«The volunteer lawyers are at the airport to help affected communities deal with the difficulties created by the Executive Order,»
says volunteer attorney, Takao Yamada.
Not exact matches
On Sunday, Patricia Cross, an
attorney and
volunteer for the Citizens for a Greater Barrington Area Community Center,
said she had not received a response to the offer after presenting it to Park District lawyers Saturday.
The Manhattan district
attorney's office
said it could not comment on the sentencing possibilities for Haggerty, an unpaid
volunteer during the re-election campaign.
Five months later, Mackler, director of legal initiatives with the New York Immigration Coalition,
said it was quiet enough that her group turned down requests from
attorneys offering to
volunteer their services.
A group of men and women, including
volunteers for state Assembly candidate Myungsuk Lee's campaign, were arrested and charged with assault and unlawful imprisonment last weekend following a fracas in the hopeful's campaign office, the Queens district
attorney said.
A senior
attorney for Gov. Andrew Cuomo who in 2014 offered her analysis on a set of political donations to the governor was
volunteering her time to his campaign, the administration
said Wednesday.
«Weiner's was a display,»
said Danielle Wanglien, a campaign
volunteer and real - estate
attorney in Manhattan, comparing the two scandals.
Ambrogi
says the survey found that two - thirds of American
attorneys «gave free legal assistance to people of limited means and organizations serving the poor,
volunteering an average of 39 hours of pro bono work a year.»
Even so, it is unable to meet the region's overwhelming need for legal services, Wiltshire
says, citing as reasons both the dearth of
volunteer attorneys and Legal Aid's difficult recruiting new lawyers because of the low salaries it pays.
However, the «duty to report» outlined in Rule 2.15 above is reinstated if, in good faith, the JLAP committee member or
volunteer has: reason to believe that an
attorney or judge participating in the JLAP program is failing to cooperate with
said program; is engaged in criminal behavior or the threat thereof; or, is otherwise in violation of Rule 2.15 which is beyond or succeeds the behavior upon which the judge's participation in JLAP was initially based.
William G. Mitchell Jr., chair of the MSBA Committee on the Resolution of Fee Disputes,
says the 92
volunteer attorneys in his service provide a forum for legal consumers who believe they've been overcharged.
Cops asked them to move but were mostly inept and uninterested, made the excuse of «well they can't park on the street» (OK, but that doesn't mean you can
volunteer my property...) tried to lecture ME about being a good neighbor... They tried to claim it's a civil issue though when I asked them if my neighbor breaks into my house is that a civil issue too just because he's my neighbor, they quickly changed their tune... Not to mention I consulted with an
attorney at the time who
said it was a criminal trespass issue since it's not a boundary dispute, which I informed them of.