Sentences with phrase «rights lawyer who»

Eric von Helms is an experienced creditors» rights lawyer who specializes in the representation, protection and assertion of business and commercial claims of secured and unsecured creditors.

Oliver W. Hill, the civil rights lawyer who died this week at the age of 100, is being remembered in obituaries for his role in the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, as well he should.

Nathaniel Dresden never really got along with his father, an infamous civil rights lawyer who defended criminals and spearheaded protest movements.

Before joining the federal government, Lhamon was a civil rights lawyer who argued cases on behalf of students who saw constant teacher churn.

Freeman is set to play «an iconic civil rights lawyer who comes into the picture when Ted needs to resolve some legal issues.»

Redford plays Jim Grant, an upstanding civil rights lawyer who's recently become a widower and is bringing up his young daughter.

In addition to directing, Redford also stars in the film as a civil rights lawyer who must go on the run when he's outed...

The seventh alleged victim is Caitrin Kennedy, who is represented by Prathima Reddy, a civil rights lawyer who will be pursuing a claim in the federal court in Buffalo.

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.

«In effect, recognition of Christians in the laws of Iran has now become basically recognition of an ethnicity rather than faith,» said Hussein Jadidi, a human rights lawyer who recently fled Iran after he became a target in a Christmas sweep that caught 70 other Christians.

A Christian human rights lawyer who has been detained in China for nearly two years is still behind bars despite being spared prison.

Speaking to the New York Times, Ari Wilkenfeld, acivl rights lawyer who said he represented the woman who made the complaint to NBC said:

She'll try to address it by rounding out her ticket with Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a Harvard - educated former civil rights lawyer who's nonetheless got lunchbucket cred as the successful former governor of a Southern state.

Why she's awesome: Alamuddin is a highly accomplished human - rights lawyer who has clients include former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and the country of Armenia in its fight for recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

The government has also brought formal charges against nearly 20 human rights lawyers who had worked against the demolitions in the province, and authorities have broadcast coerced «confessions» from several of them.

If your disability claim has been denied, then the next step is to seek out the right lawyer who can guide you through the process and successfully resolve your claim.

I thought of voting rights lawyers who fought to enfranchise the disenfranchised.

I thought of all the civil rights lawyers who fought for decades in big cities and rural communities all across the country.

Not exact matches

• 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.»

Christian rights lawyer Zhang Peihong, who has represented Christian activists in China, said he had not expected Tillerson to make a big deal about human rights.

«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.

Cafes are one thing, but who in their right mind looks up a lawyer in the phone book?

In practice, «showing sword» has led to the arrest and imprisonment of prominent human rights activists and lawyers who were largely left alone under the previous leadership.

He clearly enjoyed it, too, saying in a press conference, «Any lawyer in his right mind who would not be looking forward to cross-examining Mark Fuhrman is an idiot.»

The Child DAO issue eventually led to an Ethereum hard fork, the result of voting to not let the attacker (who said he had legal right to his property through a lawyer) have his prize for his creation, and emptying the piggy bank to all those who lost ETH and laid claim to it.

Two lawyers who have never met can nevertheless combine efforts to defend a complete stranger because they both believe in the existence of laws, justice, human rights — and the money paid out in fees.

The lawyer who helped close the purchase of your house is not the right person.

The lawyers may have as much of an aversion as I've had to Donald Trump, but they are the ones who are sent into court to resist the mandates of Obamacare and to defend the Little Sisters of the Poor, the owners of Hobby Lobby, or the doctors and nurses who are invoking their rights under Hyde - Weldon Act not to be forced to participate in abortions.

The extradition was welcomed by lawyers for a legal advocacy organisation, The Guernica Group, and the Spanish Association for Human Rights, who in 2008 filed a criminal complaint before the National Court on behalf of the victims.

Lotfy is a lawyer who specializes in human rights cases and also a member of a youth coalition that comprises young Egyptian revolutionaries of varied ideologies.

In Luke Jesus throws the question back to the lawyer, so it is the lawyer who states the two commandments and Jesus who says he is right.

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.

Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who was released from prison earlier this month is suffering from a «broad range of physical and mental health problems» according to his international lawyer.

Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who was released from prison earlier this month is suffering... More

Apple's lawyers plan to argue that the judge who gave the order has overreached in her use of an obscure law, violating the company's First Amendment rights.

Chiesa said he was still going to fight right after the incident, Then a quick scrum with a lawyer and UFC saying fighters who were victims of this attack would be paid fight money and win bonus and he changed his tune.

Intellectual Property or IP, in lawyer's speak, is a property right that enables the owner to dictate who uses their work.

Jeffrey Feulner, an Orlando divorce lawyer who specializes in men's rights in a divorce, lists these common blunders...

Los Angeles lawyers who specialize in reproductive law will know that all of the parties involved will feel more comfortable if the law recognises that the intended parents will have legal rights to the child under any and all circumstances.

The jurors listened as lawyers argued that the trial was about the rights of midwives and parents to choose home birth, and they were aware of the daily presence of midwife advocates who filled the courtroom in support of Cryns.

Victoria Ferrara is an international surrogacy lawyer committed to protecting the rights of parents who are undergoing assisted reproduction.

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?).

The commission reports to Nick Clegg and Ken Clarke, two firm supporters of the Human Rights Act, and is populated with lawyers who are unlikely to recommend major change.

There are certainly some Britons, including academics, journalists and human rights lawyers, who are aware of the realities of colonialism.

RIP Jerome Lefkowitz, a labor lawyer and mediator who helped draft the Taylor Law that grants New York public employees collective bargaining rights but forbids them from striking.

Dissenting justice campaigners, legal aid lawyers and those who've witnessed the rot setting in (from swingeing legal aid cuts, curbs to judicial review, an interpreting service in freefall, probation chaos and threats to withdraw Britain from the Human Rights Act) will be highlighting the urgent need to halt the destruction of our justice system and abide by the principles of the medieval charter.

Signing, shaking hands, shooting the shit, engaging in political discourse with the American People, OK maybe having one or two heated arguments with an occasional fucking dicktard who apparently needs to turn an animated conversation into a fistfight because that's just the kind of self - medicating ballsack he is, I can't say any more right now according to my lawyer.

Sadiq Khan, who used to be a human rights lawyer, is also opposed.

Now the lawyers who make the laws, the managers who run big pharma, and the doctors who prescribe the pharma are trained in expensive schools that teach a kind of token morality, (passed off as complete enough), whereby their chosen professions» wrongdoing is made somewhat obvious, but the practical teaching of powers for righting such wrongdoing is neglected, enfeebling them so that reforms and remedies appear impractically strenuous.

The leader of the immigration revolt — on an amendment, remember, which even the home secretary Theresa May had said was illegal under the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights — was Dominic Raab, a bright international lawyer who knew exactly what he was doing, and was one of the stars of the 2010 intake.