Sentences with phrase «at lawyers as»

Looking at lawyers as consumers of social media, there are also guidelines to follow to avoid trouble.

Not exact matches

«I think there's some lag with the FEC catching up with the times,» says political lawyer Troy McCurry, who served as counsel to the FEC's Republican commissioners at times from 2010 until this year.

Always an excellent student, Gates scored a 1590 out of 1600 on his SAT and enrolled at Harvard University, pleasing his parents who encouraged him to pursue a career as a lawyer.

Women walk by a team of volunteer lawyers in their makeshift office working to assist travelers detained as part of Donald Trump's travel ban in Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York.

A lawyer representing Schrems, James Doherty, told the court that a referral to the European Court was «unnecessary or at least premature» as the Irish regulator had not fully investigated the complaint and had not used all tools in its power to restrict data flows where consumers» rights were threatened.

Mark Schankerman, a professor at the London School of Economics, who first met Spangenberg after he donated some of his patent fortune to fund work in entrepreneurship at the London school, said patent trolls and their lawyers play a role in limiting the patent economy, especially in cases where they are demanding too much for IP — «the «holdups,» as he called them.

It is true that the US did not persecute the Jews - or at least, as one Nazi lawyer remarked in 1936, it had not persecuted the Jews «so far» - but it had created a host of forms of second - class citizenship for other minority groups, including Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans, scattered all over the Union and its colonies.

Generally speaking, lawyers say you should try fighting back now, or at least find a way to delay settling until the summer, when a favorable court decision, as well as pending legislation before Congress that would make trolls responsible for court costs, could work in your favor.

Trained as a lawyer, Peter Aceto began working at Tangerine — known then as ING Direct — in 1996, as the company's general counsel.

I was a lawyer before joining ING Direct, as Tangerine was called then, and when I started my new job at the bank, I was trying to be something I thought I was supposed to be.

Frazier «went in - house,» as lawyers call it, joining the general counsel's office at Merck & Co. in 1992, and ultimately becoming the company's senior general counsel.

And it's fun to watch a host of great, familiar actors playing historical figures — like Bruce Greenwood as Robert McNamara, Carrie Coon as Meg Greenfield, Matthew Rhys as Daniel Ellsberg, Michael Stuhlbarg as Abe Rosenthal, and Zach Woods at one of the Washington Post's lawyers.

So they listened as a dozen lawyers debated whether records of conversations the two men had had with another group of lawyers years earlier could be used against them at their looming fraud trial.

Thiel had then passively boarded a conveyor belt that would carry him from college to Stanford Law School, and thence to a position as a young transactional lawyer at New York's Sullivan & Cromwell, a position near the pinnacle of that profession.

On the afternoon of Monday, January 31, human - resources manager Brown sat anxiously by his phone, waiting for a call from Stack, who was negotiating with Harvester at his lawyer's office in downtown Springfield.Since SRC did not want to assume Harvester's liabilities to employees for sick pay and vacation time, everyone in the plant had to be terminated as soon as the buyout was completed.

The lawyers come, as do the sales reps.. As the company fights to get approval for its first marketable drug, Incivek, an oral treatment for Hepatitis C, there is an outbreak of practicality at the companas do the sales reps.. As the company fights to get approval for its first marketable drug, Incivek, an oral treatment for Hepatitis C, there is an outbreak of practicality at the companAs the company fights to get approval for its first marketable drug, Incivek, an oral treatment for Hepatitis C, there is an outbreak of practicality at the company.

«She is proud of her role as a cofounder of Tinder and of the role she played in the app's success,» one of her lawyers told BuzzFeed at the time.

If you're unsure about the proper designation, be sure to review the IRS website, as well as the Department of Labor websites at the federal and state levels, particularly their materials on distinguishing independent contractors from employees, and check your designations with your accountant and / or labor lawyer.

Crawford's death was confirmed by the Toronto legal firm Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt where Crawford began as a corporate lawyer in the 1950s before leaving to pursue a career with Imasco Ltd., a company that, at the time, owned Imperial Tobacco, Canada Trust and Shoppers Drug Mart.

«In a small city, it will be easier to get to know the best service providers, such as lawyers, your banker may likely be someone you know, and you can more easily create a name for yourself,» said Chuck Sacco, assistant dean of strategic initiatives in the Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship at Drexel University.

Jacobs recanted some of his assertions as a witness in a November court hearing, leading a top Uber lawyer to describe the letter as an effort at «extortion.»

Now back at Breitbart, Bannon is quoted in the book as saying that if such a meeting needed to take place, Trump Jr. and Kushner should have set it up «in a Holiday Inn in Manchester, New Hampshire, with your lawyers who meet with these people,» according to The Guardian.

Toronto city lawyers are arguing for an injunction that would shut Uber down, at least until it receives the necessary approvals to operate as a taxi company.

I lived through the dot - com boom, bust and revival, first as a corporate lawyer at a firm that was pumping out IPOs in the late 1990s, then at a series of consumer Web companies including Excite, MySpace and eHarmony.

He started his career as a lawyer for early Internet pioneers such as Alta Vista, Yahoo, and Salesforce while practicing law at Skadden Arps.

Before starting her own employment law practice, Ms. Kow practiced employment law and litigation at leading California and national law firms, and served as the sole employment lawyer and Senior Counsel at a Silicon Valley based company with 75 locations worldwide.

Before coming to the Times in 2014, he was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal where he wrote about housing, public pensions and a corporate bankruptcy lawyer who moonlighted as an energy healer.

Martin arrived at the FCC in 2001 as an appointee of President George W. Bush, for whom he served as a campaign lawyer.

GDPR is likely to hurt profit at Facebook because it could reduce the value of ads if the company can not use personal information as freely and the added expense of hiring lawyers to ensure compliance with the new law.

Mr. Cohen is a longtime lawyer and fixer who, in a decade at Mr. Trump's side, has served as a reliable attack dog against real or perceived threats to him.

If not, at least I can use the blog to build my brand as a tax lawyer.

In 2008, Lawdragonnamed him (at only age 36) one of the «500 Leading Lawyers in America» and described him as a «dynamo talent.»

In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

Lawyers for Boeing present the dispute as a classic case of illegal subsidies and dumping, or selling products at below - market prices in foreign countries.

Gain preferred access to HR solutions and platforms such as executive or international recruitment agencies, immigration lawyers, innovative learning tools and more, often at a preferred rate.

On Tuesday, moments after finding out about the layoffs and leadership upheaval at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, I asked Tony Hsieh by phone why he stepped down as leader of the utopian startup city he had founded, and why he had continued act as head of the ambitious experiment in the desert despite having already handed over the reins to his lawyer and a team of executives.

Bart Friedman, a corporate lawyer at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, said he viewed Benchmark's case as weak, given the «extraordinarily high hurdle» they must clear to show that they were defrauded, one of their most potent allegations.

The federal government has said that the tax changes it has proposed are aimed at people who fall into the smallest - of - the - small category: many of them professionals such as doctors or lawyers — who incorporated their practices and are eligible for tax benefits available to small businesses.

Matthew Sanderson, who served as a campaign finance lawyer for the 2008 McCain - Palin campaign, said the timing of the payment «strongly suggests it was related to the election, and therefore is either a contribution, or at least a reportable expenditure by the campaign».

With over 25 years of experience as a lawyer, Mr. McCourt has conducted numerous trials and has appeared at all levels of Alberta Courts (Provincial Court, Queen's Bench and Court of Appeal) as well as the Federal Court of Canada.

He added that lawyers at some firms effectively enabled entrepreneurs to take this dubious route with their token sales — a point that SEC Chairman Jay Clayton has made as well.

Kevin's government service includes roles as an enforcement trial lawyer, as counsel to a commissioner at the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), as a regulator at the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority, and as counsel in the U.S. Senate.

A woman used forged documents to pose as an estate lawyer for a decade and made partner at her small firm before her fraud was discovered, according to charges announced yesterday.

Prior to PIB Law, Jim was also a partner at a prominent AmLaw 100 law firm with international presence, and has been recognized as a New England Super Lawyers «Rising Star.»

Lawyers should note that the time spent attending substantive sessions at The Canadian Telecom Summit can be claimed as «Substantive Hours» toward the Law Society of Upper Canada's Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements.

«The fact that we have the Canada-U.S. free - trade agreement as a fall back gives us greater leverage in a negotiation,» said trade lawyer Matthew Kronby, a former Canadian trade negotiator who is now a partner at law firm Bennett Jones in Toronto.

Her attempts at intimidation as their general counsel were hilarious considering the fact that she was acting as a lawyer illegally.

In addition to serving as front man for the glam band Night Years, Poulos has studied for a Ph.D. in political theory at Georgetown University, covered the 2012 presidential campaign for Vice magazine, and briefly, with the greatest reluctance, worked as a lawyer.

It is as a lawyer in the Bible said, that it is «inexcusable» to cast aside all the «proof» that life and all the universe just arose at random and accept a mindless speculative theory called evolution.

Again, it is recorded that on one occasion a group of lawyers brought before him a woman detected in adultery, with the hope that he would take the responsibility of pronouncing the ferocious sentence laid down in the Law of Moses (not enforced at that period), or alternatively, would by refusing to do so expose himself as one who condoned immorality.