Sentences with phrase «by the minority corporate»

In addition, Mr. Singh was also named to Benchmark Litigation's 2017 «Under 40 Hotlist» and named a 2017 «Rising Star» by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.

For example, minorities comprised approximately 21 percent of all lawyers who left firms in 2009, despite only representing 13 percent of the overall law firm attorney population, as reported by a Minority Corporate Council Association survey.

These are among the findings of the 2008 Survey of Fortune 500 Women General Counsel, just published by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.

Among the accolades Qwest's law department earned under Baer's leadership were to be named Law Department of the Year in 2008 by Corporate Counsel magazine, an Employer of Choice in 2009 by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and one of the Ten Most Innovative Law Departments in 2010 by Inside Counsel magazine.

I am working on an exciting new study of diversity in mentoring, sponsored by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.

I recently completed a study of cross-gender and cross-race mentoring relationships among lawyers that was sponsored by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.

Not exact matches

When I was preparing to speak to a group of Black corporate directors several years ago, I was asked a straightforward question: How much money does the foundation I run invest with firms owned by women or minorities?

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a lower tax rate would spark so much additional investment in the United States that it would bid up wages and leave the middle class better off through its indirect effects.

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a large share of the tax is paid by workers in the form of lower wages.

Because the shareholders hold the residual claim, and all corporate expenditures thus come out of their pocket, it is not entirely clear why other shareholders should have to subsidize speech by a small minority.

Wright - Lacy urged corporate America to increase its use of minority - owned businesses because, by promoting supplier diversity, these corporations are helping to support the economic base of the communities in which they live, work and do business.

We do this by matching our more than 12,000 certified minority - owned businesses to our vast network of corporate members who wish to purchase their products, services and solutions.

Centers of Excellence, a program to enhance successful business relationships between corporations and MBEs by strengthening corporate minority supplier development processes;

The Emerging Young Entrepreneurs (EYE) program was created to support a commitment by the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) to advance business opportunities for certified minority business enterprises and connect them to corporate Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) to advance business opportunities for certified minority business enterprises and connect them to corporate minority business enterprises and connect them to corporate members.

The business modules are comprised of 8 - 10 corporate members, 16 - 20 MBEs and an affiliate council president, who are committed to enhancing the supplier diversity process by implementing NMSDC minority business development best practices.

When that failed, Senators Klein and Valesky and the other conservative Democrats in the Independent Democratic Conference (all also nominated by the corporate Democratic branding operation called the Working Families Party) decided to break off and keep the Republicans in power despite their minority status.

Margot James, who is minister for small businesses and is responsible for corporate responsibility, said: «Toby Young is worthy of his appointment but it is a mistake for him to belittle sexist comments by labelling them «politically incorrect», a term frequently used to dismiss unacceptable comments about, and behaviour towards, women and minorities.»

The Comptroller emphasized three important needs for advancing New York City's economy: raising the hourly minimum wage to $ 15, investing in small businesses, particularly those owned by women or minorities, and improving corporate diversity.

This mentoring program was piloted for a year by pairing the DCAAN volunteer corporate executives with recently employed minority engineers enrolled in our graduate - engineering program, while serving in rotating assignments designed to accelerate career development.

19 - 21 — Minority education: «Expanding Minority Opportunities,» first annual conference, co-sponsored by the Coalition to Increase Minority Degrees, the American Council on Education, Arizona State University, The College Board, the Charles A. Dana Foundation, The Educational Testing Service Southwestern Office, The Hewlett Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation, for students, educators, administrators, foundation officers, and corporate representatives, to be held at Arizona State University, Tempe Ariz..

It seems to me that almost all other approaches to investing and academic finance ranging from Principles of Corporate Finance by Brealey and Myers to Security Analysis Principles and Technique by Graham, Dodd and Cottle (G&D) to tracts on trading techniques focus on forecasting and explaining short - run market prices, especially on prices at which securities are traded in markets populated by Outside Passive Minority Investors (OPMIs).

Although the corporate world is primarily dominated by men, women and other minorities continue to climb the career ladder, despite the many obstacles they face.

It did, however, lose the opportunity to build goodwill by strategically allocating its product during a time of shortage.107 To the extent the stock sale premium reflected this diversion of a corporate opportunity, the selling stockholder was liable for a breach of fiduciary duty.108 A corporate recovery would not have benefitted the selling shareholder — i.e., «those from whom the recovery is had» — but would have benefitted the parties who had induced the very breach that occasioned the recovery.109 The court accordingly ordered direct relief to the minority shareholders.110

Female and minority lawyers, he said, are often hired away from law firms by corporate law departments, and that will have an impact over time.

According to a comprehensive study by the U.S. - based Minority Corporate Counsel Association, 71 per cent of white lawyers surveyed felt they had adequate coaching and mentoring to be successful in achieving their career goals.

Like that Inclusion Initiative, recently reported by Corporate Counsel, in which 32 corporations spent more than $ 226m in 2016 on work performed by minority - and women - owned law firms.

Our expertise includes advising officers, boards of directors, shareholders, and special litigation committees on a wide range of business disputes, including fiduciary duties, employment issues with minority and majority shareholders, executive compensation, corporate freeze - outs, direct and derivative claims by shareholders, internal investigations and other aspects of corporate governance.

Recent studies by the Washington and New York state bar associations, the National Association of Women Lawyer, US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Catalyst, Minority Corporate Counsel Association, and others, confirm that women lawyers continue to face obstacles to success in the legal profession — and that employers who are committed to women's professional success can remove those barriers.

The article reports on a recent research paper released by Curt Levey, who argues that actions by corporate law departments to pressure outside counsel to hire minorities may violate anti-discrimination laws.

We are honored to have been recognized for these efforts, including being named «100 Best Law Firms for Female Attorneys» and «100 Best Law Firm for Minority Attorneys» by Law360 and achieving a perfect score on the 2016 Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index..

Re Tecnion Investments Ltd [1985] BCLC 434 (CA)-- Minority shareholder, alleged unfair prejudice, companies in overseas jurisdictions allegedly controlled by respondents, disclosure of documents in their possession, alter ego companies, piercing the corporate veil

new developments in managers» fiduciary obligations (owed to the corporate person, not to shareholders and others) Canadian statute - based minority remedies are being embraced by many Commonwealth countries (including Australia and New Zealand).

Nicole Arbiv - Legal Operations: where it is now and what the future may hold, by Dr. Catherine McGregor, Editor In Chief at Minority Corporate Counsel Association, February 21, 2018.

Following up on recent initiatives by the American Bar Association and outside law firms, the corporate counsel group plans to fight the trend by mentoring more minorities.

NEW: This employment law blog by Eric Bachman of Zuckerman Law focuses on promotion discrimination against women and racial minorities in corporate America.

(for a similar approach, see The Senior Lawyer Boom by Heather Bradley, CPCC, and Miriam Bamberger Grogan, CPCC, Minority Corporate Council Association Magazine, July 2006.)