Sentences with phrase «by our firm in»

Example: Expert network consultant Don Chu was fired by his firm in the wake of allegations he'd broken company policy and traded material, non-public information with hedge funders.

But that commitment to quality allowed his company, Wolf Steel — and later the Napoleon brand, introduced by the firm in 1981 — to evolve into Barrie's largest manufacturer, with an impressive array of products distributed to customers in 34 countries.

A second and wider - reaching development is a scheme to allow the yuan and other foreign currencies to be freely traded with few restrictions by firms in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (FTZ).

And that's the most bearish scenario laid out by the firm in this chart:

He said ten pumping stations along the pipelines will be designed to fully contain spills, and said previous spills should be considered in context: 5,560 barrels spilled from more than 750 million barrels of petroleum piped by his firm in 2006.

The deterrent effect of the available monetary sanctions under agent liability probably exceeds the deterrent effect of enterprise liability because a civil judgment against an agent hurts his reputation more than does a sanction imposed by the firm in private.

In any event, assuming full disclosure, they become shareholders knowing that they will have lower voting rights than the insiders and having accepted as adequate whatever trade - off is offered by the firm in recompense.

However, where that is true, CCS would be the option deployed by firms in the face of a sufficiently high carbon price.

The group incentive nature of employee stock ownership and profit sharing makes this an effective way to create and reinforce a sense of common purpose, and to encourage higher commitment and productivity.23 It is also the case with ESOPs that the new ownership might not be viewed by the firm in the same way as other added compensation because the ownership is financed through loans to buy new capital as company stock, with Federal tax incentives, and the shares are not paid as normal wages and benefits out of company budget reserved for this purpose.

The U.S. Patriot Act, passed following the 2001 terrorist attacks, gave the Federal Bureau of Investigation broader access to records held by firms in the United States, including data on Canadians.

The property is the third acquired by the firm in Maryland.

Not all collaboration by firms in the same industry is at the expense of consumers, but this is always a danger.

Europe has abuse of dominance provisions which focus on the anti-competitive effect of conduct by firms in a position of dominance.

The following product safety recall was conducted by the firm in cooperation with the CPSC.

He was abruptly fired by the firm in May 2016 when news of the federal corruption investigation broke.

Silver, who was hired by the firm in 2002, benefited from the referrals, the complaint said.

For instance, the person questioned why it was weighted to match demographics, leading higher percentage of Republicans questioned from an electorate chosen by the firm in the first place.

«I'd done 10 years of economic commentary... and you begin to notice that the same things come round again... I was approached by a firm in the City because of some of the books I'd written about third world debt and development... and they offered me a job... looking at the credit worthiness of firms in developing markets.»

In the first large - scale study documenting the economy - wide extent of misconduct among financial advisers and financial advisory firms in the United States, researchers find that most financial advisers who engage in misconduct get to keep their jobs — or are quickly rehired by another firm in the industry.

Cash Flow is a measure of the cash produced by the firm in a given period on behalf of equity holders.

Transactions placed by the firm in the process of correcting a margin call will be charged full commission fees (i.e. Electronic Brokerage Service rates do not apply).

A contract that must be completed and signed by a client and approved by the firm in order to open a margin account.

Are shares purchased through the brokerage owned directly by clients (direct registration), or are they held by the firm in the client's name (i.e. clients are unsecured creditors)?

The Firm will vote any shares in a Discretionary Account on behalf of a proposal submitted by the Firm in accordance with Part VII.A.2, unless otherwise directed by the Discretionary Account.

Finally, the government should commit to adjust the price schedule if the prices faced by Alberta firms are lower than those faced by firms in both the US and the EU.

I then made my pitch for a carbon fee - bate policy which would place a carbon price on oil sands and other sources of carbon emissions equivalent to that paid by firms in the EU and which, if implemented worldwide, would allow the world to meet science - based emissions reduction targets.

The spinoff, which was unveiled by the firm in early March, will see the creation of Haley Guiliano, a boutique firm specialising in patent prosecution and intellectual property (IP).

As far as privacy concerns go, the Web sites attorneys are visiting are likely tracked by firms in any event (though I guess there's a subtle difference between your employer seeing the URL of your favorite porn site and actually having the «Picture of the Day» pop up on the screen of the IT guy doing the monitoring).

An objective of most marketing plans is to increase the number of quality clients served by the firm in targeted industries and practice areas.

It starts with a brief survey of innovative Web - based services by firms in the USA, England, and Australia.

Watmough's departure was announced by the firm in December, but it has now emerged that he went on sabbatical last July — 10 months before his third term was officially due to end on 30 April this year.

Documents stored by the firm in a VLO are protected by this level of security and are accessible anywhere the attorney may access the Internet.

In my last posting, I presented a two unusual management metrics, specifically challenging readers to look at the amount of management «time spent exploring new opportunities» and to examine how many «new revenue ideas were launched» by the firm in the past year.

Lawyers must sense a genuine interest by the firm in their growth, professionally, financially and as people.

For example, since before the time I was recruited by the firm in the early»90s, we have given summer associates an accurate snapshot of what it's truly like to be an associate at the firm.

It is also widely used by firms in all states for referral

That networking and keeping abreast of major legal developments in one's area of expertise remain the key ingredients for a successul return is evident from the «success story» of Amy Goodman, now a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's D.C. office, who was hired by the firm in 1998 after spending 11 years at home with her children.

I see it more as doing the international transactional type work that is done by a firm in Houston or Calgary, for instance.

As special global counsel at A&O, he has continued to play a key role as head of its Global Law Intelligence Unit, a thinktank launched by the firm in 2010 that has carried out major research projects examining the impact of Brexit and the global financial crisis.

The ban however, will not apply to those with a «bona fide» relationship with a person or entity in the US, such as those who have family in the US, or have been admitted to a school or hired by a firm in the US.

Ensuring that the quality of instructions won by firms in Leeds and Manchester is an obvious way of raising the profile of working as a lawyer in the north — the record for the past year in this respect is good, and if the region's dealmakers and managing partners are correct in their predictions, what remains of 2007 will also offer plenty of opportunities for the region's lawyers to be involved in some interesting and high - profile deals.

Mishcon de Reya has promoted six lawyers to its partnership, double the number made up by the firm in last year's intake.

Latham earned gross revenue of $ 1.929 billion in 2010, up 6 percent from 2009, according to financial figures released by the firm in February.

In order to correlate the Partner Compensation Systems used by firms in the various stages of the evolution of strategic planning, we included a question on «the current state of your firm's strategic plan».

The ES Locate platform — which was developed in tandem with Canadian technology company OpenText — was launched about six months ago, and has since been utilised by the firm in more than 40 litigation cases.

These factors, coupled with shrinking libraries, file rooms and common areas, as well as higher lawyer to administrative assistant ratios, will likely lead to further reductions in real estate utilization by firms in the years ahead.

They are rarely trained by the firm in management skills.

Its lawyers have long been sought after by firms in all corners of the world, and the last decade has seen a swathe of global firms launch local practises in competition with the well - regarded and established domestic firms.

Debevoise & Plimpton New York, NY Informed by extensive research, benchmarking and alumnae interviews, the new Women's Task Force introduced by this firm in 2014 promotes programs that develop, retain and advance female attorneys.

The promotions also follow strong performances by the firm in independent guides to the legal profession.