Sentences with phrase «national security practice»

Arnold & Porter's national security practice includes a host of former top officials — including former State Department legal adviser John Bellinger III; former CIA general counsel Jeffrey Smith; and Ronald Lee, who previously served as the general counsel to the National Security Agency.

Though a few D.C. firms have national security practices, it seems that the real excitement lies in jobs with the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and Treasury Department, which oversees issues related to terrorist financing.

But the concerns are nevertheless very real and longstanding, ranging from the alarmingly high and entrenched levels of violence experienced by Indigenous women to punitive new immigration detention laws; from the failure to tackle homelessness in the country to national security practices that... [more]

But the concerns are nevertheless very real and longstanding, ranging from the alarmingly high and entrenched levels of violence experienced by Indigenous women to punitive new immigration detention laws; from the failure to tackle homelessness in the country to national security practices that

Not exact matches

More than 240 bills were introduced in 42 states last year covering a range of security issues, from improving government practices to restricting public disclosure of confidential information, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

The U.S. National Security Agency ended its daily vacuuming of millions of Americans» phone records on Sunday and will replace the practice with more tightly targeted surveillance methods, the Obama administration said.

He has also come out forcefully against the National Security Agency's mass surveillance practices — all ideas that tend to fly in the face of standard Republican thinking.

The U.S. National Security Strategy notes that «China is gaining a strategic foothold in Europe» and calls for joint action with European allies to «contest China's unfair trade and economic practices and restrict its acquisition of sensitive technologies.»

His reason: Foreign countries» current trade practices with the United States are a threat to national security.

A draconian new draft for a national security law, likely to be introduced this year, specifies that the state has full access to any data it demands — already the case in practice — and that any foreign firm working in China must keep all their Chinese data inside the country.

Practice shows that gold possession by citizens is an effective supplement to national reserves and is very important to national financial security (translation by BullionStar).

Mr. Adams was previously an associate at a national plaintiffs» securities litigation firm where he focused his practice on securities fraud litigation and other complex matters.

«The federal regulatory framework governing registered national securities exchanges and exempt markets is designed to protect investors and prevent against fraudulent and manipulative trading practices,» explains the SEC's announcement.

Having in view the question of national security, this contribution to the practice of freedom of conscience can be made only because the great majority of citizens are willing to bear arms in defense of their country.

Let me state them again: faith that peace is possible, provision for peaceful change from within the nations, international organization with the surrender of absolute national sovereignty, economic security for all men, faith in and understanding of and practice of the democratic way of life, and a unifying spiritual world community.

Mr Thomas, added: «The national security charges levelled against these men were spurious, and their sentences are excessive, amounting to a criminalisation of Christian practice.»

the reason for the court's blocking of a travel restriction put in place by the President of the United States of America for purposes of national security was because the president (when he was a candidate) mentioned something about banning certain people (i.e. those people who believe it is their duty to enslave the world under sharia law because god tells them to) during this time of war against those elements of said group who actually practice what they preach

Trump is breaking with the practices of both Republican and Democratic administrations by including a political adviser, Bannon, in National Security Council meetings with Cabinet officials.

More than 200 women in the national security sector penned an open letter on sexual harassment, calling on the industry to reform practices to decrease sexual misconduct.

Ken Cross's purpose for running for president is to promote progress, enhance national security, encourage fiscal responsibility, promote fair trade practices, nurture the private enterprise system, protect the environment, promote equal justice under the law, and improve the general well - being of the citizenry of both present and future generations.

Energy conservation is the practice of reducing the use of energy in order to increase national security, personal security, save money, be more comfortable and / or help clean the environment.

«Also, we are excited to continue to build our corporate governance practices by adding industry leaders of the highest caliber to our Board, and we believe we are one step closer to our goal of listing on a national securities exchange.»

THE MBO — May 15 — The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), announced the beginning of a national awareness campaign titled, «Help Keep Kids Connected and Protected» to educate teachers and parents about safe online practices for teens using social networking sites or online commNational Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), announced the beginning of a national awareness campaign titled, «Help Keep Kids Connected and Protected» to educate teachers and parents about safe online practices for teens using social networking sites or online commnational awareness campaign titled, «Help Keep Kids Connected and Protected» to educate teachers and parents about safe online practices for teens using social networking sites or online communities.

The purpose of this training is to provide information on national and state best practices, as well as exemplary resources for school safety, security, preparedness and prevention, and emergency operations planning.

Petrocelli has a national trial practice representing clients in major litigation in a wide variety of areas, including sports, entertainment, intellectual property, unfair competition, business torts, securities, employment law, and criminal defense.

A protectionist approach holds that regulating international trade is necessary to protect jobs in domestic industries, bolster national security or retaliate against unfair practices of trading partners.

(1) The following shall be exempt from the Credit Services Organization Act: (a) A person authorized to make loans or extensions of credit under the laws of this state or the United States who is subject to regulation and supervision by this state or the United States or a lender approved by the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for participation in a mortgage insurance program under the National Housing Act, 12 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.; (b) A bank or savings and loan association whose deposit or accounts are eligible for insurance by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or a subsidiary of such a bank or savings and loan association; (c) A credit union doing business in this state; (d) A nonprofit organization exempt from taxation under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; (e) A person licensed as a real estate broker or salesperson under the Nebraska Real Estate License Act acting within the course and scope of that license; (f) A person licensed to practice law in this state acting within the course and scope of the person's practice as an attorney; (g) A broker - dealer registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission acting within the course and scope of that regulation; (h) A consumer reporting agency; (i) A person whose primary business is making loans secured by liens on real property; (j) A person, firm, corporation, or association licensed as a collection agency in this state or a person holding a solicitor's certificate in this state acting within the course and scope of that license or certificate; and (k) A person licensed to engage in the business of debt management pursuant to sections 69 - 1201 to 69 - 1217.

«Credit Services Organization» does not include any of the following: (i) a person authorized to make loans or extensions of credit under the laws of this State or the United States who is subject to regulation and supervision by this State or the United States, or a lender approved by the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for participation in a mortgage insurance program under the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. Section 1701 et seq.); (ii) a bank or savings and loan association whose deposits or accounts are eligible for insurance by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, or a subsidiary of such a bank or savings and loan association; (iii) a credit union doing business in this State; (iv) a nonprofit organization exempt from taxation under Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, [FN1] provided that such organization does not charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration prior to or upon the execution of a contract or other agreement between the buyer and the nonprofit organization; (v) a person licensed as a real estate broker by this state if the person is acting within the course and scope of that license; (vi) a person licensed to practice law in this State acting within the course and scope of the person's practice as an attorney; (vii) a broker - dealer registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission acting within the course and scope of that regulation; (viii) a consumer reporting agency; and (ix) a residential mortgage loan broker or banker who is duly licensed under the Illinois Residential Mortgage License Act of 1987.

You will not, and will not allow or authorize others to, use the Services, the Sites or any Materials therein to take any actions that: (i) infringe on PetSmart Charities» or any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual or proprietary rights, or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including those regarding export control); (iii) are defamatory, trade libelous, threatening, harassing, invasive of privacy, stalking, harassment, abusive, tortuous, hateful, constitute discrimination based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sex, disability or other protected grounds, or are pornographic or obscene; (iv) interfere with or disrupt any services or equipment with the intent of causing an excessive or disproportionate load on PetSmart Charities or its licensors or suppliers» infrastructure; (v) involve knowingly distributing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routines; (vi) involve the preparation and / or distribution of «junk mail», «spam», «chain letters», «pyramid schemes» or other deceptive online marketing practices, or any unsolicited bulk email or unsolicited commercial email or otherwise in a manner that violate any applicable «anti-spam» legislation, including that commonly referred to as «CASL»; (vii) would be or encourage conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international laws or regulations; (viii) involve the unauthorized entry to any machine accessible via the Services or interference with the Sites or any servers or networks connected to the Sites or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Sites, or attempt to breach the security of or disrupt Internet communications on the Sites (including without limitation accessing data to which you are not the intended recipient or logging into a server or account for which you are not expressly authorized); (ix) impersonate any person or entity, including, without limitation, one of PetSmart Charities» or another party's officers or employees, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; (x) forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any information transmitted through the Sites; (xi) collect or store personal data about other account users or attempt to gain access to other account users» accounts or otherwise mine information about other account users or the Sites, or interfere with any other user's ability to access or use the Sites; (xii) execute any form of network monitoring or run a network analyzer or packet sniffer or other technology to intercept, decode, mine or display any packets used to communicate between the Sites» servers or any data not intended for you; (xiii) attempt to circumvent authentication or security of any content, host, network or account («cracking») on or from the Sites; or (xiv) in PetSmart Charities» sole discretion, are contrary to PetSmart Charities» public image, goodwill, reputation or mission, or otherwise not in furtherance of our Vision of a lifelong, loving home for every pet.

Her practice focuses on the public sphere, exploring issues related to everyday life, the media, architecture and the built environment, and war and the national security climate.

Gratton also serves as national co-leader of the firm's national privacy and data security practice group and sees about 15 to 20 breaches a year.

And Blawg Review # 74 also reminds us of how Sept. 11 has spawned new legal practice areas with the announcement of the new blog, National Security Advisors, featuring inaugural posts on the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and an analysis of Terrorism Prosecution Statistics.

As the fight against terrorism moves from criminal prosecution to longer - term investigation and policy making, many job opportunities for national security are focused in D.C.. It's great to see that so many new, qualified lawyers have found an outlet for their skills in a practice area that impacts all of our daily lives.

Dany's practice focuses on advising international and domestic clients on all aspects of competition law and foreign investment matters including in the area of national security reviews.

Peter Skelton QC's practice encompasses public inquiries, inquests, human rights litigation, clinical negligence, judicial review, national security and personal injury litigation, with a particular emphasis on multi-party actions and claims arising in foreign jurisdictions.

«Some of the most serious legal issues confronting companies today relate to cybersecurity and national security law,» said Mark D. Wasserman, Eversheds Sutherland (US) Managing Partner and Co-CEO of Eversheds Sutherland Ltd. «These issues affect the critical infrastructure supporting the US and global economies, and Michael will be of immediate value to clients as they face increasing pressure to have best practices and policies in place to protect customer and sensitive business information.»

She is currently a member of the Steering Group of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia's Committee on National Security Law, Policy & Practice.

The report, by Block G Privacy and Security Consulting, said: «Until national policies are established or court challenges arise... the use of UAVs by Canadian policing bodies will likely continue to be somewhat ad hoc and primarily constrained by the SFOC process and [law enforcement agencies»] interests in avoiding public pushback of UAV - based practices.»

Conclusion: Among others, the «lessons» that can be gleaned from the VTech and VTech USA cases include: (i) IoT / connected toys and devices remain very vulnerable in the face of haphazard / sloppy security practices; (ii) inadequate security safeguards will no longer be tolerated by regulators, particularly when children's information or other sensitive information is involved; (iii) robust and adequate security safeguards involve multi-level tiers of protection per the above; (iv) vendors should never misrepresent the state of their security practices in their privacy policies; and (iv) in a connected world, regulators are willing to work together and share data and resources to combat «deceptive and unfair practices that cross national borders» (in the words of the FTC).

Orin Kerr has posted his entire interview with Michael J. Woods, whom Kerr describes as the «former chief of the National Security Law Unit in the FBI's Office of the General Counsel, who was critical of some current FBI practices.

In addition to further strengthening the firm's government contracts team, he adds depth to the GRCI practice's defense, aerospace and national security sectors on government contract investigations and enforcement matters, and to the new Strategic Risk and Crisis Management group.

With extensive knowledge in a variety of white collar defense matters, and an emphasis on health care and securities enforcement, Mateja joins the firm's national White Collar Defense & Government Investigations Practice Group, and will also focus heavily on health care fraud and abuse matters.

TRU Staffing Partners Inc., a search firm representing talent and opportunities in cybersecurity, investigations, e-discovery and data analytics, has announced the company's TRU Cyber division successfully represented (Robert) Bob Anderson, former national security executive with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in his recent move to Navigant Consulting, Inc. as managing director of the burgeoning cybersecurity practice.

Michael Cereseto focuses his practice on complex business litigation and specializes in defending state and national wage and hour, consumer regulation and securities class actions.

Thompson Hine's nationally recognized Privacy & Cybersecurity practice offers clients an interdisciplinary group of lawyers with experience in complex national and international issues of privacy, data protection, information security, records retention, employment and labor law, consumer protection, internet law, insurance law and intellectual property matters.

Mr. Cohen serves as local Virginia counsel to national law firms on major securities litigation and his practice also includes a broad spectrum of personal injury matters.

HMLR has proposed to achieve this by using the Government's «Verify» scheme, which provides ID assurance to assurance level 2 (as defined in the CESG (now National Cyber Security Centre) Good Practice Guide on Identity Proofing and Verification of an individual).

Chair and Speaker, Numerous Regional, National and International Legal Seminars, Programs and Symposia on Federal and State Practice and Procedure, Electronic Discovery, Antitrust, Securities, RICO, Class Actions, Insurance, Damages and International Practice and Dispute Resolution

In other words, granting Binyam Mohamed and his four co-defendants their day in court might result in official confirmation, or new revelations, of the CIA's relationship with Jeppesen; of the cooperation and complicity of foreign governments in rendition and torture; about the Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation program in general; and about the CIA's practices and methods — all matters which, our government insists and the narrowest of majorities of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agrees, «in the interests of national security should not be divulged.»

Russell's other practice areas include national security law, immigration law and white collar criminal defense.