Sentences with phrase «for litigation purposes»

How do I handle requests for such references?Thank you so much for your help!CherylCHERYL M. EARLE3407 Old Dobbin Road, Montgomery, Alabama 36116 - 1903Home Phone: [phone] Cell Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] E-mail: [email protected] position managing legal discovery and document review with opportunity to assist attorneys with civil litigationBAR ADMISSIONAlabama State Bar, 1999LAW - RELATED EXPERIENCELaw Firm, AlabamaResearch Attorney for Special Projects, Mass Torts Department, November 2001 — February 2008 • Managed Multi-District Litigation (MDL) Document Depository (September 2002 to February 2008) o Reviewed more than 1 million pages of evidentiary documents for litigation purposes and for inclusion in electronic databaseso Coordinated document review assignments with attorneys at local depository and at other sites across the USo Retrieved, reviewed and coded documents in Concordance and Summation legal databaseso Prepared memoranda and spreadsheets providing detailed analysis of discovery materials • Aided attorneys and support staff with processing and preparation of personal injury claims and litigationo Conducted legal research and drafted pleadingso Conducted supplementary online research for additional documents and information pertinent to litigationo Assisted with preparation of correspondence to clients and referring attorneyso Contacted clients for additional information needed in case preparation, litigation, and potential settlementso Prepared and input case intakes and referrals into databaseLaw School, AlabamaStudent Intern, Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP), August 1996 — June 1997 • Participated in law school clinical program under third - year law student practice rule (as authorized by Alabama Supreme Court) o Assisted attorneys and advocates in cases involving mentally ill patients confined to state mental health facilitieso Interviewed clients in person (at state facilities) and over the phoneo Worked with clients, attorneys, and social workers to investigate and resolve issues concerning involuntary confinement and treatmento Aided in legal research on an appellate brief submitted to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (ruling granted in favor of our client) Faculty Research Assistant for Library Services, Bounds Law Library, March 1996 — June 1997 • Prepared research and teaching materials for law school faculty; worked 20 hours per week while matriculating 10 - 15 hours per semester) o Investigated copyright issues related to procuring and reproducing texts for academic useo Conducted legal research using WESTLAW, LEXIS and the InternetADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCEManufacturing Company (MC), Montgomery, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant and Cost Analyst, Materials Purchasing Department, April 1999 — September 2001 • Assisted materials buyers in negotiating and preparing commodities contracts between raw materials suppliers and MC for manufacturing plants in the US and Mexicoo Assisted Legal Department at MC's corporate headquarters with coordination and preparation of documents for litigationo Notified and educated suppliers about MC's freight - on - board policy and its corresponding Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) provisions; result was the reduction of freight claims for both the company and its supplierso Prepared contracts and purchase orders for raw materials and capital projects involving plant maintenanceo Solicited price quotations from current vendors and established Excel spreadsheet format which simplified quote submission process and allowed MC to track and compare usage volumes and costs over timeo Prepared and analyzed cost reports used by materials buyers and production planners in purchasing decisions, including cost reductions, materials consolidation, and selection of vendorso Acted as liaison between vendors and the Purchasing, Transportation and Accounting Departments on issues concerning inbound freight, commercial carriers, and payment terms for commodities, resulting in reductions in freight costs and greater payment discounts for raw materialso Established online databases and printed directories for the Purchasing Department, allowing buyers to have easier and faster access to current vendor informationo Completed Year 2000 (Y2K) compliance project, which involved data collection and communication with MC's past, present, and potential materials suppliers and service providersNot - For - Profit Organization, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant, Combined Federal Campaign, September 1998 — January 1999 • Aided Campaign Director with 1998 Federal Campaigns (CFCs) in City 1 and City 2, which together generated nearly $ 700,000 for more than 1,000 local, national and international charitieso Prepared weekly reports on donations using WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Excel and dBase IVo Wrote script for Talent Showcase at City 1's 1998 CFC Kickoffo Assisted Director with merger of the City 1 and City 2 CFCs in 1999Regional Bank, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant, Year 2000 (Y2K) Department, March — June 1998 • Worked with Vice President of Corporate Projects on short - term project for the bank's Y2K Departmento Analyzed and processed data on Y2K readiness for all branches of Bank throughout the southeastern USo Organized meetings for personnel of Banko Communicated with vendors of computer hardware, software, and office equipment to request information on Y2K complianceo Prepared compliance files for Federal Reserve auditso Prepared in - house memoranda and reports using Microsoft Word and ExcelRecord / Music Promotion Company, AlabamaRecord Pool Co-Founder; Office Manager, September 1990 — December 1991 • Co-founded record pool to enhance promotion of music in Alabama and the southeastern USo Procured and distributed records from major and independent labels for club, radio and mobile disc jockeyso Coordinated jointly sponsored promotional events with record companies, radio stations and clubso Designed, wrote, and published bi-weekly reports and brochures to inform the music industry of the progress and popularity of music and performers in the region, with specific focus on the Alabama music sceneMajor University, AlabamaGraduate Research Assistant, AUM Department of Marketing, June 1989 — August 1990 • Worked 13 - 20 hours per week as a research assistant to Marketing faculty while carrying a full course load in the MBA programo Analyzed consumer surveys used in academic researcho Assisted Conference Chairperson with coordination for Atlantic Marketing Association (AMA) annual meeting (October 1989) o Co-authored five - year index and classification of AMA Proceedings (published Fall 1991) EDUCATIONLaw School, AlabamaJuris Doctor (JD), 1997 • Scholarshipso Seybourn H. Lynne Scholarship, 1996 - 97o Dexter C. Hobbs Memorial Scholarship, 1995 - 96o E. W. Godbey Memorial Scholarship, 1994 - 95 • Honorso Who's Who Among American Law School Students, 1996 - 94o Arthur Davis Shores Award, 1997 • Activitieso Frederick Douglass Moot Court Team Manager, 1996 - 97 Southern Regional Competition, Second Place National Competition, Eighth Placeo John A. Campbell Moot Court Competition, Spring 1996o Black Law Students Association Delegate, BLSA National Convention, 1997 Co-Chairperson, Public Relations Committee, 1996 - 97 Chairperson, Public Relations Committee, 1995 - 96 BLSA President's Award, 1996 and 1997o American Bar Association, 1996 - 97 Entertainment and Sports Industries Forum Intellectual Property Section Law Student Divisiono LAWS Student Group Leader, 1995 - 96Major University, AlabamaMaster of Business Administration (MBA), 1990Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (B.S.B.A.), 1988 (Major: Marketing — Advertising and Promotion Track) • Honorso Dean's List • Activitieso National Student Advertising Competition Team, 1988 - 90 Seventh District Competition: Third Place, 1990o Marketing Club, 1987 - 90 Vice President — Career Development, 1988 - 89o Public Relations / Advertising (PR / AD) Club, 1988 - 90 Charter Member, 1988 Active in fund - raising and membership driveso Theater Guild, 1988 - 90 Screening Committee, 1989REFERENCESAvailable upon request

Thus, communications or documents may be protected if they are prepared primarily for litigation purposes, whether the litigation is pending or apprehended: It suffices that litigation be foreseeable.

These defects are frequently found in the ERMS's of all organizations because: (1) there is no law of general application requiring ERMS's be maintained in compliance with any standard, such as Canada's national standards; (2) many organizations find that they can «get along just fine» using only their most recently made and received records, therefore they neglect ERMS maintenance; and, (3) ERMS's are brought into compliance with the national standards just for litigation purposes, therefore pre-existing records loses and record sources can not be known.

In the Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct Formal Opinion No. 2015 - 193, California makes it abundantly clear that a lawyer who does not understand how electronically stored information is managed and retrieved for litigation purposes needs to get assistance before embarking on discovery in just about any matter.

Adding this as a tool for litigation purposes would be a significant contribution,» says Wyndham.

For litigation purposes, valuations are a dog - eat - dog business.

And they are being fed the least trustworthy kind of hearsay because it is being told to them for a litigation purpose.

Not exact matches

This press release contains forward - looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai Technologies, Inc.'s management that constitute forward - looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

This press release contains forward - looking statements for purposes of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the «Act»).

«The timing of this payment is strong evidence that this was payment for the purpose of influencing an election,» rather than concealing the affair from Trump's family, said Paul Ryan, Common Cause's vice president for policy and litigation.

Notably for our purposes, at all stages of the Barnette litigation in the courts below — as in Gobitis before it — the issues had revolved entirely around the schoolchildren's claim regarding their free exercise of religion.

«Steps are already being taken to reconcile every aggrieved member, and to resolve all grievances with the ninety (90) days duration of the caretaker committee for the purpose of putting an end to needless litigation over issues that are purely internal affairs of our party,» he said.

Meanwhile plaintiffs» lawyer Dana Cody says «for the purposes of our clients, the litigation is over.»

Don't answer their phone calls, block all of their emails (or send them to a folder reserved for future litigation purposes), and don't reply to their instant messages whether in a chat program, on your cell phone or at a dating site.

Nonchargeable activities: lobbying and ballot initiatives; external public relations; litigation, «unless specifically related to collective bargaining, contract administration or organizational maintenance»; get - out - the - vote activities; contributing to charitable, religious, or ideological causes; supporting political organizations or candidates for public office; organizing or recruiting new members and «defending against challenges to exclusive bargaining representative status»; and «monitoring and opposing activities of groups and individuals whose purpose is to undermine public education.»

Unions will, of course, object to the use of litigation for political purposes, but that has been the strategy of school - finance litigants for decades: use a lawsuit to pressure the legislature to cave in to your demands.

(c) Within the one - year period, the MRO, the employee, the employer, or a DOT agency may request in writing that you retain a specimen for an additional period of time (e.g., for the purpose of preserving evidence for litigation or a safety investigation).

This is a tricky claim to win; in essence, DA will have to prove that the litigation was filed for the purpose of harassing Dear Author and silencing and intimidating authors, cover artists, and editors.

The Student Loan Group did not admit to any wrong doing rather agreed to the settlement «solely for the purpose of voluntarily resolving disputed claims and to avoid the expense and uncertainty of continued litigation...»

Some states define the monetary value of a pet for litigation or insurance purposes.

Rather, the real choice is between regulatory chaos and legislation that fixes the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act so that pro-Kyoto litigation groups can not use those statutes for a purpose that Congress never intended — to dictate climate and energy policy for the nation.

«Pursuing creative but untested notions of demand as a demand resource in upcoming capacity market auctions and thus facing the prospect of several years of uncertain administrative and judicial litigation serves to undermine completely the very purpose of the capacity market — namely, to provide a certain stream of forward revenues to assist capital formation for resource investment.»

The purpose of the association was to discourage litigation, improve the legal system, keep lawyers honest and seek justice for all, according to the Tax Court opinion.

«Justice [Thomas] Lederer found that the action was brought for an improper purpose based on the fact our client apologized and was sued anyway, and their conduct throughout the litigation with all the interlocutory motions showed there was improper purpose,» says Callaway.

Writing in NLJ recently His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC, the designated mercantile judge for the Midlands, noted that the digital age has «revolutionised the way we all instantly communicate around the globe, making paper documents anachronistic... Lawyers — including judges — must embrace new technologies if they are to be «fit for purpose» in proportionate civil litigation; a recurring theme in the Jackson Report,» (NLJ, 8 June 2012, p 773).

Taylor Wessing refused on three grounds: the documents would not be disclosable under Bahamian law and were protected by privilege under English law; disproportionate effort on their part would be required to inspect the documents; and the purpose of the SAR was to obtain disclosure for the sake of litigation.

It follows that the Order should cover the entirety of the litigation apart from the initial period when service was being acknowledged and a Defence considered only for the purpose of preserving the position so that the Defendants could agree the extent to which SGP1 [the defendant] should defend the proceedings and how these should be funded.

Their aim is to cut the cost of processing large volumes of documents for the purposes of commercial transactions and litigations.

NLRG can provide you with objective legal memorandum for case evaluation, trial and appellate preparation, strategic planning or any other purpose prior to or in support of litigation or transactional analysis.

Legal advice privilege arises over confidential communications between lawyer and client that are created for the sole or dominant purpose of giving or seeking legal advice, even if there is no actual or potential litigation.

The purpose of class action lawsuits is to eliminate repetitious litigation and provide an efficient way for a large group of victims to obtain justice.

If it was serious, it could well earn the wife more in terms of damages than a «conduct» bonus and Litigation submits it would be wrong for the damages to be taken into account as part of the wife's conduct for the purposes of ancillary relief.

This is the purpose: A blog established by a practicing & teaching lawyer in Pennsylvania for the benefit of law students, consumers, & professionals interested in legal developments affecting Elder Law, long - term care, End - of - Life issues, estate & personal planning, fiduciary administrations (by agents under powers of attorney, custodians, guardians, & trustees), elder conflict dispute resolution, or Orphans» Court litigation in this Commonwealth, with reference to trends nationally.»

The Appeal court held that «the only sensible purpose for such a meeting must have been to seek some kind of solution to the litigation for Mrs. Suh.

Recently, I learned about a free add - on for Microsoft Powerpoint that makes it extremely easy to create timelines for litigation (or any other purpose).

Bennett argues that those days may be gone, however, as courts have now suggested that expert assistance is required to formulate reasonable searches for purposes of discovery in litigation.

«An adversary in litigation is always going to want [the information] for some purpose in the litigation — it's always going to be prejudiced,» he says.

The Association's purpose was to promote and support interest for and knowledge of commercial litigation.

Its purpose is to start a discussion to propose solutions for improving the litigation environment, beginning with the redesign of the Part IVA model.

Sure, we could see the decline of heavy litigation which supports much of the UK eDiscovery industry, but I have been predicting that anyway thanks to high costs, civil procedure rules which are not fit for purpose, a wet (and disgruntled) judiciary, and a wholly ineffective, not to say deliberately destructive, attitude on the part of the government and the Ministry of Justice.

The examination must be requested for the purpose of administering the claim, not bolstering the case for litigation.

Usually, a winning SLAPP defendant has to apportion fees attributable to SLAPP activities, but this decision allows the trial judge to award extra-SLAPP fees as long as the other activities were «on the contract» under Civil Code section 1717 for purposes of fee recovery in the entire litigation matter.

In this regard, employers may consider conducting parallel investigations — one that is conducted with the predominant purpose of preparing for litigation and / or obtaining legal advice and the other for complying with statutory obligations.

Summation (www.summation.com) provides excellent litigation support software for that purpose.

The mere fact that a document is produced for the purpose of obtaining information or advice in connection with pending or contemplated litigation, or of conducting or aiding in the conduct of such litigation, is not sufficient to found a claim for litigation privilege.

Litigation privilege is a form of legal privilege that can be claimed over documents and information created for the dominant purpose of preparing for reasonably anticipated litigation — such as a prosecution under health and safety leLitigation privilege is a form of legal privilege that can be claimed over documents and information created for the dominant purpose of preparing for reasonably anticipated litigation — such as a prosecution under health and safety lelitigation — such as a prosecution under health and safety legislation.

In light of the Court of Appeal decision, additional steps could involve more specifically identifying documents and information over which privilege could reasonably be asserted and materials that are unlikely to be considered privileged (because they were not created or prepared for the dominant purpose of preparing for litigation or receiving legal advice).

It would also include experts retained by a non-party to the litigation (for example, statutory accident benefits («SABS») insurers), who form opinions based on personal observations or examinations relating to the subject matter of the litigation for a purpose other than the litigation (referred to in these reasons as «non-party experts»).

In many investigations this will be impossible to achieve — companies will be unable to assess the prospects of future litigation without conducting interviews or instructing experts, which means that this work is necessarily conducted for a purpose other than its use in potential future litigation.