And if you're not getting paid for your work at a Manhattan law firm, then New Yorkers are right to question if you're getting paid for your work in Albany,» said Tom Stebbins, the executive director of Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York, who noted favorable state laws for trial lawyers.
At a separate press conference in Midtown on Monday, the defendants who brought the case and their lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights hailed the Judge's decision.
Clegg, who has lived at 26 Lauren Court in Woodstock for 25 years, said in his press release that his experience as a trial lawyer, defending people's rights and more than 40 years of «community service make him well - suited to represent the sprawling and diverse» district.
«The lawyers are looking at that right now,» said Democratic Westchester Assemblyman Gary Pretlow, who chairs the Assembly's Racing and Wagering committee.
«You need a smart, forward - thinking lawyer who has got a steel backbone and is really not afraid of what comes at him when doing the right thing,» said New Jersey attorney general Gurbir Grewal.
Lawyers for Shaun McCutcheon, an Alabama electrical engineer and conservative political activist, argued that the per - donor caps — which currently stand at $ 48,600 to candidate committees and $ 74,600 in contributions to PACs and party committees in each two - year cycle — burden his First Amendment rights while doing little to protect public officials from corruption.
A Buffalo lawyer is challenging whether a non-profit corporation that finances and develops residence halls on behalf of the University at Buffalo has the right to withhold records about its financial dealings and keep its board meetings private.
Lawyers for the NPP have threatened to cite the suspended National Chairman Paul Afoko for contempt if he does not desist from making further comments in the media on his suspension and the pending suit at the Human Rights Court.
At 9 a.m., the New York State Bar Association hosts a continuing legal educationprogram for lawyers on how to handle key issues when representing LGBT clients, in light of the Obergefell v. Hodges case that recognized same - sex couples» right to marry across the country, CUNY Graduate Center Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Ave., Manhattan.
All the actual lawyers who really know these issues are, of course, too busy doing other things (namely in a meeting on this very issue right now) to comment on this blog at the moment.
«She was a hard - working, substantive lawyer with deep roots in the community,» said Andrew G. Celli Jr., a founding partner at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady who served as the chief of the civil rights bureau from 1999 to 2003 under the former attorney general, Eliot Spitzer.
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