Sentences with phrase «national practice areas»

National practice areas include Administrative & HR; Engineering; Finance & Accounting Contract; Finance & Accounting Executive Search; Financial Services; Healthcare and Information Technology.

WASHINGTON, DC, March 27, 2013 — For the second straight year, Covington & Burling has been nominated for the 2013 Chambers USA Awards for Excellence in five national practice areas.

Brendan M. Kenny's national practice areas include toxic tort, products liability, and other complex litigation.

The 2017 Edition of «Best Law Firms» includes rankings in 74 national practice areas and 122 metropolitan - based practice areas.

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In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

Kathy Krause, a supervisory park ranger of the Gateway National Recreation Area who attended the clean - up, agrees the religious practices have put definite pressure on the bay.

3) Through our involvement with the development of Codes of Practice, Animals Australia has been instrumental in pushing for national guidelines to improve the treatment of animals in rodeos, circuses, fishing, feral animal control, and many other areas.

Queensland businesses rotationally grazed around 1.7 million cattle or 26 % of the national total, across 10.8 million hectares, or 45 % of Australia's grazing area where rotation practices were conducted.

Beyond her national team contributions, Doms has practiced with teams from the Women's Premier Soccer League and competed against boys teams in the area.

Statistics released by the National Athletic Trainers» Association in March 2016 show improvement in the number of states that have adopted best practices in three major areas of sports safety, but that safety gaps persist.

In addition to maintaining an active clinical practice, Dr. Adams is a national lecturer, workshop leader, and consultant in the areas of child abuse, dysfunctional family systems, and sex addiction.

The results of that analysis indicated that facilities in zip code areas where the percentage of black residents was > 12.2 % (the national average during 2007 — 2011) were less likely than facilities in zip code areas where the percentage was ≤ 12.2 % to meet five of 10 mPINC indicators for recommended practices supportive of breastfeeding and more likely to implement one practice; differences for the other four practices were not statistically significant.

This is the first report based on national data showing that practices at maternity facilities vary with the racial composition of the zip code area in which the facility is located.

There are many strategic areas that my executive team and I will need to address including the protection and promotion of Rugby, its values, spirit and ethos, the increase of local participation in Greater Accra, ensuring player welfare best practice, maximising the value of all GARA properties, increasing sustainability and competitiveness of Greater Accra Rugby, optimising national participation and providing strong and effective leadership.

For each area addressed by the National Practice Guideline, the Committee highlights key areas for further research.

While the European Research and Higher Education Area is emerging, evaluation practices and policies are still very much linked to national traditions and institutional frameworks.

OPW — July 7 — The Wisconsin Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Great Expectations (GE) alleging that the Milwaukee - area branch of the national dating service engaged in «deceptive and illegal sales practices,» according to the Chicago Tribune.

The new practice guide by the National Center for Education Research, Encouraging Girls in Math and Science, offers five recommendations for educators in order to strengthen girls» beliefs about their abilities in math and science, spark and maintain greater interest in these subject areas, and build associated skills.

Along with revealing data, perceptive analysis, and welcome candor, however, comes a certain skittishness in sensitive areas such as African American parenting practices, a bit of folly (encouragement of dialect and street language in English class), and some sky - pie about «collective action» and national leadership to solve problems for which there are no easy solutions.

The Lab's staff will also continue to lead the national advocacy agenda that NCTL launched in 2007 Additionally, grant will support the Lab's «By All Means» initiative by providing advice and support to the city teams, leveraging financial and technical assistance resources, conducting research on the effectiveness of local work, documenting local work and disseminating best practices, brokering national partnerships with organizations in the health, education, social service, and community schools» fields, and providing direct technical assistance in relevant areas of expertise.

She was associate director of the National Research and Development Center on English Language Learners (2005 — 2009) that examined the effect of instructional practices that enhance vocabulary and comprehension for middle school English language learners in content areas.

When national experts came to the Capitol to testify on the law, they made it clear that Connecticut lags behind other states in this area, and is missing a number of nationally - recognized best practices.

Here at the Teacher Development Trust we are publishing resources and case studies to support schools in their journey toward effective practice in this area, supported by GoodCPDGuide, our national database of courses, consultancy services, books, videos and qualifications from a huge range of providers.

She spent 16 years as a K - 6 Principal where she led her school's implementation of inclusionary special education practices, Response to Intervention, data driven instruction and social emotional learning (SEL), an area of focus that brought her school national recognition for the successful implementation of SEL throughout the school community.

The National Network of Schools in Partnership, a non-profit organization working to help schools install, improve and enhance community engagement and partnership programs, is offering SoCal and Bay Area charter schools the opportunity to learn best practices on how to increase their reciprocal, meaningful and sustainable community engagement programs.

Nationally, he contributes to the improvement of measurement practices through the National Council on Measurement in Education, and locally by working with teachers improving their classroom assessment practices in the Twin Cities area schools.

For example, a focus on literacy across the content areas is now considered best practice and is standard in many school districts, but many programs need to strengthen coursework on literacy instruction for prospective teachers seeking a content - area certification.16 Furthermore, all teacher preparation programs have yet to coalesce around a common understanding of accomplished practice, though the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, or the National Board, has taken steps to provide teacher preparation programs with access to model teaching lessons.

Katherine Bassett is the President and CEO of the National Network of State Teachers of the Year, a non-profit organization committed to the promotion of teachers as leaders and to supporting teaching practice through three key focus areas: policy, practice, and advocacy.

The CBE teacher - training program will serve as a dissemination platform for the IES What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guides, while developing a replicable and scalable national model for CBE - enabled teacher effectiveness training in critical shortage areas.

The process for national certification is performance - based and peer - reviewed, requiring teachers to demonstrate advanced knowledge, skills, and practice in their subject area by completing three portfolio entries and a computer - based assessment.

ATLAS provides authentic cases of National Board Certified Teachers putting the Standards into practice across all content areas and grade levels.

Leslie A. Texas is a national consultant and author of «Strategies for Common Core Mathematics: Implementing the Standards for Mathematical Practice K - 5, 6 - 8, 9 - 12» and «Strategic Journeys for Building Logical Reasoning: Activities Across the Content Areas K - 5, 6 - 8, 9 - 12.»

Each Center conducts supplemental research within its broad topic area and provides national leadership in advancing evidence - based practice and policy within its topic area.

Over the last several years, national research has explored into areas of restorative justice practices and suspensions rates.

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.

Other medical school scholarship opportunities include the National Medical Fellowships, which is a group of scholarships awarded to students who are underrepresented within the medical community and who are committed to practicing in underserved areas.

You can also get loan forgiveness for service in an area of national need, such as teaching, practicing medicine or serving as a public defender or prosecutor.

The second phase of the National Equine Veterinary Economic Study gives equine practitioners practical information to help them identify the most impactful areas to focus on for improving the profitability and value of their practice.

Teams will practice searching to the competition standards set by the National Association of Canine Scent Work (NACSW), which includes searching for blind hides (location of hide unknown to handler), searching for multiple hides in a single search area, and, at the higher levels of competition, searching for an unknown number of hides in a search area.

In addition to these on - site responsibilities, Mike is tasked with innovating new solutions in areas such as Length of Stay, Animal Care and Enrichment, Dog Behavior and Training solutions for the last 5 %, Volunteer engagement and retention, and creating national No - Kill models and best practices.

Only put out as much as the cats will eat in one feeding, and remove any leftovers, says Kayla Christiano, campaign manager for Alley Cat Allies, a national feral cat organization based in Bethesda, Md. «By practicing good caregiving practices, like keeping the cats discreet and keeping feeding and shelter areas clean, you're protecting these cats from any issues arising in the community,» she says.

The practice is located in the beautiful British West Country (http://www.visitsouthwest.co.uk/) at the foot of the Blackdown hills, an area of outstanding natural beauty, with Exmoor national park and the Quantocks hills a short distance away and rapid access to all that south - western England offers in outdoor pursuits.

Situated within Golden Gate National Park, on the picturesque East Beach, we are housed in a sustainably designed building and implement green practices in all program areas.

The scenic qualities of this area have long been recognised and the idea of granting it protection as a national park were put forward as early as the 1920s, the principal reasons being that it was an extensive area of beautiful and relatively wild country but these early plans never came to fruition and urban development and changing agricultural practices continued to impinge on the area's character with much of the traditional grass «downland» being turned over to arable farming.

Golden Gate National Recreation Area supports the National Park Service mission by utilizing sound business practices in management of commercial visitor services, park partnerships and special park uses.

Belize has more than 200 miles of reef included in the larger MRS and has established several protected marine areas and national parks to control and regulate sustainable tourism and fishing practices in the area.

Pietrobono and fellow Occupy member Noah Fischer contend that art has been completely taken over by monetary interests: corporations that engage in «brandwashing» (supporting the arts as a PR play), controversial figures like David Koch using art philanthropy as a way of deflecting from his politics, and unsavory practices such as free ports (storage areas outside national jurisdictions that make it possible to buy and sell art without being taxed).

National and international artists of all backgrounds and areas of practice are encouraged to apply.

The aim is also to enable students to be active contributors within contemporary art and related areas of society for a national - and international - level practice.

The purpose of CITYFOOD is to raise awareness on resilient city - region food systems and (intra - and peri --RRB- urban agriculture, create an advocacy platform for cities to gain political recognition and support from national governments and international support organizations, to provide information to cities around the world, stimulate exchange of experiences, identify and disseminate important lesson and good practices, and facilitate cooperation between cities worldwide and between local governments and civil society in this area.