Sentences with phrase «say blacks lawyers»
Does there exist such equality that we can bring in examples of proportion as if to say blacks lawyers obviously need the articling opportunities or magic wand to fix this problem.
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«It's black - letter law,» says Jason Beeho, a Toronto employment lawyer.
«A promotional album from a band may in fact be encouraging someone to listen to further U2 music, or whatever it is,» says Ryan Black, a lawyer and co-chair of information technology at McMillan.
«We have a dynamic role model in the White House, a black woman who gets the idea that she can go to work, be a lawyer and still provide milk for her baby,» said Napiera Loveless, co-founder of MamaTotoMatema, a Cincinnati - based organization committed to educating and encouraging leaders and health care professionals to adopt different approaches to promoting breastfeeding in African American families.
«When they cut legal aid,» she says, «a lot of lawyers - particularly black and ethnic minority women lawyers - could no longer survive on the money we were earning because we were getting paid peanuts.
The findings of the investigation by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office of the fatal Troy police shooting of a 37 - year - old black man could undermine jurors» confidence in officers testifying in future cases, defense lawyers said.
Lawyers for the parents, who filed three separate lawsuits in Albany County Supreme Court this month, argued that State Education Commissioner David Steiner erred in granting Black a waiver from a requirement that she possess a master's degree — something they said he doesn't have the power to do.
TROY — The findings of the investigation by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office of the fatal Troy police shooting of a 37 - year - old black man could undermine jurors» confidence in officers testifying in future cases, defense lawyers said.
Matthew Smalls, a Staten Island lawyer, said months ago that he would run, in the wake of the Eric Garner case — in which a grand jury impaneled by Mr. Donovan opted not to indict a white police officer in the unarmed black man's death.
«The waiver is supposed to be a process for candidates who have some of the criteria but fall short on maybe one,» said Barron, who plans to hold a meeting with lawyers Monday to decide whether to file a temporary restraining order preventing Black from taking office as well as additional legal action.
«This is the history Mississippi wants to walk away from,» said Alvin O. Chambliss Jr., the lawyer for a group of black residents who sued the state in 1975 over racial disparities in its public colleges and universities.
Without this clause (or a new or amended will), a spouse is always entitled to a preferential share of your estate, says Toronto estate lawyer Howard Black.
Recent diversity figures from the Judicial Appointments (JAC) show there is a serious problem with the appointment of black and minority ethnic lawyers to the bench and underline the need for targeted support and training, the Bar Council has said.
Commenting on the event, Osuntokun said: «Walking into a boardroom of white faces as a black lawyer can be daunting, particularly when you are more junior.
Christopher Stephens, chairman of the JAC, said: «Women are applying and being selected in increasing numbers; black and minority ethnic lawyers are applying in larger numbers and are doing well in entry - level posts and solicitors are performing better in entry and middle ranking posts.
(This diluted expectation of privacy is what I believe Jan Lindsay, then President of Law Society of British Columbia, was referring to when she is reported to have said at a conference in 2014: «This is black and white: BC lawyers are prohibited from using non-BC-based cloud computing providers, including Google and Dropbox.»)
Many criminal defense lawyers, she says, «maintain that the prosecution practice of using peremptory strikes to remove black jurors remains widespread.»
A prominent black lawyer who says he felt humiliated when a security guard denied him entry to the law society's headquarters has made a racial profiling complaint to the human rights tribunal.
Mr. Newman's lawyer said late Tuesday the move is part of a deal that will see Mr. Black officially drop the multimillion - dollar libel lawsuit.
Already, she has created a task force to compile oral and written histories of black lawyers in Florida, says another report.
While they say they are public interest regulators, they nevertheless hang on to a variety of activities that are designed to make lawyers feel good: receptions and black - tie dinners, awards... things that are about lawyers rather than about protection of the public.
«Because they would say... the judge is white and the Crown is white, so I can't have a black lawyer.
«When I started becoming a criminal lawyer, white people didn't even come to us,» he said, referring to himself and black colleagues.
«There are firms that believe if they hire black lawyers they will lose their clients,» one participant said.
He actually says the majority of judges and counsel he's personally dealt with have treated him fairly as both a black defence lawyer and a black accused.
«It's absolutely time for young lawyers and for diverse lawyers to finally have a voice at the law society,» said Austin, a 28 - year - old black lawyer and one of the youngest candidates in the April 30 elections.