Sentences with phrase «brought against the firm»

The action brought against these firms was not defended and a representative of the Toronto lab said that Melekhovets had never been made aware of the ruling.

Ten charges of corruption and related offences were brought against their firm, including in relation to its attempts to influence those responsible for awarding public contracts in Jamaica and Ghana in the 1990s.

(v) Excess insurers seeking recovery from others they don't insure, possibly leading to subrogation or other recovery proceedings being brought against firm lawyers insured by other excess insurers.

During his 30 plus years as a litigator, Mr. Cereseto has successfully defended class certification proceedings brought against the Firm's restaurant, retailer, and lender clients.

Not exact matches

Faced with the stock's rapid ascent, short sellers on Thursday covered $ 250 million in bets against Apple, bringing the total reduction in Apple short interest this week to $ 600 million, according to S3 Partners, a financial analytics firm.

The SEC brings numerous civil enforcement actions against firms and individuals that violate securities laws every year.

In Lavender v. Miller Bernstein, Justice Edward Belobaba sided with investors who brought a class action lawsuit against an accounting firm that had audited a now - defunct securities dealer, Buckingham Securities.

Index funds are one of a number of issues in a 401 (k) lawsuit against Anthem, Inc. brought by the St. Louis law firm of Schlichter, Bogard & Denton, the big kahuna in the world of 401 (k) plan litigation, this January.

On October 13, 2017, the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed a case brought by the blockchain firm R3 Holdco against Ripple Labs, another company active in the space, ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the lawsuit.

According to Bullard, «the DOL has laid out in detail written documentation examples of material conflicts of interest and the firm's program for mitigating them, which is a virtual roadmap — and also an evidentiary motherlode for bringing both arbitration claims and class actions against firms.»

So it is no surprise that some firms have been against the rule, even though many have been preparing for some of the changes it will bring.

In 2009 she dismissed a $ 1.4 billion suit brought by developer Sheldon Solow against insurer Conseco, in which Solow accused Conseco of bid - rigging when the firm and Trump sold the GM Building to Harry Macklowe in 2003.

A look at economic developments and stock market activity around the world Wednesday: ------ WASHINGTON — Financial firms that play a dominant role in the energy futures market brought their case against broad limits on speculative trading to...

The PayPal partnership also pits Safaricom against other mobile operators and fintech firms like PesaPal who are all focused on bringing the hundreds of thousands of small businesses in Kenya into the digital world.

What are we seeing in our country today?It is no secret that plans are being made in right wing think tanks and some law firms, within the elephants media and among Npp leaders to bring back to life the 18th century notion that the heavenly prescribed duty of the opposition is to obstruct government business and to incite the public against the establishment.

Silver's attorney suggested that Taub's referrals — which were to a number of firms in addition to Weitz — were done in the most altruistic manner, and noted that he'd fought to retain his tenured position at Columbia despite being removed in the wake of Silver's arrest, because — as he said in his suit against the university that brought a temporary injunction against the school — he believed he had done nothing wrong.

The case brought by the Ministry of Defence and Dubai businessman Harvey Boulter against US Post-it note maker 3M ultimately forced Liam Fox, the former defence secretary, to reveal his reliance on Werritty, his best man and firm friend of 13 years.

Town Board members are so frustrated that they've hired a law firm to bring legal action against the Zoning Board.

Ndam is the third witness the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has brought to testify against the PDP spokesman, who alongside his firm, is answering to a seven - count criminal charge that borders on criminal breach of trust and illegal diversion of public funds to the tune of N400million.

Criticism was directed at Appleby, the offshore law firm at the heart of the Paradise Papers, for bringing legal action against the Guardian and the BBC over their reporting.

Two Canadian firms said last week that they were bringing a class - action suit against Avid seeking upwards of $ 760M in damages.

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.

The Federal Trade Commission has brought numerous enforcement actions against debt settlement firms and has warned consumers to be wary when selecting one.

An Ontario Superior Court justice has found that the class action lawsuit brought against Deloitte LLP by lawyers who had reviewed documents for the firm constituted a success for the plaintiff class, and he has granted the representative plaintiff for the class a cost award.

The extraordinary thing about this decision, to my mind, is the time, effort and expense (the Harding firm spent over $ 170,000 in fees and expenses) that went into defending against allegations that should (in this writer's opinion) never have been brought in the first place, or at least dismissed once the facts were clarified for Healthcare.

She brought proceedings in the Bahamas against the trustee, who was advised by Taylor Wessing, and served the firm with a subject access request (SAR) under DPA 1998 since it held personal data relating to all three claimants.

[24] This reporting is borne out in lawsuits brought by former woman partners against, for example, the Richmond, Virginia based law firm of LeClairRyan, [25] and, in another lawsuit, the Miami, Florida based law firm of Greenberg Traurig.

Mesa Law Firm successfully represented its client in a commercial litigation matter it brought against an individual involving claims of misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, tortious interference with business relationships, defamation and injunctive relief.

Jennifer is a key member of the firm's regulatory law defence team and has substantial experience in advising clients undergoing regulatory investigation and of defending prosecutions against clients brought by a variety of enforcement authorities including Trading Standards, the Health & Safety Executive, the Environment Agency, utility providers and local planning authorities.

In other work, the team represented a software company in a dispute over the possible ineffectiveness of a brand acquisition, and Uwe Hornung defended the law firm Gleiss Lutz against damage claims brought by Stefan Mappus, former minister president of the state of Baden - Württemberg, before the Regional Court of Stuttgart and the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart with regards to the alleged violation of third - party protection obligations.

An attorney at the Fine Law Firm can assist you in bringing the appropriate claims against liable parties, while making sure to follow all of the civil rules of procedure.

The Indiana personal injury law firm of Parr Richey Frandsen Patterson Kruse has the experience and dedication needed to bring an effective case against nursing homes.

The attorneys at the Fine Law Firm can assist you in establishing all responsible parties and the appropriate claims that can be brought against each.

Professional negligence claims brought against law firms in the High Court have almost tripled in the last year, jumping to 418 in 2013/14, according to City law firm RPC.

«The impediments to women of bringing discrimination claims against their firms to court are great,» said Wendi S. Lazar, a partner at Outten & Golden in New York City who testified on behalf of the women's commission.

Among the recommendations in the Insurance Fraud Taskforce's (IFT) report published in January was the belief that more effective action should be taken against fraudulent solicitors with steps being proposed to tackle the issue of claimant firms bringing claims without proper instructions.

The case involved a group of litigation funders that financed a $ 1.6 bn case brought by Excalibur Ventures, an aspiring oil exploration firm, against two US oil companies.

Specialist claimant firm Leigh Day & Co has billed # 105m in fees for its work on the class action brought against oil company Trafigura, in one of the highest - ever costs claims for a single litigation case.

Three former Dewey & LeBoeuf leaders have been cleared by a New York jury of some of the criminal charges brought against them in the wake of the firm's collapse, in a partial verdict delivered yesterday.

The firm routinely defends employers against all types of employment law claims, including those brought under Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, ADEA, FMLA, FLSA, wage claims, as well as all other federal, state and local laws.

The defense of employment claims for harassment and discrimination brought by various employees against the firm's employer clients in Southern California.

The firm is active in defending disciplinary or grievance complaints brought against various professionals, including lawyers and accountants, in local, state, and federal forums.

The partners at Klafter Olsen & Lesser LLP founded their firm to bring the highest level of representation to contingency fee litigation to fight and prevail against the top defense law firms in the country.

She advises firms and individuals in their distressed dealings with the FCA and in response to regulatory enforcement action brought against them by the FCA.

London - based firm Edward Fail, Bradshaw and Waterson was one of the firms which had brought claims against the LAA.

This article in the New York Law Journal describes, in a good bit of detail, the lawsuit brought by Joel S. Finkelstein against the three law firms in which he was a partner and the other partners thereof, including his brother.

The personal injury attorneys at the Greater Boston Law Firm of Altman & Altman, LLP have over 40 years of experience of successfully bringing claims against liable parties such as the MBTA.

Notable mandates: The firm is currently co-representing the plaintiffs in a long - standing class action in Quebec brought against the three major Canadian tobacco manufacturers.

In 2011, J&M brought litigation against bar authorities in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut requesting that the enforcement of the «antiquated» ethical rule that restricts nonlawyer ownership of law firms be enjoined.

US firm Dorsey & Whitney is advising Watchstone Group — the UK company formerly known as Quindell — on a # 637m claim brought against it by Australian - listed firm Slater and Gordon.