Sentences with phrase «business litigation examples»

This is only a short list of business litigation examples, and is by no means comprehensive.

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Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

-- Perhaps it's simply misunderstood — investors may simply not grasp a company's management / business / strategy have changed in a major way, or they under / over-estimate the potential impact (for example) of some litigation or regulatory action.

In separate chapters, Juetten covers each of these areas in depth, illustrating each using examples of different types of law firms, such as a solo family law attorney, a two - lawyer personal injury firm and a 20 - attorney business and commercial litigation firm.

Formulas considering both origination and production must consider the particular structure of the law firm and the nature of its practice: For example, a law firm specializing primarily in insurance defense litigation and operating at a much lower hourly rate can readily afford the luxury of having highly compensated partners who merely originate business without having significant billable time.

For example, law firm marketing professionals can quickly identify broad litigation trends to inform decisions about where to invest business development resources.

I suspect that an ideal focus would be on such fields as, for example, international trade and transport, international commercial contracts, litigation and arbitration, banking, finance and accounting, corporate, commercial and business matters, takeovers and mergers, communications, technology and intellectual property, international construction and property and international and offshore tax strategy.

Disability and insurance claims, automobile, personal injury, accident claims, class actions, employment law, wrongful dismissal claims, real estate litigation, commercial and shareholder / business disputes, mortgage enforcement, condominium litigation, construction lien and commercial tenancy disputes are examples of the depth and variety of civil litigation matters successfully handled by the lawyers of Landy Marr Kats LLP.

One example where the original wording of the Directive has been used without further explanation or example, necessitating much litigation to clear things up, is on the question of whether TUPE applies to the sale of the business of an insolvent company.

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.

For example, if you have a commercial litigation or business practice, you can ask what the person does for a living and then create an example that would be relevant to their business.

The Government announced on 30 November that it will launch its own consultation in Spring 2016 into removing barriers to entry for alternative business models and making legal service regulators independent from their representative bodies to encourage competition, better enabling, for example business such as supermarkets and estate agents to offer legal services such as conveyancing, probate and litigation.

For example, federal procurement rules provide for debarment or suspension of a company from contracting with the US government upon a conviction of or a civil judgment for a number of offences, including bribery, or any offence «indicating a lack of business integrity or business honesty...» [30] Moreover, federal disbarment or suspension may automatically trigger a cascade of similar consequences at the state or local, [31] and international, [32] levels, and can lead to follow - on private litigation.

Whilst my approach is to avoid litigation unless really necessary, I do of course act for clients in court proceedings or arbitration where they have significant disputes about their finances and / or children, for example if there is a dispute about the value of trust or business interests, or whether children should be removed from the jurisdiction to live abroad.

Practice head Georgie Messent specialises in the waste sector and in 2016 assisted waste companies both in relation to litigation, including a significant nuisance action, as well as on various transactional matters; in one example of the latter, Messent acted for Cory Environmental Group and its fund managers on the sale of its municipal waste business, Cory Environmental Municipal Services, to Biffa Waste Services.

The following examples demonstrate the wide range of RPC's business litigation experience outside the healthcare field.

For example, assume you have a valuable business contract, and the contract gets cancelled because of something an opponent claimed during a litigation proceeding?

For example, business attorneys participate in training sessions on specific topics, including business financing, licensing and leasing transactions, bankruptcy and legal opinions, and litigation attorneys participate in training sessions on topics including pleadings, discovery, alternate dispute resolution and depositions, trial preparation and oral argument.

This case was notable for being an early example of a litigation being successfully funded by a third party, and led to Robert and his team being nominated as Legal Business Magazine's Dispute Resolution Team of the Year.

For example is there one division of a business that finds itself in litigation more often than others, understanding the root cause, and developing polices to mitigate the cause.

Quibbles Over Capitalization and Spelling 41 Searching Trademarks 42 Examples of Trademark Protection 42 Unfair Business Practices 43 Stock / Financial Fraud — Litigation 44 Threats From Government (and Religious Groups) 45 The U.S. Government 45

In the example above, where a covered entity has a business associate contract with a lawyer, and the lawyer discloses protected health information to an expert witness in preparation for litigation, the lawyer again would have no responsibility under this subpart with respect to uses or disclosures by the expert witness, because such witness is not undertaking the functions, activities or services that the business associate lawyer has agreed to perform.

One difference between inter partes and solicitor / client disputes can be that the parties still want to maintain a professional relationship and a court assessment is likely to jeopardise that, whereas «[m] ediation provides litigants with a wider range of solutions than those that are available in litigation: for example... continuation of an existing professional or business relationship perhaps on new terms» (see Lord Justice Dyson in Halsey).

Patent trolls use overly broad patents — for example, regarding the provision of Wi - Fi access — to threaten litigation and extort payments from real estate businesses across the country.

For example, both bills include a provision that would allow banks and other financial institutions to more easily challenge business method patents when those patents are asserted against them in litigation.

Under the Innovation Act, venue for patent litigation would be limited to districts where it makes sense; for example, where the defendant's principle place of business is, or where the patent owner has a working, manufacturing facility.

For example, small businesses, family businesses, elder care decision making, employment disputes, estate conflicts and other matters all involve people who may need assistance to solve problems that arise, but do not want the «slash and burn» mentality that so often seems to accompany litigation.

My advice is: invest for income, and spread that income across enough sources that losing an LLC in litigation, for example, does not take away a major portion of the income which comes to me through my business entity structure.