Diane Ritchie is an experienced attorney and an active member of several professional organizations including the Consumer Attorneys of California and the California Employment Lawyers Association. After earning her bachelor of arts from the University of California at Berkeley, she matriculated at the Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco, California. Diane Ritchie earned her juris doctorate and began helping elderly and disabled clients through the Senior Adult Legal Assistance and Disability Law Center. Shifting her professional focus to the field of employment law, she subsequently served successful tenures with the Law Office of Steven W Valdes and Phillip J Griego & Associates. Since 2007, Diane Ritchie has provided legal
Courts generally have held that a paralegal and or legal assistant can achieve the objectives of communication and to provide potential clients with information concerning legal fees and representation if instructed by the supervising attorney. However, a paralegal and or legal assistant cannot provide a potential client with legal advices, accept cases, appear in court, and or provide decision(s) to the case(s). Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland v. Morgan Joseph Hallmon, 343 Md. 390; 681 A.2d 510; 1996, a District of Columbia attorney employed his wife, Carole Cloud who is a law school graduate and is not admitted to practice law in any jurisdiction. Carole was hired as Office Manager, Coordinator, and Law Clerk of the firm. She performed legal work for a client of the firm, which mostly were reviewed and approved by the supervising attorneys Morgan Joseph Hallmon and Eric Cloud, her husband. Attorney Hallmon had given Ms. Cloud full responsibility of handling the case in which he has been kept aware and up to date with the proceedings and details of the case. The court stated:
Diane Arbus is a photographer from New York City her work is from the 1950s and 1960s. Diane work for a well know fashion magazines like Vogue magazine. Diane has a collection of photos of children. She has a attraction to taking photos of young children. One picture that she has called my attention was a little girl that looks like she getting out of school. Arbus works on the people first impression.
The credibility of being a disability rights lawyer demonstrates strong ethos throughout the article presented by McBryde Johnson. She has the personal experiences of being disabled. She is an expert witness with lived experiences that add to the ethos of her argument. This use of double ethos gives her the credibility that others do not possess. This allows her to talk about her situations with personal knowledge of the subject matter. With personal experience, she has knowledge surrounding the issue allows the audience to accept what she has to say. For example, McBryde Johnson and her followers explain how disabled people can live relatively happy lives compared to those people without a disability. “The presence or absence of a disability does not predict quality of life” (McBryde Johnson 3). Demonstrating that people with disabilities can have a high quality of life, as said before, gives McBryde Johnson credibility to further support her argument. McBryde Johnson is a lawyer who exhibits a high intelligence and also deals with the state legislators in disability activism. For example, she helped pass a bill with the hope of moving toward a world where killing is not such an appealing
Providing legal services to underserved communities can be both challenging and rewarding. I anticipate such a career after graduating from law school. My upbringing and experiences influence my desire to serve rural areas with limited access to legal services.
I am writing in regards to Latosha Griffin and the work she is completing for our company in Rochester, MN. Latosha works for our company, PeopleReady, which is an Industrial Staffing Company whose mission statement is to connect people with work.
From hiring through discharge, employees in California are protected by a myriad of federal and state laws. It is not a secret that California courts are some of the most employee-friendly in the country. In general, our nation’s laws and courts that are instituted to interpret them ensure that employers do not base their decisions on an applicant or employee’s protected characteristic such as sex, disability, pregnancy, race, national origin, or age (if over 40).
To survive summary judgment in a disability discrimination case under the ADA, the plaintiff must make a prima facie showing that she could perform the essential functions of her job with or without reasonable accommodations. 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq. When evaluating what the essential functions for a specific job are the employer’s judgment is highly probative. 42 U.S.C. § 12101(2). MMC established the essential functions of the Nurse Manager position by drafting Exhibit A, the want ad posting, and by practice, namely Deon Washington’s training of former nurses including Blake, for the past twenty-seven years as Nurse Manager of the ACU. The court in Heaser set up a list of factors to help establish the essential functions of a given job,
Diane Nemorev was born on March 14, 1923 in New York City, NY, and grew up in Central Park West, NY. She was the child of wealthy Jewish parents but was mainly raised by several governesses. Because of that, she did not have a good relationship with her parents and often felt alone. Diane felt unreality in her life. When Diane learned new things, she had the feeling she couldn’t experience it. As a child she painted at school. Diane hated painting and when she graduated from High School, she stopped immediately. Painting made her feel shaky, because Arbus hated the smell of paint and the noise of the brush on the paper. People would say Diane was terrific at it, but she felt as if something
Margaret Vroman, Associate Professor at Northern Michigan University, and former attorney authored the article “Hiring and Firing the Mentally and Psychiatrically Disabled: Advice for HR Professionals.” Ms. Vroman holds a Bachelor of Science in History and Political Science and her Master of Arts in Political Science from Western Michigan University. With an estimated 26.2% of adults suffering from diagnosed mental disorders the effect on the work place can be significant. People with mental disorders are the largest group of disabled individuals in the work force. The 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (AMERICANS WITH DISABILITES ACT) and subsequent 2009 Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act (AMERICANS WITH DISABILITES ACTAA) prohibits
My moms name is Diana Lynn Boucher. She is 44 years old and she was born on January 10 1973. She was born and grew up in turlock and lived on South Kilroy Rd. My mom went to Cunningham elementary school, Turlock junior high, and Turlock high school. When my mom was younger, she used to live on a dairy. My mom has three sisters and one brother. Currently my mom is a stay at home mom but before I was born she worked at medical alert getting information for people's medical alert bracelets. My mom started working at medical alert in 1992 and she quit in 2001. My mom enjoys reading, Cooking, and spending time with her family. My mom and I enjoy going shopping and baking together. My Favorite memory with my mom is going shopping at the boutiques in Boston. My mom's favorite food is homemade cheesecake brownies that my dad is
SCENARIO - Involving new hire paralegal Carl and the law firm Dewey, Dewey and Howe.
For the sake of this class, I am going to call my employer Sadco. I have been working for Sadco, a law firm specializing in foreclosure and bankruptcy law, for ten months. I was recently moved to manager of the intake department. My department has several responsibilities, but the key task is taking in all the orders, motions, and notices received by the court or opposing counsel as well as deciphering what department to route each document.
Such engagement immersed Mr. Hunt in veteran’s initiatives in alignment with the provisions of 38 U.S.C. 4215, which provides priority of service to veterans and eligible spouses in all Department of Labor-funded job 5 training programs. As Director of the National Center of Excellence, Mr. Hunt headed the team that designed, launched and administered a nationwide web-based training program used by the disabled to improve their skills in service related professions (e.g. customer service). This experience has not only driven a passion for workforce development and innovation, but also a desire to train the countless underserved populations such as the disabled. His compliance and employment expertise, which has evolved for more than three decades, truly makes him an invaluable component in the creation, strategizing, and management of workforce developing initiative, job centers and training particularly as they pertain to providing opportunities to veterans, socioeconomically disadvantaged and disabled populations.
Such engagement immersed Mr. Hunt in veteran’s initiatives in alignment with the provisions of 38 U.S.C. 4215, which provides priority of service to veterans and eligible spouses in all Department of Labor-funded job 5 training programs. As Director of the National Center of Excellence, Mr. Hunt headed the team that designed, launched and administered a nationwide web-based training program used by the disabled to improve their skills in service related professions (e.g. customer service). This experience has not only driven a passion for workforce development and innovation, but also a desire to train the countless underserved populations such as the disabled. His compliance and employment expertise, which has evolved for more than three decades, truly makes him an invaluable component in the creation, strategizing, and management of workforce development initiatives, job centers and training particularly as they pertain to providing opportunities for veterans, socioeconomically disadvantaged and disabled populations.
We are presented with a case where Heather Yates, vice president for business development at