Sentences with phrase «about the litigation system»

Thanks not to so much as a smidgen of evil intent but to normal, understandable human nature, they do not really see, when push comes to shove, the need to do much about the litigation system.

Many divorce lawyers and many more of their clients have some reservations about the litigation system, but, so far, the organized Bar has shown little interest in proposals for serious changes.

Not exact matches

But the revelation this week that Mr. Thiel was covertly backing Mr. Bollea's case as well as others has raised a series of new questions about the First Amendment as well as about the role of big money in the court system — specifically the emerging field of litigation finance, in which third parties like hedge funds and investment firms pay for other people's lawsuits.

Instead, Liu — who political pundits believe wants to run for elected office again — claims the litigation is all about «reforming a system» at the Board that «has been broken» by «out - of - control bureaucrats and unaccountable Board members.»

Last year the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), itself, published its own report citing a «drastic rise in patent litigation» that also referenced a USPTO working paper ominously revealing that «economists, legal scholars and policy makers are concerned about the impact of patent litigation on the rate and direction of US innovation and on the functioning of the US intellectual property system.»

A coalition of legal groups concerned about protecting courts from the influences of money and partisan politics launched a website yesterday, Fair Courts Litigation, that is intended to track litigation that could impact the fairness and impartiality of courLitigation, that is intended to track litigation that could impact the fairness and impartiality of courlitigation that could impact the fairness and impartiality of court systems.

The survey was administered to «in - house general counsel, senior litigators or attorneys, and other senior executives who are knowledgeable about litigation matters at public and private companies with annual revenues of at least $ 100 million,» and respondents were asked to rank only those states with whose «liability systems» they claimed to be familiar.

Law.com today features The «Always - On» System, a story I wrote for Corporate Counsel magazine about Kmart's highly regarded litigation extranet, developed by T - Lex Inc., a Brookline, Mass., legal extranet company.

Notable examples include acting for accountants in long - running litigation arising out of a failed tax avoidance scheme; acting for the developer and manufacturer of an offshore drilling system following an accident in operation; representing one of the Defendants in Novoship v Mikhaylyuk & Others, concerning allegations of bribery and secret profits; appearing in a substantial LCIA arbitration about the theft of oil stocks in East Africa;, successfully representing a broker in litigation against a former client under a futures brokerage contract in Sucden v Fluxo - Cane [2010] 2 CLC 216; and The «Ekha» [2011] 1 All ER Comm 1077, long - running litigation in the Commercial Court and Court of Appeal about an offshore drilling contract.

However, in the 21st century, digitized access is also critical in order to promote Canadian innovation in the space and to foster new thinking about an accessible and transparent court system and the all - too - murky litigation process in ways that would simply not otherwise be possible.

Clients are also getting savvy about the data they have in their systems on past litigation matters and they want to use it in the decision - making process and risk assessment process, says Gordon.

In our book, Rights on Trial: How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality, we offer a comprehensive analysis of the system of employment civil rights litigation, using both statistical data from a large random sample of cases and in - depth interviews with plaintiffs, plaintiffs lawyers, defendant employers and defense lawyers about their experiences with and perspectives on discrimination lawsuits.

Mr. Sullivan mentions litigation but his point is about a key difference between the core principles of the traditional justice system and the core priniples of the alternate dispute resolution system called mediation.

It will do precious little to bring down the cost of almost all litigation because it can do nothing about the stages, steps, and other delays and costs inherent in the system.

Our business is about making commercial litigation more transparent and efficient so the legal system works better, not worse for business.

Numerous U.S. legal scholars are now convinced that separating the financial / investment aspects of contingent fee cases from the professional / fiduciary aspects will yield a more transparent market in litigation, where full information about case prospects and liability will rationalise and correct the course of a system many believe is out of control.

Our justice system is premised upon keeping much of what parties to litigation do about their dispute behind veils of privilege, confidentiality and secrecy.

He refers to a piece by Denise Howell, who raises some interesting questions about the effect increased use of hosted communication and KM systems could have on businesses faced with litigation and e-discovery.

On Thursday, April 14, West Coast LEAF's Executive Director, Kasari Govender, and Director of Litigation, Raji Mangat, appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights (Justice Committee) to tell lawmakers about the challenges facing women in accessing fair and just outcomes through the legal system in Canada.

With the forthcoming unitary patent system, the European Union may be about to become the epicenter of global patent litigation.

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I talked to Nigel Kissack, a litigation specialist at Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind OUT - LAW, about where the rating system could be libellous in the UK.

Washington DC M&A and corporate transactions partner Kendal Tyre, public company transactions associate Pierce Han and IP litigation associate Nia Newton authored this article about the due - diligence first steps that franchising systems should take when expanding internationally.

It is a two - hour session that provides attendees with information about the family court system and process, local community resources and programs, common issues facing family law litigants, alternatives to litigation, and the effects of separation and divorce on the parties and their children.

«[Lawyers] should follow best practices concerning the management of their files to ensure that they have particular systems, to ensure they have done the right investigation and to ensure that the subject matter of the litigation is something that they have knowledge about [and] that they are not inexperienced with.»

It seems to me that the approach you are advocating can only increase the cost of litigation in Canada as lawyers have to argue about the integrity of their client's systems as a threshold issue for admissibility.

«The recent revelations regarding Facebook's actual practices with respect to user privacy and data security have severely damaged the Company's reputation and imposed significant costs on it, including regulatory investigations, lost business, exposure to litigation, and other damages,» the complaint runs, before going on to allege that Facebook sought to «downplay concerns about access to user information» and «continued to assure investors that Facebook maintained effective» internal controls and systems that automatically detected «suspicious activity»».

The patent system is now more about litigation than it is about innovation.

Collaborative Law is worth considering if some or all of the following are true for you: (a) you want a civilized, rational resolution of the issues, (b) you would like to keep open the possibility of a viable working relationship with your partner down the road, (c) you and your partner will be raising children together and you want the best working relationship possible, (d) you want to protect your children from the harm associated with litigation between parents, (e) you have ethical or spiritual beliefs that place high value on taking personal responsibility for handling conflicts with integrity, (f) you value control and autonomous decision making and do not want to hand over decisions about restructuring your financial and parenting arrangements to a stranger (a judge), (g) you recognize the restricted and often unpredictable range of outcomes and «rough justice» generally available in the public court system and want a more creative and individualized range of choices available to you and your spouse or partner for resolving the issues.

So far from these topics being off - limits, any MHP seeking appointment in a court case needs to fully inform the parties prior to their consent [123], of information about the following kinds of potentials for bias and agenda: whether the MHP has been married or divorced, and how many times, and under what kinds of circumstances, and how the MHP currently feels about those events; whether, if divorced, the MHP went through litigation over custody or property, and such details as whether the MHP had problems paying or receiving child support, as well as the custody arrangements of the MHP's own children and how these worked out and everyone's feelings about them; the MHP's own personal experience taking care of and spending time with children, within and without the scope of «parenting», and with regard to parenting, whether that was parenting as a primary caregiver, married or single parent, with or without household and third party help, or as a working parent or stay - home parent, and for how many children, and for how long, and the outcomes from all of that; i.e. how much time has this person actually spent caring for children on his or her own, and how well did this person's own family systems function, and is this person in fact an «expert» in creating a functioning family and raising happy, healthy, successful children with good outcomes, nay «best» outcomes, thoroughly well - adjusted and having reached the very pinnacles of their innate potential.