Sentences with phrase «against firms whose»

Not exact matches

• Meanwhile, Jurvetson tweeted that he's leaving the firm «to focus on personal matters,» which include taking legal action against those «whose false statements have defamed me.»

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 most you can charge in Washington is $ 25,» explains lawyer Matt Zuchetto, whose firm launched a class - action lawsuit against the company on that basis.

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.

It continues: «Most detected Chinese cyber operations against US private industry are focused on cleared defense contractors or IT and communications firms whose products and services support government and private sector networks worldwide.»

A favorite strategy that has been deployed successfully by many investors to trade indices utilizing binary options entails hedging an option based on the shares of a chosen firm against another whose underlying asset is the index that includes that company.

Laddie Montague, a lawyer whose firm is representing one Angelo Coniglio of Buffalo in his antitrust action against the Bills, the NFL and Rozelle, exclaims, «It's a great game, a wonderful sport!»

The New York Times reported in 2014 that as part of the massive public relations campaign against Herbalife, Ackman had hired Miranda, whose firm has deep ties in Latino communities in upper Manhattan and the Bronx.

A Lagos - based human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, whose law firm was handling the matter, had said the actions of the security agency were against all known laws of a democratic society.

The series, from executive producer David E. Kelley, stars Billy Bob Thornton as Billy McBride, a washed - up lawyer whose professional life is turned upside down when a young lawyer who has just been fired from his old firm brings him a wrongful death case that pits him against the head of his former firm.

«Most school districts want to get more things for kids,» said Lori Raineri, whose Sacramento firm advised its hundreds of school - district clients against the practice.

Anthony Merchant of Merchant Law in Saskatchewan, whose firm is working on a class action suit against Loblaw, recommends that those who've applied for a gift card and get the letter, should only send in a utility bill — never a driver's license «which is close to gold» for fraudsters.

Parcevaux, whose firm has tripled its use of bond ETFs since starting to trade them in 2011, also uses them in arbitrage trades against total - return swaps, another type of derivative used to wager on corporate bonds.

Lawyer Anthony Merchant of Merchant Law, whose firm is also working on a class action suit against Loblaw, recommends that Canadians register for both the gift card and class action lawsuit.

The inspectors of election (or designated professional firm) shall check the returns against the list of members whose dues are paid for the current year prior to opening the outer envelopes and removing the blank envelopes, and shall certify the eligibility of the voters.

The multi-year struggle against the proposed mine has pitted some 8,000 tribal people, most of whom are illiterate and have been dubbed «the real Avatar tribe», against an $ 8 billion dollar multinational firm, whose owner is himself worth $ 6 billion.

The study was commissioned by civil - rights attorney Cyrus Mehri (a classmate of mine from Cornell Law» 88) whose firm, Mehri & Skalet, has been behind successful multi-million dollar class action employment discrimination suits against giants like Texaco, Coca Cola and Smith Barney.

(See my post «How the Legal Industry's Pursuit of Leverage Pits the Client's Interests Against Those of the Law Firm» — where I recount my chief financial officer friend's receipt of a bill from an AmLaw 100 highest revenue firm for tax law advice from two of its junior lawyers whose the AmLaw 100 employer considered them sufficiently incomplete in their qualifications that it charged my CFO friend for their «supervision» by — of all specialties — a partner in the real estate groFirm» — where I recount my chief financial officer friend's receipt of a bill from an AmLaw 100 highest revenue firm for tax law advice from two of its junior lawyers whose the AmLaw 100 employer considered them sufficiently incomplete in their qualifications that it charged my CFO friend for their «supervision» by — of all specialties — a partner in the real estate grofirm for tax law advice from two of its junior lawyers whose the AmLaw 100 employer considered them sufficiently incomplete in their qualifications that it charged my CFO friend for their «supervision» by — of all specialties — a partner in the real estate group!)

Paul Hastings simply could not compete for such work against big local firms like Nishimura & Asahi and Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, whose billing rates are typically a third less.

Kuntz, whose firm has been retained by the government of British Columbia in its litigation against tobacco companies, noted that lawyers dealing with large volumes of edocuments have already caught on.

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.

At the same time there were new disruptive entrants to market such as Quinn Emanuel, Stewarts Law, Signature Litigation, Enyo, etc. whose strategy was to provide a «conflict free» litigation service, enabling them to act for individuals, private equity houses and hedge funds in major pieces of litigation against the banks, work that the established elite firms in London could not touch.

Seeking relief for those whose cases were denied or are already in the system, a lawsuit has been filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board and Ministry of Labour by labour law firm Goldblatt Partners, representing Ms Wardle, Injured Workers Consultants Community Legal Clinic and the Ontario Network of Injured Workers» Groups.

According to a statement by Hailsham Chambers, whose Michael Pooles QC and Imran Benson acted for the respondent firm of solicitors, the ruling «draws residential conveyancing solicitors closer than ever before into the position of effectively guaranteeing their clients against the possibility of fraud by third parties.

Defended a national law firm whose case was dismissed from the largest securities litigation pending against a law firm at the time.

In the days leading up to the vote, the New York Times revealed that Andreas Schwab, the German conservative who initiated the Google break - up proposal, provides competition policy expertise to a German law firm whose parent company has done work for publishers that are involved in the antitrust case against the company.

Before this two - staged, National government - enabled rebellion against the purposes and intentions of the Sellers» written permissions and instructions in the TREB Seller Representation Agreement concerning distribution of the Sellers» (and their Buyers») Firm - Agreement - Awaiting - Completion - Date (FAACD) transactions, there was never any question about who was «client» and therefore whose interests were paramount.