Sentences with phrase «whether state bar»

The real issue will be whether state bar associations and lawyers can change themselves to fit the times, and do so responsibly and ethically, or whether the times will change without them.

Not exact matches

Finally, always check an attorney's references and see whether there are any complaints filed against him or her with the Bar Association in your state or the American Bar Association.

When Ronald Reagan was asked whether homosexuals should be barred from public office in the United States, he replied jokingly that they should certainly «be barred from the department of beaches and parks.»

Whether your idea of a good time includes indulging in «Baja - Med» style cuisine at the on - site Bistro & Cava indoor / outdoor restaurant or more casual fare at the Marina Grill indoor / outdoor restaurant; cocktailing at the patio bar; taking a dip in the indoor or outdoor pool or in the large outdoor Jacuzzi; pampering with a service at the fully - equipped «C Spa»; sweating out the stress in the state - of - the - art fitness center; or playing an exhilarating game of tennis, the property offers all of this and more to keep you and your companions duly engaged and entertained.

The New York State Bar Association's Committee on the New York State Constitution releases its Report and Recommendations Concerning Whether New Yorkers Should Approve the 2017 Ballot Question Calling for a Constitutional Convention.

The union's targeting of Miner - who spoke at a Fight for $ 15 rally in February at a Syracuse church - shows the no - holds - barred fight going on over the proposed minimum wage hike as the state's top political leaders are negotiating whether it will be included in the state budget.

Saying «time is short,» state Bar Association President David Miranda called on Cuomo to issue an executive order to create a commission to prepare for the 2017 voter referendum on whether to authorize a constitutional convention.

The New York State Board of Regents has established a committee to study the Algebra I test results to determine whether the bar for passing was set too high.

Lawmakers in New York are debating whether to add electronic cigarettes to the state's ban on smoking in public areas like workplaces, bars and restaurants.

The New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), which as part of its mission seeks to raise judicial standards and reform the legal system, will discuss the issue at its upcoming House of Delegates meeting on June 17, and consider voting on whether to take a position on the ballot measure, a spokesperson has confirmed.

«In terms of the role, I haven't seen any real pushback other than, «I don't like what he's doing — he shouldn't tell us what to do,» whether it's the state bar or the Senate,» Lippman said.

Today, Joe Bruno is awaiting word on whether he'll serve the two years behind bars he was sentenced to back in May, and he's completely tapped out, according to the State Board of Elections.

The City Bar argued that New York should follow the lead of the other states, particularly California and Washington, which have created independent entities to determine whether an exception is warranted under particular cases or whether certain information should be kept confidential in a case of extreme hardship that would not violate the public interest.

The event, co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Institute and the state Bar Association, looked to November 2017, when voters will be asked whether to hold what would be the state's 10th Constitutional Convention since 1777.

On the proposal, David Miranda, President of the New York State Bar Association, said «we support diversity of all kinds, whether it be gender or ethnicity or sexual preference.»

Unlike the City Council bills that would mandate that retail stores give employees at least three days» notice of their schedules, the state regulations under development would not bar the practice that requires employees to be on call until they are told whether they are needed that day, sources said.

Karen He, an aide to State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, presented a letter her office has sent to the State Liquor Authority asking the agency to determine whether the license would violate the «200 foot rule,» a section of the law prohibiting bars near churches and schools.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

Authorities have been barring travelers who admit to smoking weed — regardless of whether they are heading to a recreationally legal state.

Walter C. Ayers, a spokesman for the New York State Ethics Commission, said he was barred by state law from discussing whether Mr. Pataki had sought the opinion of the commission before accepting the ride on Mr. Mack's pState Ethics Commission, said he was barred by state law from discussing whether Mr. Pataki had sought the opinion of the commission before accepting the ride on Mr. Mack's pstate law from discussing whether Mr. Pataki had sought the opinion of the commission before accepting the ride on Mr. Mack's plane.

There were also deals, or near deals, to bar campaign donations from those seeking state contracts, create a public campaign financing system for state Supreme Court judicial candidates, and require state lawmakers to seek a formal opinion on whether their outside income represents conflicts of interest.

In one well - known study, Robert Thayer, PhD, a professor at California State University, Long Beach, studied whether people were more energized by eating a candy bar or taking a brisk 10 - minute walk.

The largest and most popular entertainment centre in the state there's live music featured over 9 bars and 9 dance floors, they also have satellite TV's and show most sporting events, whether local or national.

Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner has told the state's Hispanic leaders that he will form a task force to study whether illegal immigrants should be barred from state colleges and universities.

To see whether states are setting proficiency bars in such a way that they are «lowballing expectations» and have «lowered the bar» for students in 4th - and 8th - grade reading and math, Education Next has used information from the recently released 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to evaluate empirically the proficiency standards each state has established.

However, justices did not make a broader judgment as to whether its Blaine Amendment could be used to bar religious institutions from receiving other forms of state aid.

In an Education Next forum, three authors debate another proposed solution — whether states should adopt a two - tiered diploma, in which students who pass an exit exam at a career - and college - ready level receive an «academic» diploma while students who fail to meet that bar receive a «basic» diploma.

Unfortunately for them, one - off state tests don't yield comparable results, and discrepant proficiency bars are much of what went wrong with NCLB — so the drop - out states that devise their own assessments still won't know how their kids and schools compare with those in other states or with the nation as a whole or whether their high school graduates are indeed college ready.

The far - reaching question underlying the case is whether state constitutional provisions that strictly bar government aid to religion violate religious freedom protections in the First Amendment.

but as of now I still only have the 1st bar Received filled in... I will certainly come back online tomorrow to state whether I received my refund or not to help document timing for everyone.

If you are not sure whether the statute of limitations applies in your case — the rules vary from state - to - state — simply ask the collection agency if your debt is «time - barred» meaning the statute of limitations has run out.

Whether new pipelines are needed or not, both Shattuck and UCS's Rogers expect the state's Supreme Judicial Court to rule against the DPU decision, barring utilities from using money from the rate base to invest in gas pipelines once again.

Whether you would prefer your state bar be unified or deunified, the choice is beyond your personal control.

• Applicants who are required to establish rehabilitation under Rule 3 - 13 «so as to ascertain whether they displayed any malice or ill feeling towards those who were compelled to bring about the proceeding leading to the need to establish rehabilitation;» • Applicants with a history of substance abuse / dependence «so as to ascertain whether they discussed or posted photographs of any recent substance abuse;» • Applicants with «significant candor concerns» including not telling the truth on employment applications or resumes; • Applicants with a history of unlicensed practice of law (UPL) allegations; • Applicants who have worked as a certified legal intern, reported self - employment in a legal field, or reported employment as an attorney pending admission «to ensure that these applicants are not holding themselves out as attorneys;» • Applicants who have positively responded to Item 27 of the bar application disclosing «involvement in an organization advocating the overthrow of a government in the United States to find out if they are still involved in any related activities.»

Placide had sought to bolster her contract argument by introducing evidence that she had called the state bar's advisory counsel, who said her contract with the law firm determined whether she was permitted to represent outside clients.

See Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Formal Opinion 2001 - 1 (concluding that information submitted by e-mail to a law firm via the firm's website was unsolicited; simply including an e-mail link on a law firm's website does not amount to an invitation to transmit confidential information); Iowa State Bar Association Op. 07 - 02 (evaluated whether the lawyer said or did anything to prompt the potential client to provide confidential information to the lawyer, noting that a lawyer's «request to contact» is not the same as a request for information); Massachusetts Bar Association Op. 07 - 01 (concluding that a website is a marketing tool by which a prospective client may identify which lawyers have the expertise necessary to handle a particular case, and that the publication of such information could reasonably lead a prospective client to conclude that, when sending information to the firm via an e-mail link, the firm and its lawyers have implicitly «agreed to consider» whether to form an attorney - client relationship.

An appeal court in New York has issued an important ruling on the issue of whether a woman who relocates to another state while she is pregnant is barred from having a future custody case being heard in the new location.

The case before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals questioned whether the state of Michigan could bar strippers from dancing bottomless.

Aside from questions about whether a lawyer is permitted by the lawyers professional conduct rules repeatedly to send collections letters regarding states where the lawyer is not licensed to practice law, such letters are harder to take seriously when the collections lawyer is going to have to arrange for another lawyer barred in the particular state to file any collections lawsuit.

-- Whether it be writing for the Bar Journal, attending a Bar golf event, or listening to a seminar, being involved with your State Bar Association is key to meeting lawyers in your sState Bar Association is key to meeting lawyers in your statestate.

Or whether anyone has tried reporting these fake ads to the state bars (which I can only imagine are going crazy over all of this undignified advertising that is presumably beyond the scope of the bars» jurisdiction).

So my state bar up in Michigan doesn't care where I live, or whether I have an office, or where it's located.

She was also a mom and her part time didn't always meet the 120 hour threshold over the course of those five years, though she wasn't doing anything else and so they said that she didn't meet the standards and denied her ability to waive into the Minnesota bar without having to take the bar exam and she's petitioning that to the state supreme court right now under a couple of different theories because the case also involved maternity leave and whether a gap in that counting, all sorts of interesting stuff.

I thought the fact that there is kind of a pending issue in our state about what it means to be a lawyer, to practice law, whether full time practice is what's required for you to consider yourself practicing law, and it's pretty clear to me, and I think to most of the people engaged in the bar association in Minnesota that where our society is headed probably means that arbitrary numerical thresholds of how many hours you bill or work is probably the wrong way to think about whether people are professionally lawyers or not.

The program, sponsored by the Connecticut Bar Association (CBA), focused on the government's disclosure obligations, United States v. Stevens and its aftermath, the adequacy of Brady in protecting the accused, and whether Brady should be revitalized or replaced.

We have offices throughout the state, and each of those offices is responsible for overseeing whether or not there's any potential misconduct of any of its Bar members.

How a discipline system works is partly wrapped up in whether your state has an integrated bar.

Some background: This Thursday is the deadline to file comments with the American Bar Association's Commission on the Future of Legal Services on whether states should regulate legal service providers (LSPs).

Whether that will allow their barristers and advocates to continue with the presentation is another matter given that they will no longer be members of bars of a Member State but perhaps that is a detail which will rank very low on the negotiations priority list.

I just received my state and local bar membership dues invoice, and I'm staring at the $ 528 price tag wondering whether I ought to renew.