Sentences with phrase «big city law»

If you were going for an interview at a big City law firm, it is unlikely you would turn up wearing sandals, swimming trunks and a tee shirt...

In recent years there has been a noticeable rise in the number of big city law firms recruiting criminal practitioners to sit in or alongside their commercial teams.

Jim Karger's story is a tale of success about a lawyer and his wife who left the intensity of big city law practice and have found greater happiness and meaning.

Jess worked in big city law for many years before starting her own practice.

With HCR, and you get all the experience and capability of a big city law firm but with a far more personal touch.

Our law firm possesses the resources and legal skills of a big city law firm, but is located in a small - town setting, making for more convenient and accessible legal services for our clients.

Revenue generated by alternative legal services may still be a drop in the ocean for big City law firms but in 2016 - 17, that revenue notably became material for many firms, with many having launched home - grown tech tools.

from the biggest City law firms to smaller practices and individual barristers.

Not exact matches

Between 30 - 35 homes in the Big House are rented out at affordable rates, in accordance with city laws, according to the Danish Architecture Center.

Regulations have twisted the laws of supply and demand, causing Western Canada's biggest metropolitan area to have fewer taxis per capita than any other city in the country.

They include a small - town conservation biologist and a couple of big - city ex-bankers who met after the easements law was changed — at a moment in the wake of the real estate crisis when investors began looking for ways to salvage value from land whose price had plummeted.

Bringhurst, 49, who is white, works as an employee benefits manager at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, one of the biggest law firms in the city.

A small expression of favor the laborer would be able to get through his head; it would be understood in the market - town by «the highly respected cultured public,» by all ballad - mongers, in short, by the 5 times 100,000 persons who dwelt in that market - town, which with respect to its population was even a very big city, but with respect to possessing understanding of and sense for the extraordinary was a very small market - town — but this thing of becoming the Emperor's son - in - law was far too much.

Slavery was still an issue, there was widespread unemployment and labor agitation, corruption ruled the big cities, Darwinism was attacking the laws of creation, Freud was laying bare the human psyche, and liberal Christians were attacking the uniqueness of the Christian religion.

Meat Free Monday took its message into the heart of the City of London yesterday, setting up shop in one of the capital's biggest law firms to spread the meat - reducing message.

However, as last season painfully taught the Frenchman, possession is not nine tenths of football as it is the law and those heavy and damaging away drubbings at the hands of Liverpool, Man City, Everton and our opponents this weekend Chelsea have forced the manager to re-evaluate his tactics against the bigger sides and boy has it paid off, as Wenger explained in a report on the Arsenal website.

«For those that believe concussion litigation against the NFL is big, they haven't seen anything yet compared to the prospective action against the NCAA,» says Marc Edelman, an associate professor of law at the City University of New York and adjunct professor teaching sports law at Fordham.

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

There is a third way under state law to change a city charter, but it takes a big, well - organized campaign.

Tenant advocates and Democratic legislators from the city were confused when the news first hit — the outline of how rent laws would be renewed and amended under the «big ugly» negotiated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, just didn't make sense to them.

«If you can find a corrupt mayor of New York City, holy moly, that's a big prize,» said Jennifer Rodgers, a former federal prosecutor who now heads the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia Law School.

While the big three hash out the details in the end - of - the - year deal legislators will have to pass yet another extender to keep the city's rent laws going.

Brewer, City Councilwoman Margaret Chin, Community Board 2 Chair Tobi Bergman and Broadway Residents Coalition leader Pete Davies said that the DOB unevenly enforces the law, favoring big developers, and ignores concerns raised by community members and elected officials.

The City Council and district attorneys have played a big part in the reduction of noise summonses by enacting laws and policies that de-emphasize enforcement of quality - of - life offenses, said John Jay College professor Joseph Giacalone.

State rules, including a law requiring binding arbitration to resolve contract disputes with police and fire unions, inhibit cities from cutting some of their biggest costs, she said.

Last month, voters in America's fourth biggest city rejected a gay rights law.

The unfinished business in the Big Ugly underscores the deep dissatisfaction among Assembly Democrats — mainly from New York City — over the agreement reached on extending rent control laws for New York City.

Mayor Eric Garcetti signed into law on Saturday an ordinance that makes Los Angeles the biggest city in the nation to gradually raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.

Over half of Airbnb users in New York City might be breaking the state law banning short term apartment rentals, but very few are big - time illegal hotel operators, according to data released by the tech company today.

We can not be the fairest big city in America if we have some of the most unfair and exclusionary election laws of any state in the country.

A number of witnesses thus far have testified about Silver's referral arrangement with the real estate law firm Goldman & Iryami, which worked to reduce the taxes some of the biggest real estate firms in the state paid to New York City.

He said, however, that Cuomo's biggest benefactors remain the traditional lobbying powers: businesses supporting his initiative to cap the growth of property taxes; landlords, developers and tenant advocates who sought the continuation of New York City's rent control law; and more from contributors with interests in health care and education.

Washington (CNN)-- Hillary Clinton gave a full - throated endorsement of early childhood education on Tuesday, including crediting New York Mayor Bill De Blasio — a Clinton confidant — for his efforts to make universal pre-kindergarten the law in America's biggest city.

If the 1961 law were found to be invalid, the development might fall into a category called a major concession — defined by the Department of City Planning as any privately run enterprise bigger than 15,000 square feet sited on public land — and thus subject to another public review process.

ROOSEVELT ISLAND — Mayor Bill de Blasio said there's been a «big uptick» in calls to 311 from city renters looking for information after the rent regulation laws expired at midnight Tuesday.

Democrats point to the gun lobby's donations to the GOP as a big reason the Senate has continued to refuse to pass the microstamping bill — even as crimes committed by perpetrators armed with illegal guns are plaguing law enforcement efforts in the city.

It can be done through liberalised planning laws, devolving economic power including planning and welfare to work to the big cities, and through new concepts like self - build.»

At a meeting in September, the chairman of the location board, Kevin Law, said that Atlantic City's decline was one of many factors the state considered as it reviewed the bidders» applications, and that deciding whether or not to grant a license in Orange County — close to New York City — was the «biggest challenge» the state faced in the decision - making process.

But after Mr. Cuomo last year pushed through a law giving charter schools more power to obtain free space in city school buildings, Mr. de Blasio's administration appears wary of doing anything that could jeopardize its biggest priorities in Albany, which include getting mayoral control of schools renewed and securing more aid for prekindergarten, after - school programs and city schools in general.

Three of New York City's biggest developers have been slapped with subpoenas from a state corruption panel investigating huge tax breaks that they received in a law enacted just this year, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Whereas McDowall had expected the effects of the liberalized laws to be greatest in Miami, the biggest city in the study and the one with the highest crime rate, the rise in homicides there was too small to be statistically significant.

Full name: Julie Hwang Age: 33 Location: New York City, NY Current title / company: Founder and Owner of Big City Little Sweets Educational background: Bachelor of Arts from UCLA, J.D. from Brooklyn Law School Previous job: Litigation Associate

The script, by Baker and Chris Bergoch, is essentially an old - fashioned stage farce — complete with a harridan mother - in - law and a big ending commotion — spread out over several miles of city and transposed into a social stratum that's somewhere below the bottom.

Ren's a big - city high school rebel who relocates to a small town, takes up the right to dance to loud, groovin» music as his cause (laws on the books forbid it), and eventually wins over everyone from the town preacher's trouble - making daughter, Ariel (Julianne Hough), to the reverend himself (Dennis Quaid).

Bobby Axelrod represents everything Rhoades fights against — the billionaire investor who flouts the law and lives large (the biggest house in the Hamptons; the freshly delivered custom yacht; the last - minute jet jaunt to Quebec City for a Metallica concert), commanding an army of cocky foot soldiers who reap massive bonuses.

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And Spellings felt she had to allow at least some big - city districts to serve as tutoring providers, in part to placate the Council of the Great City Schools, which had been a vocal and courageous advocate for the city districts to serve as tutoring providers, in part to placate the Council of the Great City Schools, which had been a vocal and courageous advocate for the City Schools, which had been a vocal and courageous advocate for the law.

But there's an argument to be made that the apogee of conservative social policy was actually in the 1990s, with tough - on - crime laws, which broke the back of a crack - fueled murder wave; welfare reform, which reined in government dependency; and education reform, which curbed monopoly power of the teachers» unions in our big cities.

Her level of influence is well established, and after the Michigan law passed the state House of Representatives, a press release from DeVos's group, the Great Lakes Education Project, noted that lawmakers «were successful tonight in preserving choices and options for [students] and their families -LSB-...] Despite efforts by some of the elites and big city bosses who believe they know what is best for children.»

Despite a new law meant to cut down on out - of - school suspensions, a review of the four biggest Connecticut cities showed suspensions are still happening at a high rate.