A decision released yesterday by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice's Divisional Court has overturned a Superior Court ruling that limited
when civil lawyers can share compelled medical records and other personal information with defence counsel in the same case.
Not exact matches
New York (CNN)-
Civil rights
lawyers filed papers in federal court Monday seeking to prohibit the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim communities
when there is no evidence that they are linked to terrorism or other illegal activities.
CNN:
Lawyers seek to limit New York police surveillance of Muslims Civil rights lawyers filed papers in federal court Monday seeking to prohibit the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim communities when there is no evidence that they are linked to terrorism or other illegal acti
Lawyers seek to limit New York police surveillance of Muslims
Civil rights
lawyers filed papers in federal court Monday seeking to prohibit the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim communities when there is no evidence that they are linked to terrorism or other illegal acti
lawyers filed papers in federal court Monday seeking to prohibit the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim communities
when there is no evidence that they are linked to terrorism or other illegal activities.
When a youth says that he has not yet decided whether he will be a
civil engineer, or a landscape artist, or a
lawyer, or a professional aviator, or a clergyman, we have to take him seriously.
Only an infantile
lawyer like Okudzeto Ablakwa would refuse to cut his losses as I did
when he knows that governments in Ghana do not pay for any fees associated with filing and prosecuting
civil cases except legal costs, damages, and other awards.
Sussman is a 1978 Honors Graduate of Harvard Law School and has been one of the Hudson Valley's most prominent
civil rights and trial
lawyers since the 1980's
when, as lead counsel for the Yonkers Branch of the NAACP, he helped end racial segregation in the City of Yonkers public schools.
In fact,
when the current Ghana School of Law was set up in 1958 at Makola, the purpose was to train non-degreed
civil servants to become
lawyers.
Mayor Bill de Blasio today told the state's top judge that he believe the day is approaching
when government will guarantee all citizens a
lawyer in
civil court cases — but said that the funding for the attorneys will have to come from the federal level.
When I asked why Carlson didn't simply go to another dating service, her
lawyer evoked the image of Rosa Parks, noting that «nearly every step in
civil rights law, you could have said the same thing... There is a big difference between the sites that allow the customers to self - select who they are looking for» and a site that makes the decision «to exclude a minority group.»
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...
When Academy Award - winning actress Frances McDormand lit up Oscar night with her puzzling plea for «inclusion riders,»
civil rights
lawyer Kalpana Kotagal was watching the Sunday evening event from the other side of the continent in Washington and...
One of his least inspiring roles was
when he played a
Civil Rights
lawyer in a single episode of Masters of Sex.
When Richard consults a
civil - liberties
lawyer (Nick Kroll), he finds that there may be some legal hope for them if they are willing to take on the system.
Freeman is set to play «an iconic
civil rights
lawyer who comes into the picture
when Ted needs to resolve some legal issues.»
Instead, the film swings back to 1941,
when the 32 - year - old, Howard University graduate and
civil - rights
lawyer was looking to stir up some righteous NAACP action if he found any upcoming trial that might be corrupted by racism.
Currently, parents may choose a better school
when their child's school fails to make AYP, but as the
Lawyers» Committee for
Civil Rights Under Law has called it, the choice option is «a right without a remedy.»
When thinking about what she will change in the field of education, Heather Elgin draws upon the words of activist and
civil rights
lawyer Monica Ramirez — a recent guest in her Ethnic Studies course — «Sometimes there aren't doors.
«Alarmingly, the percentage of teachers of color in BPS is basically what it was 24 years ago,
when the final judgment in Boston's desegregation case was signed,» said Matt Cregor, Education Project Director at the
Lawyers» Committee for
Civil Rights and Economic Justice.
I am a fully bilingual soon to be
lawyer, and I used some of these tools for translations, but stopped soon after because the translations, especially for legal documents, are highly humorous, especially
when, as the previous poster has mentioned,
when translating between a
civil law and common law system.
When the Manhattan DA declined to prosecute the
lawyer, she brought a
civil suit against him seeking $ 70 million in damages.
When it came to
lawyers representing cases or clients that advanced or advocated for
civil rights, they were often targeted with repeated disciplinary proceedings.
Civil legal aid programs benefit from the compilation of small amounts of interest earned
when lawyers pool the escrow funds they hold for their clients.
For help in Juniata, Perry, or surrounding Counties, contact our experienced
civil litigation
lawyers at Czekaj Dusharm LLC at to help you achieve a desired outcome
when problems arise.
Is the current law of
civil contempt applicable to self - represented litigants or is there a different standard that applies
when a litigant does not have the benefit of representation by a
lawyer?
When a
lawyer faces an allegation of any
civil, criminal or regulatory (i.e. Law Society) misconduct, all confidentiality guarantees are out the window.
But
when Meisels» former clients Paul and Anita Tiago sued him for alleged negligence during his representation of them in two
civil suits, they also sued the other three
lawyers, alleging they shared responsibility as partners in the same firm.
The fourth is at the post-call stage
when squads of less well - trained new
lawyers, unable to find jobs and saddled with debts that would make US Congresspeople chew their nails to the knuckles, open their own firms and resort to churning, roiling and boiling their mostly family and
civil litigation files to make whatever money they can however they can from a small, sliced and diced number of clients per
lawyer — ethics, wisdom, logic, and good sense be damned.
He got his first break as a
Civil Court Trial
Lawyer when a major negligence firm wanted someone to act as their trial
lawyer for a plaintiff who had driven a car on the wrong side of the road and had been involved in a head - on collision.
Jon Katz has been a trial
lawyer since 1991,
when he joined the Maryland Public Defender's Office (1991 - 96) after an early stint handling
civil litigation and regulatory work with a great corporate law firm team (1989 - 91).
On the other side of that coin, once again tonight HBO airs another very powerful documentary film, called Mann v. Ford, by co-directors Maro Chermayeff and Micah Fink, which showcases how vitally important the
civil justice system and plaintiff's
lawyers are to help communities seek justice
when powerful corporations have harmed them.
Judges were educated, practised as
lawyers, and then presided
when appointed, in the legal era
when the Canadian constitution meant little more than the «peace, order, and good government» clause
when it came to the concept of
civil liberties.
Accusations of discovery lapses may be common in
civil litigation, but what does a
lawyer do
when his opponent simply ignores routine discovery requests?
When there is a disagreement over money, a
lawyer who specializes in resolving
civil cases might be able to help.
Also,
when a lawsuit is filed, the victim and the victim's
lawyer will need to spend much more time on the case because the formal procedural rules of
civil litigation will come into play.
Moreau only added salt to the
civil lawyers» wounds
when he argued publicly in 2015 as treasury board president that they don't require the same level of independence in the determination of their working conditions as Crown attorneys.
Is it legally necessary to disclaim «I am not a
lawyer»
when engaging in casual conversation, writing Internet posts, etc. to avoid
civil or criminal liability for one's comments?
A board - certified
civil trial
lawyer by The Florida Bar Board of Legal Specialization and Education, our Bradenton and Sarasota bicycle accident
lawyer will powerfully represent your case in court
when a fair settlement is not available.
However, in Quebec,
civil law advocates (or avocats in French) often call themselves «attorney» and sometimes «barrister and solicitor» in English, and all
lawyers in Quebec, or
lawyers in the rest of Canada
when practicing in French, are addressed with the honorific title, «Me.»
As a board - certified
civil trial
lawyer, our founder and managing attorney, Dana J. Watts, knows how important it is to have a knowledgeable professional on your side
when you have been injured riding your motorcycle.
Katherine C. Bailey, Kendra L. Berardi, Lawrence P. Heffernan, John E. O'Brien, Jr., Kathryn M. Rattigan, and Elizabeth K. Wright represented the firm
when they walked with hundreds of
lawyers to the Massachusetts State House in the 17th Annual Walk to the Hill for
Civil Legal Aid on January 28, 2016.
1 For attempts to measure the effect of advocacy quality through other means, see, e.g., Banks Miller et al., Leveling the Odds: The Effect of Quality Legal Representation in Cases of Asymmetrical Capability, 49 Law & Soc» y Rev. 209 (2015)(finding that high quality representation evened the odds for asylum applicants and that asylum seekers fared better
when unrepresented than
when represented by a poor
lawyer); Mitchell J. Frank & Dr. Osvaldo F. Morera, Professionalism and Advocacy at Trial — Real Jurors Speak in Detail About the Performance of Their Advocates, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 1, 38 (2012)(finding statistically significant correlations in criminal cases between jurors» perceptions of closing argument persuasiveness and jury verdict, and finding statistically significant correlations in
civil cases between perceptions of defense counsel's closing argument persuasiveness and defense verdict); James M. Anderson & Paul Heaton, How Much Difference Does the
Lawyer Make?
As president of AAJ, the largest trial
lawyer non-profit group in the United States, LeBlanc advocated for protection of America's
civil justice system and rallied resources
when corporate interests attempted to infringe on individual rights.
It seems that
when little, common place things start to get a bit more difficult — things like: getting a divorce, managing a business, resolving
civil disputes, or defending criminal cases — small towns take a hit; a lack of
lawyers isn't the death - blow, but it is a symptom of a potentially terminal disease.
And this is what I understand to be the meaning of our
lawyers,
when they say that these
civil corporations are liable to no visitation; that is, that the law having by immemorial usage appointed them to be visited and inspected by the king their founder, in his majesty's court of king's bench, according to the rules of the common law, they ought not to be visited elsewhere, or by any other authority.53 And this is so strictly true, that though the king by his letters patent had subjected the college of physicians to the visitation of four very respectable persons, the lord chancellor, the two chief justices, and the chief baron; though the college had accepted this carter with all possible marks of acquiescence, and had acted under it for near a century; yet, in 1753, the authority of this provision coming in dispute, on an appeal preferred to these supposed visitors, they directed the legality of their own appointment to be argued: and, as this college was a mere
civil, and not an eleemosynary foundation, they at length determined, upon several days solemn debate, that they had no jurisdiction as visitors; and remitted the appellant (if aggrieved) to his regular remedy in his majesty's court of king's bench.
There was a time in the not - so - distant past
when individual clients (such as you would find in the family law, criminal law,
civil defense, real estate, trusts and estates, and even business law fields) had little to no tools by which they could call into question the bills presented to them by their
lawyers.
When lawyers see sharp practice go unsanctioned (and often rewarded) then they legitimately wonder whether or not «
civil» means «sucker».
If «
civil» means «politeness, even
when lying» and «uncivil» means «not accepting fibbing in court» then the problem is obviously not the «uncivil»
lawyer it is the definition itself.
Sir Rupert said he had been «shocked» by the levels of costs
when he began his review of
civil litigation, adding that some of the old rules «permitted gross over-remuneration of
lawyers, insurers, claims management companies and others».
Reading about Justice Jackson as a student, listening to a man speak that Memorial Day in 1909 about the
civil war, peace and justice,
when the speaker would later become the Justice's law partner, brought to mind the bonds
lawyers develop with each other as time passes.
When divorcing spouses can be
civil to one another, they can reach an accord about the terms and condition of their divorce without undue reliance on
lawyers, who cost money (and sometimes create problems).