Sentences with phrase «against firms become»
Finally, if fraud claims against firms become more common, lawyers may need to check with their malpractice insurers to determine whether their coverage includes suits for fraud.
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The report said that Google had too much control over China's smartphone sector, which had become dependent on Android, and had discriminated against certain local firms.
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.
, became interested in the issue after talking to the CEO of a small firm in his district, who told him that the firm's growth had been stunted by the costs of defending against patent lawsuits.
While other firms play catchup with a reactive approach, Hagens Berman has become a proactive pioneer — testing vehicles, effecting scientific evidence of new fraud and leading the pack against automakers who violate the law.
... [Americans] have become a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion of the principles that made her great, prate less about the enemies of the past and strive more against the enemies of the future, resist the mob and the demagogue as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity to make firm the foundations on which that prosperity rests, and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental forces to other objects than material progress and the game of party politics.
As mentioned above, the free transfer from Schalke this summer is fast becoming a firm Arsenal fan favourite, and not just because of that brilliant 49th minute strike against Cologne.
In its work for General Electric Co. through the years, the public relations firm owned by Mark Behan became entangled in a legal battle between GE and several river communities that filed federal lawsuits against the company when their water supplies were tainted by the PCBs dumped into the river from its plants in Fort Edward and Hudson Falls.
What began life as a class action lawsuit filed by Seattle - based law firm Hagen Bermans on behalf of consumers quickly became a Department of Justice investigation against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers.
Now what should seem obvious from this and what I have learned is that innovation becomes much harder to stimulate when you are swimming upstream against the currents of firm processes that don't exactly encourage it.
Not only do you become increasingly non-competitive against law firms who are using the latest technology, but bar associations actually require lawyers to stay abreast of relevant technology.
«This year is a particularly hard year for law firms, so there will be a lot more firms that will hit against their caps as earnings become flat or decline,» Deitch says.
Before becoming an entrepreneur, Heidi represented employees discriminated against in the workplace at a small Boston - based law firm and clerked for a justice on the highest court of New Jersey.
I would disagree with Jordan when he says: «If you are going to publish content, create a Publishing Division within the firm, and mandate it to create publications that can legitimately be mentioned in the same breath as the leading client industry periodical and become a must - read information source for your clients, one that your competitors are pitting their mediocre content against.»
We were the first law firm to become a Stonewall Diversity Champion but are now up against a lot of very tough competition so this year's ranking is a real achievement for the firm.
This was brought about as the Big Four firms became home to some of the global mid-tier consulting firms that struggled to compete against the brand prestige, service breadth and depth, and footprint of the MBB.
As an example, since becoming an independent law firm, we won for our client — Mechel — one of Russia's most notable cases of 2017, in a dispute against Rostov Electrometallurgical Plant (REMZ).
Montserrat Miller, a partner with the law firm Arnell Golden Gregory in Washington cautions against reading too much into the HireRight case, noting that details of the company's alleged wrongdoing never became public because the case was settled.
«Lawsuits against background screening firms can include highly technical claims, even where there is no indication that anyone has actually been harmed, which means that legal compliance has become one of the most critical parts of background check services.»
Halloween has become a kind of adult holiday (which was not at all true a few generations ago), and with adults and teens dressing up as figures from horror movies and going to extremes to scare other adults (a harder task than scaring a little kid), we need to make sure there is a firm line against violent / bloody / gory and generally horrific images.
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP has agreed in principle to become the anchor tenant in a Loop tower proposed by Hines, a Houston development firm, as downtown office building construction is seemingly unfazed by uncertainty over the economy and the war against Iraq.