Sentences with phrase «american corporate law»

But instead, since I had five minutes before another meeting at my old firm, I went into their library, since I knew there were some overview texts on American corporate law, Williston on Contracts, and an annotated version of the Model Business Corporations Act.

For example, works on American corporate law are classed under the number KF 1414, while works from other common law jurisdictions are classed under KF 1415, with an added jurisdictional cutter number of ZA2 for Canada, ZC2 for Great Britain, ZD2 for Australia, etc..

White argues that American corporate law has considerable resources to give us for thinking about the corporation as citizen, resources that are endangered when we define the corporation exclusively in terms of economic gain.

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Forty - four major law firms and 55 corporate legal departments are teaming up to boost diversity in the legal profession by drawing on two inspirational figures: the late Dan Rooney, beloved owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Arabella Mansfield, a 19th century women's rights activist who became the first American woman admitted into the legal profession in 1869.

Investigators have not accused Apple of breaking any laws and the company is hardly the only American multinational to face scrutiny for using complex corporate structures and tax havens to sidestep taxes.

He is the author of treatises on proxy voting and shareholder communications and his articles have appeared in The London Financial Times, The New York Times, The New York Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Insights, Pensions & Investments, The Corporate Governance Advisor, Directors & Boards, the Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems and other publications and professional blogs.

(The American Illness: Essays on the Rule of Law) It focuses on the impact the corporate governance regulation has had on the global competitive position of U.S. capital markets.

Brown is a former member of the Duke University School of Law Board of Visitors and previously served for several years on the School of American Ballet Corporate Advisory Board.

He has presented at a wide variety of corporate law seminars and symposia around the country, including The Tulane Institute of Corporate Law (where he serves as Co-Chair of the Planning Committee), The Association of General Counsel, The Harvard School of Law, Columbia School of Law, The University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and The University of Pennsylvania Institute of Law and Economics (where he serves as a member of the Board of Advisors), The Annual Institute on Corporate Securities and Related Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions, sponsored by the New York City Bar Association, as well as a variety of seminars sponsored by The Practicing Law Institute and the American and Delaware State Bar Assocorporate law seminars and symposia around the country, including The Tulane Institute of Corporate Law (where he serves as Co-Chair of the Planning Committee), The Association of General Counsel, The Harvard School of Law, Columbia School of Law, The University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and The University of Pennsylvania Institute of Law and Economics (where he serves as a member of the Board of Advisors), The Annual Institute on Corporate Securities and Related Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions, sponsored by the New York City Bar Association, as well as a variety of seminars sponsored by The Practicing Law Institute and the American and Delaware State Bar Associatiolaw seminars and symposia around the country, including The Tulane Institute of Corporate Law (where he serves as Co-Chair of the Planning Committee), The Association of General Counsel, The Harvard School of Law, Columbia School of Law, The University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and The University of Pennsylvania Institute of Law and Economics (where he serves as a member of the Board of Advisors), The Annual Institute on Corporate Securities and Related Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions, sponsored by the New York City Bar Association, as well as a variety of seminars sponsored by The Practicing Law Institute and the American and Delaware State Bar AssoCorporate Law (where he serves as Co-Chair of the Planning Committee), The Association of General Counsel, The Harvard School of Law, Columbia School of Law, The University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and The University of Pennsylvania Institute of Law and Economics (where he serves as a member of the Board of Advisors), The Annual Institute on Corporate Securities and Related Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions, sponsored by the New York City Bar Association, as well as a variety of seminars sponsored by The Practicing Law Institute and the American and Delaware State Bar AssociatioLaw (where he serves as Co-Chair of the Planning Committee), The Association of General Counsel, The Harvard School of Law, Columbia School of Law, The University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and The University of Pennsylvania Institute of Law and Economics (where he serves as a member of the Board of Advisors), The Annual Institute on Corporate Securities and Related Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions, sponsored by the New York City Bar Association, as well as a variety of seminars sponsored by The Practicing Law Institute and the American and Delaware State Bar AssociatioLaw, Columbia School of Law, The University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and The University of Pennsylvania Institute of Law and Economics (where he serves as a member of the Board of Advisors), The Annual Institute on Corporate Securities and Related Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions, sponsored by the New York City Bar Association, as well as a variety of seminars sponsored by The Practicing Law Institute and the American and Delaware State Bar AssociatioLaw, The University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and The University of Pennsylvania Institute of Law and Economics (where he serves as a member of the Board of Advisors), The Annual Institute on Corporate Securities and Related Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions, sponsored by the New York City Bar Association, as well as a variety of seminars sponsored by The Practicing Law Institute and the American and Delaware State Bar AssociatioLaw, and The University of Pennsylvania Institute of Law and Economics (where he serves as a member of the Board of Advisors), The Annual Institute on Corporate Securities and Related Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions, sponsored by the New York City Bar Association, as well as a variety of seminars sponsored by The Practicing Law Institute and the American and Delaware State Bar AssociatioLaw and Economics (where he serves as a member of the Board of Advisors), The Annual Institute on Corporate Securities and Related Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions, sponsored by the New York City Bar Association, as well as a variety of seminars sponsored by The Practicing Law Institute and the American and Delaware State Bar AssoCorporate Securities and Related Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions, sponsored by the New York City Bar Association, as well as a variety of seminars sponsored by The Practicing Law Institute and the American and Delaware State Bar AssociatioLaw Institute and the American and Delaware State Bar Associations.

To argue that the corporation's defining objective is «enhancing corporate profit and shareholder gain» leads, in his opinion, to unacceptable conclusions: «To say that a corporation's only goal is to make money would be to define the business corporation — for the first time in American or English law as I understand it — as a kind of shark that lives off of the community rather than as an important agency in the construction, maintenance, and transformation of our shared lives.»

«From corporate America to Indian techies to Indian - Americans with family ties to their native land — all are lobbying hard to influence changes in the proposed immigration law that has started moving through the US legislative labyrinthine.

Call it yet another example of the Great American Corporate Accountability System, otherwise known as laws and rules are only for the rank and file, not for the elite.

Uchitelle, an award - winning New York Times business writer, traces the history of work since the rise of corporate America, providing an interesting perspective on how various laws, policies and programs have affected American business and...

Haarlem, the Netherlands Corporate - law practice Dutch art; sculpture; contemporary American and European art Top 200 appearance: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

What hasn't been reported is the complementary role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.

American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.

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Ohio is currently fighting this year's final battle in a nationally - coordinated attack on clean energy standard laws, implemented by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and other groups belonging to the secretive corporate front group umbrella known as the State Policy Network (SPN).

ALEC Exposed Also run by the Center for Media and Democracy, ALEC Exposed tracks the corporate - funded American Legislative Exchange Council's efforts to undermine the public interest and democracy through lobbying and collaboration between corporations and politicians on «model bills» developed behind closed doors to shift state laws in favor of corporate interests instead of the public.

Alvarez & Diaz - Silveira LLP (ADS), a Miami - based corporate boutique law firm specialising in transactional work including international and domestic M&A, finance, real estate, and immigration services, announced that it has represented Dometic AB as lead US counsel in its acquisition of SeaStar Solutions from affiliates of American Securities LLC.

They include Paulette Brown of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, who co-authored the landmark 2006 report, Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in Law Firms; R. Ted Cruz of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, the first Hispanic to be Texas solicitor general and author of more than 70 Supreme Court briefs; John W. Daniels of Quarles & Brady, one of the first African - Americans to lead a top U.S. firm; Keith M. Harper of Kilpatrick Stockton, a Cherokee who heads his firm's Native American affairs practice group; Patricia Menendez - Cambo, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig's global practice group; General Mills GC Roderick A. Palmore, who, as GC at Sara Lee, spearheaded the Call to Action urging corporate law firms to diversify; and Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLaw Firms; R. Ted Cruz of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, the first Hispanic to be Texas solicitor general and author of more than 70 Supreme Court briefs; John W. Daniels of Quarles & Brady, one of the first African - Americans to lead a top U.S. firm; Keith M. Harper of Kilpatrick Stockton, a Cherokee who heads his firm's Native American affairs practice group; Patricia Menendez - Cambo, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig's global practice group; General Mills GC Roderick A. Palmore, who, as GC at Sara Lee, spearheaded the Call to Action urging corporate law firms to diversify; and Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the AClaw firms to diversify; and Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU.

ALM owns and publishes 33 national and regional magazines and newspapers focused primarily on the legal community, including The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, Corporate Counsel and Law Technology News.

The legal and business publishing company ALM today launched a new digital platform that unites its 18 U.S. legal brands — including The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel and The National Law Journal — under the common Law.com URL.

Domenick has served on the Board of Directors of the ARC Association and a mid-cap technology company, as Chairman Emeritus of the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance, Board Member of the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance, Adjunct Professor of Insurance Law and Regulation at Temple Law School, Member of the Board of the Business School of NJIT, where he also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Corporate Finance, Member of the Association of Corporate Growth and Member of the American Bar Association Mergers and Acquisitions Committee.

Since 2011, LexisNexis has had the exclusive license to archived content from all ALM publications, which include The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, The National Law Journal, Legaltech News, the Law.com website, and a number of other regional and specialty publications.

Rodey received first tier rankings in Santa Fe in these areas: Administrative / Regulatory Law Arbitration Banking and Finance Law Corporate Law Energy Law Financial Services Regulation Law Mediation Mining Law Native American Law Natural Resources Law Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants Real Estate Law

As just a brief sampling, in «The Cost of Law: Promoting Access to Justice through the (Un) Corporate Practice of Law» [2] and «Life in the Law - Thick World: The Legal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans» [3](with Jaime Heine), Hadfield uses empirical evidence to demonstrate that there can never be enough pro bono (free) legal work or enough money for legal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in the US.

Amy is also the founder and co-organizer of Legal Hackers LA, which programs around the intersection of law and technology; was named one of the one of ten women to watch in legal technology by the American Bar Association Journal in 2014; and was nominated as a Finalist for the Corporate Counsel of the Year Award 2015 by LA Business Journal.

Law.com, which publishes the American Lawyer Magazine, National Law Journal, Corporate Counsel, and regional legal periodicals, is particularly informative, as well as being good reading.

David Gallo started his career in private practice at a large law firm, and then served as corporate counsel at American Electric Power.

LexisNexis today announced an online data - sharing agreement with American Lawyer Media under which its Martindale.com law directory will add to its law firm listings new links to data from LegalMarketInfo.com, ALM's service that includes data from proprietary ALM rankings such as the Am Law 200, the NLJ 250, the Global 100 and Corporate Scorecalaw directory will add to its law firm listings new links to data from LegalMarketInfo.com, ALM's service that includes data from proprietary ALM rankings such as the Am Law 200, the NLJ 250, the Global 100 and Corporate Scorecalaw firm listings new links to data from LegalMarketInfo.com, ALM's service that includes data from proprietary ALM rankings such as the Am Law 200, the NLJ 250, the Global 100 and Corporate ScorecaLaw 200, the NLJ 250, the Global 100 and Corporate Scorecard.

Kevin Hunt, corporate communications guru for Thomson North American Legal, filmed interviews at LegalTech New York with Law Technology News Editor Monica Bay, Legal Tech Newsletter Editor Adam Schlagman and me.

The American Lawyer and The National Law Journal have been cataloging bankruptcy fees for most of the big - name corporate failures of recent months, from Lehman and IndyMac to Chrysler and General Motors.

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Civil law: The individual respondent, Larry Hrynew, and corporate respondent, Canadian American Financial Corp., were found liable of civil conspiracy against the respondent, Harish Bhasin, by the Alberta Court of Queens» Bench.

What if the Association of Corporate Counsel and / or the American Bar Association were to create a system by which users of legal services (clients) could report on their experiences with lawyers and law firms in an honest and organized fashion, via the Internet.

American Lawyer Media yesterday introduced a redesigned IP Law & Business magazine, and, along with it, a redesigned IP Law & Business Web site, both targeted to in - house legal professionals and outside attorneys responsible for protecting and managing corporate intellectual property assets.

The panel featured Aric Press, editor - in - chief of The American Lawyer, David Lat, founding editor of the blog Above The Law, Susan Jacobsen, director of communication and public relations for the Association of Corporate Counsel, and José Cunningham, chief marketing and business development officer of Crowell & Moring.

The firm garnered national first tier rankings for antitrust law, commercial litigation, construction law, corporate law, employee benefits (ERISA) law, insurance law, litigation - antitrust, litigation - construction, litigation - ERISA, litigation - intellectual property, Native American law, patent law, real estate law, technology law, and trademark law in US News — Best Lawyers ® 2017 «Best Law Firms.&raqlaw, commercial litigation, construction law, corporate law, employee benefits (ERISA) law, insurance law, litigation - antitrust, litigation - construction, litigation - ERISA, litigation - intellectual property, Native American law, patent law, real estate law, technology law, and trademark law in US News — Best Lawyers ® 2017 «Best Law Firms.&raqlaw, corporate law, employee benefits (ERISA) law, insurance law, litigation - antitrust, litigation - construction, litigation - ERISA, litigation - intellectual property, Native American law, patent law, real estate law, technology law, and trademark law in US News — Best Lawyers ® 2017 «Best Law Firms.&raqlaw, employee benefits (ERISA) law, insurance law, litigation - antitrust, litigation - construction, litigation - ERISA, litigation - intellectual property, Native American law, patent law, real estate law, technology law, and trademark law in US News — Best Lawyers ® 2017 «Best Law Firms.&raqlaw, insurance law, litigation - antitrust, litigation - construction, litigation - ERISA, litigation - intellectual property, Native American law, patent law, real estate law, technology law, and trademark law in US News — Best Lawyers ® 2017 «Best Law Firms.&raqlaw, litigation - antitrust, litigation - construction, litigation - ERISA, litigation - intellectual property, Native American law, patent law, real estate law, technology law, and trademark law in US News — Best Lawyers ® 2017 «Best Law Firms.&raqlaw, patent law, real estate law, technology law, and trademark law in US News — Best Lawyers ® 2017 «Best Law Firms.&raqlaw, real estate law, technology law, and trademark law in US News — Best Lawyers ® 2017 «Best Law Firms.&raqlaw, technology law, and trademark law in US News — Best Lawyers ® 2017 «Best Law Firms.&raqlaw, and trademark law in US News — Best Lawyers ® 2017 «Best Law Firms.&raqlaw in US News — Best Lawyers ® 2017 «Best Law Firms.&raqLaw Firms.»

, 2016 • «Foreign Anti-Corruption Compliance: Director and Office Obligations and Considerations», Corporate Governance by Federated Press, Volume IX, No. 4, 2013 • Canada Gets Tough on Corruption, February 2013 • «Why You Should Think About an Anti-Corruption Compliance Program», TechSTARTUPCenter.com, April 2013 • «Tendering Law: The Evolution of the Duty of Fairness and What it Means for Clients», Presentation, 18th East Region Solicitors Conference 2012 • Panelist, Government of Canada, Economic Action Plan Roundtable: «Helping Businesses Sell to the Government of Canada», 2011 • «A Comparison of Canada's Proposed Consumer Product Safety Legislation (Bill C - 52) and its American Counterpart», Focus on Federal Advocacy and Policy, June 2008

She presents at several diversity and legal conferences, including the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, Pathways to Diversity, the National Association of Law Placement Annual Conference, the Law Firm Chief Marketing Officers» Forum, Strafford Publications, the American Conference Institute and several law student associatioLaw Placement Annual Conference, the Law Firm Chief Marketing Officers» Forum, Strafford Publications, the American Conference Institute and several law student associatioLaw Firm Chief Marketing Officers» Forum, Strafford Publications, the American Conference Institute and several law student associatiolaw student associations.

That is the phrase used by the editors of The American Lawyer to describe the state of corporate law practice in the magazine's Corporate Scorecard 2009, its annual survey of the legal industry's top corporate pcorporate law practice in the magazine's Corporate Scorecard 2009, its annual survey of the legal industry's top corporate pCorporate Scorecard 2009, its annual survey of the legal industry's top corporate pcorporate practices.

In the study we found that power was associated with law firm MPs» leadership success; interestingly, power also predicts the success of corporate CEOs and both American and Canadian political candidates (measured by the number of votes they get).

Energy Law «Lawyer of the Year» for Billings Best Lawyers» 2012 Natural Resources Law «Lawyer of the Year» for Billings Chambers USA — Leading Lawyers in Natural Resources & Environment International Who's Who of Mining Lawyers American College of Real Estate Lawyers Outstanding Service Award, Mountain States Legal Foundation Top Rated Lawyer in Energy, Environmental & Natural Resources, The American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel Magazine InterContinental Finance Magazine's 500 Leading Lawyers in the World Marquis Who's Who — Legal

It publishes The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, Corporate Counsel, IP Law & Business, Law Technology News, and state and local legal newspapers around the country.

Snyder — American by origin, based in Europe since 1995, and licensed to practice in Illinois, New York and Paris with 20 years» experience in international corporate law — credits a summer program in 21st century law with kindling her fascination with the United Kingdom's regulatory environment for legal services.

ALM's titles include Law.com, The American Lawyer, Asian Lawyer, Corporate Counsel and The National Law Journal, and China Law & Practice.

The September issue of The American Lawyer offers a preview of the Real Rate Report, a study produced by CT TyMetrix, Inc., a company that audits law firm bills, and The Corporate Executive Board Company, a company that provides best practices research and analysis.

President, Electronic Discovery Institute (EDI) Board Member, Advisory Board of the Georgetown Law Advanced eDiscovery Institute Conference co-chair, The Sedona Conference Complex Litigation Conference on «The Future of Civil Litigation,» Phoenix (April 8 - 9, 2010) Conference Chairman, The Masters Conference: «Security, Privacy and Compliance Within Corporate Litigation,» Washington, D.C. (October 3 - 5, 2011) Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Law Technology News, American Law Media publication (2010 to present) Senior Contributing Editor, Working Group 1 (Managing Information and Records in the Electronic Age), The Sedona Conference Member, New York City Bar Association Member, Federal Bar Council (Second Circuit) Member, Litigation Advisory Board for Bloomberg Law

Member, New York State Bar Association Member, New York City Bar Association Member, FINRA Corporate Financing Rules, Hedge Funds, Investment Companies and Investment Advisers, and Trading and Markets Subcommittees, Federal Regulation of Securities Committee, and Member, Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee, Business Law Section, American Bar Association (ABA)