Sentences with phrase «serve the public interest at»

First, I'll say simply that I believe there's no justification for the monopoly granted to the law societies because there's no quid pro quo, no requirement to serve the public interest at all.

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«To avoid sowing seeds of division in our nation, upholding this fundamental constitutional principle at the core of our nation's identity plainly serves a significant public interest,» Chuang wrote in his ruling.

At first they regulated the services that they performed directly — marriage and burial ceremonies, handicraft production via public guilds, and the prices and interest rates that merchants, public collectors and other professionals could charge, especially in serving as intermediaries between public institutions, local and foreign communities.

With headquarters in Washington, D.C. (323 DuPont Circle Building, Washington, D.C. 20036), it provides information about public and professional alcoholism programs, as well as serving and representing its member - agency's interests at the national and international levels.

Our first «public event» that served to exhibit AFTE's basic concerns and interests was held this past November at Notre Dame.

An Office of Family Assistance (OFA) funded national resource for fathers, practitioners, programs / Federal grantees, states, and the public at - large who are serving or interested in supporting strong fathers and families.

At present, the most democratic constitution bill ever drafted is being held hostage by self - serving politicians in the clearest possible demonstration of a fundamental principle of constitution - making — namely, that politicians should neither be tasked with drafting nor ratifying constitutions because of the risk that they will act against the public interest.

If his interest in serving the public is as real as he says it is, he'll stick around, further acclimate himself to the issues at hand and work from the ground up to make the East End a better place to live.

Metzger is also the director of Citizens for Local Power, a local not - for - profit organization that provides a voice for community interests at the New York State Public Service Commission, serves as a local utility watchdog and promotes a more equitable, affordable, locally based clean - energy economy.

Tish James, who is currently serving a second term as public advocate, vowed to defend New York's public interest «at a time when we should use the shield of the law from the sword of injustice.»

James, who is currently serving a second term as public advocate, vowed to defend New York's public interest «at a time when we should use the shield of the law from the sword of injustice,» she said.

While in law school, he served as a student advocate at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, an intern at Cardozo Beth Tzedek Legal Service.

«I will continue, at the pleasure of the next president and the next secretary of Homeland Security, to serve as the vice chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Committee... But I have no interest or desire to return full time to the public sector.

The candidate is perhaps best - known regionally as the founder / director of Citizens for Local Power, a local not - for - profit organization that provides a voice for community interests at the New York State Public Service Commission, serves as a local utility watchdog and promotes a more equitable, affordable, locally based clean - energy economy.

Virtually all this research is paid for at least in part by public money, which raises an inconvenient question: Is the public interest served by journals that don't even recognize scientific excellence?

I have had an interesting life so far - I worked for a professional baseball team, was a candidate for public office, worked at a sheriff's office, served in the U.S. Army, and worked at the...

Comment from Morna McDermott: How can we escape the trap that high stakes testing both serves corporate interest like Pearson at the expense of children's real learning while acknowledging that tests are being used to shut down public community schools for corporate model charter schools that have proven to be no better than the schools they replaced?

The CTTL also annually trains teachers at other schools, both regionally and nationally, as it serves a public interest as well.

The program, only active in Connecticut, trains and mentors individuals with a Connecticut teaching certificate and at least four years teaching experience who «are interested in serving as the next generation of principals for the New Haven Public Schools» (Achievement First, 2012).

Legally, it should only do so if it finds that it serves «the public interest» and, in gauging whether it does so, the FCC must discern whether cable prices will be held at a «reasonable» rate.

As James A. Secord points out, they served an almost «utopian» combination of the interests of capitalism, science, public education, and art; what allowed them to serve anything at all was their artifice, which brought with it the implication that even the remote beasts of deep time could be exposed, recreated, and conquered by human ingenuity.

A 22 - year - old senior at the University of California, Berkeley, she serves on the executive board of CalPIRG, a student - run public interest group.

A big part of the staff duties to serve in the public interest at NWS Weather Forecast Offices (about 120 NWS WFOs in the US) is to provide education to media and the public on weather, climate and water.

It is, rather, a direct interference in the public conversation in a way that serves Exxon's interest at the expense of the public interest.

Prior to her tenure at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Shultz served as director of legislative and regulatory affairs at the Mineral Policy Center (now Earthworks), and as a staff attorney at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (now Environment America).

It underlined that Article 16 EEA served the purpose of allowing EEA Member States to pursue public interest aims through the maintenance of commercial monopolies, so long as operators and traders from other EEA States were not put at a disadvantage in law or fact through the operation of such monopolies (paras 51 - 52).

On appeal, the court rejected the regulator's assertion that solicitor - client privilege, which serves private interests, can not be used to stifle an inquiry with public interests at stake.

Minister Konaté wants this conference to take place every year — a gathering at which to reflect on standing up for the public interest and better serving the citizens of Mali.

At this time China had in place a government bureaucracy that served broad public interests.

At Harvard, Crawford was taken under wing by the late Archibald Cox, who would go on to earn a reputation as an advocate of the public interest after serving five months as Watergate special prosecutor — a position from which he was ultimately fired in 1973 by then - president Richard Nixon in what came to be known as the Saturday Night Massacre.

It's «in the public interest» to have free, open access to pretty much any legal information, but if making that information freely accessible makes it impossible for the information to continue to be published, the public interest is not being served at all.

With the exception of a closing thought at the end, I'll refrain in this post from getting into the protectionist regulatory environments through which lawyers limit the opportunity for others to step in and serve the public need and the public interest.

In addition, these cases often serve the public interest, as they often have significant implications for the public at large.

At the University of Denver College of Law, Mollie served as Managing Director of Social Justice Action Group (S - JAG), a volunteer organization that provides free legal research and writing assistance to public interest attorneys who are actively pursuing social justice.

In order to obtain a temporary injunction, the plaintiff is required to establish (1) the likelihood of irreparable harm, (2) the unavailability of an adequate remedy at law, (3) substantial likelihood of success on the merits, and (4) that the injunction will serve the public interest.

He is the former director of alumni career services at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where he has served as a dedicated resource for alumni and alumnae working or seeking work or advancement in the private and public interest and public sectors.

Newton Minow's mission to serve the public interest is one that lies at the heart of the legal profession.

At the same time, federal collateral consequences can serve public safety functions and protect government interests.

He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and serves on a number of boards and committees, including the Australia Pro Bono Centre.In 2009, Ed was presented with an Australian Leadership Award, and in 2017, he was recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.From 2010 - 2016, Ed was chief executive of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, a leading non-profit organisation that promotes human rights through strategic litigation, policy development and education.Ed was previously a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Law School, a research director at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and a solicitor in private practice.

the public interest served by protecting the identity of the informant must outweigh the public interest in getting at the truth

«Our role at the Law Society is to act in the public interest and serve the public, which means we need to be more visible and establish ourselves as the place to turn for legal help and information,» said Law Society Treasurer Paul Schabas.

The Fellow (s) spend the first seven weeks of the summer working as a Fenwick Summer Associate and the following three weeks at a Bay Area public interest organization which focuses on diversity issues or serving diverse populations.

It seems an appropriate time for those lawyers, ethics committees, bar associations and legal regulators who have an interest in how the cloud will serve the public interest as well as the needs of lawyers, clients and cloud developers to get involved and start looking at clouds from both sides now, both up and down, as it seems that, at this early point in its development, we really don't know the ethics of clouds at all...

We believe philanthropy at its best serves the public good, not private interests; employs grant making practices that most effectively help nonprofits achieve their mission; and strengthens democracy by responding to the needs of those with the least wealth and opportunity.

The U.S. Supreme Court found the government does have a legitimate interest in «ensuring public safety and order, promoting the free flow of traffic on streets and sidewalks, protecting property rights, and protecting a woman's freedom to seek pregnancy - related services,» and that the buffer zones at issue «clearly serve these interests.»

During law school at UConn, she was a member of the Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal and also served as the production editor.

We are a national resource for fathers, practitioners, programs whether they be non-funded or federal grantees, states and the public at large who are serving or are interested in supporting strong fathers and strong families.

The National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse is an Office of Family Assistance funded national resource for fathers, practitioners, programs / federal grantees, states and the public at - large who are serving or interested in supporting strong fathers and families.

Signed: Your friendly former - Realtor critic - at - large with no vested interest in whether anything changes or not, but who, for the minority of real live professionals who populate the ranks of the misbegotten, feels sorry for the negative tar - brushing from the public that they receive thanks to the policies of ORE that serves the interests of «their» own back pockets whilst claiming to be there for their dues - payers as they routinely, by way of turning that blind big eye, throw them under the bus of wasted, unrealistic (supported by ORE) dreams.

Maybe that is what it will take for ORE to clean up its act and develop a finite number of professional Realtors whose innately - driven individual first priorities are to properly, thus professionally, serve the public interest instead of routinely turning out boat loads of desperate immigrants from unrelated pursuits looking for fast big bucks riding the real estate - sales gravy - train from the end of a computer link spewing forth learned, canned scripts which hide the reality of the truth, ignorance of what they profess to be experts at.