Sentences with phrase «against a firm of»

A parasitic claim against a firm of solicitors was also dismissed.

The group's recent work includes acting for an individual in a claim against a solicitor who had misappropriated a portion of the client's damages following a previous clinical negligence claim, handling a claim relating to negligent conveyancing, and representing an individual against a firm of solicitors that failed to prepare a will in reasonable time.

(Defence of undue influence with third party claim in negligence against a firm of solicitors; successful London Mediation at which wife of debtor received enough in damages to secure re-housing).

Tom White Qualified: 2005 Made partner: 2015 Key cases: Advising on a # 250m + negligence claim against a firm of surveyors in relation to the valuation of a large portfolio of commercial properties spread across the country; acting for the Pension Protection Fund on the first two cases to reach the court in relation to challenges to the PPF levy.

Representing the settlor of a trust in claims to set aside the trusts on the grounds of mistake and / or its being void for uncertainty of terms and against the firm of solicitors who established the trust in proceedings in Jersey and England.

Farnon v Devonshires [2011] EWHC 3167 (QB) Richard acted for the claimant in her claim against a firm of solicitors for advice she received in relation to her membership of a limited liability partnership.

Gordons LLP's «commercial and practical» professional negligence practice is led by James Laycock and includes Andrew Breckenridge, a banking litigation specialist who joined in January 2017 from DWF, and Stephen McVey, whose experience includes acting in a multimillion - pound claim against a firm of accountants relating to tax avoidance schemes.

In an example of its work against surveyors, Andrew Bennett acted for Mortgage Express in a # 3.3 m claim against a firm of surveyors for breach of fiduciary duty and deceit.

The firm continues to handles professional negligence matters for longstanding clients, including Paragon Mortgages and Idem Capital Securities; Frances Mitchell is continuing to act for the former in multiple claims against a firm of solicitors concerning alleged breaches of duty over buy - to - let mortgages.

pursing a negligence claim against a firm of solicitors for loss of profit for failing to exercise a break clause in a commercial lease

acting for a Canadian company against a firm of solicitors regarding negligence in the drafting of legal documentation for the setting up of a leisure resort

acting for a bank in claims of # 40m against a firm of surveyors in relation to a hotel portfolio valuation

acting for a national construction business in a claim against a firm of solicitors for the loss of chance to pursue litigation against a large accountancy firm in respect of defective account auditing

When you are competing against firms of all sizes doing similar work to you it's crucial to make the most of every new business opportunity.

An accident that causes serious injuries to another driver or a pedestrian can result in damages against your firm of $ 100,000 or more.

Not exact matches

Yogen Früz and Yogurty's, the frozen yogurt chains founded by brothers Michael and Aaron Serruya, and a related firm called International Franchise Inc., filed a suit in the Federal Court of Canada against Freshii in June.

On this week's episode of Balancing The Ledger, Fortune's new show covering the future of finance, my colleague Jen Wieczner and I chatted with David Pakman, a partner at the venture capital firm Venrock, about the hardline approach tech giants are taking against the nascent cryptocurrency industry.

• Audax Group, A Boston - based investment shop, held talks to sell a stake of itself to other PE firms, but ultimately decided against it, the Wall Street Journal reports citing sources.

Starboard Value, the activist firm waging a proxy fight against consumer giant Newell Brands, on Monday put forward the names of the 10 executives with whom it wants to replace the Newell board.

«Because a relationship is only as strong as the reality we have it, I'm a firm believer of letting our partners in on the realities that we feel we are up against in life,» breakup expert and founder of Breakupward Chelsea Leigh Trescott told INSIDER.

«We are inclined to view it as posing greater trade risk for all types of energy, particularly if other nations establish new trade barriers against U.S. products,» Washington - based research firm ClearView Energy Partners LLC said in a report Monday.

«By taking the pledge, Senator Gillibrand is taking a firm stand against Big Money,» ECU President Tiffany Muller said in a statement announcing the group's endorsement of Gillibrand.

In April 2016, he filed suit against the CEO and chairman of Acerus Pharmaceuticals, which Melynk co-founded in 2008, alleging that while he was incapacitated by illness in 2015, they ruined the firm.

Therefore the salesperson must be a passive yet firm presence against the force used by the difficult customer, reminding himself that the customer feels out of control and is trying to gain control.

Activist hedge funds are launching more campaigns against larger companies this year, according to ActivistMonitor, a division of research firm Acuris.

«KPCB discriminates against [Ellen Pao] and other women by failing to promote them comparably to men, by compensating them less than men through lower salary, bonus and carried interest, by restricting the number of investments that women are allowed to make as compared to men, by failing to include junior women from meetings and discussions, by failing to provide equivalent sponsorship of women as of men, by failing to include junior women comparably to junior men in the interview process, and by failing to provide opportunities for visibility and success inside and outside the firm for women as compared to men.»

Of course, for Kleiner to take any action against Pao while the lawsuit is pending would be legally suicidal for the firm — it would be a prima facie act of retaliatioOf course, for Kleiner to take any action against Pao while the lawsuit is pending would be legally suicidal for the firm — it would be a prima facie act of retaliatioof retaliation.

Key - employee insurance indemnifies you against losses resulting from the death or disability of a key employee in your firm, including yourself or your partners.

According to a lawsuit Quenneville filed later against Stanton, he was «abruptly and abusively» terminated in a phone call in 2011, and was told by O'Brien that the firm was downsizing as a result of difficult market conditions.

The study compared the compound annual growth rate of a Family Index of 23 companies — in which at least 30 % of voting control belonged to a family with multi-generational involvement in the ownership or management — against 412 widely held firms over a 15 - year period (1998 to 2012).

The loonie's plunge below 70 cents against the U.S. dollar in mid-January was bad news for energy companies but will boost the competitiveness of our high - tech firms.

On Monday, barely a week after China voted in favor of tough new United Nations sanctions against North Korea, the Trump administration launched an investigation into whether China is pirating the intellectual property of American firms under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act.

UPDATE: On Friday, the jury cleared venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers of discriminating and retaliating against Ellen Pao.

Citron, Kickstart readers will remember, is the firm that waged a long battle against Herbalife (which it called a «ponzi scheme») and made a fortune betting against Valeant Pharmaceuticals, of whose management and accounting practices it was an early (and very loud) critic.

The list includes a couple of the firms that shared in the windfall from holding out and litigating against Argentina.

Tiger Brands said it has received notice of two class action suits against the firm, with the total amount claimed against the company estimated at 425 million rand.

On March 28, after a seven - year investigation, the RCMP's commercial crime section filed criminal charges against three of the firm's principals: former CEO Daniel Potter, who built the software developer into a TSE - listed firm with a market value of $ 100 million at the height of the dot - com bubble; Halifax securities lawyer Blois Colpitts, 48, a former director and the firm's legal adviser; and Bruce Elliott Clarke, a 65 - year - old former broker with National Bank Financial.

The next day that firm filed two lawsuits against Diageo, one in federal court, raising a suite of traditional trademark and unfair business practices claims, but the other in New York State Supreme Court, seeking a permanent injunction under a seldom - used statute available only to charitable organizations, known as Section 135 of the New York General Business Law.

Most of the time, shareholders vote against a company's pay package when the firm is performing poorly.

Another key concern was the impact sanctions would have on suppliers of equipment to Deripaska's firms, as tough sanctions against his entities would prohibit U.S. companies from doing business with them.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose civil rights suit against Weinstein and his company held up the (ultimately doomed) sale of the firm to an investor consortium led by Maria Contreras - Sweet, expressed delight at the news about the NDAs.

«Though the vast majority of Americans think it is wrong and should be against the law, [most state] laws do not protect the LGBT workforce from this kind of discrimination,» Peter Romer - Friedman, an attorney with Cohen Milstein, a law - firm in Washington, D.C., says.

Balance the freedom to serve customers against the strain of running a firm.

As a result, homebased firms already have a strike against them: Banks find them difficult to lend to because of their lack of assets.»

Four years ago the firm developed a» Bain Index,» which charts the performance of Bain client stocks against various indexes.

When James Lawrence and Iain Evans, two European partners, told Bain in 1983 that they were going to start their own firm, Bain stalled them in his office long enough for a deputy sheriff of Suffolk County to arrive with a notice that Bain & Co. had filed a lawsuit against them.

Plenty of firms offer safeguards for consumers and businesses against the threat of hackers, but what makes Silent Circle so unique is its backend network.

The start - up founder had, it seems, conceived of his postings as a way to help other company founders understand what a funding round looks like from the inside, and the effect was that the investment firms began bidding against one another.

Ravikant became something of a celebrity in the Valley when he led a shareholder lawsuit against the firm that had invested in his prior company, Epinions.com.

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.