Sentence examples for interest firm from inspiring English sources

The appeal, which was heard by the panel on June 1, came in a challenge filed by the Thomas More Law Center, a conservative public interest firm in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Mathew D. Staver, a lawyer with Liberty Counsel, a public interest firm that defends traditional marriage, said it would ask the court to stay its decision until the November election, meaning that the decision could be overturned before becoming effective.

"A judge who has spent his career as a prosecutor may bring a different perspective to applying the law than a judge who has been a law professor," he added, "just as a judge who spent her prior legal career as a litigator may see things differently from someone who worked at a public interest firm".

"We keep sending more people to prison than the prisons can handle," said Donald Specter, who heads the Prison Law Office, a Berkeley-based public interest firm.

Feuer's feel for the impact of mortgage and foreclosure abuse reflects his background in public interest law, which included service as executive director of Bet Tzedek Legal Services, the Los Angeles public interest firm that assists the elderly, disabled and other disadvantaged clients.

"It's a win-win, even if public interest firms have to take on the training," Ms. Chalmers said.

It capped the amount of interest firms can charge so people taking out payday loans will never have to repay more than twice the sum they borrowed.

What he wanted was to practice civil-rights law in Chicago, and he did, representing victims of housing and employment discrimination and working on voting-rights legislation for a small public-interest firm.

Things were still perilous for homosexuals in this country two decades later, when a young lawyer named Mary Bonauto — whom Kaplan thinks of as "the Thurgood Marshall of our movement" — started working at Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), a public-interest firm serving New England.

In recent years, amid fears that China's control of the market could jeopardize Western strategic interests, firms such as Elissa pursued deposits elsewhere in the United States, Kyrgyzstan, Namibia, Vietnam, Greenland, Australia, and other countries.

For the same questions about how and in whose interests firms ought to be managed arise also, and often more forcefully, in firms doing business in forms other than the publicly-traded corporate one.