Sentences with phrase «based on legal research»

Instead, they may abstain, send the case to the state's supreme court, or try to predict, based on legal research, how the state supreme court would decide the issue.

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Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Over the last six months, Coin Center — the independent, non-profit, public policy research and advocacy center based in Washington, DC — has been busy addressing blockchain's national security implications with the congressional Terrorism and Illicit Finance Subcommittee, spearheading the Blockchain Caucus on Capitol Hill, and moderating recent panels on legal strategy and regulatory developments and how they affect the crypto - space.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

GFI works to affect legal change through lobbying policy makers, writing op - eds, providing information to congressional offices, and researching potential regulatory pathways for cultured products.23 GFI also organized an event on Capitol Hill to promote plant - based meat that was co-sponsored by Beyond Meat.

Based on DeJong's review, that research supports what earlier work had shown: Since the legal drinking age was set at 21, young people have been drinking less and are less likely to get into drunk - driving crashes.

SITU Research is an interdisciplinary design firm based in Brooklyn, New York that focuses on integrating design strategies, methodologies and instrumentation in the service of human rights fact - finding and reporting in both legal and advocacy contexts.

Family and Consumer Sciences - North Carolina State University researched - based information on health, food and nutrition, financial management, consumer issues, legal issues, housing and house, furnishings, apparel and textiles, human development, and family relationships

Forensic Architecture is a multidisplinary research group based at Goldsmiths, University of London, founded in 2010 by architect and theorist Eyal Weizman; their work, presented as both legal evidence as well as art exhibits, is focused on remapping state impunity.

Today's victory confirms that each of these towns is on firm legal ground,» said Helen Slottje, an Ithaca - based attorney whose legal research inspired New York's local fracking ban groundswell and who was honored with the 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize.

The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) is a coal funded non-profit think tank [formerly the American Tradition Institute (ATI)-RSB- that engages in litigation and policy research to «hold accountable those who seek destructive government regulation that's based on agenda - driven policy making, junk science, and hysteria.»

The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) is a nonprofit think tank [formerly the American Tradition Institute (ATI)-RSB- that engages in litigation and policy research to «hold accountable those who seek destructive government regulation that's based on agenda - driven policy making,...

On April 10 UK - based Acritas legal market research company released its Canadian Law Firm Brand Index 2014.

There are several legal research tools that are based on this principle especially for sentencing and personal injury awards.

In the old days, the value of a legal treatise seemed to be determined by the weight / number of pages as much as any rational pricing policy based on solid market research.

You are probably already using some form of cloud computing on a daily basis; any web - based email service is considered cloud computing, and online legal research tools like Westlaw and LexisNexis are really the original SaaS software delivering legal research via the web.

Based on students» expression of interest and relevance to their research topics, I also select various non-BC provincial and non-Canadian legal research strategies and sources.

Brown calls this a conservative estimate, as the math is based on the notion that only 25 percent of the legal research costs are attributable to primary law, whereas he believes the actual proportion to be much greater.

Law Business Research is an independent London - based publishing group, which provides research, analysis and reports on the international legal services markResearch is an independent London - based publishing group, which provides research, analysis and reports on the international legal services markresearch, analysis and reports on the international legal services marketplace.

Qualitative research, in contrast, seeks a deep, contextual understanding grounded in the participants» context.12 Researchers gather data through personal interactions or observations, rather than through objective instruments.13 Common qualitative data collection techniques include observation, interviews, and document review.14 Qualitative research is primarily inductive.15 Researchers begin by conducting a close study of the participants in context, and gradually develop themes and theories based on the participants» experiences.16 Researchers can not understand what it means to «do» legal writing without understanding the participants» experiences — the experiences of both writers and readers.

Totum regularly works with with US based firm Calibrate Legal on global research and recruitment projects.

For fairly routine tasks, student research assistants may be qualified based on several years of education in legal writing and analysis.

To be sustainable beyond the first - year research unit, law students» understanding of legal research strategy must be based on a credible framework that they actually use.78 It must also be broad enough to transcend the media in which they will choose to work, both now and in the future.

Some of our own research, based on $ 18 billion in legal invoices, found the largest law firms are winning a majority of high value IP litigation work.

If you are looking for legal and legislative research guides based on a multitude of subject areas, information about updates to Congress.gov, overviews of legal history, and information about presentations and symposia at the Law Library of Congress, the Law Library's blog, In Custodia Legis, should be your first stop.

By indexing key external content enterprise search, this means internal law firm information — from the DMS, knowhow, CRM and financial systems — and external data such as legal research and exemplar forms are now co-mingled and displayed based on relevancy.

[5] Other examples are not so commonly predicted (if, indeed, they are predicted at all), yet are no less significant: business models that facilitate free legal services, the use of non-legal (notably industry and business) knowledge and experience to increase client trust in and comfort with the firm and with legal services more generally, the collection of knowledge about the legal issues of individual clients in the same industry for use by a trade association to assist and defend the rights of all in that industry on a collective basis, a severely injured client's reassurance and comfort in knowing that in selecting a certain legal services provider the client is not just receiving highly specialized advice but also benefitting an association that helps others with the same type of severe injury, the development of a legal research establishment for experimentation with different ways of providing legal services.

Based on this research I suggest that we consider mediation training as one way to counter these trends and to improve well - being of law students, lawyers and other legal professionals.

The survey was developed by Robert Half Legal, conducted by an independent research firm and is based on 200 telephone interviews with lawyers among the largest law firms and companies in the United States.

It's fairly widely known that most judges» minds are pretty much made up prior to hearings based on factums and other legal research.

Last month, Intendance, a U.K. - based digital agency that does website design, competitor research, and online marketing, released a report on the U.K. legal sector's use of Twitter.

I've been out of the loop for a little while and just happened on EVA the free AI - based legal research tool that ROSS Intelligence made available earlier this year.

Under the agreement, Lexis will continue to provide editorial support and updates to TopForm through 2017, while Fastcase will focus on developing a web - based version of the product and integrating it with its legal research service.

6 See The Menu for Justice Project aims to provide guidelines on the potential contents of a homogeneous curriculum studiorum in judicial and legal studies, based on previous research form partners (e.g. Poblet and Casanovas 2005).

With the Law Scenarios to 2030 we have tried to build wind tunnels of possible legal futures, based on thorough trend research, in which legal strategies of countries, international organisations, businesses, and civil society organisations can be tested whether they are robust, given current trends.

Someone will need to teach legal writing and research (LRW); but what that LRW curriculum would look like, how it would be taught and by whom in an experientially - based law program focussing on practice skills hasn't yet been determined.

They went on to say: «Over the next several years, we will transition to four customer aligned business units based on our core customer groups in tax and accounting, legal research, corporate legal services and financial institutions.

The annual salary guide is based on research and local and national employment data gathered from Robert Half Legal offices throughout North America.

This belief is based on joint research with the SRA published in July 2015 which found that ABSs are being used to extend service range, improve service quality, and attract new clients (see «Innovation in legal services»).

The Best Diversity Employer accreditation will be based on responses to Legal Week's annual Employee Satisfaction Report (ESR), which is published by its research arm, Legal Week Intelligence.

One of the most valuable but little - known legal resources on the Internet is the CORI K - Base, an archive of more than 25,000 contracts, 22,000 of them searchable, maintained by the Contracting and Organizations Research Initiative of the University of Missouri.

The Martindale - Hubbell ® Peer Review Ratings ™ area of practice list is based on user behavior, research on emerging areas of law, and other forms of legal research.

Each of our legal research newsletters is available to view online, to download in the latest versions, and to subscribe to receive on a regular basis.

This insight is based in part on my own empirical research on legal education and the legal academy, which is primarily housed at and funded by the American Bar Foundation, on legal education and the legal academy.5 In this Article, I will also draw on several current examples of law schools that incorporate social science into legal training, using them to illustrate how interdisciplinary research can bridge theory and practice for lawyers and the legal profession.

The awards recognize the best in - house and private practice teams and individuals over the past 12 months based on more than 50,000 interviews and comprehensive research into the U.S. legal market.

Very little of this advice, however, is based on research into the ways in which legal documents are actually written or read.

Its technology, which reads and analyses hundreds of pages of complex legal documentation a minute, is based on research and development at the University of Cambridge, and is anchored in Recursive Bayesian Estimation theory.

This body of research argues for the recognition of everyday legal needs and responding investment in affordable, community - based legal outreach, pointing to the very considerable social costs of non-resolution that are borne by social and health services, income supports, disability plans, and employment insurance, other social services (more information and supporting publications can be found on the Forum website).

By Maximilian Dörrbecker (Chumwa)- Own work, using World map by Canuckguy and others UNESCO World Heritage map by NNW The data sources are: University of Ottawa: JuriGlobe — World Legal Systems Research Group Wikipedia: List of national legal systems European legal systems map by Ain92 and others (which seems to be based on this map by C.Löser and others) World legal systems map by Robinkissac, CC BY - SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=401Legal Systems Research Group Wikipedia: List of national legal systems European legal systems map by Ain92 and others (which seems to be based on this map by C.Löser and others) World legal systems map by Robinkissac, CC BY - SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=401legal systems European legal systems map by Ain92 and others (which seems to be based on this map by C.Löser and others) World legal systems map by Robinkissac, CC BY - SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=401legal systems map by Ain92 and others (which seems to be based on this map by C.Löser and others) World legal systems map by Robinkissac, CC BY - SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=401legal systems map by Robinkissac, CC BY - SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40154967

Nika Kabiri: It is, and on top of that, even if you don't have a legal issue... The American Psychological Association does research on stress on a regular basis, and they found that eight out of 10 people, whether they have a legal issue or not, eight out of 10 people experience moderate stress every day, so add that to a legal issue and then the fact that they actually are dealing with the issue.